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They are sparingly soluble in most solvents and resistant to acids, bases, as well as to reducing and oxidizing agents. They are further characterized by excellent heat, light, and weather stability, and exhibit a high melting point (400 °C). 

By virtue of their high-performance properties, azomethine-type tetrachloro-isoindolinone pigments 5 find extensive application in general and high-grade 

Several patents claim the use of methine isoindolinone dyes, derived from methyl quinoline, as fluorescent and electroluminescent materials [35]. Fluorescence in such compounds has also been used to detect leak in oil-filled devices [36], or as chromophores for electrooptical devices [37] and information storage [38]. While specific alkylideneisoindolinone derivatives have been tested as vasodilators [39], several patents have been taken out on specific biological activities (e.g., for agricultural use) of miscellaneous monomethine, in particular, benzyl-idene isoindoUnones [40]. 

Methine isoindoUnone metal complex pigments, in general, have so far met with very limited commercial success. This is primarily due to their dull and weak shades, as well as low fastness properties. 

21 Herbst, W., Hunger, K., Industrial Organic Pigments, 2nd. Revised Edition, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 1997. 

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The basics observed in molded products are always the same only the extent of the features varies depending on the process variables, material properties, and cavity contour. That is the inherent hydrodynamic skin-core structure characteristic of all IM products. However, the ratio of skin thickness to core thickness will vary basically with process conditions and material characteristics, flow rate, and melt-mold temperature difference. These inherent features have given rise to an increase in novel commercial products and applications via coinjection, gas-assisted, low pressure, fusible-core, in-mold decorating, etc. 

G. Lewis, N. Stanley, and G. Guist, Commercial production and applications of algal hydrocolloids, in C. Lembi, (Ed.), Algae and Human Affairs, University of Washington, Seattle, 1988, pp. 206-232. 

During this same period, practical work with microvoids was being done in Australia that resulted in the commercial production and application of polymeric "pigments" by Balm Paint, Ltd. Publications by Kershaw (89) and Lubbock (90) appeared in Australian technical journals, and several U.S. Patents (3 822 224 3 839 253 3 933 579) were granted for the production of solid, pigmented solid, and pigmented vesiculated polymeric beads—the latter employing the microvoid concept. 

Commercial products and applications Special purpose silicate glass fibers... 

The flame retardant potential of nano-clays was recognised as early as 1976 [36], bnt serious work has only begun recently. A comprehensive study of the subject is under way, led by workers at the National Institnte of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States, and commercial products and applications are starting to appear, notably in cable applications. Scientific understanding is still rudimentary, but is evolving fast. Only a limited number of nano-clays and polymers have so far been studied, so generalisations are risky. 

PHAs can substitute petroleum-derived polymers, can be produced from renewable resources and are harmless to the environment due to their biodegradability. However, the major hurdle facing commercial production and application of PHA in consumer products is the high cost of bacterial fermentation. It makes bacterial PHA production 5 10 times more expensive than the petroleum-derived polymers such polyethylene and polypropylene. The significant factor of the production cost of PHA is the cost of substrate (mainly carbon source). In order to decrease this cost, the use of cheap carbon sources as substrates have been developed. The researches have been carried out to develop recombinant strains utilizing a cheap carbon source, while corresponding fermentation strategies have been developed and optimized. 

Recently, a review on commercial proteases has been published stating the wide range of protease application but leather industry is one of the main application areas in it (Li et al., 2013). Although studies on the use of enzymes for various stages of leather processing are numerous, the commercial production and application of enz3mies in the leather industry is limited. In limited commercial enzyme products, the process, called enzyme-assisted process, needs either lime or sulphide in addition to the enzyme. All the commercial enzymatic products with their company name are summarized in Table 9.6. 

Muthusamy K, Gopalakrishnan S, Ravi TK Sivachidambaram P. 2008. Biosurfactants properties, commercial production and application. Current Science 94(6) 736-747. 

Buffers are widely used to maintain nearly constant pH in a variety of commercial products and laboratory procedures (Figure 14.2, p. 384). For these applications and others, it is essential to be able to determine—... 

Commercial Equipment and Applications The falling-film crystallization process was invented by the MWB company in Switzerland. The process is now marketed by Sulzer Chemtech. Products successfully processed in the falling-film crystallizer are listed on Table 20-9. The falling-film crystallization process is available from the Chemtech Div. of Sulzer Canada Inc., 60 Worcester Rd., Rexdale, Ontario N9W 5X2 Canada. 

Decades of combined spectral and chemistry expertise have led to vast collections of searchable user databases containing over 300 000 UV, IR, Raman and NMR spectra, covering pure compounds, a broad range of commercial products and special libraries for applications in polymer chemistry (cf. Section 1.4.3). Spectral libraries are now on the hard disks of computers. Interpretation of spectra is frequently made only by computer-aided search for the nearest match in a digitised library. The spectroscopic literature has been used to establish computer-driven assignment programs (artificial intelligence). 

Much research has focused on the development of better brighteners for application to polyester. Huge numbers of patents have appeared and it is impossible to cover all the chemical variations in this chapter. Many of the more important commercial products and chemical types are discussed here but the reader is referred to published reviews [5,6,10,11] for more detail. 

PCBs are attractive for industrial applications because of their stability and dielectric properties [351-354]. Figure 1 shows the structure of the biphenyl molecule along with examples of chlorination that can occur at any of the positions on the rings. The physical and chemical properties of both isomers and mixtures used in industrial applications depend upon the degree and position of the chlorine atoms [355 -358]. There are 209 possible chlorobiphenyl isomers and Table 4 lists the number of isomers for various degrees of substitution. However, many of these isomers do not occur in significant amounts in commercial products, and isomers with four or five chlorine atoms on one ring but none on the other are not detectable in PCB mixtures [359-362]. 

In 1886, Henri Moissan achieved the isolation of elemental fluorine, and this discovery was awarded twenty years later by the Nobel Prize (1906). At the time of this discovery, Moissan was working in a place that was not geared toward this kind of research the Faculty of Pharmacy in Paris. These studies were certainly not oriented toward potential commercial products, and Moissan could not imagine the important applications that took place one century later in the field of pharmaceuticals. Indeed, pharmacy and more generally life sciences have become major fields in fluorine chemistry. This story is instructive in the current debate between pure and applied research. 

Polyimides (PI) were among the earliest candidates in the field of thermally stable polymers. In addition to high temperature property retention, these materials also exhibit chemical resistance and relative ease of synthesis and use. This has led to numerous innovations in the chemistry of synthesis and cure mechanisms, structure variations, and ultimately products and applications. Polyimides (qv) are available as films, fibers, enamels or varnishes, adhesives, matrix resins for composites, and mol ding powders. They are used in numerous commercial and military aircraft as structural composites, eg, over a ton of polyimide film is presendy used on the NASA shutde orbiter. Work continues on these materials, including the more recent electronic applications. 

With a decade of experience, I have brought together seven papers with a scope limited to self-assembly of peptides, but covering key issues for advancing materials research into product development. The patent literature activity is typically an indicator of commercial interest and application space. Chapter 1 covers in some detail, but without being comprehensive, what self-assembled peptides may bring in terms of material applications. Chapters 2 and 3 explain the underlying principles of peptide self-assembly and how experiment can be used to model the hierarchy of structure formation. Typically, the work on peptides requires a tailored molecular... 

Reactive surfactants have also economic and environmental advantages. The binding to the dispersed phase makes these surfactants an integral part of the finished product and enhances the yield in active matter on a weight basis. It furthermore prevents the release of surfactants in the water effluents on production and application and, as such, reduces the environmental impact of intermediate products and commercial formulations. 

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