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Understanding the link between microstructure in PDMS foams and the mechanical performance is crucially important for the development of ageing trends that allow long term qualification. The plots in Figure 13 show force decay curves for a series of siloxane foam samples with varying closed cell contents. The trend demonstrates the time dependent nature of the measurement of physical properties. This creates an additional source of variation and if possible then it should be eradicated by the production of 100% open cell structures. 

Phenolics. These plastics allow the preparation of both random prepolymers, such as Baekelands A stage and true structopendant prepolymers, commonly known under the term novolaks (Figure 6). Novolaks permit one to take advantage of the newer prepolymer technology. Monomers are phenol, cresols, and formaldehyde. Molecular weights of the novolaks are between 300 and 700. Novolaks are obtained through careful selection of reaction conditions and catalysis of the phenol-formaldehyde reaction. Molecular weight, as well as the ratio of 2,2 - and 2,4 -links, can be controlled. These structural factors, studied extensively by Wood (28), have an eflFect on the physical properties of the cured polymer network. 

These relationships link variations in the shape function to the reactivity descriptors commonly used in DFT and provide explicit methods for describing chemical reactivity in terms of the shape function yielding conceptual shape function theory . Thus, it is clearly seen that the shape function not only determines all the physical properties of an isolated molecule but, since reactivity descriptors can be explicitly constructed from the shape function, also its chemical properties. As the resulting equations are not always that simple to apply at first sight, we pass in next paragraph to some pragmatic procedures for extracting descriptors from the shape function. 

Several psychological disorders are currently being discussed in terms of the effect of the physical state of the membrane lipids on neurotransmitter receptor function. Hibbeln and Salem (1995) suggest that serotonin levels and membrane 22 6n-3 content are directly linked, whereby low 22 6n-3 yields low serotonin. This results in an individual being susceptible to depression or other affective diseases. These authors suggest that the depletion of 22 6n-3 induces a change in membrane physical properties, which, in turn, influences the function of either serotonergic receptors or serotonin reuptake systems. 

A filled rubber may be regarded at once as a two-phase composite material and as a polymeric network containing giant multifunctional cross-links. Neither concept alone leads to very useful generalizations. The physical properties of a filled vulcanizate do not appear capable of close description in terms of the component filler and rubber properties. On the other hand no degree of cross-linking per se produces effects identical to filler reinforcement. 

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