Metallocene-based Polyolefins, 2 Volume Set: Preparation, Properties, and Technology (Wiley Series in Polymer Science) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471980862 ISBN 13: 9780471980865

Publisher: Wiley, 1999

Synopsis

A metallocene is an organometallic compound, in which the aromatic ring is attached to a metal atom. Metallocene based materials are stronger and tougher than conventional polymers giving improved sealing properties and increased elasticity, making them ideal for shrink wrapping and cling film This book provides an overview of metallocene catalysts and metallocene-based polyolefins giving comprehensive coverage to all areas of metallocene technology, the applications and the end products.

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Review:

"a welcome addition to any library". -- Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, Vol.202, No.6, 2001

About the Author:

John Scheirs has worked extensively with poly and related polyesters. His early work involved studying the UV stability of PET and poly- ethylene naphthalate - in France and later he was involved with studying various industrial problems involving polyesters, such as photodegradation, annealing, crystallization behaviour, embrittlement, degradation by aminolysis, differential scanning calorimetry analysis, environmental stress cracking, hydrolysis, nucleating agents, transesterification, injection moulding of recycled PET compounds, solid-state polycondensation, desiccant drying of PET and melt stabilization of PET. More recently in the period 1998-2000, he was the technical manager for Coca-Cola Amatil's world-first PET reforming plant which converts post-consumer PET bottles into high-grade, high IV palletized PET for direct reuse in new bottles and injection and sheet moulding applications. John Scheirs is now the principal consultant with ExcelPlas Polymer Technology where he specializes in polymer recycling chemistry, formulation, processing and testing. Walter Kaminsky is a professor for technical and macromolecular chemistry at the University of Hamburg. He supervises a group of 20 students and scientists in the field of metallocene/MAO catalysis and a group in the field of recycling of plastics and scrap tires by pyrolysis. He was President of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker - GDCh -, Hamburg section, Dean of the faculty of chemistry at the University of Hamburg, Director of the Institute for Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry, and is a member of the GDCh, DECHEMA, Naturforscher und rzte, Verein deutscher Ingenieure, and American Chemical Society. He has published more than 200 papers/books and holds 20 patents. He has organized several international symposia in the field of olefin polymerization and pyrolysis of polymer wastes. He is advisor for authorities and companies in the fields of metallocene catalysts, polymerization of olefins, and recycling of plastics and environmental protection.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0471980862
• ISBN 13: 9780471980865
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1054
• Editor: Scheirs John, Kaminsky Walter