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Description Author: T.R. Crompton ISBN 978-1-85957-492-8 Pages: 704 Soft-backed Summary This book describes the types of techniques now available to the polymer chemist and technician and discusses their capabilities, limitations, and applications. All types of modern instrumentation are covered including those used in general quality control, research analysis, process monitoring and for determining the mechanical, electrical,...
Description Author: T.R. Crompton ISBN 978-1-84735-055-8 A Guide for Analytical ChemistsSmithers Rapra TechnologySoft-backed, 255 x 190 mm, 325 pages. Summary Plastics are now being used on a large scale for the packaging of fatty and aqueous foodstuffs and beverages, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic. This is evident for all to see on the supermarket shelves, margarine is...
Description Author: R.P. Brown ISBN 978-1-85957-330-3 Published: 2002pages: 106, figures: 3, tables: 4 Summary Rubber components are used in many demanding applications, from tyres and seals to gloves and medical devices, and failure can be catastrophic. This review of rubber product failure outlines and illustrates the common causes of failure while addressing ways of avoiding it....
Description Author: R.P. Brown ISBN 978-1-85957-260-3 Published: 2001Pages: 150 , Figures: 23 , Tables: 5 Summary After price and delivery time, the most frequently asked question about a product is 'How long will it last?' This is usually a very difficult question to answer for rubber products because the expected lifetime is often in tens of...
Description Author: Roger P Brown ISBN 978-1-85957-460-7 Published: 200494 pages Summary Polymers have been used in agriculture and horticulture since the middleof the last century. There is a tremendous potential for using polymersin agriculture and our fields and garden would look very different if wedid not use polymers in them.This review traces the history of polymer...
Description Author: R.B. Simpson ISBN 978-1-85957-307-5 Published: 2002 pages: 150,tables: 59, figures: 26 Summary The Rubber Basics book comprises a glossary of terms used in the rubber industry, a detailed description of the common rubber materials, a section on rubber additives, and an outline of the equipment types used in rubber processing. The book aims to be...
Description Author: R. Brown ISBN 978-1-85957-324-2 pages 208 Summary Knowledge of the properties of plastics is essential for designing products, specifying the material to be used, carrying out quality control on finished products, failure analysis and for understanding the structure and behaviour of new materials. Each class of materials has its own specific test procedures, which...
Description Author: G.A.L. Verleye, N.P.G. Roeges and M.O. De Moor ISBN 978-1-85957-268-9 pages 174 Summary Polymers are found in every aspect of our daily lives. Materials must be carefully selected to ensure that properties match performance requirements. It is often necessary to understand the chemical nature of a material to determine whether it is suitable for...
Description Author: Richard P. Pohanish ISBN 978-0-8155-1553-1 Published: 2008 5th Edition, 3,000 pages Summary For more than a quarter-century, Sittig’s Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals and Carcinogens has continued to gather an ever-widening audience of users because it has proven to be among the most reliable, easy-to-use and essential reference works on hazardous materials. Sittig’s 5th...
Description Author: James L. Throne and R.J. Crawford ISBN 1-884207-85-5 Pages: 450 Summary This book clarifies and quantifies many of the technical interactions in the process. It distinguishes itself from other books on the subject by being a seamless story of the advanced aspects of the rotational molding process. There are seven chapters within the book.The...
Description Author: Masami Okamoto, Toyota Technological Institute ISBN 978-1-85957-391-4 166 pages, Soft-backedVol. 14, no. 7, report 163, 2003 Summary Polymer/clay nanocomposites have received a lot of attention over the last decade. Companies such as Nanocor and Honeywell are already commercially exploiting nanocomposite materials. A small amount of nanodispersed filler leads to an improvement in material properties,...
Description Author: Professor P.H. Plesch ISBN 978-1-85957-270-2 pages: 772 Summary The interest in what were known at first as Friedel-Crafts polymerisations started in the 1930s and grew rapidly from the 1940s under the influence of the US Synthetic Rubber Programme and from the 1950s as a result of the Ziegler-Natta and related polymer developments. From 1944...
Description Author: S.K. De and J.R. White ISBN 978-1-85957-262-7 Published: 2001Pages: 576 Summary Rubber components are found in almost every area of modern life. Rubber is used in cars, in shoes, in construction and is used in many other applications. This book provides a foundation in rubber technology and discusses the most recent developments in the...
Description Author: Market Report, 2002, G. Pritchard, Emeritus Professor of Kingston University, Surrey, UK ISBN 978-1-85957-311-2 Kingston University, Surrey, UKPublished: 2002pages: 200 Summary 20% of all the resin sold in the world today, 26 million tonnes, consists of PVC. It is the second most used plastics material in the world. This report discusses PVC from a business...
Description Author: Jeremy Ramsden ISBN 978-1455731893 Hardbound, 240 Pages Summary An overview of nanotechnology that encompasses scientific, technological, economic and social issues – investigating the potential of nanotechnology to transform whole sectors of industry from healthcare to energy. Jeremy Ramsden provides a blueprint for those involved in the commercialization of nanotechnology. In Applied Nanotechnology Professor Ramsden takes...
Description Author: Gargallo, Ligia, Radic, Deodato ISBN 978-1-4020-9371-5 242 p., Hardcover Summary As the title suggests, this monograph features the physicochemical behavior and supramolecular organization of polymers. The book consists of four chapters dealing with solution properties, viscoelastic behavior, physicochemical aspects at interfaces and supramolecular structures of polymeric systems. The classical treatment of the physicochemical behavior...
Description Author: Professor David Jones ISBN 978-1-85957-479-9 pages 124 Summary Polymers are becoming increasingly important in the field of drug delivery. The pharmaceutical applications of polymers range from their use as binders in tablets to viscosity and flow controlling agents in liquids, suspensions and emulsions. Polymers can be used as film coatings to disguise the unpleasant...
Description Author: Prof. Alexander Ya. Malkin 10-ISBN 1-895198-09-7 13-ISBN 978-1-895198-09-6 Published: 1994315 pages, 101 figures Summary Most technological improvements are realized through application of rheology used to modify properties of materials. At the same time, rheology is a complex discipline not fully understood by most researchers and engineers. It is not because rheology is too difficult to understand...
Description Author: P.W. Dufton ISBN 978-1-85957-302-0 Published: 2001Pages: 166 Summary Materials that combine elastomeric properties with many of the attributes of thermoplastics have been available to industry for over twenty years. A wide acceptance of these materials has taken place due to a growing catalogue of experience backed by convincing case studies in many sectors of...
Description Author: Smithers Rapra By Peter Jones ISBN 978-1-84735-088-6 Soft-backed, 255 x 190 mm, 556 pages. Summary This book provides design engineers, toolmakers, moulding technicians and production engineers with an in depth guide to the design and manufacture of mould tools that work successfully in production. It highlights the necessity to design a mould tool that...