Binders for Inhibited Plastics

Plastics are materials based on polymers that are found in the plastic or viscous-flow state during processing into articles and are solid, glassy and/or in a crystalline state when they are final products [29,30,35]. 

The thermoplastic binder is chosen for the purpose of acting as an inhibited CM and is aimed at reaching the required service characteristics of the final product. 

The range of plastics used as (matrix type) binders for inhibited CM is extremely broad and includes practically the whole list of commercial thermal and thermosetting plastics [36-45]. 

Thermoplastics are based on linear or branched polymers, copolymers or their blends that are reversibly transferred at heating into a plastic or viscoplastic state as a result of melting of the crystalline and/or softening of the amorphous (glassy) phase [29]. Inhibited CM based on thermoplastics are largely adopted in anticorrosion techniques. Most thermoplastics are produced at a large scale in petrochemical enterprises and are comparatively 

Both flexible and rigid heterochain pol3miers subjected to polycondensation (polycondensation synthesis) are used today in rather large volumes for manufacture of inhibited plastics. The list includes polyethers (polyalky- 

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Properties of the binders for inhibited plastics are also described in Sects. 2.1, 3.5, 4.3, and Chap. 5. 

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