Melting dielectric heating

Although feasible, as shown by Erwin and Suh (4), using dielectric heating as an energy source is rather limited in polymer processing practice as a primary melting mechanism. 

The Friedlander annulation is one of the most straightforward approaches towards poly-substituted quinolines. Thus, a 22-membered library of quinolines was synthesized in a TsOH-catalyzed cyclocondensation-dehydration of 2-aminoaryl ketones and 2-aminoarylaldehydes with ketones in a household microwave oven (with power control) under solvent-free conditions [112]. It was observed that the Friedlander reaction occurred readily also in an oil-bath (at 100 °C). To compare the conventional and dielectric heating conditions precisely, a purpose-built monomode microwave system with temperature control was employed instead of the household oven. The experiments at 100 °C under otherwise identical conditions demonstrated that the dielectric heating protocol was only slightly faster. Products were isolated by a simple precipitation-neutralization sequence (in the case of solid products) or neutralization-extraction for oily or low melting point products (Scheme 43). 

Parts from PVDF can be machined, sawed, coined, metallized, and fusion bonded more easily than most other thermoplastics. Fusion bonding usually yields a weld line that is as strong as the part. Adhesive bonding of PVDF parts can be done epoxy resins produce good bonds [31]. Because of a high dielectric constant and loss factor, PVDF can be readily melted by radiofrequency and dielectric heating. This is the basis for some fabrication and joining techniques [32]. 

As their name implies, plastics are easily deformable and once molten they may be heated not only externally, but also internally, by dissipating friction or dielectric heat. Once the pyrolysis temperature is attained, the melt viscosity starts decreasing rapidly and rising pyrolysis vapour bubbles agitate the mix. Many properties of plastics can be derived using methods used and developed by Van Krevelen [13]. The pyrolyzing plastic s rheology is poorly-documented, however, since the evolution of molecular size and strucmre with time and the effects of extraneous matter are difficult to predict. 

This approach has been successful in rationalizing the melting points, heats of formation and mixing, and various optical and electrical phenomena of tetrahedral semiconductor crystals (e.g., see Ref. 173). It is not clear how far it may be extended to other types of materials in the light of the complexities of bonding which many experiments demonstrate—also few experimental results may be related directly to a fractional ionicity for comparison. Levine, however, has generalized the dielectric model in terms of individual bond properties to several different structures. The critical ionicity ft = 0.785) between octahedral and tetrahedral coordination is not always appropriate for example PbS, PbSe, and PbTe (with rock-salt structures) have ft 0.6, and for LiH (also rock-salt)yi 0.1. This latter value would seem to be in... 

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As a tme thermoplastic, FEP copolymer can be melt-processed by extmsion and compression, injection, and blow molding. Films can be heat-bonded and sealed, vacuum-formed, and laminated to various substrates. Chemical inertness and corrosion resistance make FEP highly suitable for chemical services its dielectric and insulating properties favor it for electrical and electronic service and its low frictional properties, mechanical toughness, thermal stabiUty, and nonstick quaUty make it highly suitable for bearings and seals, high temperature components, and nonstick surfaces. 

Heat treatment of related glasses melted under reducing conditions can yield a unique microfoamed material, or "gas-ceramic" (29). These materials consist of a matrix of BPO glass-ceramic filled with uniformly dispersed 1—10 p.m hydrogen-filled bubbles. The hydrogen evolves on ceranarning, most likely due to a redox reaction involving phosphite and hydroxyl ions. These materials can have densities as low as 0.5 g/cm and dielectric constants as low as 2. 

During the press operation, which is actually a form of compression mol ding, the resin-treated laminate pHes are heated under pressure and the resins cured. The initial heating phases cause the resin to melt and flow into voids in the reinforcing ply and bond the individual pHes together. The appHed heat simultaneously causes the resin to polymerize and eventually to cross-link or gel. Therefore, resin viscosity reaches a minimum during the press cycle. This is the point at which the curing process becomes dominant over the melt flow process. Dynamic mechanical and dielectric analyses (11) are excellent tools for study of this behavior. 

The dielectric constant of unsymmetrical molecules containing dipoles (polar molecules) will be dependent on the internal viscosity of the dielectric. If very hard frozen ethyl alcohol is used as the dielectric the dielectric constant is approximately 3 at the melting point, when the molecules are free to orient themselves, the dielectric constant is about 55. Further heating reduces the ratio by increasing the energy of molecular motions which tend to disorient the molecules but at room temperature the dielectric constant is still as high as 35. 

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