Polymers materials and processing

Anthony Blythe has been active in the area of polymer materials and processing for over 40 years. He has successfully initiated numerous groundbreaking projects in the polymer field, specifically for the wire and cable industry, and his achievements are recognised by the several patents he holds. He has also been an external lecturer to established universities in the UK and has authored more than 40 scientific papers. 

Charrier, J. M. 1991, Polymer Materials and Processing, Hanser. A general descriptive book on polymers and their properties and processing. 

Big Trends Affecting Polymer Material And Process Selection For Medical Devices, By J. Pomager. Available at http //www.meddeviceonline.com/doc/live-big-trends-affecting-polymer-material-and-process-selection-for-medical-devices-0001. 

MORTON-JONES, D. H. and ELLIS, J. w.. Polymer Products—Design, Materials and Processing, Chapman and Hall, London (1986)... 

Polymer and coating chemists use computer models to predict the properties of formulated products from the characteristics of the raw materials and processing conditions (1, 2). Usually, the chemist supplies the identification and amounts of the materials. The software retrieves raw material property data needed for the modelling calculations from a raw material database. However, the chemist often works with groups of materials that are used as a unit. For instance, intermediates used in multiple products or premixes are themselves formulated products, not raw materials in the sense of being purchased or basic chemical species. Also, some ingredients are often used in constant ratio. In these cases, experimentation and calculation are simplified if the chemist can refer to these sets of materials as a unit, even though the unit may not be part of the raw material database. 

Cooper, A.I. (2000) Polymer synthesis and processing using supercritical carbon dioxide. Journal of Materials Chemistry,... 

Polymers in microlithography materials and processes / Elsa Reichmanis, Scott A. MacDonald, Takao Iwayanagi. 

Research and development technologists at the Dow Chemical Company can characterize materials in a variety of ways. One material property that is especially critical in polymer foaming and processing technology is density. A tool used for measuring the density of a material is called a pycnometer. There are many different manual and automatic types to choose from. For extremely accurate and precise density measurements, an easy-to-use, fully automatic gas displacement pycnometer is utilized. Analyses are commenced with a single keystroke. Once an analysis is initiated, data are collected, calculations performed, and results displayed without further operator intervention. 

Disclosed is an ethylene polymer foam structure having enhanced processing and physical properties. The foam structure comprises an ethylenic polymer material and a blowing agent of isobutane and 1,1-difluoroethane. Further disclosed is a process for making the foam structure. 

Helgesen M, Sondergaard R, Krebs PC (2010) Advanced materials and processes for polymer solar cell devices. J Mater Chem 20 36... 

In the first portion of this section, we will focus on the materials and processes used to form polymer dental composites. This section will be followed by a discussion of the problems associated with polymer composite materials. An overview of the photopolymerization behavior and the polymer structure of these highly crosslinked materials is presented in Sects. 3 and 4. Lastly, some of the properties of current composite resin formulations are presented. 

Coacervation Is a very complicated physical phenomenon. And, many factors affect the properties of the resulting microcapsules. Coacervation and phase separation from organic and aqueous media Involve many properties, materials and processes such as phase Inducing agents, stirring rates, core to wall ratios, polymer characteristics, core characteristics (wettability, solubility), cooling rates and rates of addition. 

S. Kobayashi, T. Mizoe, Y. Iwanami, O. Otsu, S. Yokoyama, K. Kurihara, and H. Yazawa, Split polyethylene stretched material and process for producing the same, US Patent 5578373, assigned to Nippon Oil Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) Nippon Petrochemicals Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) Polymer Processing Research Institute Ltd. (Tokyo, JP), November 26,1996. 

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