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- Second edition of a Handbook that has established itself as a must-have for polymer technologists around the world
- Contains updated chapters as well as 10 completely new chapters
- Covers recent developments including nanoparticles containing blends, biodegradable blends, high performance blends and much more
- Includes a useful dictionary of terms used in polymer science and technology
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (21 entries)
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Front Matter
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Fundamentals
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Front Matter
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Applications
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Front Matter
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About this book
Keywords
- Aging and Degradation of Polymer Blends and Alloys
- Dynamics of Polymer Networks and Polymer Melts
- Encyclopedic Coverage of Polymer Blend Technology
- Fundamentals and Applications of Polymer Blend Technology
- High Molecular Weight Polymer Blends
- Physico-chemical Properties of Industrial Polymer Blends
- Product Life Cycle in the Polymer Industry
- Provisions and Solutions for Polymer Recycling
Editors and Affiliations
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Industrial Materials Institute, National Research Council of Canada, Boucherville, Canada
Leszek A. Utracki
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Department of Chemistry and Fire Retardant Research Facility, Marquette University, Milwaukee, USA
Charles A. Wilkie
About the editors
Leszek A. Utracki, PhD, 1931-2012, was a Senior Research Officer at the National Research Council of Canada, Industrial Materials Institute and a former adjunct professor at McGill University, Department of Chemical Engineering, in Montreal, Quebec. He was also the author and/or editor of twenty-one books and has written forty-eight book chapters, hundreds of referenced and non-referenced journal articles and meeting proceedings.
Professor Charles Wilkie received his B.S. degree from the University of Detroit and Ph.D. from Wayne State University. He is an editor of Polymers for Advanced Technologies and serves on the editorial boards of Polymer Degradation and Stability and Thermochimica Acta. In 1992 Professor Wilkie was recipient of the ACS Milwaukee Section Award. He was a Fulbright-Hays scholar at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles in 1991-92. In 2007 he received the Marquette University Award for Excellence in Research. He is one of the organizers of the American Chemical Society Meeting on Fire retardancy, held every four years and he has taught a number of short courses on fire retardancy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Polymer Blends Handbook
Editors: Leszek A. Utracki, Charles A. Wilkie
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6064-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Reference Module Physical and Materials Science, Reference Module Chemistry, Materials and Physics
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6063-9Published: 31 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6064-6Published: 15 October 2014
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXIII, 2378
Number of Illustrations: 360 b/w illustrations, 131 illustrations in colour
Topics: Polymer Sciences, Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials, Physical Chemistry, Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering