Polymer sciencePub Date : 2016-04-14DOI: 10.4172/2471-9935.100004
M. Zeni, J. Duarte, V. D. Santos
{"title":"Behavior Classification Physical/ChemistryPA66/HC Binary System Utilized to ObtainSeparation Membranes","authors":"M. Zeni, J. Duarte, V. D. Santos","doi":"10.4172/2471-9935.100004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2471-9935.100004","url":null,"abstract":"The dissolution of polymers in solvents is an interest area of polymers science and technology due to their applications in films and membranes. The starting point for the preparation of polymer membranes by phase inversion is having a thermodynamically stable solution. In this work, the thermodynamic behaviour of polyamide 66 (PA66) solutions in formic acid (FA) and in hydrochloric acid (HC), was studied to evaluate its physical/chemistry classification. The polymer systems may be divided into five classes (types), which incorporate polymer-low molecular liquid systems, ranging from true solutions to dispersions of polymers in liquids. The polyamide 66/formic acid (PA66/FA) binary system is considered a true solution. Several experiments were performed to verify if the polyamide 66/ hydrochloric acid (PA66/HC ) binary system has all characteristics of true solution. The analysis showed that the PA66/HC binary system presents all characteristics of true solution, including the final morphology of the membranes that are similar obtained membranes by PA66/FA binary system.","PeriodicalId":20346,"journal":{"name":"Polymer science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77033462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Polymer sciencePub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.4172/2471-9935.100005
Jingyuan Xu, B. Carson, Sanghoon Kim
{"title":"The pH Dependence on the Rheology ofWheat Protein Isolate Suspensions","authors":"Jingyuan Xu, B. Carson, Sanghoon Kim","doi":"10.4172/2471-9935.100005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2471-9935.100005","url":null,"abstract":"Linear and non-linear rheological properties of wheat protein isolate (WPI) suspensions were investigated as a function of concentration and pH. Linear dynamic viscoelastic properties for WPI were strongly dependent on concentration and pH. The higher the concentration, the stronger the viscoelasticity of the WPI would be. In the pH range of 4.0-7.0, higher pH resulted in stronger viscoelasticity. WPI suspensions exhibited viscoelastic fluid behavior at lower concentration and/or lower pH. However, at high concentration and high pH, WPI suspensions showed some transition from viscoelastic fluid into viscoelastic solid, and displayed viscoelastic solid behavior at low frequencies. Concentration and pH ranges for the transition were narrow indicating that the property change for the WPI was in evidence. The non-linear shear viscoelastic properties of WPI were also found to depend on concentration and pH. Viscosities of WPI displayed shear-thinning behavior, and fits by a power law constitutive model. Our results indicate that the WPI structure in suspension changes over a small concentration and pH range, which suggest that WPI could be important for adjusting and controlling dough viscoelastic behavior. The information of this work is useful in the development of more and new applications using wheat protein isolate.","PeriodicalId":20346,"journal":{"name":"Polymer science","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74440349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Polymer sciencePub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.4172/2471-9935.100002
Yakun Zhu, Michael L FreeM
{"title":"Effects of Surfactant Aggregation and Adsorption on Steel Corrosion Inhibition in Salt Solution","authors":"Yakun Zhu, Michael L FreeM","doi":"10.4172/2471-9935.100002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2471-9935.100002","url":null,"abstract":"The corrosion inhibition efficiency of mixtures of three homologous benzalkonium chlorides (BAC) surfactants was investigated using electrochemical measurements and modeling. The surface aggregation concentration (sac) and critical micelle concentration (cmc) of surfactant are useful to evaluate inhibition efficiency. A new cmc prediction model for ternary mixed homologous surfactants of interest has been developed. The model is applicable over a wide concentration range of dissolved salt in solution. The combination of the modified Langmuir adsorption model and the cmc prediction model provides a potential method for inhibition efficiency prediction of various mixed homologous surfactant systems at various dissolved salt concentrations.","PeriodicalId":20346,"journal":{"name":"Polymer science","volume":"17 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91440680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Polymer sciencePub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.4172/2471-9935.100001
Sapuan Sm
{"title":"Research on Natural Fiber Polymer Composites: The WayForward","authors":"Sapuan Sm","doi":"10.4172/2471-9935.100001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2471-9935.100001","url":null,"abstract":"Natural fibre reinforced polymer composites are emerging materials that are used as materials for various applications ranging from furniture, building and construction, automotive and marine industries. Kenaf, jute, sisal, hemp, oil palm, sugar palm, pineapple leaf, and roselle stem, are among natural fibres reported to be used as reinforcements and fillers in polymer composites. Natural fibre reinforced polymer composites demonstrated excellence performances and positive attributes such as low cost, renewable, environmentally friendly, abundantly available, light weight and good specific strength and stiffness properties. However, there are some fundamental issues that have to be resolved before these materials can replace conventional materials like glass fibre reinforced polymer composites in greater scales such as poor adhesion between fibres and matrices due to hydrophobic nature of matrices and hydrophilic nature of fibres.","PeriodicalId":20346,"journal":{"name":"Polymer science","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85445176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Polymer sciencePub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.4172/2471-9935.100013
Q. Chang
{"title":"Flocculation Effect of Macromolecule","authors":"Q. Chang","doi":"10.4172/2471-9935.100013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2471-9935.100013","url":null,"abstract":"Citation: Chang Q. Flocculation Effect of Macromolecule. Polym Sci. 2016, 2:1. In the early years, it was found that colloidal dispersions can be made more sensitive to precipitation by the addition of small quantities of macromolecules. These macromolecules are referred to as flocculants currently. The macromolecular flocculants commonly used in early time are polyelectrolytes. Their flocculation mechanism is considered to be the simple charge neutralization. If the charges of macromolecular ions are opposite to that of particles, flocculation and precipitation will take place. But in the later period, it has been discovered that some non-ionic macromolecules, even the macromolecules with the same charge as the colloidal particle have sensitive or flocculation effect. Therefore, neutralization is not the only mechanism of their flocculation. Now we think long-chain additives, such as gelatin, can sometimes bring about a rather loose flocculation by a bridging mechanism in which the molecules are adsorbed with part of their chain on two or more particles. Such flocculation normally occurs over a narrow range of additive concentrations; at higher concentration protective action is obtained, since bridging can occur only under conditions where the remaining particles still have empty surface, thus further adsorption of the additive is possible.","PeriodicalId":20346,"journal":{"name":"Polymer science","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87223970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Polymer sciencePub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.4172/2471-9935.100010
Madhavi Latha Samala, G. Sridevi
{"title":"Role of Polymers as Gelling Agents in the Formulation of Emulgels","authors":"Madhavi Latha Samala, G. Sridevi","doi":"10.4172/2471-9935.100010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2471-9935.100010","url":null,"abstract":"Background: The present review focuses on the critical piece of different polymers as gelling experts in the enumerating of emulgels. The concentrate moreover accomplishes the novel procedure for availability and appraisal parameters of emulgels. Methods: Late advances for the conscious use of gelling administrators in arrangement of various emulgels are consolidated. A variety of new polymers are evolving these days which are showing multi works basically as thickening agents and emulsifying agents. The new polymers have remarkable property of gellation that is useful in the formulation of stable dispersed systems. Research and overview works of various specialists were altogether considered and joined into the present study. Findings: Types, uses, method of preparation and a few evaluation tests for emulgels are given in this review. The use of gelling agents either alone or in combination in various emulgel formulations were also represented. Conclusions: The application of various gelling agent polymers in emulgel preparation and their numerous advantages provides the formulation scientists the wide choice of polymers for use in other pharmaceutical formulations. The favourable physical and rheological properties of emulgels with greater shelf life and better patient compliance than other delivery systems are useful in the formulation of topical dosage forms","PeriodicalId":20346,"journal":{"name":"Polymer science","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90040447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Polymer sciencePub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.4172/2471-9935.100012
Danjie Shi, Pei Li, B. Cao
{"title":"Preparation of PDMS/PVDF Composite Pervaporation Membrane Modified with Hydrophobic TiO2 Nanoparticles for Separating Formaldehyde Solution","authors":"Danjie Shi, Pei Li, B. Cao","doi":"10.4172/2471-9935.100012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2471-9935.100012","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) was blended with hydrophobic TiO2 nanoparticles and then coated on top of the polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) ultrafiltration membrane to form the (PDMS/TiO2)/PVDF composite membrane. The structure, morphology and physical property of the composite membrane were characterized by FTIR, SEM, contact angle measurement, and dry-wet swelling degree test. The TiO2 was uniformly distributed in the PDMS matrix, and the composite membrane showed higher affinity to formaldehyde than water. The membrane was used to separate the 1000 ppm formaldehyde water solution through a pervaporation (PV) process. The results showed that the membrane could selectively permeate formaldehyde over water and the best separation performance could be achieved at 50°C with a separation factor of 11.25, and a total flux of 187.72 g·m-2·h-1, which were better than the pristine PDMS/PVDF membrane with separation factor of 10.66 and total flux of 115.52 g·m-2·h-1. Hence, adding TiO2 not only increased the membrane flux, but also increased the separation factor of the composite membrane. This study showed that pervaporation technology had the potential for treating formaldehyde wastewater.","PeriodicalId":20346,"journal":{"name":"Polymer science","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77285826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Polymer sciencePub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.4172/2471-9935.100007
M. Zeni, Diana Favero, K. Pacheco, A. Mc
{"title":"Preparation of Microcellulose (Mcc) and Nanocellulose (Ncc) from Eucalyptus Kraft Ssp Pulp","authors":"M. Zeni, Diana Favero, K. Pacheco, A. Mc","doi":"10.4172/2471-9935.100007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2471-9935.100007","url":null,"abstract":"Natural fibres have been attracted significant interest due to its renewable nature, its vast source of raw material, besides having good mechanical properties and low cost. The cellulose present in cell walls of plants can be purified and isolated, acting as a reinforcing agent in polymer composites, in order to obtain lighter, resistant and biodegradable composites. The techniques of acid hydrolysis are methods used to isolate crystals of cellulose, using different acids, resulting in different materials. In this study it was possible to verify the effect of the acid hydrolysis process, with hydrochloric acid (HCl) and sulfuric acid (H2SO4), resulting in MCC and NCC by one hydrolysis step, and then were analysed for its chemical and morphological characteristics, presenting significant improvements on these properties.","PeriodicalId":20346,"journal":{"name":"Polymer science","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81692396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Polymer sciencePub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.4172/2471-9935.100014
Pei Li
{"title":"Pervaporation: An Emerging Technology for Desalination","authors":"Pei Li","doi":"10.4172/2471-9935.100014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2471-9935.100014","url":null,"abstract":"Citation: Li P. Pervaporation: An Emerging Technology for Desalination. Polym Sci. 2016, 2:1. Water shortage is a worldwide problem which leads to rapid developments in technologies targeting waste water reclamation and seawater desalination. Currently, reverse osmosis (RO) appears to be the most efficient way for producing fresh water from seawater with an average salinity of 3.5 wt% and brackish water with a salinity of 0.05-3 wt% mainly due to its low cost and high salt rejection over 99.5%. However, the driving force for RO process is the pressure difference between the feed and permeate sides of the RO membrane. To overcome the osmosis pressure, a very high feed pressure is mandatory to be able to squeeze water from concentrated salt solution. Therefore, a typical water production rate is only 50% for seawater RO desalination process. It not only limits the productivity of RO, but also produces high concentrated seawater that may cause seriously environmental issues.","PeriodicalId":20346,"journal":{"name":"Polymer science","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81421259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Polymer sciencePub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.4172/2471-9935.100015
P. Mente, Motaung Te, Hlangothi Sp
{"title":"Natural Rubber and Reclaimed Rubber CompositesâA Systematic Review","authors":"P. Mente, Motaung Te, Hlangothi Sp","doi":"10.4172/2471-9935.100015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2471-9935.100015","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is a review on the tensile, curing, viscoelastic, morphology and thermal properties of natural fiber reinforced rubber composites and reclaimed rubber. Natural fibers have lately become attractive to researchers, engineers and scientists as another reinforcement for fiber reinforced polymer composites. Owing to their low cost, fairly good mechanical properties, and high specific strength, non-abrasiveness, eco-friendly and bio-degradability characteristics. They are exploited as a replacement for the conventional fibers, such as glass, aramid and carbon. The tensile properties of natural fiber reinforce polymers (both thermoplastics and thermosets) are mainly influenced by the interfacial adhesion between the matrix and the fibers. Several chemical modifications are employed to improve the interfacial matrix–fiber bonding resulting in the enhancement of tensile properties of the composites. In all polymers, natural rubber received a growing attention due to mainly abundance and applications in rubber industries. Given the environmental problems as a results of industrial waste, recent studies seemed to have focused more into reclaimed rubber and recycling thereof, which is dominated by end-of-life-tires. This review would cover the aspects of reclaimed rubber as well, which is the rubber recovered from de-vulcanization of a wasted rubber","PeriodicalId":20346,"journal":{"name":"Polymer science","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81119936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}