noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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amorphous
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We have already seen that amorphous materials such as polymers have chain structures.
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This master curve is typical of those obtained on a number of amorphous polymers and to be found in the literature.
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An amorphous polymer in this state has been likened to a plate of frozen spaghetti.
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The orientation of the chains of amorphous polymers on deformation.
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This allows the onset of molecular motion in amorphous polymers to take place at temperatures below the melting temperature of such crystallites.
other
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Chap. 7, which is necessarily brief, shows the relationships between the mechanical and other properties of polymers .
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It intends to spend £1 million over the next five years on this, and other polymer research.
synthetic
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Ocular drug delivery Another area of interest is that of using synthetic polymers for sustained ocular drug delivery.
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Other synthetic polymers are chemically rather more complicated but, elastically, apparently not very widely different.
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He wanted to find a readily available synthetic polymer that could do the job.
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Now new synthetic polymers and composites may help to alleviate these vexing problems.
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What emerges from Frank and Keller's work is that the nature of the crystals is different in natural and synthetic polymers .
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Consideration of the properties of biological environments that are to be interfaced with synthetic polymers is very important.
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In contrast to the surface of a synthetic polymer , however, the epithelial cell surface is highly complex and organised.
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chain
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As soon as such heterogeneity enters into a polymer chain , information technology becomes a theoretical possibility.
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The forces between atoms on a polymer chain are about two orders of magnitude stronger than those between chains.
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Scientists predicted that solitons should be very mobile, but only along the polymer chains .
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The alignment of polymer chains at specific distances from one another to form crystalline nuclei will be assisted when intermolecular forces are strong.
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The parameter is the average mean square of the unperturbed dimension, which is a characteristic parameter for a given polymer chain .
solution
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In practice the polymer solution is held at a constant temperature while precipitant is added to the stirred solution.
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Overall this book is a well produced scholarly account of the physics of polymer solutions .
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In 1925, Svedberg first achieved this by subjecting polymer solutions to large force fields, generated at high speeds of rotation.
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Alternatively, a polymer solution can be thought of as a system formed by the condensation of solvent into a polymer.
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The polymer solution is separated from the pure solvent by a membrane, permeable only to solvent molecules.
■ VERB
use
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The same method can not be used for a polymer and one must resort to comparative techniques.
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Ocular drug delivery Another area of interest is that of using synthetic polymers for sustained ocular drug delivery.
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Molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations can also be used to study polymers in solution.
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It is not immediately obvious that using polymers for contact lenses represents an example of the biomedical application of synthetic materials.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For practical purposes T m is taken to be the melting temperature of the undiluted polymer irrespective of the crystalline content.
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In this chapter we shall deal with linear or branched polymers and treat the swelling of networks in chapter 14.
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One will make and analyse new kinds of polymers, ceramics and alloys.
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Researchers are experimenting by augmenting the system with fiber-optic sensors and polymer composites.
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These grow in size until osmotic and elastic forces balance or, in weak polymers, until fractures occur.
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They do this by coating a metal electrode with the polymer and then varying the voltage applied to the metal.
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Why, even plastic components are coded, enabling the polymers to be broken down, so they can be used again.
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Y., is made of an advanced polymer instead of metal.