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The words basic concepts" in the title define what I mean by fundamental." This is the primary emphasis in this presentation. Practical applications of polymers are cited frequently—after all, it is these applications that make polymers such an important class of chemicals—but in overall content, the stress is on fundamental principles. Foundational" might be another way to describe this. I have not attempted to cover all aspects of polymer science, but the topics that have been discussed lay the foundstion—built on the bedrock of organic and physical chemistry—from which virtually all aspects of the subject are developed. There is an enormous literature in polymer science this book is intended to bridge the gap between the typical undergraduate background in polymers—which frequently amounts to little more than occasional relevant" examples in other courses—and the professional literature on the subject. 

PET suitable for bottle manufacture is produced by a modified process. Here the high-viscosity polymer melt is subjected to a rapid quenching in water to produce clear amoiphous pellets. These are further polymerised in the solid phase at temperatures just below the T . This is useful to reduce aldehyde content, since aldehyde-forming degradation reactions occur less in the lower temperature solid phase polymerisations. Aldehydes can impart a taste to beverages and it is important to keep the aldehyde content to below 2.5 p.p.m. 

As with c -polyisoprene, the gutta molecule may be hydrogenated, hydro-chlorinated and vulcanised with sulphur. Ozone will cause rapid degradation. It is also seriously affected by both air (oxygen) and light and is therefore stored under water. Antioxidants such as those used in natural rubber retard oxidative deterioration. If the material is subjected to heat and mechanical working when dry, there is additional deterioration so that it is important to maintain a minimum moisture content of 1%. (It is not usual to vulcanise the polymer.)... 

Process systems handling polymers and resins (e.g., butyl rubber or ethylene-propylene diene monomer rubbers) are often subject to plugging at dead-end locations such as PR valve inlets. In extreme cases, complete blockage of inlet piping and valve nozzle can result. This problem can be eliminated by the application of a flush-seated PR valve, in which dead-end areas are eliminated by placing the valve disc flush with the vessel wall, in the flow pattern of the contents. 

Poly(arylene ether ketone) and poly(arylene ether sulfone) were also tried to be incorporated into the hybrids with silica gel by means of the sol-gel procedure [19, 20], For example, triethoxysilyl-terminated organic polymer was subjected to co-hydrolysis with tetraethoxysilane. A systematic change in mechanical and physical properties of the hybrid glass has been found with the content of organic polymer and the annealing temperatures. 

Mauritz et al., motivated by these experimental results, developed a statistical mechanical, water content and cation-dependent model for the counterion dissociation equilibrium as pictured in Figure 12. This model was then utilized in a molecular based theory of thermodynamic water activity, aw, for the hydrated clusters, which were treated as microsolutions. determines osmotic pressure, which, in turn, controls membrane swelling subject to the counteractive forces posed by the deformed polymer chains. The reader is directed to the original paper for the concepts and theoretical ingredients. 

Reactivity ratios between acrylated lignin model compound (Fig. 2), defined as Mi, with either MM A or S, defined as M2, were determined experimentally in accordance with standard procedures (15). These involve mixing two different vinyl monomers in various molar ratios with catalyst (i.e., benzoyl peroxide) and solvent, heating the mixture to achieve polymerization, and recovering the polymer by the addition of non-solvent, and centrifugation. The respective molar monomer fractions of the copolymer were determined by UV-spectroscopy in the cases where MMA served as M2, and by methoxyl content analysis in those cases in which S was the M2-species. The results were subjected to numerical treatments according to the established relationships of Kelen-Tiidos (17) and Yezrielev-Brokhina-Roskin (YBR) (18), and this is described elsewhere (15). 

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