Stretching conductivity

Fig. 7. Cross section of Sierracin windshield used on Boeing 747 (32) A, 2.2-mm chemically strengthened glass B, Sierracote 3 conductive coating C, 1.9-mm PVB D, 23-mm stretched acryflc E, 1.3-mm PVB F, laminated cloth spacer ring G, 23-mm stretched acryflc H, 0.6-mm PVB and I, 3.0-mm...

Bicomponent technology has been used to introduce functional and novelty effects other than stretch to nylon fibers. For instance, antistatic yams are made by spinning a conductive carbon-black polymer dispersion as a core with a sheath of nylon (188) and as a side-by-side configuration (189). At 0.1—1.0% implants, these conductive filaments give durable static resistance to nylon carpets without interfering with dye coloration. Conductive materials such as carbon black or metals as a sheath around a core of nylon interfere with color, especially light shades. 

Much effort has been expended toward the improvement of the properties of polyacetylenes made by the direct polymerization of acetylene. Variation of the type of initiator systems (17—19), annealing or aging of the catalyst (20,21), and stretch orientation of the films (22,23) has resulted in increases in conductivity and improvement in the oxidative stabiHty of the material. The improvement in properties is likely the result of a polymer with fewer defects. 

Along with high mechanical properties, copper improves its conductivity in the range of lower temperatures (at -160°C 400, -190°C 450, and -252°C 1600 kcal/m °C hr). It softens in the temperature range of 200 to 220°C as shown in Figure 3.5. The casting properties of copper are rather fair, but copper can be readily stretched, flattened, rolled, welded and brazed. For chemical plant work, welded or brazed joints have become almost universal. 

In these equations x and y denote independent spatial coordinates T, the temperature Tib, the mass fraction of the species p, the pressure u and v the tangential and the transverse components of the velocity, respectively p, the mass density Wk, the molecular weight of the species W, the mean molecular weight of the mixture R, the universal gas constant A, the thermal conductivity of the mixture Cp, the constant pressure heat capacity of the mixture Cp, the constant pressure heat capacity of the species Wk, the molar rate of production of the k species per unit volume hk, the speciflc enthalpy of the species p the viscosity of the mixture and the diffusion velocity of the A species in the y direction. The free stream tangential and transverse velocities at the edge of the boundaiy layer are given by = ax and Vg = —ay, respectively, where a is the strain rate. The strain rate is a measure of the stretch in the flame due to the imposed flow. The form of the chemical production rates and the diffusion velocities can be found in (7-8). 

Conduction in the raw doped polymer can be improved by devices such as compression and stretching and judicious after-synthesis dopant ion exchange. Matrix-guided electropolymerization also yields superior products. 

A non-electrochemical technique which has been employed to alter the physical characteristics of a number of polymers is that of stress orientation [26, 27], in which the material is stressed whilst being converted to the desired form. This has the effect of aligning the polymer chains and increasing the degree of order in the material, and is obviously most applicable to materials which can be produced via a precursor polymer. With Durham polyacetylene (Section 4.2.1) increases in length in excess of a factor of twenty have been achieved, with concomitant increases in order, as shown by X-ray diffraction and by measurements of the anisotropy of the electrical conductivity perpendicular and parallel to the stretch direction. 

Zengin et al. [41] characterized a polyaniline (PANI)/MWNT composite. The FTIR spectra of the composite film show benzoid and quinoid ring vibrations at 1500cm-1 and 1600 cm-1, respectively, which indicate the presence of emeraldine salt (ES) of polyaniline. A weak broad band near 3400 cm-1 is assigned to the N—H stretching mode. The strong band at 1150cm-1 is characteristic of PANI conductivity. The FTIR spectrum of PANI/MWNT composite in the ES form exhibits several clear differences from the spectrum of neat ES PANI (1) the composite spectrum shows an inverse... 

Over the past decade a number of new covalently bonded TTF/ferrocene adducts have been reported [77, 78]. The crystal structure of the l,l -bis(l,3-dithiole-2-ylidine)-substituted ferrocene derivative has been published [77]. In this complex, ferrocene has essentially been incorporated as a molecular spacer between the two l,3-dithole-2-ylidene rings forming a stretched TTF molecule. This adduct, and its methyl-substituted derivative, have been combined with TCNQ to form charge-transfer complexes with room temperature powder conductivities of 0.2 S cm-1. Similar diferrocenyl complexes have been prepared with bis (dithiolene) metal complexes [79, 80]. 

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