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CH2—CI2—) —(—CF2— CFH—) (39). Ceramic crystals have a higher piezoelectric efficiency. Their high acoustic impedance compared to body tissues necessitates impedance matching layers between the piezoelectric and the tissue. These layers are similar in function to the antireflective coatings on a lens. Polymer piezoelectric materials possess a more favorable impedance relative to body tissues but have poorer performance characteristics. Newer transducer materials are piezoelectric composites containing ceramic crystals embedded in a polymer matrix (see Composite materials, polymer-MATRIX Piezoelectrics). 

The remaining tailings left over from the clay fractionation step is either flocculated with alum, high molecular weight polymers, or a weak (pH 3.0) solution of sulfuric acid, and stored in settling ponds as waste, or may be filtered and sold to the brick industry as a coating material. It also may be dried and sold as a filler in plastics and textured paint (qv). 

Chisso-Asahi uses a spouted bed process for the production of their coated materials (12). A 12,000 t/yr faciHty is located in Japan. The semicontinuous process consists of two batch fluid-bed coaters. A dilute polymer solution is prepared by dissolving 5% polymer and release controlling agent into a chlorinated hydrocarbon solvent such as trichloroethylene. The solution is metered into the spouted bed where it is appHed to the fertilizer core. Hot air, used to fluidize the granules, evaporates the solvent which is recovered and reintroduced into the process. Mineral talc, when used, is either slurried into the polymer solution or introduced into the fluidizing air. 

Ishihara K, Hanyuda H, and Nakabayashi N. Synthesis of phospholipids polymers having a urethane bond in the side chain as coating material on segmented polyurethane and their platelet adhesion resistant properties. Biomaterials, 1995, 16(11), 873-879. 

Subcutaneous in vivo testing of these polymers (13,14) has shown minimal tissue response—similar, in fact, to the response to poly-(tetrafluoroethylene). These materials are candidates for use in heart valves, heart pumps, blood vessel prostheses, or as coating materials for pacemakers or other implantable devices. 

Polymers with a sizable number of ionic groups and a relatively nonpolar backbone are known as ionomers. The term was first used for copolymers of ethylene with carboxylated monomers (such as methacrylic acid) present as salts, and cross-linked thermoreversibly by divalent metal ions. Such polymers are useful as transparent packaging and coating materials. Their fluorinated forms have been made into very interesting ion-exchange membranes (considered further below). 

A scientific collection 841 of the large number of data on organometallic polymers containing various elements has been published. Tin-containing polymers, their use and their applications as coating materials are also discussed in this collection. 

We use extrusion coating to apply thin layers of polymer to the surface of non-polymeric substrates such as cardboard or aluminum foil. Extrusion coated materials are extensively used in food packaging. Products include the coated cardboard used to make milk cartons and the coated aluminum foil used to seal dairy product tubs. The process of extrusion coating has much in common with film casting. 

Asymmetric ECH with [Rh(L)2(Cl)2]+ complexes containing chiral polypyridyl ligands has been attempted, in homogeneous media (L = (7)-(12)) and at carbon electrodes coated with polymer films prepared by electropolymerization of [Rh(13)2(Cl)2]+ -61 62 The latter catalytic system gave the best results in terms of turnover number (up to 4,750) and enantiomeric excess, (ee) when applied to the hydrogenation of acetophenone (ee 18%) and 2-butanone (ee 10%).62 Polymeric materials derived from the complexes [RhI(bpy)(COD)]+ 36 and [Pd(bpy)2]2+33have also been applied to the ECH reaction. 

An interesting way to prepare shock-resistant coatings [381] follows the synthesis of the ABS-terpolymers, e.g. shock-resistant polystyrene, where a soft, elastomeric phase is incorporated in a hard polymer matrix via covalent bonds. Because organic coatings solidify in situ, elastomeric microgels have been synthesized and mixed to a binder which forms the hard matrix phase before the application of this mixture as a coating material. 

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