Homopolymer

Homopolymers are polymers that are built up from only one (real or imaginary) type of monomer . You only have one repeat unit :

Polymers such as polyethylene terephthalate or polyamide 6.6 , which are necessarily made from two different monomers, are usually regarded as homopolymers, since only one characteristic repeating unit can form at a time.

Homopolymers are in contrast to copolymers , which are built up from monomers of different types. For example, it can be a random copolymer:

Individual evidence

↑ Entry on homopolymer . In: IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the “Gold Book”) . doi : 10.1351 / goldbook.H02854 Version: 2.3.3.
↑ Dietrich Braun, Harald Cherdron, Helmut Ritter: Polymer Synthesis: Theory and Practice: Fundamentals, Methods, Experiments. Springer Science & Business Media, 2001. ISBN 978-3-540-41697-5 .

[1] Entry on homopolymer . In: IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the “Gold Book”) . doi : 10.1351 / goldbook.H02854 Version: 2.3.3.

[2] Dietrich Braun, Harald Cherdron, Helmut Ritter: Polymer Synthesis: Theory and Practice: Fundamentals, Methods, Experiments. Springer Science & Business Media, 2001. ISBN 978-3-540-41697-5 .