Additives in Polymers: Industrial Analysis and Applications

This industrially relevant resource covers all established and emerging analytical methods for the deformulation of polymeric materials, with emphasis on the non-polymeric components.

• Each technique is evaluated on its technical and industrial merits.
• Emphasis is on understanding (principles and characteristics) and industrial applicability.
• Extensively illustrated throughout with over 200 figures, 400 tables, and 3,000 references.

Designed to inspire analytical chemists, polymer and material scientists, graduates and post-graduates, laboratory technicians and other practitioners working for industry, academia, government and regulatory agencies concerned with plastic products, this title provides systematic coverage of the latest instrumental methods for monitoring, deformulation and troubleshooting with an emphasis on additive analysis. The book is extensively illustrated with figures, flow diagrams and tables to facilitate a rapid understanding of this topic and the many thousands of references make this text an invaluable and up-to-date-guide.

Current analytical strategy and best practice of this highly multidisciplinary field are outlined and illustrated with key industrial applications and case studies. Detailed coverage comprises sample preparation, separation, identification, hyphenation and quantification techniques, and much, much more ……

Jan C.J. Bart (PhD Structural Chemistry, University of Amsterdam) is a senior scientist with broad interest in materials characterisation, heterogeneous catalysis and product development who spent an industrial carrier in R&D with Monsanto, Montedison and DSM Research in various countries. The author has held several teaching assignments and researched extensively in both academic and industrial areas; he authored over 250 scientific papers, including chapters in books. Dr Bart has acted as a Ramsay Memorial Fellow at the Universities of Leeds (Colour Chemistry) and Oxford (Material Science), a visiting scientist at Institut de Recherches sur la Catalyse (CNRS, Villeurbanne), and a Meyerhoff Visiting Professor at WIS (Rehovoth), and held an Invited Professorship at USTC (Hefei). He is currently a Full Professor of Industrial Chemistry at the University of Messina.

He is also a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Royal Dutch Chemical Society, Society of Plastic Engineers and The Institute of Materials.