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Poly(alkylene glycol)s have a number of characteristics that make them desirable as lubricants. Compared to petroleum lubricants, they have lower pour points, a higher viscosity index, and a wider range of solubilities including water, compatibility with elastomers, less tendency to form tar and sludge, and lower vapor pressure (35). 

CPA. Copolymer alloy membranes (CPAs) are made by alloying high molecular weight polymeries, plasticizers, special stabilizers, biocides, and antioxidants with poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC). The membrane is typically reinforced with polyester and comes in finished thicknesses of 0.75—1.5 mm and widths of 1.5—1.8 m. The primary installation method is mechanically fastened, but some fully adhered systems are also possible. The CPA membranes can exhibit long-term flexibiHty by alleviating migration of the polymeric plasticizers, and are chemically resistant and compatible with many oils and greases, animal fats, asphalt, and coal-tar pitch. The physical characteristics of a CPA membrane have been described (15). 

PVF resins are generally compatible with phthalate, phosphate, adipate, and diben2oate plastici2ers, and with phenoHc, melamine—formaldehyde, urea—formaldehyde, unsaturated polyester, epoxy, polyurethane, and cellulose acetate butylate resins. They are incompatible with polyamide, ethyl cellulose, and poly(vinyl chloride) resins (141). 

In general, the azo colors are useful for coloring polystyrene, phenoHcs, and rigid poly(vinyl chloride). Many are compatible with poly(methyl methacrylate), but in this case the weatherabiUty of the resin far exceeds the life of the dyes. Among the more widely used azo dyes (qv) are Solvent Yellows 14 and 72 Orange 7 and Reds 1, 24, and 26. 

The anthraquinones are useful in acrylics and are compatible with polystyrene and ceUulosics. Solvent Red 111 has a special affinity for poly(methyl methacrylate) as the red in automobile taillights exposure for a year in Florida or Arizona produces only a very slight darkening. Acid types are usehil for phenohcs (see Dyes, anthraquinone). 

I indicates compatible with polyisoprene segments B, compatible with polybutadiene seg-ments EB, compatible with poly (ethylene—butylene) segments and S, compatible with poly-styrene segments. 

Comparison of Table 5.4 and 5.7 allows the prediction that aromatic oils will be plasticisers for natural rubber, that dibutyl phthalate will plasticise poly(methyl methacrylate), that tritolyl phosphate will plasticise nitrile rubbers, that dibenzyl ether will plasticise poly(vinylidene chloride) and that dimethyl phthalate will plasticise cellulose diacetate. These predictions are found to be correct. What is not predictable is that camphor should be an effective plasticiser for cellulose nitrate. It would seem that this crystalline material, which has to be dispersed into the polymer with the aid of liquids such as ethyl alcohol, is only compatible with the polymer because of some specific interaction between the carbonyl group present in the camphor with some group in the cellulose nitrate. 

In addition to its water solubility poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) is soluble in a very wide range of materials, including aliphatic halogenated hydrocarbons (methylene dichloride, chloroform), many monohydric and polyhdric alcohols (methanol, ethanol, ethylene glycol), some ketones (acetyl acetone) and lactones (a-butyrolactone), lower aliphatic acids (glacial acetic acid) and the nitro-paraffins. The polymer is also compatible with a wide range of other synthetic polymers, with gums and with plasticisers. 

The PVF is made by acidic reaction between poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) and formaldehyde. The poly(vinyl alcohol) is, in turn, made by hydrolysis of poly(vinyl acetate) or transesterification of poly(vinyl acetate). Thus, residual alcohol and ester functionality is usually present. Cure reportedly occurs through reaction of phenolic polymer hydroxyls with the residual hydroxyls of the PVA [199]. The ester residues are observed to reduce bond strength in PVF-based systems [199]. This does not necessarily extend to PVF-P adhesives. PVF is stable in strong alkali, so participation of the acetals in curing is probably unimportant in most situations involving resoles. PVF is physically compatible with many phenolic resins. 

Increasing the molecular weight of polyester (or polyether) or changing its chemical composition could lower the Tg of the TPU and decrease the crystallinity of the polymer. For example, a TPU composed of poly(S-lactone), MDI, and 1,4-butanediol was found to have the lowest degree of crystallinity and, therefore, the best compatibility with PVC when the hard segment in it is 36% by weight [10]. 

Grafting and modification of polymers have been found to have applications in the biomedical field. For example, poly(etherurethane), which has good elastomeric and often mechanical properties and a relatively high compatibility with blood, has been used in the man-... 

PESA can be blended with various thermoplastics to alter or enhance their basic characteristics. Depending on the nature of thermoplastic, whether it is compatible with the polyamide block or with the soft ether or ester segments, the product is hard, nontacky or sticky, soft, and flexible. A small amount of PESA can be blended to engineering thermoplastics, e.g., polyethylene terepthalate (PET), polybutylene terepthalate (PBT), polypropylene oxide (PPO), polyphenylene sulfide (PPS), or poly-ether amide (PEI) for impact modification of the thermoplastic, whereas small amount of thermoplastic, e.g., nylon or PBT, can increase the hardness and flex modulus of PESA or PEE A [247]. 

Phase transfer catalysis (PTC) refers to the transfer of ions or organic molecules between two liquid phases (usually water/organic) or a liquid and a solid phase using a catalyst as a transport shuttle. The most common system encountered is water/organic, hence the catalyst must have an appropriate hydrophilic/lipophilic balance to enable it to have compatibility with both phases. The most useful catalysts for these systems are quaternary ammonium salts. Commonly used catalysts for solid-liquid systems are crown ethers and poly glycol ethers. Starks (Figure 4.5) developed the mode of action of PTC in the 1970s. In its most simple... 

Here, Gn represents the n-generation of the dendrimers. In the polymerization with these nitroxides, because the combination of the propagating radical with the nitroxide is a polymer-polymer reaction, the interaction of both polymer chains is also important, e.g., the compatibility of the poly(St) with polyte-trahydrofuran or dendrimer. 

Polymer-based microreactor systems [e.g., made of poly(dimethyl-siloxane) (PDMS)], with inner volumes in the nanoliter to microliter range (Hansen et al. 2006), are relatively inexpensive and easy to produce. Many solvents used for organic transformations are not compatible with the polymers that show limited mechanical stability and low thermal conductivity. Thus the application of these reactors is mostly restricted to aqueous chemistry at atmospheric pressure and temperatures for biochemical applications (Hansen et al. 2006 Wang et al. 2006 Duan et al. 2006). 

All the possible line repetition groups for cis and trans poly dienes compatible with the isotactic or syndiotactic configurations are reported in Figure 2.15,47,68 In order to consider only the possible conformations assumed in the crystalline state, the torsion angle of the central single bond is assumed to be 180° trans) in both the cis and trans polydienes. This condition produces conformations sufficiently extended to be packed in a crystalline lattice for each value of the torsion angles 0i and 02 (Figure 2.15). 

Detailed studies led Gandini and Plesch to formulate the concept of pseudocationic polymerisations. These are reactions which show many of the characteristics of cationic polymerisations, but do not involve ions. Since they could see no other alternative compatible with general chemical knowledge, they formulated the reactive species as an ester, and they were able to support this view by direct experiments (formation of the ester in the styrene solution by metathesis). The evidence indicates that in the system styrene, perchloric acid, methylene dichloride, the poly(styryl perchlorate) ester requires four molecules of styrene for its stabilisation. When these are no longer available, the ester ionises, and the residual styrene is consumed by a very fast, truly cationic polymerisation ionisation of the ester is a complicated reaction which has been only partly elucidated. The initiation and propagation of the pseudocationic polymerisation can be represented thus ... 

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