Wikipedia:WikiProject Polymers

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to polymers. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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Title
WikiProject on Polymers

Scope
The aim of this WikiProject is to organize and disseminate all polymer related information on Wikipedia in a coordinated fashion.

At the moment, we are focusing on a few things (and please, be bold with adding new things to this list!)


 * 1) Bringing a list of industrially significant polymers up to featured article status.
 * 2) Doing a "top-down" approach on how to organize polymer articles and related information, possibly with the use of categories which group together significant topics relevant to polymer chemistry.

The approach at the moment is to first bring one polymer article up to featured article status, and then use that article as a template for other polymer articles. Polyethylene might be a good start because of its prevalence and dominance. However, it might be better to pick a more application specific polymer first, because there is too much variability for the definition of these polymers. The articles on polymers generally need to emphasize that they define a class of mixtures of molecules with a particular distribution, et cetera...

Parentage
WikiProject Chemistry

Related WikiProjects

 * WikiProject Forestry

Similar WikiProjects are:
 * WikiProject Chemicals
 * In particular, see the list of polymers in
 * WikiProject Chemicals/Organization
 * Should we transfer that list over here to this WikiProject?

Portal

 * Portal:Chemistry is a good place to look! Not directly related to polymers, but related to chemistry.

Related pages in Sister projects

 * Polymer chemistry & Polymers‎
 * Polymers
 * Wikiversity:Portal:Polymer chemistry & Wikiversity:Polymers
 * Polymer chemistry
 * Polymer

Sister Project Searches

 * WikiBooks search
 * Google WikiBooks search
 * WikiQuote search
 * Google WikiQuote search
 * WikiSource search
 * Google WikiSource search

Goals
Try to make an article for each of these topics

Pages needing attention
See:Category:Polymers articles needing attention

Other subpages

 * /Article alerts

Lists

 * List of synthetic polymers contains list of examples and brand names
 * List of polyurethane applications
 * Thermoplastic contains an extensive list
 * Elastomer lists a number of rubbers

German lists include
 * http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurzzeichen_%28Kunststoff%29 Kurzzeichen (Kunststoff) (Abbreviations (Plastics))
 * http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunststoff Kunststoff (Plastics)

Did you know?

 * Arboform on 4 August 2012. (See:Recent additions/2012/August)
 * Entry: "Did you know ... that scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology won the 2010 European Inventor Award for their work on the development of liquid wood?"


 * High-refractive-index polymer on 21 April 2011. (see:Recent additions/2011/April)
 * Entry: "Did you know ... that addition of sulfur increases refractive index of polymers?"


 * Crystallization of polymers on 2 June 2010. (see:Recent additions/2010/June)
 * Entry: "Did you know ... that crystallization of polymers proceeds through the formation of spherulites (example pictured)?"

Watchlists

 * External watchlist
 * All namespace - including maintanence pages related to polymers.
 * Articles - includes all articles in the category:Polymers
 * Recent discussions - on article talkpages.

Tools

 * Main tool page: toolserver.org


 * Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
 * Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
 * Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
 * Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion for improving articles.

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