Hardening Degradation

Extrusion Resins. Extmsion of VDC—VC copolymers is the main fabrication technique for filaments, films, rods, and tubing or pipe, and involves the same concerns for thermal degradation, streamlined flow, and noncatalytic materials of constmction as described for injection-molding resins (84,122). The plastic leaves the extmsion die in a completely amorphous condition and is maintained in this state by quenching in a water bath to about 10°C, thereby inhibiting recrystallization. In this state, the plastic is soft, weak, and pHable. If it is allowed to remain at room temperature, it hardens gradually and recrystallizes partially at a slow rate with a random crystal arrangement. Heat treatment can be used to recrystallize at controlled rates. 

When cured with room temperature curing system these resins have similar thermal stability to ordinary bis-phenol A type epoxides. However, when they are cured with high-temperature hardeners such as methyl nadic anhydride both thermal degradation stability and heat deflection temperatures are considerably improved. Chemical resistance is also markedly improved. Perhaps the most serious limitation of these materials is their high viscosity. 

The deterioration of a bond line can occur due to (1) the failure of the resin (low hydrolysis resistance, degradation of the hardened resin causing loss of bonding strength) (2) the failure of the interface between resin and wood surface (replacement of secondary forces between resin and reactive wood surface sites by water or other non-resin chemicals) (3) the breaking of bonds due to mechanical forces and stresses (the influence of water will cause swelling and therefore movement of the structural components of the wood-based panels). 

The products of the chemical degradation of PETP with triethylene tetramine and triethaneolamine can be used as epoxy resin hardeners, it is demonstrated. Products of PETP aminolysis with triethylene tetramine and aminoglycolysis with triethanolamine, were characterised using NMR and rheometric measurements. Characteristics of the crosslinking process for the system epoxy resin/ PETP/amine degradation product, and epoxy resin/TETA for comparison were investigated by DSC. Three classes of liquid epoxy resins based on bisphenol A, bisphenol F and epoxy novolak resins were used in the experiments. 16 refs. 

Carbonitrides, in superalloys, 4 691 Carbonitriding, case hardening by, 16 210 Carbonization, in VDC polymer degradation, 25 713... 

Films of 7 3 mixtures of 1-naphthyl acrylate and ethoxylated bisphenol-A dimethacrylate had better planarizing properties than any of the resins that were examined and may be useful as layers for etchback processing. For use as bottom layers in multilayer-resist structures it will be necessary to bake the films after uv hardening to increase the Tg, and if the exposure wavelength is above 300 nm, an appropriate dye must be added to eliminate substrate reflections that degrade resolution. 

Hardening, embrittlement, gassing, accumulation of degradation products, viscous flow enhancement, change of adhesivity. 

The dithiocarbamates have the pentacoordinate binuclear structure (44). The diamyl- and diethyl-dithiocarbamate complexes have been found to inhibit the hardening of asphalt, but the effect appears too weak to be useful.127 The latter complex is an effective antioxidant for polyethylene,128 polypropylene,129 polystyrene,130 poly(methyl methacrylate)130 and an isoprene-styrene copolymer.131 The di-n-butyldithiocarbamate complex is important in the vulcanization and injection moulding of rubber,132 as a stabilizer against photolytic and thermal degradation. 

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