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Polymer Chip Drying - Spot Check Measurements (.pdf)
Drying of polymer chips, prior to molding and extrusion processes is required to reduce free moisture content. The use of moisture laden chips has an adverse effect on product quality in terms of strength and achieving a consistent, flawless appearance. Also, with PET, the most common material used
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Emerging Polymer Designs in the Medical Device Industry (.pdf)
Extruded polymer tubing has been used in cutting-edge medical devices and applications for over 40 years. There are four key characteristics of polymers that make them ideal for use in the medical device market: lubricity, precision, biocompatibility and flexibility. Along with these properties
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Analysis of Impurities in Polymer-grade Ethylene, Propylene and 1,3-Butadiene
Take as a case study the detection of one impurity: arsine in. olefins. Even at low ppb levels, arsine can adversely affect. certain polymerization catalyst properties and also lead to. polymer contamination. ./54c40003-e627-4044-9e9d-4f14fa44b150 00. MEASUREMENT AND TESTING. Analysis
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Processing Behavior, Morphology and Benefits of Using Low Density Hollow Glass Microspheres in Polymer Wood Composites
Low density hollow microspheres have been produced and used in various thermoset applications for decades. The advent of highstrength,. low density glass microspheres that can survive high shear polymer processing operations such as injection molding in recent. years is now allowing thermoplastics
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Automotive Fatigue Life and Dynamic Mechanical Analysis of a Matrix Polymer
Many exterior components on modern automobiles are fabricated from advanced polymer and composite materials. Knowledge of the strength and durability of these raw materials is becoming increasingly important for suppliers who support the automotive industry. These materials must have
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Measuring Plastics with Color Instruments (.pdf)
, pigments. Dow Chemical. Midland, MI. resins. Union Carbide. Danbury, CT. resins, film, additives. Degussa Corp. Ridgefield Park, NJ. pigments. DuPont. Wilmington, DE. resins, additives, pigments. General Polymer Div. Columbus, OH. resins. Ciba Geigy. Hawthorne, NY. additives, pigments. Sun
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Quality Control of Minidisk Polymer Topcoat Using Nano Scratch Tester and Tribometer
and was characterised using the Nano Scratch Tester and the pin-on-disk Tribometer. By using two different instruments to characterise such a surface enables adhesion data (scratch testing) to be combined with frictional and lifetime data (pin-on-disk testing) which together give a better overall
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Zooming in on Zeta Potential (.pdf)
. release of pharmaceuticals. "We characterize a wide variety of particles, ranging. from polymer/DNA complexes to micelles and polymer-based microparticles and. nanoparticles," he explained. "It was important to us that the instrument we chose. could determine zeta potential without compromising