Parent polymer

Polymer Composition. The piopeities of foamed plastics aie influenced both by the foam stmctuie and, to a gieatei extent, by the piopeities of the parent polymer. The polymer phase description must include the additives present in that phase as well. The condition or state of the polymer phase (orientation, crystallinity, previous thermal history), as well as its chemical composition, determines the properties of that phase. The polymer state and cell geometry are intimately related because they are determined by common forces exerted during the expansion and stabilization of the foam. 

Maximum Service Temperature. Because the cellular materials, like their parent polymers (204), gradually decrease in modulus as the temperature rises rather than undergoing a sharp change in properties, it is difficult to precisely define the maximum service temperature of cellular polymers. The upper temperature limit of use for most cellular polymers is governed predominantly by the plastic phase. Fabrication of the polymer into a... 

Polystyrene is now available in certain forms in which the properties of the product are distinctly different from those of the parent polymer. Of these by far the most important is expanded polystyrene, an extremely valuable insulating material now available in densities as low as 1 Ib/ft (16kg/m ). A number of processes have been described in the literature for the manufacture of the cellular product of which four are of particular interest in the manufacture of large slabs. 

When fabricated polycarbonate parts are exposed to ultraviolet light, either in laboratory equipment or by outdoor exposure, a progressive dulling is observed on the exposed surface. The dullness is due to microscopic cracks on the surface of the resin. If the surface resin is analysed it is observed that it has a significantly lower molecular weight than the parent polymer. 

Additional chemical stability can be given to PPVs by substitution at the vinyl-ene carbons. Thus, CN-PPV and PPV-DP are more stable than their parent polymers [173]. Carter et al. [172] showed that a random copolymer of PPV containing non-conjugated segments is considerably more stable to photooxidation than the fully conjugated polymer. Of course, the electrical and optical properties are also altered by these substitutions. 

To improve the dimensional stability of the oligoethyleneoxy phosphazene/ metal salt complexes, some attempts have been reported which concern the chemical modification of the parent polymers, their chemical or radiation cross-linking, or the use of blends. 

The chemical modification of poly (2,6-dimethyl-l,4-phenylene oxide) (PPO) by several polymer analogous reactions is presented. The chemical modification was accomplished by the electrophilic substitution reactions such as bromination, sulfonylation and acylation. The permeability to gases of the PPO and of the resulting modified polymers is discussed. Very good permeation properties to gases, better than for PPO were obtained for the modified structures. The thermal behavior of the substituted polymers resembled more or less the properties of the parent polymer while their solution behavior exhibited considerable differences. 

The solution properties of the brominated PPO derivatives were similar to those of the parent polymer. The gas permeation properties of PPO and PPO containing between 6.5% to 100% Br groups per repeat unit are summarized in Table I. 

These results demonstrate that side-chain liquid crystalline polymers can be synthesized by polymer analogous reactions from theoretically any polymer backbone. When the polymer backbone is rigid, as in the case of PPO, a long spacer is required both to decrease the Tg of the parent polymer and to partially decouple the... 

This study involved the preparation and characterization of poly(N-phenyl 3,4-dimethylenepyrrolidine) and the subsequent oxidation and reduction of this polymer. The parent polymer was not very soluble, so it was difficult to characterize. However, after oxidizing in the presence of palladium on carbon in nitrobenzene, the resultant poly(N-phenyl 3,4-dimethylenepyrrole) was soluble in several organic solvents. Attempts to reduce the original polymer to the pyrrolidone were unsuccessful. 

The blending of polymeric organic carbonyl compounds, e.g., ethylene/carbon monoxide copolymer, with the parent polymer, e.g., polyethylene, gives a plastic film material that degrades within 3 months. 

Recently, such a procedure has been used by Wu and Shanks [22] upon a preparation of partially hydrophobized polyacrylamide (PAAm). In this work, the transamidation reaction has been employed to convert amide groups of the parent polymer to the alkylamide groups of the modified PAAm. Scheme 2 shows the reaction chart for the case of the N-isopropylamide derivative. 

Hydrogenated polymers have many desirable properties over their parent polymers, although the high cost of hydrogenated products still restricts their widespread application. The following aspects should be considered for the sustainable development of the hydrogenated polymer industry ... 

Jin and coworkers [123] synthesized PPV 67, containing an oxadiazole and an alkoxy group. According to UPS study, the HOMO and LUMO levels in 67 (-6.32 and -3.98 eV) are within the band gap of the parent polymer 61 without alkoxy substituents (Scheme 2.14). The external QE of PLEDs based on polymer 67 is about one order of magnitude higher than that for 61 (0.045% for ITO/67/Li Al) and a maximum brightness of up to 7570 cd/m2 was achieved for this material (using Ca cathode). 

The parent polymer by itself is not a useful material owing to the extreme hydrolytic sensitivity of the P-Cl bond. However, this feature has been turned around and used as an advantage. Nucleophilic substitution of the chlorines in the polymer results in substituted polyphosphazenes which are hydrolytically stable. Also, using this method the polymer architecture and properties are readily fine-tuned by a subtle variation of the substituent. Over three hundred types of polyphosphazenes have been synthesised by this method. Assembly of organic polymers containing cyclo-phosphazenes as pendant groups is another approach that is gaining importance [6]. 

Theoretically miscible polymer blends will show Tg values that are intermediate between those of the parent polymers. They follow such models as the Fox or Gordon-Taylor relationships (18,19). However, in the case of HPL/PVA blends, the Tg data did not follow any of these well known models, and Tg values above those of the parent polymers were observed (10). The quotient of the experimental blend-Ttf divided by the predicted (Fox) Tg consistently rose above 1.00 for blends exceeding 5% HPL content (10). This indicates molecular interactions between HPL and PVA. An... 

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