POLYMonday, March 26, 2007

1:25 PM-4:50 PM McCormick Place South -- Room S501D, Level 5, Oral
Polymer Performance, Degradation, and Materials Selection
Polymer Photodegradation
Organizers:Mathew Celina
Stephen Heinz
Norman C. Billingham
1:25 PMIntroductory Remarks
1:30 PMPolymer weathering and stabilization: A tutorial
James E. Pickett
2:30 PMEffect of strain on durability of model elastomers
Christopher C. White, Donald L. Hunston, Kar T. Tan
3:00 PMFTIR measurement of CO2 photogeneration from polyethylene, polypropylene and polyester films
Terry A. Egerton, Paul A. Christensen, Sudesh S. Fernando, Jim R. White
3:20 PMIntermission
3:40 PMEffect of pigment dispersion on optical properties and durability of a TiO2 pigmented epoxy coating
Li-Piin Sung, Xiaohong Gu, Cyril Clerici, Haiqing Hu, Elena Loizou, Derek L. Ho
4:00 PMProfluorescent nitroxides: Novel probes of polypropylene degradation
James P. Blinco, Graeme A. George, Steven E. Bottle
4:20 PMPhotolysis and photo-oxidation in engineering plastics
Pieter Gijsman

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The 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 25-29, 2007