Polymer direct methods

Quasi-static direct methods are both versatile and well suited to investigating fully the piezoelectric response of polymers. Direct methods of this type are especially appropriate for amorphous polymers. TSC measurements (68) are used to measure the remanent polarization imparted to a polymer, and direct strain or charge measurements are used to investigate the piezoelectric coefficients with respect to the electric field, frequency, and stress. 

Iterative solution methods are more effective for problems arising in solid mechanics and are not a common feature of the finite element modelling of polymer processes. However, under certain conditions they may provide better computer economy than direct methods. In particular, these methods have an inherent compatibility with algorithms used for parallel processing and hence are potentially more suitable for three-dimensional flow modelling. In this chapter we focus on the direct methods commonly used in flow simulation models. 

Noncrystalline domains in fibers are not stmctureless, but the stmctural organization of the polymer chains or chain segments is difficult to evaluate, just as it is difficult to evaluate the stmcture of Hquids. No direct methods are available, but various combinations of physicochemical methods such as x-ray diffraction, birefringence, density, mechanical response, and thermal behavior, have been used to deduce physical quantities that can be used to describe the stmcture of the noncrystalline domains. Among these quantities are the amorphous orientation function and the amorphous density, which can be related to some of the important physical properties of fibers. 

For the separation of racemic mixtures, two basic types of membrane processes can be distinguished a direct separation using an enantioselective membrane, or separation in which a nonselective membrane assists an enantioselective process [5]. The most direct method is to apply enantioselective membranes, thus allowing selective transport of one of the enantiomers of a racemic mixture. These membranes can either be a dense polymer or a liquid. In the latter case, the membrane liquid can be chiral, or may contain a chiral additive (carrier). Nonselective membranes can also... 

The preparation of oriented polymers by the method of the directed polymerization is of interest since it is possible to avoid the complex process of disentangling the macromolecules already packed randomly in the bulk of the unoriented polymer. However, methods involving conversion of these needle-shaped crystals into actual fibres have not yet been developed. 

The current trend in analytical chemistry applied to evaluate food quality and safety leans toward user-friendly miniaturized instruments and laboratory-on-a-chip applications. The techniques applied to direct screening of colorants in a food matrix include chemical microscopy, a spatial representation of chemical information from complex aggregates inside tissue matrices, biosensor-based screening, and molec-ularly imprinted polymer-based methods that serve as chemical alternatives to the use of immunosensors. 

A new direct method for using size exclusion chromatography (SEC) to evaluate polymer intrinsic viscosity [n] is discussed. Sample viscosity information is obtained by combining SEC elution curve data and calibration data using direct SEC-[n] calibration procedures without involving polymer molecular weight calculations. The practical utility, convenience and the expected precision of the proposed method are illustrated. 

Unfortunately, extraction procedures are often elaborate and labour intensive since many of the polymer matrices are poorly soluble or insoluble. For this reason, substantial efforts have been directed towards additive analysis without prior separation from the polymer. Chapter 9 deals with direct methods in which such separation of polymer and additive can be omitted. Yet, this direct protocol still requires sample pretreatment (dissolution) of the polymer/additive system as before. 

Table 3.4 compares the performance of dissolution and various extraction procedures. Chapter 9 addresses in more detail direct methods of deformulation of polymer/additive dissolutions, i.e. without separation... 

Direct Methods of Deformulation of Polymer/Additive Dissolutions... 

Table 9.1 Main hurdles in direct methods of multicomponent polymer/additive analysis...

In this chapter we illustrate a direct method of characterisation of polymer/additive dissolutions by means of (500 MHz) NMR, which takes advantage of selective signal suppression allowing elimination of unwanted signals, such as the ca. 105 x more intensive PE signal. The most effective approach to solvent suppression is the destruction of the net solvent magnetisation by pulsed... 

Prize in 1963 for inventing a new general method to synthesize important polymers, a method that uncovered much new basic science. A Nobel Prize in 1984 went to Robert Bruce Merrifield for his invention of a general approach to the synthesis of polypeptides and proteins, in a style directly reminiscent of the biological method used in such synthesis. 

Many methods have been proposed for determining the efficiency,/ of the initiator. The most direct method depends on a quantitative assay of the polymer for initiator fragments, and its comparison with the amount of initiator decomposed. This is not difficult in those cases where the initiator leaves a reactive endgroup on the polymer or is radioactively tagged. 

Pathway (a) in situ polymerization, (b) polymer direct incorporation, (c) restacking or reconstruction, and (d) guest displacement method. 

Chemical Substitution Phthalates are used to provide flexibility to the polymer backing. The use of alternative plasticizers represents the most direct method of substitution. In some cases this choice may have little impact on production techniques, and so be the most economically favourable option in immediate terms. 

Hence, two methods are available that can be applied to follow nanoparticles formation and growth (i) an indirect method that utilizes the consumption of molecular hydrogen pressure versus time and (ii) a direct method that follows the loss of precursor by the 1 1 conversion of its cyclo-octadiene ligand to cyclo-octane by GLC measurements. The mechanism developed by Watzky and Finke suggests that the nanoparticles act as Hving-metal polymers -a concept that could be used to obtain particles with defined sizes simply by adding the appropriate amounts of catalyst precursors [32]. 

A variety of techniques have been used to determine the extent of crystallinity in a polymer, including X-ray diffraction, density, IR, NMR, and heat of fusion [Sperling, 2001 Wunderlich, 1973], X-ray diffraction is the most direct method but requires the somewhat difficult separation of the crystalline and amorphous scattering envelops. The other methods are indirect methods but are easier to use since one need not be an expert in the field as with X-ray diffraction. Heat of fusion is probably the most often used method since reliable thermal analysis instruments are commercially available and easy to use [Bershtein and Egorov, 1994 Wendlandt, 1986], The difficulty in using thermal analysis (differential scanning calorimetry and differential thermal analysis) or any of the indirect methods is the uncertainty in the values of the quantity measured (e.g., the heat of fusion per gram of sample or density) for 0 and 100% crystalline samples since such samples seldom exist. The best technique is to calibrate the method with samples whose crystallinites have been determined by X-ray diffraction. 

A more direct method of studying rotation is to look for variation in the g or hyperfine (Section III,A,2) tensors as the temperature is changed. For certain peroxy radicals in polymers, considerable changes in the g tensor occur which can be correlated with both the onset of rotation of the polymer chain and also rotation about the C—O bond with increasing temperature (58, 59). Similar changes in the g tensor have been observed for ions formed by irradiation in frozen alcohols (60). Kazusaka et al. (61) have observed changes from an orthorhombic g tensor gt = 2.0266, g2 = 2.0097, g3 = 2.0042 at 77 K to an axial g tensor with gl = 2.007 and g = 2.018 at... 

One method of directly determining QM and Q for excimer-forming compounds involves the relationship direct method requires a number of samples of an aryl vinyl polymer with differing molecular weights. If QM and Q are assumed to be independent of molecular weight, then they can again be obtained from the (pD vs. polymer samples. The rate can be determined if FM is assumed to be identical to that of the monochromophoric compound. It follows that kM = kFM/QM. While these methods are rarely used in the literature, it is worthwhile to review the assumptions that Qm and Q are independent of solvent, or of the molecular weight and structure of the compound. 

It should be noted that for experimental determination of fw (unlike that of fn) there exists no direct method. Moreover, characterization of a teleehelic polymer with the help of fn and fw is not sufficient and it is necessary to determine the entire FTD function. 

With adequate swelling vinyl monomers can be satisfactorily grafted to cellulose and its derivatives by the three main methods developed for other polymers (98). These are (1) the mutual or direct method where the polymer is irradiated in the presence of the monomer or monomer vapor, (2) the pre-irradiation (sometimes called post-irradiation grafting) method where the polymer is first irradiated and then brought into contact with the monomer, and (3) the peroxide method in which the polymer is irradiated in air and the resulting polymeric peroxide used to initiate graft polymerization. 

Chemisorption requires direct contact between the chemisorbed molecule and the electrode surface as a result, the highest coverage achievable is usually a monomolecular layer. This may be contrasted with several of the methods to be discussed later that allow the electrode surface to be covered with thick films (i.e., multimolecular layers) of the desired molecule. In addition to this coverage limitation, chemisorption is rarely completely irreversible. In most cases, the chemisorbed molecules slowly leach into the contacting solution phase during electrochemical or other investigations of the chemisorbed layer. For these reasons, electrode modification via chemisorption was quickly supplanted by other methods, most notably polymer-coating methods. 

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