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.

For example powerful new analytical tools have been made available to the chemist by a combination of various chromatographic techniques with methods of identifying separated additives and their degradation products by techniques based on infrared and mass spectrometry.

In particular supercritical fluid chromatography combined with mass spectrometry has come to the fore.

Combinations of polymer pyrolysis with gas chromatography with mass spectrometric identification of the pyrolysis products is throwing new light on what happens to antioxidants and other polymer additives during polymer processing and product life.

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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