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In principle, A can be any polymer normally regarded as a hard thermoplastic, eg, polystyrene, poly(methyl methacrylate), or polypropylene, and B can be any polymer normally regarded as elastomeric, eg, polyisoprene, polybutadiene, polyisobutylene, or polydimethylsiloxane (Table 2). 

These polymers are liquids which may usefully be cast or used for impregnation and caulking compounds. In addition they may be vulcanised by a variety of agents, ostensibly by a chain lengthening process. It should, however, be noted that these polymers normally contain small quantities of tri-chloropropane in the original monomer mix so that the three-dimensional chain extension will lead to cross-linking. 

The melt-spinning process used to convert mesophase pitch into fiber form is similar to that employed for many thermoplastic polymers. Normally, an extruder melts the pitch and pumps it into the spin pack. Typically, the molten pitch is filtered before being extruded through a multi-holed spinnerette. The pitch is subjected to high extensional and shear stresses as it approaches and flows through the spinnerette capillaries. The associated torques tend to orient the liquid crystalline pitch in a regular transverse pattern. Upon emerging from the... 

Unsaturated polyesters are a group of polymers and resins used in coatings or for castings with styrene. These polymers normally have maleic anhydride moiety or an unsaturated fatty acid to impart the required unsaturation. A typical example is the reaction between maleic anhydride and ethylene glycol ... 

AKDs are waxy, water-insoluble solids with melting points around 50 °C, and ASAs are viscous water-insoluble liquids at room temperature. It is necessary to prepare them as stabilised emulsions by dispersion in a cationic polymer (normally cationic starch). Small amounts of retention aid and surfactants may also be present. Particle size distributions are around 1 fim, and addition levels around 0.1% (of pure AKD or ASA) by weight of dry fibre. This is an order of magnitude lower than the amount of rosin used in rosin-alum sizing (1-2%). Emulsions of AKD are more hydrolytically stable than ASA, and the latter must be emulsified on-site and used within a few hours. 

While PAE-type polymers normally have relatively large bandgaps of about 2.1-2.6 eV [85-91], diethynylsilole-based polymers (described by Tamao et al.) show significantly narrower bandgaps (up to 1.8 eV [92]). A silacyclopentadi-ene ring is conspicuous by its low-lying LUMO level due to the conju-... 

The average molecular weight of the polymer normally changes little with reaction time (exception living polymerization). 

Thermosetting polymers normally are made from relatively low-molecular-weight, usually semifluid substances, which when heated in a mold become highly cross-linked, thereby forming hard, infusible, and insoluble products having a three-dimensional network of bonds interconnecting the polymer chains (Figure 29-2). 

To conclude this discussion on zirconium, it is appropriate to look at the adhesion promotion effects of various zirconium compounds in flexographic and gravure ink printed on corona discharge-treated polyolefins and polyester. Flexographic and gravure inks are basically a pigment (often titanium dioxide) suspended in a polymer (normally called the binder) dissolved in a solvent. Actual commercial ink formulations are rather more complicated. These inks are either water-based when acrylic polymers and co-polymers are typically the binders, or solvent-based (usually ethanol-ethyl acetate mixtures) when the binder is typically nitrocellulose or cellulose acetate propionate. 

The mechanical admixture of low molecular weight monomers into polymers normally in the glassy state at room temperature in order to increase the flexibility and softness of the polymer has great technical importance. Thus, such plasticizers as di-2 ethyl n-hexyl phthalate are frequently incorporated into polyvinyl chloride, homopolymer or copolymer, to increase the flexibility and commercial value of this resin. Cast (1953) as well as Hellwege, Knappe and Semjonow (1959) have... 

Catalysis is a relatively new area for application of water-soluble polymers. Normally, organic solvents are conventional media for catalytic reactions. In recent years significant progress in the design of water-soluble catalysts was... 

FIGURE 62. Projection of the (tpy)Pb(NC>3)2 complex a strand of each polymer, normal to the plane of b and the ac cell diagonal. Reproduced by permission of the Australian Academy of Science and CSIRO from Reference 128... 

Antioxidant—A compound added to a polymer, normally in small amounts, to prevent degradation by reactions with oxygen or ozone. 

Some polymers, such as cellulose, although linear in structure, have such a strong molecular interaction, mostly due to hydrogen bridges and polar groups that they do not soften or melt. Consequently, the transition temperatures as such are less important to this class of polymers. Normally they are highly crystalline, with a crystalline melting point (far) above the decomposition temperature. Their physical behaviour - except for... 

In organic polymers ferromagnetism occurs when impurities are present. These may completely mask the true susceptibility of the substance to be investigated. In the following we shall only consider substances free from ferromagnetism, since polymers normally are non-ferromagnetic. 

Crystallinity A state of molecular structure in some resins which denotes uniformity and compactness of the molecular chains forming the polymer. Normally can be attributed to the formation of solid crystals having a definite geometric form. 

The amorphous or disordered phase of a polymer normally shows a transition from a rubbery to a glassy condition at some characteristic transition temperature Tg. Crystallisation can only proceed above the glass transition temperature where sufficient molecular mobility is present for reorganisation to occur. The glass transition is a difficult phenomenon to explain in detail and the subject is developed further in Section 3.3. 

Temperature/conductivity plots for the pristine polymers normalized to the room temperature conductivity are given in Figure 12. They exhibit a thermally activated temperature dependence... 

Blending experiments with PS-y-CD stars were conducted using PDMS, a polymer normally immiscible with PS. The synthesized stars were blended with PS homopolymer (MW = 280kg mol ) at a level of 1 wt% y-CD (7.7 imols per lg)... 

Hyperbranched polymers differ greatly from linear or moderately branched polymers. For example, the solubility is much higher for hyperbranched polymers but not as high as for dendrimers. Hyperbranched polymers normally exhibit an amorphous, nonentangled behavior, i.e., a Newtonian behavior in the melt. The nonentangled state also makes hyperbranched polymers rather brittle. Several thermoset resin materials have been described where the hyperbranched polymer exhibits a low resin viscosity, thereby reducing the need for solvents to attain the application viscosity. At the same time. 

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