This valuable sourcebook demonstrates how to create stronger, more cost-effective, durable polymeric bonds and seals between materials of all types, under a wide range of conditions, including underwater and inside the human body. It provides in-depth coverage of properties, techniques, and step-by-step methods. The reader will learn how to manipulate the properties and behavior of polymeric mixtures for improved performance; choose the most appropriate surface treatments; analyze adhesive bonds and their defects; and much more. Recommended.

From the Preface: “...This book generalizes the results of studies performed in the Department of Adhesion and Adhesives of the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of the Ukranian National Academy of Sciences. It considers some regularities of the formation of adhesive-bonded joints, presents thermodynamic and physical-chemical substantiation of new principles of controlling the adhesion strength and other important properties of polymeric adhesives, and describes application of these principles in the course of developing adhesives for various fields of engineering and medicine...”

Target Audience: Formulators, engineers, technicians, designers, and other professionals, as well as students, concerned with polymeric adhesion.

Table of Contents:

The Process of Adhesive-Bonded Joint Formation

Adhesive Properties Control by Surface-Active Substances

Properties of Adhesives Based on Polymeric Mixtures

Internal Stresses in Adhesive-Bonded Joints and Ways of Decreasing Them

Cementing and Operation of Adhesive-Bonded Joints in Liquid Media

Adhesion and Molecular Mobility of Filled Polymers

Criteria of Adhesive Joint Strength

Control of Polymer Properties for Impregnation of Porous Materials

Practical Applications of Polymer Adhesion Studies

References

Index