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As the need for lower mol. wt. acrylates for specialty and molding applications increases, industry is looking for substitute prodn. processes. An alternative to the increasing of initiator and chain transfer agent concn. is working at higher temps. Howeve ...
Fully synthetic polymers were used for the prepn. of hydrogel beads and capsules, in a processing scheme that, originally designed for calcium alginate, was adapted to a "tandem" process, that is the combination a phys. gelation with a chem. crosslinking ...
The scale-up/-down of polymn. reactors has to deal with large viscosity changes during the process, addressing mass- and heat-transfer issues. A practical example on scale-up of styrene and Me methacrylate free radical bulk and soln. polymn. is presented. ...
Inline conversion measurements in chem. reactions are in general and esp. in polymn. reactions necessary for process monitoring and control. For polymn. monitoring, the sound propagation (UPV) can be related to the texture of the bulk with a high accuracy. ...
A low temperature method of bonding two polymer sheets (2, 3) without adhesive, at least one of said polymer sheets comprising a microstructure (1) or a network of microstructures, comprises the steps of treating at least a portion of one surface of one of ...
A series of 66 terpolymers of dl-lactide, glycolide, and epsilon-caprolactone was synthesized for the purpose of identifying those materials which exhibited rapid degradation in vitro. Polymers having half-lives from a few weeks to several months were iden ...
A meso-tetraaryl ruthenium porphyrin complex having four polymerizable vinylbenzoxy groups (2) has been synthesized by reaction of pyrrole with 4-(vinylbenzoxy)benzaldehyde and subsequent metalation with [Ru-3(CO)(12)]. The porphyrin complex was immobilize ...
A family of cationic polyelectrolytes possessing defined chain lengths, narrow chain length distributions, uniform charge d., but substituents of different hydrophilicity at the quaternary ammonium group served as model compds. for adsorption studies. Thes ...
A kinetic model for solid-state polycondensation of nylon-6 was developed by extrapolation of the melt chemistry to the amorphous phase of the solid polymer. In this way, a phenomenological description of the process was obtained that required examining al ...
An alternative to the classical acid-base regeneration of chelating resins loaded with heavy metals is investigated. The new process consists in recovering the heavy metals with recyclable soluble complexing agents. The semiclosed reactor includes a fixed ...
