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Polymers (from the Greek: polys, many; meros, part or unit) are large molecules made up by the repetition of small, simple chemical units termed monomers. In some cases the repetition appears much as a chain is built up from its links. In other cases the chains are branched are interconnected to form three-dimensional networks.
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Bhat, S.V. (2002). Synthetic Polymers. In: Biomaterials. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0328-5_5
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