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A filled rubber may be regarded at once as a two-phase composite material and as a polymeric network containing giant multifunctional cross-links. Neither concept alone leads to very useful generalizations. The physical properties of a filled vulcanizate do not appear capable of close description in terms of the component filler and rubber properties. On the other hand no degree of cross-linking per se produces effects identical to filler reinforcement. 

No mystery exists with conductive polymers, especially in terms of specific polarisation effects. The observed microwave properties are mainly linked either to conductivity distributions or interfacial phenomena in composite materials. 

The weakest link in an FRP composite material strengthening application is the FRP s resin matrix/interfacial adhesive this, indisputably, is the most vulnerable component in terms of adaptability and endurance to extreme environmental exposures. This fact has long been established and confirmed by a number of experimental and theoretical investigations (Chiew et a/., 2011 Hahn, 1976 Karbhari and Shulley, 1995 Kasen, 1981 Lord and Dutta, 1988 Weiss, 1982). If optimized surface preparation of the adherend is assumed,... 

The textile industry still constitutes one of Europe s most relevant industrial sectors for both the economy and society. The very latest trend in textile and linked industries is to create miscellaneous new products which possess the potential of interacting with the surrounding environment through active feedback. This class of new interactive material is termed intelligent textile structures or smart textiles. In order to make interactive fabrics available at the industrial level it is necessary to apply a multidisciplinary approach. The route to develop and optimise multifunctional material involves in the same way textile engineering and colloid chemistry. The complexity of the production process for modern composite materials is a real challenge to textile engineering but the fundamentals of interfacial and colloid science are indispensable to characterise and control the... 

Fibers. The principal type of phenoHc fiber is the novoloid fiber (98). The term novoloid designates a content of at least 85 wt % of a cross-linked novolak. Novoloid fibers are sold under the trademark Kynol, and Nippon Kynol and American Kynol are exclusive Hcensees. Novoloid fibers are made by acid-cataly2ed cross-linking of melt-spun novolak resin to form a fuUy cross-linked amorphous network. The fibers are infusible and insoluble, and possess physical and chemical properties that distinguish them from other fibers. AppHcations include a variety of flame- and chemical-resistant textiles and papers as weU as composites, gaskets, and friction materials. In addition, they are precursors for carbon fibers. 

If the activity of the catalyst is slowly modified by chemisorption of materials that are not easily removed, the deactivation process is termed poisoning. It is usually caused by preferential adsorption of small quantities of impurities (poisons) present in the feedstream. Adsorption of extremely small amounts of the poison (a small fraction of a monolayer) is often sufficient to cause very large losses in catalytic activity. The bonds linking the catalyst and poison are often abnormally strong and highly specific. Consequently, the process is often irreversible. If the process is reversible, a change in the temperature or the composition of the gas to which it is exposed may be sufficient to restore catalyst... 

The challenge for modeling the water balance in CCL is to link the composite, porous morphology properly with liquid water accumulation, transport phenomena, electrochemical kinetics, and performance. At the materials level, this task requires relations between composihon, porous structure, liquid water accumulation, and effective properhes. Relevant properties include proton conductivity, gas diffusivihes, liquid permeability, electrochemical source term, and vaporizahon source term. Discussions of functional relationships between effective properties and structure can be found in fhe liferafure. Because fhe liquid wafer saturation, 5,(2)/ is a spatially varying function at/o > 0, these effective properties also vary spatially in an operating cell, warranting a self-consistent solution for effective properties and performance. 

CRMs allow the user to link his results with those of internationally recognised standards, i.e. they enable the user to verify his performance at any desired moment in terms of accuracy. CRMs can be pure substances or solutions to be used for calibration and/or identification, materials of a known matrix composition for the calibration of a certain type of comparative measuring instruments, matrix RMs representing as far as possible the matrix being analysed by the user (with a certified content), or methodologically defined RMs (certified following a very strict analytical protocol), e.g. a standard (Quevauviller et al., 1995a). 

In spite of the advances made by these researchers, it remains unclear how membrane surfaces undergo restructuring and how these changes influence the catalytic and transport properties of the material. Furthermore, there is a need to link surface structure and composition with long-term performance of palladium membranes under continuous reaction conditions. One... 

The most important monomers for the production of polyolefins, in terms of industrial capacity, are ethylene, propylene and butene, followed by isobutene and 4-methyl-1-pentene. Higher a-olefins, such as 1-hexene, and cyclic monomers, such as norbornene, are used together with the monomers mentioned above, to produce copolymer materials. Another monomer with wide application in the polymer industry is styrene. The main sources presently used and conceivably usable for olefin monomer production are petroleum (see also Chapters 1 and 3), natural gas (largely methane plus some ethane, etc.), coal (a composite of polymerized and cross-linked hydrocarbons containing many impurities), biomass (organic wastes from plants or animals), and vegetable oils (see Chapter 3). 

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