Polymer Degradation and Performance
Published on 5. March 2009
Book
Hardback
344 pages
978-0-8412-6978-1 (ISBN)
Description
The development of polymeric materials and their optimization for high performance applications requires a detailed understanding of their degradation sensitivities, and the various features affecting durability and reliability. This book provides an overview of the current trends in this research field. Individual topics present the latest concepts related to material lifetime prediction methodologies, new insight into complex degradation mechanisms, and how the
knowledge of their performance limiting processes can be applied to the design of materials with improved features. Appropriate analytical characterization techniques that are fundamental to all areas of polymer degradation and optimization studies and the overlapping performance interests in a range
of existing and developing applications are discussed. The audience will be material engineers and polymer chemists working in academia, large research institutes and industry dealing with polymer design and development, material testing and durability assessments.
knowledge of their performance limiting processes can be applied to the design of materials with improved features. Appropriate analytical characterization techniques that are fundamental to all areas of polymer degradation and optimization studies and the overlapping performance interests in a range
of existing and developing applications are discussed. The audience will be material engineers and polymer chemists working in academia, large research institutes and industry dealing with polymer design and development, material testing and durability assessments.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Material engineers and polymer chemists working in academia, large research institutes and industry dealing with polymer design and development, material testing and durability assessments.
Illustrations
8 colour, 19 black and white halftone illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
691 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8412-6978-1 (9780841269781)
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Persons
Mathew Celina leads a small research group dealing with polymer materials performance optimization and lifetime prediction issues at Sandia National Laboratories. Jeffrey Wiggins is Assistant Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering at The University of Southern Mississippi. Norman Billingham is Professor Emeritus from the University of Sussex.
Content
Environmentally Degradable Polyolefinsl ; High Oxygen Barrier Materials Based on Hyperbranched Aliphatic Polyesters ; Degradation of Biodegradable Polymers in Real and Simulated Composting Conditions ; Synthesis and Degradation of Poly(ethyl glyoxylate) ; Effect of Drug Loading on the Rate of Nicotine Release from Poly (?-Caprolactone) Matrices ; Fatty Acid Based Biodegradable Polymers-Synthesis and Applications ; Synthesis of Soy Polymers Using a "Green" Processing Method ; Degradation of Crosslinked Unsaturated Polyesters by Using Sub-Critical Water ; Degradation of Piezoelectric Fluoropolymers in Space Environments ; Field and Laboratory Aging Effects on Poly(p-phenylene benzobisoxazole) Fibers Used in Body Armor ; A Non-Empirical Model for the Lifetime Prediction of Polymers Exposed in Oxidative Environments ; Relating Kinetic Models to Embrittlement in Polymer Oxydative Aging ; FTIR Measurement of CO2 Photo-Generation from Polyethylene, Polypropylene and Polyesters ; Lifetime Prediction - Different Strategies by Example ; Probing Degradation in Complex Engineering Silicones by 1H Multiple Quantum NMR ; Accelerated Aging and Characterization of a Plasticized Poly(ester urethane) Binder ; New Cyanate Ester and Poly-p-phenylene Resins with Low Moisture Absorption and Improved Thermal Stability ; Effects of Hydroxy Double Salts and Related Nanodimensional Layered Metal Hydroxides on Polymer Thermal Stability ; Degradative Transformation of Poly(vinyl chloride) Under Mild Oxidative Conditions ; Aging of the Binder in Plastic-Bonded Explosive PBX 9501 and Free-Radical Oxidation ; Degradative Thermal Analysis and Dielectric Spectroscopy Studies of Aging in Polysiloxane Nanocomposites ; Ageing of Foamed Polysiloxanes Incorporating Nanoparticles ; Effect of Pigment Dispersion on Optical Properties and Durability of a TiO2 Pigmented Epoxy Coating ; Photolysis and Photo-Oxidation in Engineering Plastics