1 Universidad de Alcalá, Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Química Analítica, Química Física e Ingeniería Química, Ctra, Madrid-Barcelona Km. 33.6, Alcalá de Henares, 28805 Madrid, Spain.
The term "polymer" derives from the Greek words "πολύς" meaning "many, much" and "μέρος" meaning "part", and was proposed in 1833 by Jöns Jacob Berzelius, albeit with a different definition from the current IUPAC definition [...].