From DNA to Silly Putty, the diverse world of polymers - Jan Mattingly

I don't really appreciate the cartoon graphics of chemists adding one drop of a reactant (2:25 and 3:15) to an Erlenmeyer flask resulting in an instantaneous explosion.

But that's a pretty good summary of just about everything we teach in our polymer chapter. The video introduces monomers and polymers, natural and synthetic polymers, addition and condensation polymerization, some history of man-made polymers (bakelite, Silly Putty), drawbacks of synthetic polymer use.

Maybe this will be an end of the chapter review next year.