Shirley Institute Memoirs

Crystalline polymers appear to be the most studied by ESR techniques. The model wiiich seems to emerge from these results is, in fact, a variant of a model proposed over twenty years ago by Cumberbirch and associates (Shirley Institute Memoirs) to explain the tenacity of wet raycm monofilaments. Briefly, Cumberbirch, et al propose a fringe-micelle structure in which the fringe r ons, swollen by water, are assumed to obey rubber elasticity theory. These fringe reglcms are, of course, the more accessble (to water), more disordered, r ons of the semicrystalline structure. 

The Shirley Institute Memoirs (39) began to include research papers on rayon in 1930 and now reports some of the more important British research. 

Shirley Institute Memoirs, irregular, Shirley Institute, Didsbury, England. 

Then, she joined the staff of the British Cotton Industry Research Association at the Shirley Institute, Manchester, researching the minor constituents of cotton — particularly the complex mixture of substances present in cotton wax and their reaction products during the bleaching and finishing of cotton fibre. Her results were published in a series of papers in the Textile Industry Journal and in the Memoirs of the Shirley Institute. 

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