Morphological Characterization of Polymer Supports

Structure, Morphology, Physical Formats and Characterization of Polymer Supports... 

This book is divided up into sections. The first three chapters provide a background sections that follow contain chapters dealing with polymer chain analysis, polymer morphology and structure, polymer degradation, polymer product analysis and support techniques. These are listed in more detail in Chapter 1, which also expands more fully on our industrial perception of the requirements for competence and appreciation in all techniques and methods for polymer molecular characterization and analysis. We hope you find this book of value and its approach both unique and technically informative and useful. 

In this chapter, an overview of the fundamentals of PNs is described, according to the author s understanding and experience as well as support from numerous references and review articles. The content of this chapter covers all kinds of inorganic nanoadditives, but, because the most widely investigated and thus understood nanoadditives used to enhance the thermal and fire resistance of the polymers are clays (natural or synthetic) followed by the CNTs and colloidal particles, the focus of the chapter is primarily on clays, particularly on the silicate clays and LDHs, as well as the CNTs. This includes structure, properties, and surface treatment of the nanoadditives, design of the modifiers, synthesis, characterization of the structure/morphology, and thermal and fire... 

Polymer thermodynamics is a supporting science that proved to be very successful due to it s intensive interactions with neighbouring disciplines (such as process optimization, polymer chemistry and chemical modification, polymer characterization, morphology and interface sciences, but also with areas as polymer processing and material science). The future of polymer thermodynamics thus will strongly depend on developments made in these neighbouring research area s. I thus will present a kind of outlook for polymer thermodynamics and the possibilities of compressed or supercritical media, based on some pioneering research results in polymer chemistry and the reported molecular architectures obtained. 

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