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Description Author: George WypychISBN 978-1-927885-57-4 Publication date: January 2020Third EditionPages: 518Figures 124Tables 256 Summary This book contains completely updated version of previous edition with the most recent literature and patents. It has 12 chapters, each discussing different aspect of UV related phenomena occurring when materials are exposed to UV radiation.In the introduction the existing literature has...
Description Author: George WypychISBN 978-1-927885-59-8 Publication date: January 2020First EditionNumber of pages 238+vi Summary Handbook of Antioxidants contains information on both natural and man-made antioxidants available in natural products and added to numerous industrial applications. The book contains 5 chapters, each discussing different aspect of phenomena occurring when materials are exposed to ambient air which contains...
Description Author: Anna & George WypychISBN 978-1-927885-55-0 Publication date: January 2020Second EditionNumber of pages: 630+xiv Summary The databook contains information on the most frequently used UV stabilizers. Current UV stabilizers are the result of many recent changes, especially in application to cosmetics, polymers, and plastics. Many current issues are related to health. Skin penetration by...
Description Author: George WypychTitle of series: Impact of AwardISBN 978-1-927885-65-9 Publication date: January 2020Pages 236+viFigures 66 Summary Chain movement, chain mobility, segmental mobility, segmental dynamics, chain orientation are the primary subjects of this monograph having utmost importance in polymer science and technology, medicine, pharmaceutical, and many other applications. Nobel Prize committee awarded in 1991 Nobel Prize...
Description Author: Anna & George WypychISBN 978-1-927885-53-6 Publication date: January 2020First EditionNumber of pages: 500+xii Summary In general terms, the antioxidants are expected to protect status quo by prevention of oxidation. Oxidation is a chain reaction involving free radicals and hydroperoxide intermediates. Antioxidants act by reacting and decomposing free radicals and hydroperoxide intermediate species.In polymeric...
Description Author: Sulaiman KhalifehISBN 978-1-927885-67-3 Publication date: January 2020Pages: 606+xFigures: 189Tables: 76 Summary Electronics (including micro, nano, and quantum systems); mechanics (including MEMS, NEMS, MOEMS, and NOEMS); mechatronics (including robots, artificial muscles, and automated air vehicles); informatics (including software, hardware, and communication); materials science (including conjugated polymers, smart materials, and conducting small molecules); and optoelectronics (optical...
Description Author: George Wypych, Editor ISBN 978-1-927885-41-3 Publication date: March 2019Number of pages: 930+xiiFigures: 240Tables: 260 Summary The volume begins with a discussion of solvent used in over 30 industries, which are the main consumers of solvents. The analysis is conducted based on available data and contains information on the types (and frequently amounts) of solvents...
Description Author: George Wypych, Editor ISBN 978-1-927885-38-3 Published: March 2019Pages 900+xFigures: 315Tables: 130 Summary The third edition contains the most recent findings and trends in the solvent application. This volume together with Vol. 2 Use, Health & Environment, Databook of Green Solvents, and Databook of Solvents contains the most comprehensive, and up to date information ever...
Description Author: George Wypych ISBN 978-1-927885-47-5 Published Jan 2019Pages: 258+vi Summary This book contains information on additives which convert soluble monomer, prepolymer, or polymer to the insoluble polymer network popularly known as thermosetting polymer. The additives which cause these changes include crosslinkers and curatives. Both types of additives are discussed in separate chapters of the book because...
Description Author: George Wypych ISBN 978-1-927885-51-2 Pages: 316 + ivFigures 228Tables 4 Summary Potential applications of graphene are the subject of many papers. On ScienceDirect alone, over 5000 papers were published in 2016, and numerous patents followed. The main subject of the book is an extensive account of up-to-date findings in methods of production of graphene and...
Description Authors: Anna Wypych and George Wypych ISBN 978-1-927885-43-7 Publication date: January 2019Number of pages: 584+x Summary The field of green solvents changes rapidly and continuously. It can be well evidenced from the turnover of solvents in this book. Forty-five solvents included in the previous edition are not produced or considered green anymore and they are...
Description Author: Malgorzata Hanson and Anna Wypych ISBN 978-1-927885-49-9 Number of pages: 542+xvi Summary Curatives and crosslinkers form a group of additives necessary in the processing of thermosets. Forty groups of curatives/crosslinkers are included in Databook of Curatives and Crosslinkers. They include the following chemical groups of additives: acids, acrylamides, aldehydes, amides, amidoamines, amines, anhydrides, aziridines,...
Description Authors: Anna Wypych and George Wypych ISBN 978-1-895198-82-9 Summary Many currently used solvents have to be replaced, either because of regulations or because of ever growing trend to produce safer products or produce them in a safer way. There is a lot of confusion in the market place regarding of what really consists of green...
Description Authors: Reiji Mezaki, Guang Hui Ma ISBN 978-1-895198-16-4 Summary This book is a compilation of rate expressions for industrially important polymerization reactions which have appeared in major technical journals in both chemistry and chemical engineering. In this text we have selected only homo- polymer systems with the exception of polycondensation systems although co- polymers are...
Description Author: Stefan Polowinski, Technical University of Lodz, Poland ISBN 978-1-895198-15-7151 pp., 60 figures, 18 tables Summary Introducing the first published monograph devoted to this emerging technology Template polymerization is a new field in polymer synthesis but common practice in the biosynthesis since DNA is the most popular template or matrix on which proteins are...
Description Author H. H. Krause and J. M. L. Penninger ISBN 978-1-895198-06-5 Pages: 134 Figures: 64 Tables: 23 Summary This book shares developments in recycling in Germany and Italy. Most chapters are based on the research work conducted in the Fraunhofer Institute of Chemical Technology in Germany, contracted by the German Government to organize and...
Description Author: Anna WypychISBN 978-1-927885-27-7 Published: Feb 2018Pages 734 + 14 Summary Databook of Adhesion Promoters contains data on the most important products in the use today. Three hundred sixty leading products have been included in this book. The additives belong to 31 chemical groups listed in the table of contents below. The information on each...
Description Author: George WypychISBN 978-1-927885-31-4 Published: 2018Pages: 972+xFigures: 807Tables: 66 Summary The 6th edition of Handbook of Material Weathering contains a systematic update of knowledge generated in more than last 25 years since the 1st edition was published. For example, in the last 5 years, more than 8,000 new papers (30 new papers per week) have...
Description Author: George WypychISBN 978-1-927885-29-1 Published: 2018Pages 236+vi Summary Adhesion promoters form a very important group of additives without which many industrial products cannot perform according to requirements. The knowledge on this subject mostly related to silanes, which form the most widely used group of these additives, is still based on the book which was published...
Description Author: George WypychISBN 978-1-927885-37-6 Published: 2018Pages 226 + viFigures 135Tables 34 Summary Fillers do not fill but modify the next generation materials, control their properties, open new applications. This opening sentence underlines the aims of this book which shows applications of fillers resulting from their chemical composition (or modification) and/or special morphological features. This...