To: spunkets
Polyimids? Kapton, Aramid, Kevlar?
To: null and void
No, things like glyphosates(roundup) and chelating polymers. Those are water soluble polymers that would collect metal ions. Maybe as polymer component to promote adhesion of the polymer to metal a surface. The polymers you listed all have aromatic groups in the chain with 2 side groups bonding to the next monomer unit. That makes the chain very rigid and the tight matrix resulting from that rigidity makes it high temp capable. The iminodiacetic acid monomer has a single bond linking it to the next monomer unit. That makes it flexible and limits it's high temp stability.
77 posted on
11/06/2003 9:36:11 PM PST by
spunkets
To: null and void
In kevlar, polyparaphenylene terephthalamide, hydrogen bonding provides the stiffness by crosslinking with adjacent chains. I knew you'd be
curious, so.
80 posted on
11/06/2003 9:58:57 PM PST by
spunkets
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