This book functions as a superlative reference and textbook providing illustrations of modifications for individual polymers, end-of-chapter questions and answers, and comprehensive appendices that instruct professionals and students in the technology and science of altering polymers-ideal for courses in polymer science, properties, and modification. This versatile, informative reference/text describes new modification methods and applications for natural, synthetic, thermoplastic, and thermoset polymers that result from economic forces, commercial processes, and the latest research and development. Features chemical and physical technologies such as sulfonation, alkylation, acid/base hydrolysis, hydrogenation, stress orienting, annealing, crystallization, and more. Written by recognized experts with over 1250 references and more than 450 chemical structures, equations, tables, drawings, and photographs, Polymer Modification is the perfect reference for polymer and materials scientists; plastics, chemical, process, and design engineers; and organic and medicinal chemists; as well as an excellent text for and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.