Polymers & Plastics

This book offers a clear and concise guide to recent innovations, methods, and best practices that help the foam industry meet higher quality, health, and environmental standards. Written by the late Dr. Kaneyoshi Ashida, a renowned pioneer of polyisocyanurate (PIR) foams, this book chronicles the s..

The purpose of this book is to present in a monographic and systematised form a review of all the literature devoted to polyurethane-based polymeric sorbents in separation chemistry. The primary types of sorbents dealt with are polyurethane foams and open-pore polyurethanes...

Polyurethane Sealants..

Outline proven methods from planning and manufacture to product testing, this work reports on the most effective means of producing plastics by the extrusion blow moulding process. It supplies data on materials, performance standards and testing methodologies developed in industry with proven reliab..

This work focuses on the factors critical to successful injection moulding, including knowledge of plastic materials and how they melt, the importance of mould design, the role of the screw, and the correct use of the controls of an injection moulding machine. It seeks to provide operating personnel..

"Provides in-depth coverage of the entire thermoforming molding process from market domain and materials options to manufacturing methods and peripheral support. Second Edition furnishes entirely new information on twin sheet forming, corrugated tubing and pipe manufacturin gtechniques, plastics rec..

This book focuses on recent advances in the processing, characterization, and application of polymer based nanocomposites. It includes information on new developments which normally find no place in standard textbooks of polymer science and technology...

Recent Advances in Polymer Nanocomposites: Synthesis and Characterisation..

This book covers aspects of synthetic 'flash' systems, now and in future, and examines the natural systems that respond almost instantly to environmental stimuli, giving the reader an understanding of the mechanisms governing them...

This unique book describes the techniques used to discover which materials and processes were used to produce a particular vulcanized rubber compound from a combination of raw rubber, chemicals, and pigments. It covers polymer identification, carbon black percent calculation, volatile separation, an..

This revised and expanded single-source reference analyzes all compounding material classes of dry rubber compounds, such as carbon blacks, platicizers and age resisters, integrating detailed information on how elastomers are built up. The work provides practical compounding tips on how to avoid oil..

Solid-State Shear Pulverization is an innovative process that produces polymeric powders with unique physical properties not found in the output of conventional size-reduction methods. This technology has profound implications for both the creation of new polymer blends and recycling of plastic and ..