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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Dow Chemical Company"”.
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Comparing In Situ and Bulk Constitutive Properties of a Structural Adhesive
… performance of a two-part acrylic adhesive from Dow Chemical Company. A standard uniaxial tensile test was used for the bulk normal, while an Iosipescu shear test was used to characterize the bulk shear performance. In situ testing was performed on a napkin-ring specimen loaded in both tension …
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I. Macromolecular and architectural effects on the polymerization of α-helices & II. Functional ROMP curing polyester thermosets
… a separate project altogether, sponsored by The Dow Chemical Company. This project focuses on the utilization of ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) to fabricate new useful materials. ROMP has been a widely utilized and powerful polymerization method to create extremely smart and …
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Study of the Morphology and Optical Properties of Propylene/Ethylene Copolymer Films
The development of a new catalyst system by The Dow Chemical Company has resulted in the production of isotactic polypropylene and propylene/ethylene copolymers with a unique defect and comonomer distribution. This work investigated the morphology and optical properties of cast and compression …
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Rotational Molding of Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene Polymers and Blends
… blended into MAGNUM 342 EZ, an ABS resin (The Dow Chemical Company). This formulation showed the best balance between increased impact strength and improvement of cosmetic properties. Second, optimization of several rotational molding processing parameters was executed. These included particle …
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The fundamentals of the separation of a mixture of hydrogen and carbon dioxide by gaseous diffusion
… media mat obtained from Mine Safety Appliance Company. It was found that the hydrogen permeated at a rate greater than could be explained by diffusion alone, but which could be closely accounted for when adsorption and adsorbed flow were taken into account. The separation of a system of carbon …
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Low Cost Manufacturing and Performance Evaluation of Soy-based Polyurethane/E-glass Composites
… a very popular vinyl ester resin made by Ashland Chemicals, Inc. (originally developed by Dow Chemical Company). It is used extensively in FRP (Fiber Reinforced Plastics) ductwork, stacks, stack liner applications, and in the handling of mixtures of air and hot gases or potentially flammable …
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Durability of Polymer Matrix Composites for Infrastructure: The Role of the Interphase
… the vinyl ester resin, Derakane 441-400 from The Dow Chemical Company. The following eight chapters sum up the work done thus far on composites made with sized fibers and the above mentioned resin and fiber systems. They are in the form of publications that have either been accepted, submitted or …
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Napalm, An American Biography
… on civilians; protests against the war and the Dow Chemical Corporation that started in 1965 and defined the gel as barbaric; U.S. defeat in Vietnam; commentary by opinion makers after the war, especially Hollywood film-makers; the rise of a global popular culture linked by electronic media; …