About the Book
Fillers have been used in polymer technology for over 150 years and as a result, the level of knowledge about their structure, properties, and activity in polymers is very high. However, at the end of 20th Century, as a consequence of nanotechnology development and usage of modern techniques, such as STM, fascinating perspectives of further progress in the area have come to light. The main themes of the Eurofillers'01 Conference, held in Lodz in July 2001, centered on mineral fillers application in the manufacture of tyres synthesis and activity of new types of fillers, new methods of filler characterization, behavior of macromolecules at interfaces, and many other issues. We Hope the reader will get a good insight into the interesting and important problems of this branch of polymer science and technology.
Table of Contents:
Preface (J.F. Gerard and L. Slusarski). 1. Fillers Design and Best Use: Recent Trends and Basic Questions (Henri Van Damme and Alain Burr). 2. Polymerization--Filled Composites and Nanocomposites by Coordination Catalysis (Philippe Dubois, Michael Alexandre and Robert Jerome). 3. Inverse Gas Chromatography in the Examination of Modified Fillers (Adam Voelkel). 4. Elasticity of Fractal Filler Networks in Elastomers (Manfred Kluppel). 5. Cavitation and Cavity--Free Deformation of Filled Crystalline Polymer Systems (Andrzej Galeski and Zbigniew Bartczak). 6. Treatment of Fillers with Organofunctional Silanes, Technology and Applications (Antoine Guillet). 7. Charge Carrier Transport in Heterogeneous Conducting Polymer Materials (Marian Kryszewski and Jeremiasz Jeszka). 8. Activity of Fillers in Elastomer Networks of Different Structure (M. Zaborski and J.B. Donnet). 9. Effect of Fillers on the Properties of Recycled Polymers (Francesco Paolo La Mantia). 10. Aggregation of Particulate Fillers: Factors, Determination, Properties (Janos Moczo, Erika Fekete, Krisztina Laszlo, and Bela Pukanszky). 11. Silica and Carbon Black Reinforcement of Natural Rubber (Liliane Bokobza and Olivier Rapoport). 12. Novel Surface Treatments for Glass Fillers (David A. Boyles, Jon J. Kellar and William M. Cross). 13. Synthesis and Characterization of Functional Chemically Modified Silica Fillers (Valentin Tertykh, Victor Yanishpolskii and Yulia Bol'bukh). 14. Mica as a Filler for PET Scrap/Oxazoline Functionalized Polyethylene Blends (Regina Jeziorska). 15. Tailored Interfaces in Nanocomposites (L. Le Pluart, J. Duchet, H. Sautereau and J.F. Gerard). 16. Modification of the Rheological and Mechanical Properties of Epoxy Matrix (M.A. Perez--Liminana, A. Torro--Palau, A.C. Orgiles--Barcelo and J.M. Martin--Martinez). 17. Effect of Coal on the Rheological and Mechanical Properties of Expoxy Matrix (Lidia Kurzeja, Urzula Szeluga, Jocelyne Galy, Henry Sautereau and Nathaniel Issartel.) 18. Filler--Filler Interaction and Filler--Polymer Interaction in Carbon Black and Silica Filled Exxpro(tm) Polymer (W.K. Wong, G. Ourieva, M.F. Tse and H.C. Wang). 19. Analysis of the Viscoelastic Behaviour of Silica Filled Rubber: Prediction of the Interphase Properties (Patrice Mele, Claude Da Silva, Sandrine Marceau, David Brown, Yves De Puydt and Nicole Dominique Alberola). 20. Reactively Processed High Performance Impact Modified Polypropylene/Magnesium Hydroxide Composites: Interfacial Studies (Christopher M. Liauw, Viera Khunova, Graham C. Lees and Roger N. Rothon). 21. Using Clay in PA--Based Intumescent Formulations. Fire Performance and Kinetic Parameters (Francois Dabrowski, Michel Le Bras, Rene Delobel, Jeffrey W. Gilman and Takashi Kashiwagi). 22. Investigation of Fire Retardant Properties of Polypropylene--Clay--Nanocomposites (Udo Wagenknecht, Bernd Kretzschmar and Gerd Reinhardt). 23. Multifunctional Action of in situ Formed Zn--Salt of Monoallylmaleamic Acid (W.M. Rzymski, B. Wolska and T. Balicki). 24. Nickel Coated Mica for Conductive Compounds (M. Gilbert and B. Kandasubramanian). 25. The Effect of Compatibilizing and Coupling Agents on the Mechanical Properties of Glass Bead Filled PP/PET Blends (David Arencon, Maria Lluisa Maspoch, and Jose Ignacio Velasco). 26. Preliminary Studies on the Surface Layer of Starch (Dariusz Bielinski, Leszek Pyskto, Jan Dul, Ludomir Slusarski, Grazyna Janowska and Grazyna Lewandowicz). 27. Processing of Polypropylene -- Clay Hybrids (S. Boucard, J. Duchet, J.F. Gerard and P. Prele, S. Gonzalez). 28. Silica Nanofillers -- Preparation and Characterization (Teofil Jesionowski). 29. Fumed Silica Synthesis. Influence of Hydrogen Chloride on the Fumed Silica Particle Formation Process (Alexey V. Khavryutchenko and Vladimir D. Khavryutchenko). 30. Adsorption of Curatives and Activity of Silica Toward Elastomers (Anna Kosmalska, Marian Zaborski and Ludomir Slusarski). 31. Thermomechanical Degradation of Filled Polypropylene (F.P. La Mantia and N. Tzankova Dintcheva). 32. Modification of Precipitated Calcium Carbonate to Improve Its Activity Toward Elastomers (M. Lipinska, M. Zaborski and L. Slusarski). 33. Characterisation of Filled and Recycled PA6 (Maria Lluisa Maspoch, Haritz Eder Ferrando and Jose Ignacio Velasco). 34. The Use of Flory--Huggins Parameters to Characterization of Polymer/Filler Interactions (Kasylda Milczewska, Adam Voelkel and Jerry Jeczalik). 35. New Type of Inorganic Filler with a Core--Shell Structure (Magdalena Owczarek, Marian Zaborski, Tadeusz Paryjczak, Gisele Boiteux and Olivier Gain). 36. Synthesis of Silica in Elastomer's Matrix (Joanna Pietrasik, Marian Zaborski, Gisele Boiteux and Olivier Gain). 37. Synthesis and Modification of Fillers with Derivatives of Benzoic Acids (Michal Tyburczy, Marian Zaborski and Wlodzimierz Baryn). 38.Interaction of Poly(hydromethyl siloxane) and Cyclic Si--H Functional Oligomers with Metal Hydroxides (Anastasios Voliotis, Christopher M. Liauw, Graham C. Lees, Roger N. Rothon and Bruan Thomas). 39. Comparative Characteristics of Local and Foreign Bentonites (Michal Wieczorek, Andrzej Krysztafkiewicz and Teofil Jesionowski). 40. Structure--Electrical Properties Relationships of Polymer Composites Filled with Fe--Powder (Haralampos Zois, Lazaros Apekis and Yevgen P. Mamunya).
