Introduction to Polymer Database PoLyInfo

PoLyInfo is the generalized database system of synthetic polymers, which provides various facts required for material design; chemical structures, several types of name including IUPAC structure based name and source based name, about a hundred kinds of physical properties, monomers/polymerization information, and so on. Main data sources of PoLyInfo are a wide range of scientific journal articles satisfying the following criteria: 1) chemical structures of constitutional units are clearly determined; 2) properties are measured by authors themselves and also both measurement methods and conditions are reported. Some properties estimation functions are opened for simple linear regular polymers. PoLyInfo database now contains, linear regular polymers, linear irregular polymers, such as simple linear copolymers, simple blocks, multiblock copolymers such as polyurethanes, non-linear graft polymers, star polymers, network or crosslinked polymers, ionic polymers and so on. In addition to these, PoLyInfo have added the data of about 2000 polymer blends on 2005. Some NMR spectrum data, signals and their measurement conditions and assignments of chemical shifts are offered as a sub database of PoLyInfo.