Excerpt from PolymersThe organization of the Division consists of three property-oriented Groups and three material-oriented ones. The Groups concerned with electrical, chemical, and mechanical performance of polymers concentrate on the relationship of polymer structure to properties and especially on the measurement of the response of polymers to electrical, chemical, or mechanical stress. The programs of these Groups focus on the use of fundamental science to provide standards, measurement methods, and solutions to technological problems.The Polymer Blends Group is responsible for providing fundamental data and concepts related to the development and processing of blends. Polymer blends are one effective way for domestic polymer producers to respond to competitive pressure from foreign producers with access to very inexpensive feedstocks. New products can be tailored to meet specific market requirements by blending two or more polymers, without abandoning present production facilities and without the large capital expenditures necessary to produce a totally new polymer. The principal industrial need in this field is for a fundamental science base to underlie the design and processing of new blends. This incudes needs for measurement methods to produce data for polymer phase diagrams, measurement methods and data on the microstructure of phase-separated blends, data on polymer diffusion and the kinetics of phase separation, and theoretical models that accurately describe the thermodynamics and kinetics of blends.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.