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Description Author: George WypychISBN 978-1-77467-048-4Hard copyPages 240+viiiPublished: Jan 2025 Summary The Encyclopedia takes a different approach to analyzing the effects of degradants on the degradation of materials as compared to the classical methods commonly used in weathering studies. Here are the key points: Limitations of Typical Weathering Studies: Conventional weathering studies often take place in...
Description Author: Gooch, Jan W. Editor ISBN 978-1-4419-6246-1 2nd revised and updated edition, XXXII, 520 p. 390 illus. Summary - This 2nd edition expands on the first-ever book of polymer terminology published by introducing more than 450 new entries and more than 120 new illustrations-New interactive software provides easy access to innovative features, such as molecular...
Description Author: Peter Mischke, Michael Groteklaes, and Thomas Brock ISBN 978-3-86630-849-7 400 pages Summary This work is intended to fill a gap in the current specialist literature: as an accompanying handbook. An extremely broad knowledge base is a prerequisite for mastering this unique protective and finishing material. However, today’s coatings specialist also requires knowledge of process engineering...
Description Author: D.C. Wright ISBN 978-1-85957-517-8 Pages: 412, Figures: 139, Tables: 52 Summary Plastics and rubbers together make up the most adaptable and varied class of materials available to product designers. They may be transparent or opaque, rigid or flexible, lightweight, insulating, and weatherproof. They are used in almost every industry, and in every part of...
Description Author: Jean L. Leblanc ISBN 978-1-4398004-2-3 Pages: 444 pages Summary The idea of mixing single available materials into compounds to fulfill a set of desired properties is likely as old as mankind. Highly sophisticated polymer applications would simply be impossible without the enhancement of some of their properties through the addition of fine mineral particles...
Description Author: Laurence W McKeen ISBN 978-1-4557-2551-9 320 pages Summary This extensively revised second edition is the only data handbook available on the engineering properties of commercial polymeric films details many physical, mechanical, optical, electrical, and permeation properties within the context of specific test parameters, providing a ready reference for comparing materials in the same family...
Description Author: Eds., M. Le Bras, C. Wilkie, S. Bourbigot ISBN 978-0-85404-582-2 pages 410, Hardcover Summary The use of polymers is restricted by their flammability- they may indeed initiate or propagate fire. Fire Retardancy of Polymers focuses on mineral additives from either micro- or nano-composites for application in fire retardants. With the use of fire retardant...
Description Author: Eds., Alexander B. Morgan, Charles A. Wilkie ISBN 978-0-471-73426-0 pages 421, Hardcover Summary Flame Retardant Polymer Nanocomposites takes a comprehensive look at polymer nanocomposites for flame retardancy applications and includes nanocomposite fundamentals (theory, design, synthesis, characterization) as well as polymer flammability fundamentals with emphasis on how nanocomposites affect flammability.The book has practical examples from...
Description Author: Walther Grot, Ion Power, Inc. (former DuPont), Delaware, U.S.A. ISBN 978-1-4377-4457-6 Hardbound, 312 Pages Summary Fluorinated ionomer polymers form impermeable membranes that conduct electricity, properties that have been put to use in large-scale electrochemical applications, revolutionizing the chlor-alkali industry and transforming production methods of some of the world’s highest-production commodity chemicals: chlorine, sodium hydroxide, and...
Description Author: Albert L. Moore ISBN 0-8155-1517-0 Pages 325 Summary The comprehensive reference on fluoroelastomer chemistry, processing technology, and applications. This is a must-have reference for materials scientists and engineers in the automotive, aerospace, chemical, chemical process, and power generation industries. Fluoroelastomers meet rigorous performance requirements in harsh environments, enhancing reliability, safety, and environmental friendliness. Fluoroelastomers...
Description Author: Sina Ebnesajjad ISBN 1-884207-96-0 DuPont Fluoroproducts, Wilmington, DE, USA Summary This is the second of a two-volume series of books about fluoroplastics. Volume 1 covers the non-melt processible homopolymers, requiring non-traditional processing techniques. Volume 2 is devoted to the melt-processible fluoropolymers, their polymerization and fabrication techniques including injection molding, wire, tube, and film...
Description Author: Ebnesajjad & Morgan ISBN 978-1-4377-3461-4 Summary Key Features Fluoropolymer additives are becoming more widely used with key applications including use as a polymer processing aid (increasing speed and reducing faults) and as an additive to lubricants, inks and coatings. This book is the only practical guide available to the selection and use of...
Description Author: Rapra Conferences ISBN 978-1-84735-390-0 21-22 April 2009, Brussels, Belgium 18 papers Summary The worldwide food contact polymers market has seen the enormous change in recent years, a trend in part due to the shifting regulatory landscape. It is important, perhaps now more than ever, to keep abreast of regulatory matters and to identify...
Description Author: Salvatore Parisi ISBN 9781847356093 page 398 Summary Quality inspection of packaging materials is a difficult task for food producers because the technical tests for packaging are mainly designed to measure the 'performance' of materials in relation to their chemical formulation, processing data, and intended uses. This may be difficult for food producers because their knowledge...
Description Author: Ed. Marino Xanthos ISBN 978-3-527-32361-6 pages 531, Hardcover Summary Edited and co-authored by Professor Marino Xanthos with contributions by international experts from industry and academia, the book presents methods of mixing/incorporation technologies, surface treatments and modifications for enhanced functionality, an analysis of parameters affecting filler performance and a presentation of current and emerging applications....
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...
Description Author: George WypychISBN 978-1- 77467-016-3 Edition: 2nd Pages 326 + ivFigures 135Tables 34Published Jan. 2023 Summary Functional fillers are an important part of today's composite processing technologies. They improve the properties of composites through the creation of a larger interfacial area between the matrix and ffibers and they also provide thermal stability to polymeric matrices....
Description Author: Ed. Sudipta Seal ISBN 978-0-387-35463-7 Springer pages approx., 350 Summary Nanocrystalline materials exhibit outstanding structural and mechanical properties. However, future progress in this emerging field is critically dependent upon the development of new methods of understanding and analyzing the underlying nanoscale and interface effects causing their unique mechanical properties. This exceptionally well- researched volume...
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 978-1-77467-018-7 Pages 322+viFigures 154Published Jan. 2023 Summary Adhesion promoters form a significant 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 frequently based on the book which...