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News Release from: Smithers Rapra | Subject: Degradation and stabilisation of polyamides
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Degradation and stabilisation of
polyamides
Review report looks at some of the methods used to stabilise the polyamides and also examines how they degrade and how stabilising the molecule can prevent this.
Smithers Rapra has published a new review report entitled "Degradation and stabilisation of polyamides", written by Stuart Fairgrieve Linear polyamides are one of the more important classes of polymeric materials, with wide application in the fields of fibres and plastics
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 4 Aug 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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In general, these polymers may be synthesised in one of two ways, either by the reaction of dicarboxylic acids (or their derivatives) with diamines, or from specific amino acids or their cyclic derivatives the lactams.
A great deal of research has been carried out into the degradation of polyamides, but the materials and test conditions used vary tremendously, even for a single polymer such as Nylon 6, therefore it is not really surprising that many such studies differ considerably in both results and in their interpretation.
This review report looks at some of the methods used to stabilise the polyamides and also examines how they degrade and how stabilising the molecule can prevent this.
"Degradation and stabilisation of polyamides" will be of interest to everyone who works with or studies polyamides.
It is accompanied by around 400 abstracts compiled from the Polymer Library, to facilitate further reading on this subject.
A subject index and a company index are included.
The author, Stuart Fairgrieve, was awarded an honours degree in chemistry at St Andrews University, where he went on to carry out academic research.
He obtained an MSc in polymer chemistry and subsequently a PhD in polymer physics.
He entered industrial research with Cookson Group, becoming Senior Researcher in Plastics with the central research organisation of this company.
In 1996, he set up SPF Polymer Consultants.
He is the author of a number of academic papers, and the principal inventor of various current US patents.
"Degradation and stabilisation of polyamides" is available in soft-backed format, retailing at GBP 85 (plus postage and packaging).
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