Accuracy in locating glass transitions: Aging and gamma sterilization of vulcanized thermoplastic elastomers

E-Polymers

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Brostow, Witold ^a   Deshpande, Sameer ^a   Pietkiewicz, Dorota ^a,b   Wisner, Steven R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b Retractable Technologies Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSIS; GLASS; GLASS TRANSITION; REINFORCED PLASTICS; THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS;

ACCELERATED AGEING; AMORPHOUS REGIONS; CROSSLINKED; GAMMA STERILIZATION; GLASS TRANSITION AGING; LOSS MODULI; ON DYNAMICS; THERMOPLASTIC VULCANIZATES; THERMOPLASTICS (ELASTOMERS); TWO GLASS TRANSITION;

IRRADIATION;

EID: 70349496229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16187229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/epoly.2009.9.1.1304     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Brostow, W.; Pietkiewicz, D.; Wisner, S.R. Adv. Polym. Tech. 2007, 26, 56.
2. Zaharescu, T.; Setnescu, R.; Jipa, S.; Setnescu, T. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2000, 77, 982.
3. Ishigaki, I.; Yoshii, F. Rad. Phys. & Chem. 1992, 39, 527.
4. Gopferich, A. Biomaterials 1996, 77, 103.
5. Brostow, W.; Deshpande, S.; Fan, K.; Mahendrakar, S.; Pietkiewicz, D.; Wisner, S.R. Polym. Eng. Sci. 2009, 49, 1035.
6. Lewis, G.; Rogers, C.; Trieu, H.H. J. Biomed. Mater. Res. 1988, 43, 249.
7. Roe, R.; Grood, E.; Shastri, R.; Gosselin, C.A.; Noyes, F.R. J. Biomed. Mater. Res. 1981, 75, 209.
8. Rimnac, C.M.; Klein, R.W.; Betts, F.; Wright, T.M. J. Bone & Joint Surgery, 1994, 76, 1052.
9. Nielsen, L.E.; Landel, R.F. "Mechanical Properties of Polymers and Composites", Marcel Dekker, New York 1994.
10. Modine, Z.F.A.; Duggal, A.R.; Robinson, D.N.; Churnetski, E.L.; Bartkowiak, M.; Mahan, G.D.; Levinson, L.M. J. Mater. Res. 1996, 77, 2889.
11. Giruginca, M.; Zaharescu, T. Polymer 2000, 47, 7583.
12. Brostow, W., editor. "Performance of Plastics", Hanser, Munich - Cincinnati 2000.
13. Gryshchuk, O.; Jost, N.; Karger-Kocsis, J. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2002, 84, 672.
14. Grosu, E., Rapa, M.; Tomescu, A.; Nemes, E.; Zaharescu, T.; Jipa, S.; Setnescu, R.; Vasile, C. Nucl. Instr. Methods B 2003, 208, 220.
15. Roslaniec, Z.; Broza, G.; Schulte, K. Compos. Interfaces 2003, 70, 95.
16. Gryshchuk, O.; Karger-Kocsis, J. J. Polym. Sci. Chem. 2004, 42, 5474.
17. Jose, S.; Thomas, S.; Lievana, E.; Karger-Kocsis, J. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2005, 95, 1376.
18. Bismarck, A.; Hofmeier, M.; Doerner, G. Composites A 2007, 38, 407.
19. Brostow, W.; Chiu, R.; Kalogeras, I.M.; Vassilikou-Dova, A. Mater. Lett. 2008, 62, 3152.
20. Kalogeras, I.; Brostow, W. J. Polym. Sci. Phys. 2009, 47, 80.
21. Herzog, B.; Gardner, D.; Lopez-Anido, R.; Goodell, B. J. Appl. Polym. Sci., 2005, 97, 2221.
22. Sperling, L.H. Introduction to Physical Polymer Science, 2nd edn., Wiley, New York 1992.
23. Lucas, E.F.; Soares, B.G.; Monteiro, E. Caracterização de polimeros, e-papers, Rio de Janeiro 2001 .
24. Menard, K.P. Dynamic Mechanical Analysis -An Introduction, 2nd edn., CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 2008.
25. Brostow, W.; Hess, M.; López, B.L. Macromolecules 1994, 27, 2262.
26. Shaw, T.J. U.S. Patent 5,120,310, 1992.
27. Shaw, T.J. U.S. Patent 5,385,551, 1995.
28. Shaw, T.J. U.S. Patent 5,389,076, 1995.
29. Shaw, T.J. U.S. Patent 5,578,011, 1996.
30. Shaw, T.J. U.S. Patent 5,632,733, 1997.
31. Shaw, T.J. U.S. Patent 6,090,077, 2000.
32. Shaw, T.J.; Zhu, J. U.S. Patent 6,221,055 B1, 2001.
33. Shaw, T.J.; Zhu, J.; Rutherford, D. U.S. Patent 6,572,584, 2003.
34. Brostow, W.; Deborde, J.-L.; Jaklewicz, M.; Olszynski, P. J. Mater. Ed. 2003, 25, 119.
35. F1980-99 "Standard method for accelerated aging of sterile medical device packages", ASTM, West Conshohocken, PA 1999.
36. Sauer, B.B. Ch. 10 in "Performance of Plastics", Brostow, W.; editor; Hanser, Munich -Cincinnati, 2000.
37. Eklund, M.; Edin, H.; Gedde, U.W. Polym. Degrad. & Stab. 2007, 92, 617.
38. Aklonis, J.J.; MacKnight, W.J. "Introduction to Polymer Viscoelasticity", Wiley, New York 1993.
39. Rotter, G.; Ishida, H. Macromolecules 1992, 25, 2170.
40. Wolfrum, J.; Ehrenstein, G.W.; Avondet, M.A. J. Compos. Mater. 2000, 34, 1788.
41. Beake, B.D.; Bell, G.A.; Brostow, W.; Chonkaew, W. Polym. Int. 2007, 56, 773.
42. Brostow, W.; Hagg Lobland, H.E.; Narkis, M. J. Mater. Res. 2006, 21, 2422.
43. Brostow, W.; Hagg Lobland, H.E. Polym. Eng. Sci. 2008, 48, 1982.
44. Svamy, Y.V.; Dubrovinskaya, N.A.; Dubrovinsky, L.S. J. Mater. Res. 1999, 14, 456.
45. Privalko, V.P. J. Mater. Ed. 1998, 20, 57.
46. Privalko, V.P. J. Mater. Ed. 1998, 20, 373.
47. Kovacs, A.J. J. Polym. Sci. 1958, 30, 131.
48. Brostow, W. Chem. Phys. Letters 1977, 49, 285.
49. Brostow, W.; Chybicki, M.; Laskowski, R.; Rybicki, J. Phys. Rev. B 1998, 57, 13448.
50. Brostow, W.; Castaño, V.M. J. Mater. Ed. 1999, 21, 297.
51. Medvedev, N.N.; Geiger, A.; Brostow, W. J. Chem. Phys. 1990, 93, 8337.
52. Kopczynska, A.; Ehrenstein, G.W. J. Mater. Ed. 2007, 29, 325.
53. Brocka, Z.; Schmachtenberg, E.; Ehrenstein, G.W. Proc. Ann. Tech. Conf. Soc. Plast. Engrs. (ANTEC-SPE) 2007, 67, 1690.