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Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 09 February 2007
Determination of additives in polymers
and rubbers
Book provides up-to-date coverage of the present state of knowledge on the subject of polymer additive systems and as such should be extremely useful to workers in the field.
A new book explores the practical use of additives in polymers "Determination of additives in polymers and rubbers" is designed as a practical text for use in the laboratories of the plastic producer and user industries and by others such as universities and institutions that are concerned with problems associated with additives and adventitious impurities in polymers
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 4 Aug 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Determination of additives in polymers and rubbers" is an up-to-date coverage of the present state of knowledge on the subject of polymer additive systems and as such should be extremely useful to workers in the field.
Roy Crompton was head of the polymer analysis research department of a major international polymer producer for some 15 years.
In the early fifties he was heavily engauged in the development of methods of analysis for low-pressure polyolefins produced by the Ziegler-Natta route, including work on high-density polyethylene and polypropylene.
He was responsible for the development of methods of analysis of the organoaluminium catalysts used for the synthesis of these polymers.
He was also responsible for the development of thin-layer chromatography for the determination of various types of additives in polymers and did pioneering work on the use of TLC to separate polymer additives and to examine the separated additives by infrared and mass spectrometry.
"Determination of additives in polymers and rubbers" is available in both soft cover and hard cover, retailing at GBP 100 and GBP 125, respectively (plus postage and packaging).
It is available from Rapra Technology.
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