Abbreviations of polymer names and guidelines for abbreviating polymer names (IUPAC Recommendations 2014)
Jiasong He, et alPure and Applied Chemistry, 2014Volume 86, Issue 6, pp 1003–1015
Abbreviations are commonly used by authors of manuscripts to avoid repetition of lengthy polymer names, and for the benefit of the editors and readers of scientific and professional journals and other written material. People working within industry use a well-established ISO list of abbreviations of polymer names which contains more than 100 entries (138 in ISO 1043-1:2011). In fact, mainly selected on the basis of the scale of production, the ISO abbreviations are used in industry, standards, trade, and legislation. On the other hand, scientific and professional journals in the polymer field deal with hundreds of polymers annually, including many new ones, some with complicated structures. Thus, IUPAC has also recognized the importance of abbreviations and has published recommendations on the use of common abbreviations for polymer names.
This document provides some basic rules and guidelines regarding the use and creation of abbreviations for the names of polymers. An extended list of currently used abbreviations for polymers and polymeric materials is appended.
©2014 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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