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Due to dieir compact, branched structure and to die resulting lack of chain entanglement, dendritic polymers exhibit much lower melt and solution viscosity dian their lineal" counterparts. Low a-values in die Mark-Houwink-Sakurada intrinsic viscosity-molar mass equation have been reported for hyperbranched polyesters.198 199 Dendrimers do not obey diis equation, a maximum being observed in die corresponding log-log viscosity-molar mass curves.200 The lack of chain entanglements, which are responsible for most of the polymer mechanical properties, also explains why hyperbranched polymers cannot be used as diermoplastics for structural applications. Aldiough some crystalline or liquid... 

Kinetic studies using 1,9-decadiene and 1,5-hexadiene in comparison widi catalyst 14 and catalyst 12 demonstrate an order-of-magnitude difference in their rates of polymerization, widi 14 being the faster of the two.12 Furdier, this study shows diat different products are produced when die two catalysts are reacted widi 1,5-hexadiene. Catalyst 14 generates principally lineal" polymer with the small amount of cyclics normally observed in step condensation chemistry, while 12 produces only small amounts of linear oligomers widi die major product being cyclics such as 1,5-cyclooctadiene.12 Catalyst 12, a late transition metal benzylidene (carbene), has vastly different steric and electronic factors compared to catalyst 14, an early transition metal alkylidene. Since die results were observed after extended reaction time periods and no catalyst quenching or kinetic product isolation was performed, this anomaly is attributed to mechanistic differences between diese two catalysts under identical reaction conditions. 

A similar technique, die drawing, is a solid-state extrusion method that is assisted by a tensile force to help overcome the high constraints and polymer strain rates at the die exit. Several methods were devised to address the problem of low lineal speeds because of the aforementioned constraints. These methods include solid state rolling,roll drawing,and roll trusion. ... 

Andersen Windows, which dominates the use of wood-filled PVC for window and door lineals, uses the waste PVC generated intheir cladding operations as a polymer base for their composites, typically formulated from 60% PVC and 40% wood. 

FIGURE 16.6 Ideal structure of parallel lineal chains of conducting polymer attached to two nanometric lamellas of a conducting material in an electrolyte, mimicking a sarcomere. Under electrochemical oxidation the sarcomerelike structure swells and under reduction shrinks Ideal anysotropic electrochemomechanical element. 

The Raman spectra of neat glacial acetic acid and its aqueous solutions at different temperatures were studied in detail by Semmler and Irish [165] using factor analysis, difference spectroscopy, and band resolution techniques. The complex spectral region between 800 and 1850 cm" is discussed assuming the presence of up to four different species monomer (M), cyclic dimer (C), open (or linear) dimer (L), and chain polymers (P) whose concentrations change under the effect of both the temperature and the concentration, as can be observed in Fig. 11. In glacial acetic acid, the effects of the temperature rise are (1) the progressive disappearance of the polymeric forms, (2) the presence, above 150°C, of monomeric species, and (3) the transformation of closed dimers into lineal... 

We represent a 3D reactive, deformable gel by a set of general lineal hexahedral elements [31, 32] (Figure 3.1a). Initially, the sample is undeformed and consists of Lx — 1) X (Ij, — 1) X Lz — 1) identical cubic elements (see inset in Figure 3.1a) here D is the number of nodes in the i-direction, where i = x,y, z. The linear size of the elements in the undistorted state is given by A. (In the simulations presented below, we set A = 1.) For a homogeneous BZ gel in the undeformed state, the polymer and crosslinks are uniformly distributed over the gel sample, that is, each undeformed element is characterized by the same volume fraction 4>o and crosslink density Cq- Upon deformation, the elements move together with the polymer network so that the amount of polymer and number of crosslinks within each hexahedral element remain equal to their initial values. 

Zdrahala R J and Critchfield F E (1982) RIM Urethanes Structure/Property Relationships for Lineal Polymers, in Reaction Injection Molding and Fast Polymerization Reactions (Ed. Kresta J E) Plenum Press, New York, pp. 55-62. 

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