Processing and Application

After mining, flake and crystalline graphites are milled, usually with ball mills, although ring rollers and jet mills are also used. 

Poly(ethylene) is usually supplied with antioxidants and UV stabilizers already added. For industrial purposes, 2% carbon black, which is a good UV stabilizer, is worked in in the form of a master batch. A master batch, which is a polymer concentrate of the additive, makes the addition simpler. 

Poly(ethylene) is primarily used in the packing industry (film,foil, bottles). In addition, it is also used for tubing, cable coating, and, in the form of lattices, in floor polishes. 

The y-irradiation of poly(ethylene) leads to a cross-linked product with increased heat stability which is especially useful for bottles and other containers. Irradiation in the presence of hydrophilic monomers such as acrylamide leads to grafting the surfaces thus obtained are more suitable for printing. 

Poly(ethylene) can be chlorinated in bulk (e.g., in a fluidized bed), solution (e.g., in CCI4), emulsion, or suspension. A chlorine source and free-radical-forming agents are used. Products with 25-40% chlorine are rubberlike, since the irregular substitution reduces the crystallinity. Products of high chlorine content are similar to PVC, and consequently they are described by some companies as heat-stable poly(vinyl chloride). These products are added to poly(vinyl chloride) to improve impact strength or they are used for hot water pressure tubing. 

Copolymerization of ethylene with other monomers reduces the sequence length of the —CH2— units, thereby decreasing, or even completely suppressing, the product s tendency to crystallize. With a sufficiently small —CH2—CH2— sequence length, these copolymers are elastomers, because the dispersion forces between the methylene groups are weak. 

Processable stabilizer-free PANI-NF aqueous colloids are readily prepared by purifying PANI-NFs and controlling the pH, and are self-stabilized via electrostatic repulsions, thus providing a simple and environmentally friendly way to process the conducting polymer in its conductive state both in bulk and at the nanometer level [449,450]. Stabilizer-free PANI-NF aqueous colloids were obtained by the direct dispersing of PANI-NFs prepared in the presence of p-cyclodextrin [64,65]. PANI-NFs, the diameters of which are between 80 and lOOnm, can be steadily dispersed in neutral aqueous solution for about 60 days without any steric or electrostatic stabilizer [65]. Water-dispersible PANI-NFs provide a simple, fast, and inexpensive route towards highly concentrated CNT water dispersions [451,452]. In order to make the isolated PANI-NTs water dispersible, their surface can be modified by complex formation (non-covalent grafting) with hydrophilic PEO-block-PAA copolymer [328]. 

Processable PAA/PANI-NF and poly(2-acrylamido-2-methyl propyl-sulfonic acid-acrylic acid)/PANI-NF conducting hydrogels with an interpenetrating polymer network structure have recently been synthesized [456]. 

Performance improvement of polysulfone ultrafiltration membrane has been achieved by blending with PANI-NFs [457]. Conducting blends of nanostruetured PANI and PANI-clay nanocomposites with ethylene vinyl acetate as host matrix have been prepared [458]. A new conducting hybrid biocompatible composite material of PANI-NFs well dispersed in a collagen matrix was fabricated with various PANI-NFs/eoUagen ratios [459]. PANI-NFs doped by protonic acids can be efficiently dispersed in vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene copolymers [460]. Fabrication of MWCNTs/PANI-NF nanocomposites via electrostatic adsorption in aqueous colloids has been reported [143]. A PANI-NFs/ carbon paste electrode was prepared via dopping PANI-NFs into the carbon paste [461]. 

Progress in the development of nanostruetured PANI for sensor applications has recently been reviewed [23,24,462,463]. Films of PANI-NFs possess much faster gas-phase 

Composites of PANI-NFs, synthesized using a rapid mixing method, with amines have recently been presented as novel materials for phosgene detection [472]. Chemiresistor sensors with nanofibrous PANI films as a sensitive layer, prepared by chemical oxidative polymerization of aniline on Si substrates, which were surface-modified by amino-silane self-assembled monolayers, showed sensitivity to very low concentration (0.5 ppm) of ammonia gas [297]. Ultrafast sensor responses to ammonia gas of the dispersed PANI-CSA nanorods [303] and patterned PANI nanobowl monolayers containing Au nanoparticles [473] have recently been demonstrated. The gas response of the PANI-NTs to a series of chemical vapors such as ammonia, hydrazine, and triethylamine was studied [319,323]. The results indicated that the PANI-NTs show superior performance as chemical sensors. Electrospun isolated PANI-CSA nanofiber sensors of various aliphatic alcohol vapors have been proven to be comparable to or faster than those prepared from PANI-NF mats [474]. An electrochemical method for the detection of ultratrace amount of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene with synthetic copolypeptide-doped PANI-NFs has recently been reported [475]. PANI-NFs, prepared through the in situ oxidative polymerization method, were used for the detection of aromatic organic compounds [476]. 

Most of the PTT application developments to date have focused on textile and carpet fibers because this polyester has a combination of several properties particularly suited for such applications. 

PTT fibers and yams have bulk, resiliency, stretch-recovery, softness, hand and drape, properties which are similar to those of nylons and much better than those of PET. Such materials are inherently resistant to most stains which are acidic in nature because they not have dye sites. They also have a lower static propensity than nylons. PTT fibers are dyed with disperse dyes but at a lower temperature than PET because of the polymer s lower Tt. The combinations of these properties are attractive to carpet and textile manufacturers in some applications where PTT could replace nylon or PET. PTT also offers the potential of creating new fiber products by using the unique combinations of these properties not found in either nylon or PET alone. 

Other potential applications of PTT are in monofilaments, non-wovens, films, engineering thermoplastics and molded goods. Hsu [80] has patented paper forming fabrics made with PTT monofilaments for use in papermaking machines because this combines the chemical resistance of a polyester and the resiliency 

Coconut oil with IV of only about 8 is not changed much by hydrogenation. Even with full saturation its SMP only rises from around 24° to about 34°C. For this 

Some important characteristics of HCNO, based on our assessment of data on 32 specimens from the UK industry, are shown in Table 6.13 and may be compared with those of unhydrogenated CNO in Table 6.9. A point worth noting is that, for HCNO, mp values of well above 40°C sometimes seen in the literature must be wrong even if they refer to complete fusion. 

The interesterification process has not found any significant application to CNO itself. The most important property of CNO and HCNO is their short plastic range and interesterification does not improve this very significantly. Nevertheless, some interesting products can be made by interesterfication of blends of CNO or PKO with palm oil and palm stearin to produce margarine fats, and these are described under PKO. 

Although fractionation of CNO is not carried out on any large scale, coconut stearin is produced on a small scale in the EU, US, and probably elsewhere. It is an exceptionally sharp-melting product. The yield of stearin from CNO fractionation is much less than is obtained from PKO and so the product tends to be relatively expensive. The major characteristic values of CNO stearin produced by a major EU manufacturer are shown in Table 6.14. 

Coconut oil is very extensively used for food products and has a high quality image but its oleochemical use is probably almost as large. As only its food 

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