Computer-assisted polymer design

POTENZONE and doherty Computer-Assisted Polymer Design... 

Designing Polymers with an Arbitrary Distribution of Characteristic Length Scales by the Computer-Assisted Irradiation (CAI) Method... 

Ishino, S., Nakanishi, H., Norisuye, T., Awatsuji, Y. and Tran-Cong-Miyata, Q. (2006) Designing a polymer blend with phase separation tunable by visible light for computer-assisted irradiation experiments. Macromol. Rapid. Commun., 27, 758-762. 

This section is limited to the application of methods of mathematical optimization to materials with cement-based matrices, like ordinary concretes, polymer concretes, fibre-reinforced concretes, etc. Other methods of improving the material design by separate analyses of particular aspects and criteria, or by computer assisted comparisons of a number of designs to select the best one, are mentioned only briefly. 

Germashev IV, Derbisher VE, Zotov YuL et al (2001) Computer-assisted design of active additives for polyvinyl chloride. Int Polym Sci Technol 28(7) 36-38... 

M. Khodadadian and F. Ahmadi, Computer-assisted design and synthesis of molecularly imprinted polymers for selective extraction of acetazolamide from human plasma prior to its voltammetric determination, Talanta, 81 (4-5) 1446-1453, 2010. 

And although thermoforming is basically a rubbery solid deformation process, the viscoelastic character of the polymer may need to be understood, particularly for the plug-assisted forming process. Computer-aided design programs also may need polymer viscoelastic properties. This may be particularly true for crystalline polymers such as polyethylene and polypropylene when formed above their melt temperatures. This is discussed below. 

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