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News Release from: Smithers Rapra | Subject: Roy Crompton's book
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 09 February 2007
Determination of Additives in Polymers
and Rubbers
This new book from Rapra is designed as a practical text for use in the laboratories of the plastic producer concerned with problems associated with additives and adventitious impurities in polymers
The "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 It is now about 30 years since the author wrote his first book on this subject and much has happened in the field since then
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 12 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Similarly evolved gas analysis and then thermogravimetry and dynamic scanning calorimetry is proving very useful in antioxidant loss studies.
'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.
The author, 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 engaged 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 organoaluminum 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 GBP100 and GBP125 respectively (plus postage and packaging).
It is available from Polymer Books or from Rapra Technology.
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