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Engineered Polyvinyl Pyrrolidone Products by Microwave Techniques

  • 1st Edition
  • June 2, 2025
  • Pinki Pal + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Engineered Polyvinyl Pyrrolidone Products by Microwave Techniques: Processing, Characterization, and Applications is a comprehensive reference on the customization of the physical, chemical, and mechanical properties of polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) through derivatization. It highlights successful modifications achieved with microwave techniques and focuses on the unique advantages of microwave radiation in polymerization, ensuring high reproducibility and consistency without altering the polymer's structure. The book explores the wide-ranging applications of these specialized plastics in fields such as agriculture, medicine, and everyday consumer products, making it a valuable resource for practical use. Additionally, it discusses the scaling up of the synthesis process using microwave energy, presenting a compelling case for commercial production of these materials. This book is a valuable reference for those seeking to better understand the potential of engineered polymeric materials for a variety of applications.

Rubber Materials

  • 1st Edition
  • June 1, 2025
  • Marianella Hernández Santana + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Rubber Materials: Fundamentals, Sustainability, and Applications provides a fresh perspective on the potential of rubber materials in the 21st century when our global society faces unprecedented challenges related to resource consumption, waste management, and environmental impact. The book begins with an overview of the foundation of rubber science, covering fundamental principles, recent advancements, and future challenges. Sections discuss sustainability aspects and emerging trends within elastomer science and technology, all within the context of the 7Rs of the circular economy. Finally, the book presents advanced sustainable applications of rubber materials in diverse fields, including robotics, healthcare, energy, and more.This book serves as a valuable reference to materials scientists, industrial and academic researchers, and R&D professionals seeking to explore sustainable solutions in the realm of rubbers and elastomers, including their green applications.

Multifunctional Nanostructured Coatings

  • 1st Edition
  • April 1, 2025
  • Manviri Rani + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Multifunctional Nanostructured Coatings: Biomedical, Environmental, and Energy Applications offers core and advanced information about various nanomaterials and their synthetic approaches to nanostructured coatings. The book focuses on the application of multifunctional nanostructured coatings (MNCs) in the areas of biomedicine, the environment, and energy, and presents the latest advances in the design, preparation, characterization, and fabrication of MNCs. Techniques covered in the book include chemical deposition (including plasma-assisted deposition) and physical deposition methods such as magnetron sputtering, arc evaporation, electron-beam evaporation, and ion-beam sputtering.In addition, the book also explores the use of multifunctional ZnO/TiO2 nanoarray composite coatings, Ta- and Si-doped multifunctional bioactive nanostructured films, in situ-generated titanium-oxo clusters, and silver nanoparticles. It will be useful for researchers working in the areas of materials science, coating technologies, nanotechnology, sustainability, and environmental engineering.

Encyclopedia of Polymer Degradation

  • 1st Edition
  • March 1, 2025
  • George Wypych
  • English
  • Hardback
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Encyclopedia of Polymer Degradation compiles research results for the most important and commonly-used polymers, identifying their unitary degradative chemical reactions, including the fate of products resulting from primary degradation which can influence further degradation mechanisms and rates. The book proposes potential mechanisms of reactions and chemical descriptions of the sequence for events for each degradation mode. It takes a knowledge-based approach with the aim of facilitating more effective prevention of waste and environmental pollution caused by material failures, and also discusses the limitations of typical weathering studies, challenges in lab-based weathering studies, and the importance of understanding various degradation mechanisms.

PVC Degradation and Stabilization

  • 5th Edition
  • March 1, 2025
  • George Wypych
  • English
  • Hardback
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PVC Degradation and Stabilization, Fifth Edition contains all the information necessary for the successful design of stabilization formulas in any PVC-based product. Other topics covered include degradation by thermal energy, UV, gamma, and other forms of radiation, chemical degradation, and more. Many new topics are of particular interest today, including new stabilization methods and mechanisms (e.g., synergistic mixtures containing hydrotalcites and their synthetic equivalents, beta-diketones, functionalized fillers, Shiff bases), new approaches to plasticization, methods of waste reprocessing (life cycle assessment, reformulation, biodegradable materials, and energy recovery), accelerated degradation due to electric breakdown, and many more.Analytical methods for studying degradative and stabilization processes aids readers in establishing a system for verifying results of stabilization with different stabilizing systems.

PVC Formulary

  • 4th Edition
  • March 1, 2025
  • George Wypych
  • English
  • Hardback
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PVC Formulary, Fourth Edition provides PVC manufacturers, processers, and users with key information on product development, formulation, additives, and properties. The book contains a trove of data and formulations that aids in the successful development of PVC products and evaluation of formulas that others use. Commercial types and grades, polymer forms, and physical-chemical properties of PVC are discussed in detail, with all essential information required for the decision-making process clearly presented. The book contains over 600 formulations of products belonging to 23 categories that are derived from characteristic methods of production.A broad selection of formulations is used in each category to determine the essential components of formulations used in a particular method of processing, the most important parameters of successful products, troubleshooting information, and suggestions of further sources of information on the method of processing.

Cellulose Based Hydrogels

  • 1st Edition
  • February 10, 2025
  • Kalim Deshmukh + 3 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Cellulose Based Hydrogels: Production, Properties and Applications provides detailed information on the properties, characterization techniques, preparation methodologies, applications, and commercial viability of cellulose based hydrogels.The book starts with an in-depth overview of the structure of cellulosic materials and their chemical modification approaches, covering various forms of cellulose, such as nanocrystalline and nanofibrillar cellulose. The following chapters focus on characterization methods of such materials, including advanced techniques, followed by a through discussion of the strategies for preparation of cellulose based hydrogels. Finally, applications of cellulosic structures in different fields such as biomedicine, environmental science, and energy are presented.This is a valuable resource for researchers and advanced students across polymer science, nanomaterials, and materials science, as well as scientists, engineers, and R&D professionals with an interest in sustainable materials and their composites/nanocomposites for advanced applications.

Chain Mobility and Progress in Medicine, Pharmaceuticals, and Polymer Science and Technology

  • 2nd Edition
  • December 21, 2024
  • George Wypych
  • English
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Chain Mobility and Progress in Medicine, Pharmaceuticals, and Polymer Science and Technology, Second Edition covers the core fundamentals and applications of chain movement, chain mobility, segmental mobility, segmental dynamics, and chain orientation in polymer science, medicine, pharmaceuticals, and other disciplines. The book starts by defining the principal terms, then looks at the work of Pierre-Gilles de Gennese and his 1991 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on polymer-macromolecular substances, the conditions under which chains move, and the effects of these movements on properties of materials, such as chain alignment, chain orientation, creation of free volume, dimensional stability, and more.The book's final chapters provide insights on analytical methods of chain movement, chain movement phenomena in different polymers, and various fields of application. All concepts, findings, and applications are discussed in easy-to-understand language stripped of disciplinary slang, making the book accessible to researchers and practitioners across a variety of scientific fields.

Polymer Gears

  • 1st Edition
  • November 15, 2024
  • Sabu Thomas + 3 more
  • English
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Polymer Gears discusses polymer gear design and their efficient mechanical properties, light weight, and low noise during operation. As plastic gears are replacing metallic gears in traditional and new applications, there is still lack of material characterization and complex relations between different geometric and operating parameters. Thus, polymer gear design remains an open challenge. This book serves as a comprehensive and professional guide on the topic, providing readers with current developments carried out in the field of plastic gears production, characterization, and applications.This will include material development, tribological properties, simulations, and processing methods.

Polymers for Oral Drug Delivery Technologies

  • 1st Edition
  • September 30, 2024
  • Anilkumar Parambath
  • English
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Polymers for Oral Drug Delivery Technologies covers the fundamentals of oral drug delivery and various aspects of polymer technology in oral drug delivery, from classification and synthesis, to applications and regulatory factors. It presents the oral delivery of therapeutics for treating a number of diseases, along with the challenges of oral drug administration to assure a predictive and reproducible pharmacokinetic profile of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API).Polymers play an important role to achieve the targeted release profile consistently of an API in vivo by various functionalities like drug protection from gastric juice, fast release and supersaturation or release within a targeted area of the GI tract.

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