Crystal polystyrene

The literature reports various (multidimensional) chromatographic approaches involving SEC and LC operating on dissolved polymer/additive mixtures. Floyd [985] has used microbore (1 mm i.d.) SEC-RPLC for the quantitative analysis of Tinuvin P in a cellulose acetate solution in THF, after separation of the polymeric and additive fractions total analysis time about 30 min. Relative accuracy and precision of 3 % and 1.5% were quoted. SEC-RPLC was also used to determine the styrene level in polystyrene crystals [986]. Additives in copolymers have been separated in a SEC/C system [987]. Chlorohydrin mixtures may be analysed by RPLC, but not in the presence of polymer. Thus, SEC... 

The polymer most commonly blended with SBC is crystal polystyrene. Crystal polystyrene and SBC do have a significant difference in refractive index, but the polystyrene is miscible in the polystyrene domains of the SBC. Hence the blended part, if well mixed, will have good optical properties. Crystal polystyrene is desirable as a blend resin for SBC because it is of lower cost and also offers advantages in temperature resistance, stiffness and surface hardness. The major disadvantage in blends of SBC with crystal polystyrene is a significant decrease in impact strength as the polystyrene content is increased. 

Figure 2.8 Spherulite of isotactic polystyrene crystallized from the melt. (From Ref. 8.)...

MobiL [Mobil/Polystyrene] Crystal or inqxKt polystyrene fra inj. molding and extrusion. 

Ishihara et al. reported in 1986 that syndiotactic polystyrene can be prepared with the aid of organic or inorganic titanium compounds activated with methylaluminoxane [177]. There is much greater incentive to commercialize syndiotactic polystyrene than the isotactic one. This is because isotactic polystyrene crystallizes at a slow rate. That makes it impractical for many industrial applications. Syndiotactic polystyrene, on the other hand, crystallizes at a fast rate, has a melting point of 275°C, compared to 240°C for the isotactic one, and is suitable for use as a strong structural material. 

In the present text we attempt to do justice to the different topics of polymers and their uses. This text is generally suitable for researchers rather than students. The first chapter of this book discussed sorption mechanism of organic compound in the nanopore of syndiotactic polystyrene crystal. In the second chapter, a discussion was done to illustrate a physico-chemical characterization and processing of pulse seeds. The chemo-enzymatic polymerization for peptide polymers were illustrated in the third chapter. In the fourth chapter, an electrokinetic potential method was used to characterize the surface properties of polymer foils and their modifications. Also, an emulsion polymerizations was discussed in the fifth chapter. Nonconventional methods of polymer surface patterning, polymer characterization using atomic force microscope, biopolymers in the environment, and carbon nanostructure and their properties and applications were discussed in the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth chapters respectively. Finally, let us point that although many books in the field of pol)nner science appear, none of them are complementary. 

General purpose polystyrene unmodified polystyrene crystal polystyrene standard polystyrene. Sometimes also referred to as polyvinylbenzene or, as poly-phenylethylene or, as poly(l-phenylethylene). 

Figure 5.8 Micrograph of isotactic polystyrene crystallized at 200 °C showing sheaflike spherulites. ...

Fig. 12. The beginnings of growth in isotactic polystyrene crystallized from the melt at 220°C for 81 min, then quenched. Replica of an etched cut surface.

Fig. 28. DSC melttQg curves isotactic polystyrene crystallized in the melt at different crystallization tranperanues 7i a 170° C b 215° C c 233° C. Heating rate 8° C/min. [Re (210)]...

Polystyrene (crystal) Clear-melt zinc stearate (bis-stearamides are usually adequate) secondaiy bis-amides assist How... 

Fig. 13. A graph showing the variation of growth rate with the inverse of film thickness Ud) for isotactic polystyrene crystals grown at 180 C in nltrathin films. A step in the behavior can be seen at a thickness of 8 nm. At this temperature, this corresponds to the thickness of the single lamella, showing a change in thickness dependence once the film is thinner than the growing crystal. Reprinted from Ref. 98. Copyright (2002), with permission from Marcel Dekker, Inc.

The Raman spectrum of PS shows a couple of distinctive doublets at 1603 and 1584 cm and at 1033 and 1002 cm , both ring-mode vibrations, and both characteristic of a monosubstituted aromatic compound. The Raman band at 622 cm is also indicative of the substituted benzene ring. In addition, there are a few IR absorption peaks due to functional groups such as terminal vinyl group at 907 and 980 cm (refer to 910 and 990 cm peaks of PE) and the irons C=C double bond at 967 cm" resulting from termination reactions. Note also that these bands can also be assigned to trace amounts of butadiene that are sometimes added to polystyrene when it is used for making thin films. This addition adds some flexibility and reduces the brittle nature of the polystyrene film. Atactic polystyrene has bands related to its atactic nature at 1370, 1328, 1306, 1070, and 943 cm and the isotactic form exhibits bands at [62] 1364, 1314, 1297 cm and a doublet at 1075 and 1056 cm (see Fig. 32). As isotactic polystyrene crystallizes, the doublet is seen to shift to 1080 and 1048 cm, and a new band appears at 985 cm The crystallinity may be determined from the intensity of the 985 cm band, and the ratio 566/ 543 is used to evaluate the content of isotactic sequence. For refer-... 

Scheme 5.1 Preparation process of the 3 DOM titania microparticles formed by adopting colloidal polystyrene crystals as a template. Reprinted from Ref. 71, Copyright 2006, with permission from Elsevier.

Fig. 2.2 DSC thermogram of pure isotactic polystyrene crystallized at 175 °C for 1 h. An exotherm feature appears between peak II and peak III (Scanning rate 1.25 °C/min). Adapted with permission from figure 3 in Plans J, MacKnight WJ and Karasz FE, Equilibrium Melting Point Depression for Blends of Isotactic Polystyrene with Poly(2,6-dimethylphenylene oxide). Macromolecules 17 810-814. Copyright (1984) American Chemical Society...

Cimmino, S., Di Pace, E., Martuscelli, E., Silvestre, C. Syndiotactic polystyrene Crystallization and melting behavior. Polym. Commun., 32(6), 1080-1083 (1991). 

Sutton SJ, Izumi K, Miyaji H, Miyamoto Y, Miyatashi S. The morphology of isotactic polystyrene crystals grown in thin films the effect of substrate material. J Mater Sci 1997 32 5621-5627. 

Taguchi K, Miyaji H, Izumi K, Hoshimo A, Miyamoto Y, Kokawa R. Growth shape of isotactic polystyrene crystals in thin films. Polymer 2001 42 7443-7447. 

Figure 3.49 Bright field TEM images and electron diffraction patterns of isotactic polystyrene crystallized at = 180°C in films of thickness d = ll nm (a) and 8 nm (b). These are very similar to the AFM images in films of the same thickness on different substrates in Figure 3.47c,e. Scale bars are 2 pm. FromTaguch et al. [66] with permission from Taylor Francis Group, http //www.iuformaworld.com.

Figure 18 shows three orthogonal projections of a sheaf-like structure in isotactic polystyrene crystallized at 228 °C. This temperature, which is only about 14 °C below the equilibrium melting point, represents a temperature at which crystallization proceeds very slowly, the objects in... 

Figure 18 Isotactic polystyrene crystallized at 228 C showing lamellar aggregates similar to idealized axialities (a) sheaflike view, (b) hexagonal view, (c) edge-on view...

Figure 20 Micrographs of sheaf-like structures in polystyrene crystallized at 210 °C for an etched surface which intersects with the lamellar aggregates well away from the centre of the axialite (a) etched plane parallel to the hexagonal view shown in Figure 18(b) (b) etched plane parallel to the sheaf view shown in Figure 18(a)...

Figure 21 Lamellar branching in isotactic polystyrene crystallized at 220 °C...

Figure 25 Micrographs of isotactic polystyrene crystallized at 200 showing spherulites in the (a) sheaf-like and...

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