Polypropylene, 1999 An A-Z reference Polymer Science and Technology Series, Vol. 2

My heart sank when I was approached by Dr Hastings and by Professor Briggs (Senior Editor of Materials Science and Technology and Series Editor of Polymer Science and Technology Series at Chapman & Hall, respectively) to edit a book with the provisional title Handbook of Poly­ propylene. My reluctance was due to the fact that my former book [1] along with that of Moore [2], issued in the meantime, seemed to cover the information demand on polypropylene and related systems. Encour­ aged, however, by some colleagues (the new generation of scientists and engineers needs a good reference book with easy information retrieval, and the development with metallocene catalysts deserves a new update!), I started on this venture. Having some experience with polypropylene systems and being aware of the current literature, it was easy to settle the titles for the book chapters and also to select and approach the most suitable potential contributors. Fortunately, many of my first-choice authors accepted the invitation to contribute. Like all editors of multi-author volumes, I recognize that obtaining contributors follows an S-type curve of asymptotic saturation when the number of willing contributors is plotted as a function of time. The saturation point is, however, never reached and as a consequence, Dear Reader, you will also find some topics of some relevance which are not explicitly treated in this book (but, believe me, I have considered them).

List of contributors. Preface. Adhesive bonding of polypropylene. Amorphous or atactic polypropylene. Anticorrosion coatings with polypropylene. Antistatic and conducting composites of polypropylene. Appliances. Application of shear-controlled orientation in injection molding. of isotactic polypropylene. Automation in injection molding. Beta-modification of isotactic polypropylene. Biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) processes. Bumper recycling technology. Calendering of polypropylene. Commingled yarns and their use for composites. Construction principles of injection molds. Controlled rheology polypropylene. Copolymerization. Crash performance of glass fiber reinforced polypropylene tubes. Crazing and shear yielding in polypropylene. Crosslinking of polypropylene. Crystallization. Crystallization of syndiotactic polypropylene. Designing properties of polypropylene. Die swell or extrudate swell. Dielectric relaxation and dielectric strength of polypropylene. and its composites. Dyeing of polypropylene fibers. Elastomeric polypropylene homopolymers using metallocene. catalysts. Electron microscopy. Elongational viscosity and its meaning for the praxis. Environmental stress cracking of polypropylene. Epitaxial crystallization of isotactic and syndiotactic polypropylene. Extrusion die design guidelines for polypropylene. Fatigue performance of polypropylene and related composites. Fiber orientation due to processing and its prediction. Fillers for polypropylene. Fire hazard with polypropylene. Flame-retardant polypropylene compositions. From quality control to quality assurance in injection molding. Gamma-phase of isotactic polypropylene. Gas diffusion in and through polypropylene. Geotextiles and geomembranes. Glass mat reinforced thermoplastic polypropylene. Hard-elastic or 'springy' polypropylene. High-modulus and high-strength polypropylene fibers and films. Impregnation techniques for fiber bundles or tows. In-situ reinforced polypropylene blends. Industrial polymerization processes. Infrared and Raman spectroscopy of polypropylene. Injection molding of isotactic polypropylene. Injection molding: various techniques. Integrated manufacturing. Interfacial morphology and its effects in polypropylene composites. Intumescent fire retardant polypropylene formulations. Joining: methods and techniques for polypropylene composites. Lamella dimension and distribution. 'Living' or plastic hinges. Long term properties and lifetime prediction for polypropylene. Mathematical modelling !of propylene polymerization. Mechanical and thermal properties of long glass fiber reinforced. polypropylene. Melt blowing technology. 'Melt fracture' or extrudate distortions. Melt spinning of polypropylene. Melt spinning: technology. Metallocene catalysed polymerization: industrial technology. Metallocene catalysis and tailor-made polyolefins. Microporous polypropylene films and fibers. Miscibility and phase separation in polypropylene blends. Modelling and analysis of composites' thermoforming. Modelling of the compression behavior of polypropylene foams. Molecular structure: characterization and related properties of. homo- and copolymers. Morphology and nanostructure of polypropylenes by atomic force microscopy. Morphology-mechanical property relationships in injection. molding. Natural fiber/polypropylene composites. Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of polypropylene. copolymers. Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of polypropylene homopolymers. Nucleation. Optical clarity of polypropylene products. Orientation characterization in polypropylene. P-V-T data and their uses. Particulate filled polypropylene composites. Photostabilizers. Pigmentation of polypropylene. Polymer blends: fundamentals. Polymorphism in crystalline polypropylene. Polypropylene blends with commodity resins. Polypropylene blends with elastomers. Polypropylene blends with engineering and spe