Handbook of Polyethylene: Structures: Properties, and Applications (Plastics Engineering (Marcel Dekker, Inc.), 57.)

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This text provides the basic history, molecular structure and intrinsic properties, practical applications and future developments of polyethylene production and marketing - including recycling systems and metallocene technology. It describes commercial processing techniques used to convert raw polyethylene to finished products, emphasizing special properties and end-use applications.

Thermal Characterization of Polymeric Materials, Volume 2, Second Edition

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Thermal Characterization of Polymeric Materials, Volume 2, Second Edition

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ASIN: 0127037829

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The Second Edition of Thermal Characterization of Polymeric Materials, edited by Edith A. Turi, continues the tradition of the widely acclaimed original work, providing a comprehensive and fully current reviewof the literature and techniques of thermal analysis of polymers. The two-volume set provides an in-depth overview of thermal analysis by focusing on instrumentation and a wide array of applications in research, development, production, quality control and technical service. Readers will benefit greatly from the well-coordinated and clearly written chapters, which are replete with practical examples. Chapters are written by world-renowned authors and include important, previously unpublished experimentaldata. Fully revised and updated, this Second Edition has grown from 960 to approximately 2500 pages, reflecting the explosive development of the field during the past fifteen years. This comprehensive two-volume set is an invaluable reference source for chemists, engineers, physicists, and other professionals involved in research, development, production, applications, characterization, and evaluation of polymers.

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* Revised and updated throughout
* Includes two important new chapters on the characterization of composites and films
* Highlights the characteristics of commercial instruments and their applicability to particular needs
* Helps readers to eliminate costly trial-and-error experiments by judicious use of the examples described
* Provides extensive references to the primary literature
* Features thermal curves, diagrams, and other illustrations, allowing readers to evaluate their own data

Chromogenic Phenomena in Polymers: Tunable Optical Properties (Acs Symposium Series)

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Chromogenic Phenomena in Polymers: Tunable Optical Properties (Acs Symposium Series)

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ASIN: 0841238308

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Chromogenic Phenomena in Polymers: Tunable Optical Properties describes diverse physicochemical methods of tuning the optical properties of polymeric materials in real time. This book also summarizes recent advances in the design, properties and applications of electrochromic, photochromic, electroluminescent, selective reflective, and photonic band-gap polymers.

Organic Materials for Photonics: Science and Technology (European Materials Research Society Monographs, Vol 6)

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Organic Materials for Photonics: Science and Technology (European Materials Research Society Monographs, Vol 6)

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Organic Light-Emitting Materials and Devices (Optical Science and Engineering Series)

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Organic Light-Emitting Materials and Devices (Optical Science and Engineering Series)

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ASIN: 157444574X

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New advances offer flexible, low-cost fabrication methods for light-emitting materials, particularly in display technologies. As researchers continue to develop novel applications for these materials, feasible solutions for large-scale manufacturing are increasingly important. Organic Light-Emitting Materials and Devices covers all aspects of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), focusing on the unique characteristics of electroluminescent materials, device structures, and fabrication technologies. Written by internationally recognized experts across several fields, this book first explains the multilayered structure and fundamental physics that account for OLED design. The book compiles information on the synthesis, properties, and device performance of nearly 1,000 organic small molecule- and polymer-based electroluminescent materials. It also investigates practical manufacturing techniques for OLED fabrication as well as methods used for microstructural characterization, performance measurement, and defect analysis. Later chapters discuss the patent status of the currently employed organic light-emitting materials, potential applications of OLEDs, and the challenges facing future developments from both academic and industrial perspectives. Incorporating the latest research on hundreds of light-emitting organic materials, Organic Light-Emitting Materials and Devices reflects the current understanding of molecular design in the field and reveals the most stable and efficient electroluminescent materials as well as the vast potential for future applications.

Conjugated Polymers: Theory, Synthesis, Properties, and Characterization (Handbook of Conducting Polymers)

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Conjugated Polymers: Theory, Synthesis, Properties, and Characterization (Handbook of Conducting Polymers)

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Self-Doped Conducting Polymers

ASIN: 1420043587

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Many significant fundamental concepts and practical applications have developed since the publication of the best-selling second edition of the Handbook of Conducting Polymers. Now divided into two books, the third edition continues to retain the excellent expertise of the editors and world-renowned contributors while providing superior coverage of recent advances in the chemistry, physics, and materials science of conjugated and conducting organic polymers. Conjugated Polymers: Theory, Synthesis, Properties, and Characterization, the first volume in the set, focuses on the theories, synthetic methods, and basic physical aspects needed to understand the behavior and performance of conjugated polymers. The book initially examines the theories behind p-conjugated materials and electron-lattice dynamics in organic systems. Subsequent chapters detail synthesis methods and electrical and physical properties of the full family of conducting polymers, including polyacetylenes, polyanilines, poly(arylene vinylenes), poly(arylene ethynylenes), and polyheterocycles. Featuring topics central to the science and technology of conducting polymers, this book offers easy access to up-to-date information and provides the basis for the second installment in the set.

Dynamic Mechanical Analysis: A Practical Introduction

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Finally! The Book That Spells Out The Answers To Questions.
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Dynamic Mechanical Analysis: A Practical Introduction
Kevin P. Menard
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ASIN: 0849386888

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Although dynamical mechanical analysis or spectroscopy has left the domain of the rheologist and has become a prevalent tool in the analytical laboratory, it is still common to hear, "What is DMA, and what will it tell me?" or "I think I could use a DMA, but I cannot justify its cost." Previously, the novice in the field had to sort through texts on thermal analysis, rheology, and materials science just to find basic information - until now. This book provides the chemist, chemical engineer, or materials scientist with a starting point to understand the applications of dynamic mechanical analysis, its workings, and its advantages and limitations. Discussions include: · rheological concepts · stress-strain · data handling · experimental techniques and considerations · test methods, such as frequency sweeps and time-temperature curves · data analysis

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It may help yr experiment.......2006-07-03

The clear text will guide my experiment in composites.

The DMA technique may be helpful on several materials dynamic-mechanical characterization and this book introduces the why and how to.

Good investment to my thesis!

What I needed, when I needed it.......2001-09-27

I needed to get up to speed on DMA fast and I got what I needed. It didn't provide all the info I required for my specific application (submicron thin films) but it did provide a sound foundation for further investigation. This is truly what it claims to be, a practical introduction, many thanks to the author.

Finally! The Book That Spells Out The Answers To Questions........2000-02-09

I spent many hours researching for a Thermal Mechanical textbook that was packed full of "Get Down To The Point Answers". Let's face it, there are not many current Thermal Analysis textbooks for sale. The books I've seen are too scrambled with no understanding at the end. This book was VERY informative, and it answered my questions. Special Thanks to the author. Please write many more books with the same intentions in mind: "We would like to understand and learn from what we read"! Thank You!

Finally! The Book That Spells Out The Answers To My Question.......2000-02-09

I'm hoping for an expanded second edition...........1999-11-19

I ordered this book based on the other review here onamazon.com and was looking for a bit more. A fair bit of the contentis already covered by free application notes on the web and sales literature that the makers of DMA instrumentation pass out for free. If your looking for a solid treatment of the polymer physics of DMA testing, that's not this book; maybe it hasn't been written yet. If you just want to relate DMA testing to real world environments and effects, then there aren't enough good examples in the book or a method to make this book worth the price.

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The first edition of Pope and Swenberg's Electronic Processes of Organic Crystals, published in 1982, became the classic reference in the field. It provided a tutorial on the experimental and related theoretical properties of aromatic hydrocarbon crystals and included emerging work on polymers and superconductivity. This new edition contains the complete text of the first edition, plus an extensive new section, comprising nearly half of the book, which covers recent developments and applications with polymers. The book provides a unified description of what is known in almost every aspect of the field, from basic phenomena to the latest practical applications, which include LED's, photocopiers, photoconductors, batteries, transistors, liquid crystals, photorefractive devices, and sensors.

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The 2nd Edition.......2000-07-18

This new edition contains a corrected first edition as Part I. Part II focuses on technologically relavant electroactive polymers chapter by chapter as well as relevant electronic processes. This book belongs on the desk of everyone working and publishing in the field of solid state organic electronics.

Analysis for Design of Fiber Reinforced Plastic Vessels

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Analysis for Design of Fiber Reinforced Plastic Vessels
Suong V. Hoa
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ASIN: 0877628726

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This book is [for] designers of fiber reinforced plastic (FRP) plastic tanks, vessels and piping, particularly those in the chemical processing industry. . . . As chemical processing equipment, these vessels and pipings have many discontinuous regions in their structures such as manhole connections, nozzles, supports, joints, etc. They are also subjected to different loadings such as internal pressure, external pressure, thermal loads, lateral loads, etc. This makes the structure of these vessels complicated.

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This handbook offers concise information on the properties of polymeric materials, particularly those most relevant to the areas of physical chemistry and chemical physics. In the second edition of Physical Properties of Polymers Handbook, each chapter has been extensively updated and revised. The number of chapters have increased from 52 to 63 to include novel polymeric structures, specifically rotaxanes and related materials, self-assembly materials, foldamer supramolecular structures, tribology, mechanical properties of single molecules, and dendrimers, as well as reinforcing phases in polymers, including carbon black, silica, clays and other layered fillers, POSS, carbon nanotubes, and reinforcement theory. The study of complex materials is highly interdisciplinary, and new findings are scattered among a large selection of scientific and engineering journals. Physical Properties of Polymers Handbook is a comprehensive and authoritative compilation that brings together data and supporting information from experts in the different disciplines contributing to the rapidly growing area of polymers and complex materials.

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Physical Properties of Polymers Handbook.......2005-09-06

Thanks for having this hard to find product in stock!

what you can't find elsewhere.......2002-10-31

This is 'the' data compilation of physical properties of polymers. This is the only book that contained the parameters that I was looking for.

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When first published in 1992, Braindance presented a revolutionary look at the origins of the human brain. Biological anthropologist Dean Falk now brings the discussion into the 21st century. In this revised edition with a new preface and updated information through 2003, she reexamines her groundbreaking research of how the human brain evolved and reveals how this process continues to impact our species.

Around two million years ago, our earliest hominin ancestors experienced an explosive brain expansion, at least one million years after they began to walk upright. Rather than linking bipedalism alone with brain expansion, as previously theorized, Falk's explanation involves climate. She contends that bipedalism allowed our ancestors to wander farther afield in savannah-like regions, where their brains were subjected to solar heating. Falk and her colleagues discovered that one hominin line developed a complicated brain-cooling system to combat the destructive effects of excessive heat. This ability and expanding brain size evolved together, thus producing hominins with a brain capacity three times greater than their ancestors.

Falk further discusses the evolution of visual skills, right-handedness, language ability, right-brain/left-brain and male/female differences--and the uniquely human ability to dance. The specifics of how we tapped, toed, and twisted through the prehistoric "brain dance" form the story line of this book. And what did two million years of bigger brains produce? The last chapter summarizes Falk's ideas on human cognitive and conscious capacities for the future.

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CSI Meets the Human Cranium.......2006-07-19

This is an excellent book, and like all good scientific works the author has her own particular thesis, the "cranial radiator." Standing upright on the hot African savanna reduced the overall heat uptake of our ancestors' bodies by exposing less of them to the sun, and changes in cerebral "plumbing" were also required that may have added redundant capabilities later exapted as human intellect. There is a lightness of touch to "Braindance" evidenced by the author's photo on the back cover, which is actually a monkey, purportedly an "ancestral portrait." There is also an excellent photo of Glen Conroy doing research in Chad, he is holding an M16! These are the Indiana Jones's of anthropology.

The human fossil record is primarily one of skulls and teeth and this expertly written account of past and present brain anatomy is elegant, timely, and significant.

Mildly interesting contentious hypothesis........2006-01-11

This is a very readable book providing a gentle overview of brain functions and their possible evolutionary roots. A great deal of the book concentrates on the discovery and study a endocasts from a small sample of primates. This leads on to an inconclusive discussion about the bipedal development and its relationship to the evolutionary brain. The human ability to dance, or more precisely the human ability to lay down the motor memories assiociated with dance movements, while notionally the subject of the book receives much less attention than the title suggests. The author's main point is that only humans dance, and this is sufficiently distinctive in evolutionary terms to merit much wider appreciation. The flaw in this argument, as I see it, is that dance itself has evolved across time and society. It is unlikely the waltz could have been developed by head hunters, and equally unlikely that it could have emerged today. The cultural context is critical to appreciating the type of dance that emerged. For instance, humans run differently than primates, we swim and eat differently too. Should all these areas not also receive special attention? I am also aware that young animals often display 'dance like' moves when practising hunting. For example, kittens will often practice stalking and prancing with older cats. The arguments in the book about the special nature of dance, I didn't find convincing. This was not a major downside to the book, simply a hypothesis that I couldn't accept. The downside of the book were the anecdotes that related yet another professional spat between the author and a rival colleague. A sense of friction with other colleagues can be conveyed without the degree of elaboration employed here. The anecdotes interrupted the narrative. Frankly I found them jarring and thought they reflected badly on the book as a whole.

Strives to explain what truly distinguishes human beings .......2004-11-11

Now in a newly revised and expanded edition, Braindance examines what science has to say about the evolution of the human brain and the origins of humanity as a species. Looking at what the most recent discoveries have to say about male brains versus female brains, and the difference - or resemblance - that human brains have with regard to primate brains, and much, much more, Braindance strives to explain what truly distinguishes human beings in terms as accessible to lay readers as it is to field professionals and academic scholarship. Information-packed and highly recommended.

Braindance/New Discoveries About Human Brain Evolution

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Dean Falk
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