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A Rheological Examination Of Polymer Composites: Including Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes, Viable Polyurethane Alternates, And Contact Lens Hydrogels, Bernard Knudsen
A Rheological Examination Of Polymer Composites: Including Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes, Viable Polyurethane Alternates, And Contact Lens Hydrogels, Bernard Knudsen
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
From medicine to aerospace, innovation in multiple fields will not occur without addressing current questions that still exist in polymer behavior and manipulation. This dissertation represents the research carried out over the course of three separate experiments using rheometry as the key technique to explore the behavior of polymer composites. In all three studies, polymer composites were investigated for changes to their known physical properties caused through the addition of a filler or functionalization.
Chapter Two examines the possibility of enhancing poly(4-methyl-1-pentene) through the use of soluble carbon nanotubes. In this series of experiments, carbon nanotubes were covalently functionalized using …