Polymers and Other Advanced Materials: Emerging Technologies and Business Opportunities

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Composite Applications in Commercial Transport Aircraft....Pages 1-5
High Mechanical Performance Composites and Design of Composite Structures....Pages 7-18
Preparation of Novel Polyamide 6 Blends Made by Reactive Extrusion Compounding....Pages 19-26
Preparation and Properties of Hairy-Rod Molecular Composites....Pages 27-35
Vibration Control in Fibre-Reinforced Composite Structures....Pages 37-51
Fatigue Behavior of Long Fiber Reinforced Polyamide and Polycarbonate Composites under Tension-Tension Loading....Pages 53-68
Poly(arylene ether ketone) Chemistry: Recent Advances in Synthesis and Applications....Pages 69-81
Morphology Modification of Polymer Blend Films by Electric Field....Pages 83-91
Reactive Blending of PET and Liquid Crystalline Polymer....Pages 93-100
Miscibility of Polymer Blends at the Air/Water Interface....Pages 101-107
Optimization in Thermoplastic Prepregging System....Pages 109-116
Thermal Properties of NR-LLDPE Thermoplastic Blends....Pages 117-123
Flow and Fracture Behavior of Sand-Reinforced Low Density Polyethylene During Tensile Testing....Pages 125-132
Effect of Hygrothermal Ageing on the Tensile Properties of Short Glass Fibre Reinforced Nylon 6.6....Pages 133-140
Finite Element Analysis of Plastic Yielding at a Circular Hole in a Laminated Composite Plate Based on Refined Plate Theory....Pages 141-158
Heat Treatment Behaviour of Metal Matrix Composites....Pages 159-167
Biodegradable Polymer Blends....Pages 169-176
Improved Mechanical Properties of Polymer Films Dried from the Swollen State in Uniaxial and Biaxial States of Strain....Pages 177-184
Recent Developments and Perspectives in ABS Resin....Pages 185-188
Recent Advances in Polypropylene-Based Materials, Properties and Applications....Pages 189-199
Surface Modification of Silicones....Pages 201-211
Design of Side-Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymers....Pages 213-220
Polymers in Space Environments....Pages 221-226
Advanced Turbulent Drag Reducing and Flocculating Materials Based on Polysaccharides....Pages 227-249
Origin of Crystallinity in Block and Random Terephthalate-Sebacate Copolymers as Studied Using Monte Carlo Methods....Pages 251-262
Structural Design Synthesis of Marine Crafts Using FRP Materials in Sandwich Construction....Pages 263-271
The Effect of Fluorine Gas Mixtures on the Surface Properties of Polyolefins....Pages 273-289
Synthesis and Biological Activities of Endo-3,6-Epoxy-1,2,3,6-Tetrahydrophthalimide and Its Polymers....Pages 291-296
Optic Characterization of Oligo-Thiophene Multilayers....Pages 297-302
The Present State of, and Future Prospects for, Large-Area Full-Color DC PDPs....Pages 303-310
Dielectric and Dipole Moment Study of Charge Transfer Complexes of Poly(N-Vinylcarbazole) and 2,4,7-Trinitro-9-Fluorenone....Pages 311-316
Comparative Study of the Raman Spectra of Different forms of Polyanilines....Pages 317-326
The Lowest Excited States in Oligo(Phenylenevinylene)s: A Theoretical Investigation of Optical Absorption Spectra and Geometry Relaxation Phenomena....Pages 327-334
Chemical and Electronic Structure of Interfaces with Conjugated Polymers: Systems of Interest in Molecular Electronics Applications....Pages 335-346
Synthesis of Poly(2-Methoxy-5-Methyl-1,4-Phenylene Vinylene); Substituent Effects on the Electrical and Nonlinear Optical Properties....Pages 347-354
A Soluble and Electrically Conducting Polymer System Incorporating Thiophene and Acetylenic Moeities....Pages 355-360
Limiting Factors in Operation and Fabrication of Organic Electroluminescence Devices....Pages 361-368
Electrical Properties of Impurity Doped Ion Conducting Polymers....Pages 369-378
The Optical Properties and the AC. Conductivity of the Gamma-Irradiated Abs Material....Pages 379-383
Processible Aromatic Polyamides Derived from 2,5-Bis(4-Aminophenyl)-3,4-Diphenyl Thiophene and Aromatic Diacid Chlorides....Pages 385-392
Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals for Electronic Applications....Pages 393-403
Optical Devices Utilizing Nonlinear Organic Materials....Pages 405-419
Nonlinear Electro-Optical and Holographic Storage Effect in Fullerene-Doped Nematic Liquid Crystal Film....Pages 421-431
Patterning of Polydiacetylene Waveguides by Means of Argon Laser Photobleaching....Pages 433-440
Polymers as Multi-Role Materials for Photonics Technology....Pages 441-449
Dichromated Polyvinyl Alcohol for Real-Time Hologram Recording: A Study on the Effect of some External Electron Donors and Humidity....Pages 451-463
Highly Efficient Liquid Crystal Polymers for Quadratic Nonlinear Optics....Pages 465-483
Novel Electro-Optic Polyimide and Polyamide Side Chain and Main Chain Polymers....Pages 485-491
Bulk Phase-Matched Second-Harmonic Generation in Drawn and Poled Polymers....Pages 493-501
Synthesis and Processing Relevant to Systems Integration of Nonlinear Optical Materials....Pages 503-510
Optics as a Means for Studying the Orientational Mobility of Chromophores and for Creating Macroscopic Order in Amorphous Films....Pages 511-522
A Thermally Stable Organic Light-Emitting Diode....Pages 523-528
New Conjugate Polymers — A Marriage Between Synthetic and Natural Polymers....Pages 529-537
Solid State Batteries from Chitosan Based Biopolymers....Pages 539-544
Synthesis and Biological Activities of Endo-3,6-Epoxy-1,2,3,6-Tetrahydrophthalimide and Its Polymers....Pages 545-550
Biotechnological Application of Enzymes from Extremophilic Organisms: Synthesis of Modified Monomers....Pages 551-557
Biologic Responses to Polymers and Other Prosthetic Devices....Pages 559-562
Bioartificial Polymeric Materials: Natural and Synthetic World Joining in Biomaterials Research....Pages 563-569
Guidelines for the Re-Stabilization of Post-Consumer Recycled Plastics....Pages 571-582
Recycling of Thermoset Based Composites....Pages 583-587
Biodegradable Fibers Made from Truly-Biodegradable Thermoplastics....Pages 589-596
‘Environmentally Friendly’ Fate of Plastic Waste ?....Pages 597-601
Chemical Recycling of Waste Plastics: Catalytic Cracking of Heavy Oil from Waste Plastics over Ni-Rey Zeolite....Pages 603-609
Nanocomposites for Coatings and Optics....Pages 611-624
Nanocomposites of Grafted Polymers onto Layered Silicate....Pages 625-644
CdS Nanoparticles in Gel Film Network: Synthesis, Stability and Optical Properties....Pages 645-651
Preparation of Dense Thin Films by Sol-Gel With Very High Humidity Sensitivity....Pages 653-658
A New Generation of Composite Materials from Agro-Based Fiber....Pages 659-665
Advanced Materials from Enzymatic Polymerization of Substituted Phenols in Ordered Templates....Pages 667-675
Humic Acids are Versatile Natural Polymers....Pages 677-685
Palm Oil Based Polyurethane Foams....Pages 687-699
Radiation Vulcanisation Natural Rubber Latex and its Properties....Pages 701-708
Communicating with Responsive Intelligent Membranes....Pages 709-718
Design of Ceramic Materials for Chemical Sensors with Intelligent Properties....Pages 719-725
The Use of Sol-Gel Film as a Matrix for Entrapment of Fluorimetric Reagents....Pages 727-736
Multifunctional Conjugated Organic Materials Incorporating Stable Charge States....Pages 737-743
Sabic and the Saudi Arabian Petrochemical Industry: Anatomy of a Leader....Pages 745-751
Polymer Technology and Education Frontiers a Contribution from Australia....Pages 753-758
Future of Silicon Science and Technology....Pages 759-771
Advanced Materials-Competitiveness by Design....Pages 773-776
Business Opportunities for a New Type of LCP and its Blends....Pages 777-783
Back Matter....Pages 785-791