Abstract
We introduced (and also gave outlines of) some database systems and property prediction methods which might be very useful to polymer material designers. At first, brief explanations were made for the relation between characteristics of polymer materials and their properties. Then, some useful database (of literature, catalog, and polymer property) were introduced. We also added brief explanation about the object modeling technique (OMT) which is very effective method in the case of database design (data modeling)especially for complicated data like polymer material properties. In fact, OMT had been applied to PoLyInfo developed by Japan Science and Technology Corporation, which is well known as the generalized database for polymer materials. Finally, we introduced the atomic group contribution method as the typically empirical technique for property prediction.
