Polymer Degradation and Stabilisation - Hardcover

Grassie, Norman; Scott, Gerald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521249619 ISBN 13: 9780521249614

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1985

Synopsis

The study of polymer degradation and stabilisation is of considerable practical importance as the industrial uses of polymeric materials continue to expand. In this book, the authors lucidly relate technological phenomena to the chemistry and physics of degradation and stabilisation processes. Degradation embraces a variety of technologically important phenomena ranging from relatively low temperature processes such as 'weathering' of plastics, 'fatigue' of rubbers through the processing of polymers in shearing mixers to very high temperature processes such as flammability and ablation. All these technological phenomena have in common certain basic chemical reactions. Thus 'weathering' has its roots in photo-oxidation, 'fatigue' and melt-degradation in mechano-oxidation and flammability, and ablation in ablation in pyrolysis and vapour phase oxidation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0521249619
• ISBN 13: 9780521249614
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 229