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Chemical Reactions in Condensed Phase - The Quantitative Level
Polymers are substances containing a large number of structural units joined by the same type of linkage. These substances often form into a chain-like structure. Starch, cellulose, and rubber all possess polymeric properties. Today, the polymer industry has grown to be larger than the aluminium, copper and steel industries combined. Polymers already have a range of applications that far exceeds that of any other class of material available to man. Current applications extend from adhesives, coatings, foams, and packaging materials to textile and industrial fibres, elastomers, and structural plastics. Polymers are also used for most composites, electronic devices, biomedical devices, optical devices, and precursors for many newly developed high-tech ceramics. This book presents leading-edge research in this rapidly-changing and evolving field.
This volume includes the following analyses: factors regarding thermal and thermooxidative degradation of polyolefine nanocomposites, modelling of catalytic complexes in the oxidation reactions, modelling the kinetics of moisture adsorption by natural and synthetic polymers, new trends, achievements and developments on the effects of beam radiation, structural behaviour of composite materials, comparative evaluation of antioxidant properties, synthesis, properties and application of polymeric composites and nanocomposites, photodegradation and light stabilisation of polymers, wear resistant composite polymeric materials, some macrokinetic phenomena, transport phenomena in polymer matrixes, liquid crystals, flammability of polymeric materials and new flame retardants.
This timely volume provides an overview of polymer characterization test methods and presents experimental research in polymers using modern methods. Each chapter describes the principle of the respective method, as well as the detailed procedures of experiments with examples of actual applications and demonstrates the advantages and disadvantages
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