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POLYMER BLENDS, COMPOSITE MATERIALS, AND ADDITIVES FOR POLYMERS... 

Conducting Polymer Blends, Composites, and Colloids. Incorporation of conducting polymers into multicomponent systems allows the preparation of materials that are electroactive and also possess specific properties contributed by the other components. Dispersion of a conducting polymer into an insulating matrix can be accompHshed as either a miscible or phase-separated blend, a heterogeneous composite, or a coUoidaHy dispersed latex. When the conductor is present in sufftcientiy high composition, electron transport is possible. 

In a molded polymer blend, the surface morphology results from variations in composition between the surface and the bulk. Static SIMS was used to semiquan-titatively provide information on the surface chemistry on a polycarbonate (PC)/polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) blend. Samples of pure PC, pure PBT, and PC/PBT blends of known composition were prepared and analyzed using static SIMS. Fn ment peaks characteristic of the PC and PBT materials were identified. By measuring the SIMS intensities of these characteristic peaks from the PC/PBT blends, a typical working curve between secondary ion intensity and polymer blend composition was determined. A static SIMS analysis of the extruded surface of a blended polymer was performed. The peak intensities could then be compared with the known samples in the working curve to provide information about the relative amounts of PC and PBT on the actual surface. 

As already indicated above, what one may consider a surface depends on the property under consideration. Adhesion is very much an outer atomic layer issue, unless one is dealing with materials like fibreboard in which the polymer resin may also be involved in mechanical anchoring onto the wood particles. Gloss and other optical properties are related to the penetration depth of optical radiation. The latter depends on the optical properties of the material, but in general involves more than a few micrometer thickness and therewith much more than the outer atomic layers only. It is thus the penetration depth of the probing technique that needs to be suitably selected with respect to the surface problem under investigation. Examples selected for various depths (< 10 nm, 10 s of nm, 100 nm, micrometer scale) have been presented in Chapter 10 of the book by Garton on Infrared Spectroscopy of Polymer Blends, Composites and Surfaces... 

Definitions of terms related to polymer blends, composites, and multiphase polymeric materials (lUPAC Recommendations 2004), Pure Appl. Chem. 76, 1985-2007 (2004). Reprinted as Chapter 9, this edition. 

Definitions of terms related to polymer blends, composites, and multiphase polymeric materials... 

Definitions of Terms Related to Polymer Blends, Composites, and Multiphase Polymeric Materials (2004), 186... 

VIGNETTE 1.6 POLYMER COMPOSITES Polymer-Blend Composites as Thermodynamically Stable, Microstructured Materials... 

JL olymers are typically complex mixtures in which the composition depends on polymerization kinetics and mechanism and process conditions. As we enter the twenty-first century, polymeric materials are becoming even more complex, consisting of polymer blends, composites, and branched and grafted structures of unusual architecture. To obtain polymeric materials of desired characteristics, polymer processing must be carefully controlled and monitored. Furthermore, we need to understand the influence of molecular parameters on polymer properties and end-use performance. As a result, we are faced with unprecedented... 

U.S. Pat. No. 6,942,829 [72] discloses a method of forming a polymer-wood composite material comprising 20-80% by weight of cellulose filler such as hardwood fiber, softwood fiber, hemp, jute, rice hulls, and wheat straw, 20-80% of a thermoplastic polymer such as polypropylene, polyethylene, polyamides, polyesters, and other polymers, 0.1-10% of a blend of a nonionic compatibilizer and a lubricant. 

Adhesive joints are not, however, the only applications of adhesion. Adhesion is involved whenever solids are brought into contact, as in coatings, paints, and varnishes multilayered sandwiches polymer blends filled polymers and composite materials. Since the final performance of these multicomponent materials depends significantly on the quality of the interface that is formed between the solids, it is understandable that a better knowledge of the adhesion phenomenon is required for practical applications. 

HemiceUuloses are abundant natural raw materials that have great potential but currently not enough industrial applications. In this chapter, the use of two most common hemiceUuloses, namely xylans and mannans, as components of polymer blends, composites, and nanocomposites, was reviewed. Plant gum mannans were... 

A. Grigalovica, I. Bochkov, R. Merijs Meri, J. Zicans, J. Grahis, R. Kotsilkova, I. Bor-ovanska. The effect of nanosize ZnO on the properties of the selected polymer blend composites, lOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering 38 (1) (2012) 012053. 

Work WJ, Hess KHM et al (2004) Definitions of terms related to polymer blends, composites, and multiphase polymeric materials. Pure Appl Chem 76(11) 1985-2007 Wanapun D, Kestur US et al (2010) Selective detection and quantitation of organic molecule crystallization by second harmonic generation microscopy. Anal Chem 82 5425-5432 Wanapun D, Kestur US et al (2011) Single particle nonlinear optical imaging of trace crystallinity in an organic powder. Anal Chem 83 4745-4751... 

Definition of terms related to polymer blends, composites, and multiphase polymeric materials This recommendation defines the most commonly used terms encountered when dealing with polymer blends and composites and is limited to mixtures in which the components differ in chemical composition or molar mass or both and in which the polymer forms the continuous phase. Many of the multiphase systems are in fact biphasic systems with a multitude of finely dispersed phase domains. Crystalline and liquid crystalline multiphase systems are the subject of other documents. 

Multicomponent polymeric materials consist of polymer blends, composites, or combinations of both. A polymer blend has two definitions The broad definition includes any finely divided combination of two or more polymers. The narrow definition specifies that there be no chemical bonding between the various polymers making up the blend. Table 2.5 and Section 2.7 summarize the basic types of polymer blends based on the broad definition primarily these are the block, graft, star, starblock, and AB-cross-linked copolymers (conterminously grafted copolymers), interpenetrating polymer networks, as well as the narrow definition of polymer blends. More complex arrangements of polymer chains in space can be shown to be combinations of these several topologies. 

One of the exciting concepts in the field of blend/composite materials is the reinforcement of flexible-chain polymers by highly rigid rod-like macromolecules with a persistence length Lp > lOnm. The basic principle of these blends, which are known as molecular composites , is dispersion of rigid-chain polymers in a random coil chain, ductile matrix. The basic principles, advantages, and difficulties of molecular reinforcement, and the available data on this problem were summarized... 

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