27th Polymer Processing Society Annual Meeting 2011 (PPS-27)
Marrakech, Morocco 10 - 14 May 2011
Volume 1 of 5
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VOLUME 1
PLENARY SESSIONS
MECHANICAL PERFORMANCES OF POLYMERS ...... 1 Han E.H. Meijer
FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS: THE IMPORTANCE OF FUNCTIONALITY, TOPOLOGY, AND TOPOGRAPHY ...... 3 JM. J. Frechet
IMPROVEMENT OF BARRIER PROPERTIES OF POLYESTERS USING NANOCLAY ...... N/A Pierre J. Carreau
IN SITU OBSERVATION OF THE FOAMING PROCESSES UNDER EXTENSIONAL STRESS ...... 4 Chul B. Park, A. Wong
POLYMERIC NANOCOMPOSITES: AN OVERVIEW FROM SCIENCE TO TECHNOLOGY...... 5 M. Okamoto
EXTENSIONAL RHEOMETRY OF POLYMER MELTS: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE...... 6 J. Maia, R. Andradea, P. Harrisa, T. Dias, F. Alves, J. Nobrega, J. Covas
CHALLENGES AND PRESSURES ON THE WORLD ENERGY SUPPLIES: THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR NEW RESEARCH ...... 7 S. Jaffer
DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHLY TRANSPARENT POLYPROPYLENE SHEETS ...... 8 Toshitaka Kanai, Akira Funaki, Kaname Kondo, Hiroshi Odaka
1 – BLOW MOLDING, THERMOFORMING AND ROTOMOLDING
THE PROCESSABILITY AND MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE OF BLOW MOULDED MILK BOTTLE MATERIALS COMPRISING OF VIRGIN AND RECYCLED HDPE (RHDPE) ...... 9 Leigh Mulvaney-Johnson, A. L. Kelly, P. D. Coates, J. Crick, A. Moorthy, P. Hale
REACTIVE ROTATIONAL MOLDING OF POLYURETHANE: UNDERSTANDING OF CURING PROCESS AND SPH SIMULATION OF THE FLOW...... 18 Sylvain Riviere, S. Khelladi, Sedigheh Farzaneh, Abbas Tcharkhtchi
STUDY ON INFLUENCING FACTORS IN MICRO THERMOFORMING AND MICRO BLOW MOLDING ...... 25 Markus Heilig, Marc Schneider, Heinz Dinglreiter, Matthias Worgull
CORRELATIONS BETWEEN PROCESSING CONDITIONS, STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF BI- ORIENTED BLOWN FILMS...... 29 Olga Carneiro, Jose Covas, Catarina Dominngues
ROTATIONAL MOULDING OF PA6 AND PBT NANOCOMPOSITES ...... 33 Antonio Greco, Emanuela Cal, Alfonso Maffezzoli, C. Massaro, R. Terzi, A. Salomi
THERMOFORMING CONCEPTS FOR POLYPROPYLENE RESINS...... 43 Marcelo Farah
SELECTED PROPERTIES OF AXIS-SYMMETRICAL EXTRUDED PRODUCTS MADE OF PVC AND MODIFIED WITH BLOWING AGENTS ...... 44 Tomasz Garbacz, A. Rudawska
THE EFFECT OF ACCELERATED AGING ON THE PROPERTIES OF A- C:H THIN FILMS OBTAINED BY THE PECVD PROCESS FROM RECYCLED PET FROM PACKAGING...... 49 Eder Oliveira, Sandra Cruz
ENHANCED BARRIER FOR LIGHTWEIGHT-PET-BOTTLES ...... 50 Walter Michaeli, Tim Arping, Karim Bahroun, Henrik Behm, Christian Hopmann, F. Von Fragstein
2 - COMPOSITES
A NEW THERMOFORMING CFRP: CF MAT/HIGH-FLOW PP COMPOSITE ...... 56 Takahiro Kawasaki, Shotaro Nishituji, Takashi Inoue, Noriyuki Hirano, Masahiro Hashimoto, Masato Homma
NOVEL THERMOSETTING WOOD COMPOSITES WITH ANTISTATIC BEHAVIOR...... 58 Michaela Gedan-Smolka, Antje Taeger, B. Lilie, Detlef Krug
DEVELOPMENT OF MULTIFUNCTIONAL ADVANCED COMPOSITES WITH POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE MATRICES ...... 62 Luigi Torre, Marco Monti, Maurizio Natali, Jose M. Kenny, Marco Rallini
REINFORCEMENT OF POLYPROPYLENE-WOOD FIBER COMPOSITE BY BACTERIA CELLULOSE : PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF THE MANUFACTURING AND PERFORMANCE ...... 70 Fayal Mijiyawa, Bohuslav V. Kokta, Demagna Koffi, Fouad Erchiqui
PROCESSING, STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES AF LAMINATES MANUFACTURED VIA A RAPID OUT- OF-AUTOCLAVE TECHNIQUE...... 80 Arthur Wilkinson, Richard Day, Mohsen Zakikhani, Leon Davies, Alan Nesbitt, Bronwyn Fox
COMPOUNDING OF POLYPROPYLENE WITH NATURAL FIBRES: IMPACT ON FIBRE DIMENSIONS AND IN SITU OBSERVATIONS OF FIBRE RUPTURE BY RHEO-OPTICS ...... 83 Anne Le Duc, Anne Perez, Tatiana Budtova, Bruno Vergnes
INFLUENCE OF A THERMAL TREATMENT ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF FLAX FIBRES ...... 93 Fanny Destaing, Jean-Paul Jernot, Jol Breard, Patricia Jouannot-Chesney, Moussa Gomina
NON LINEAR ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF EPOXY RESINS LOADED WITH METALLIC FILLERS...... 99 Youssef Faska
A NEW MIXED NUMERICAL/EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUE FOR TRANSVERSAL PERMEABILITY OF FIBROUS REINFORCEMENTS...... 100 Riccardo Gennaro, Antonio Greco, Alfonso Maffezzoli
HALOGEN-FREE FLAME RETARDED POLYPROPYLENE COMPOSITES BY ELECTRON INDUCED REACTIVE PROCESSING...... 110 Sven Wiessner, Carsten Zschech, Uwe Gohs, Udo Wagenknecht
EFFECTS OF FIBER VARIABILITY, SIZE AND CONTENT ON THE FUSION CHARACTERISTICS OF WOOD PARTICLE-REINFORCED HIGH-DENSITY POLYETHYLENE...... 116 Mourad Saddem, Hassine Bouafif, Ahmed Koubaa, Patrick Perr, Bernard Riedl, Alain Cloutier
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF EXTRUDED FLEXIBLE PVC/WOOD FLOUR AND PVC- NBR/WOOD FLOUR COMPOSITES ...... 121 Taher Azdast, Ebrahim Ghaleh, Ata Jalili Kohne Shahri, Amir Hossein Behravesh, Peyman Shahi
FOAMED CONTINUOUS GLASS FIBER COMPOSITES: EFFECTS OF THERMOPLASTIC CELLULAR MATRIX ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES ...... 122 Luigi Sorrentino, Marco Aurilia, Livia Cafiero, Salvatore Cioffi, Salvatore Iannace
EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF NITRILE BUTADIENE RUBBER (NBR) ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF PVC/WOOD FLOUR COMPOSITES...... 126 Taher Azdast, Ata Jalili Kohne Shahri, Ebrahim Ghaleh, Amir Hossein Behravesh, Samarand Rash Ahmadi
EFFECT OF REPEATED LOADING ON MOISTURE ABSORPTION OF FIBER REINFORCED POLYMER COMPOSITES ...... 130 Youssef K. Hamidi, Levent Aktas, M. Cengiz Altan
OPTIMISING THE REPROCESSING CONDITIONS THROUGH INJECT MOULDING USING RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY...... 140 Salah Elsheikhi, Leigh Mulvaney-Johnson, Felician Campean
ADAPTATION OF THE RESIN TRANSFER MOLDING (RTM) PROCESS TO THE MANUFACTURE OF THERMOPLASTIC-BASED COMPOSITES...... 150 Ghislain Van Den Broek D'Obrenan, Abderrahim Maazouz, Gerard Seytre, Frederic Lortie
PROCESSABILITY OF MODERN THERMOSETTING RESINS FOR LIQUID COMPOSITE MOULDING ...... 152 Felipe Wolff Fabris, Manuel Kempf, Johannes Kraemer, Volker Altstaedt
EFFECT OF PROCESS PARAMETERS ON THE POLYETHYLENE MELT IMPREGNATION OF E-GLASS ROVING IN A RADIAL SLIT DIE ...... 158 Abbas Zolfaghari, Amir Hossein Behravesh, Majid Tabkhpaz Sarabi
AALGINATE NANOPARTICLES CONTAINING WATER-SOLUBLE DRUG...... N/A Sayed Alireza Hassani Najafabadi, Mohamad Kazem Ghahramanpoor, Majid Abdouss, Seyed Jamaledin Afjei
EFFECT OF LOAD HISTORY ON THE FIBRE PARALLEL COMPRESSION STRENGTH IN FIBRE REINFORCED ...... 159 Lars Lambrecht, Walter Michaeli, Kai Fischer, Ch. Hopmann
EFFECTS OF WOOD FILLER ADDITION AND PROCESSING METHOD ON THE DYNAMICAL MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF WOOD PARTICLE/HDPE COMPOSITES ...... 164 Bouafif Hassine, Ahmed Koubaa, Patrick Perr, Alain Cloutier, Patrice Dole
INFLUENCE OF INTERPHASE CHARACTERISTICS ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYPROPYLENE / MALEATED POLYPROPYLENE / GLASS FIBER COMPOSITES...... 173 J. Alexandrino Sousa, Guilherme Bollinni, M. H. M. Dias
THE EFFECT OF BAND TENSION IN SEMI-PLANAR WINDING OF COMPOSITE PRESSURE VESSEL...... 181 Amir Pashaei, Mohammad Golzar
EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT METHODS TO CHARACTERIZE FAILURE MECHANISMS OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS USED AS ELECTRICAL INSULATION IN HIGH VOLTAGE APPLICATIONS...... 182 Dietmar Lenko, Sandra Schlgl, Sabine Bichler, Gerhard Lemesch, Franz Ramsauer, Wolfgang Kern
HOT-COMPACTION OF SELF-REINFORCED POLYCARBONATE FILMS...... 185 Hans-Peter Heim, Volker Schoppner, Angela Ries, Andrea Wibbeke
BALLISTIC RESISTANCE OF POLYCARBONATE/POLYURETHANE COMPOSITE ARMOR PLATE SUBJECTED TO SINGLE AND MULTIPLE IMPACTS...... 191 Witchuda Daud, Doungporn Sirikittikul
STUDY AND COMPARISON OF THERMAL DEGRADATION KINETICS OF THERMOSETTING POLYMERS LOADED WITH METALLIC FILLERS ...... 195 Muhammad Azeem Arshad, Abdel Karim Maaroufi, Rosario Benavente, J.M. Perea, Gabriel Pinto
DEVELOPMENT OF GLASS FIBER REINFORCED PVC COMPOSITE ...... 196 Daniela Gomes De Araujo, Elias Hage Jr
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND MORPHOLOGY OF POLYSTYRENE COMPOSITES REINFORCED WITH WASTE COTTON FIBERS OF THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY...... 197 Cleide Borsoi, Clarissa C. Angrizani, Lisete Cristine Scienza, Ademir J Zattera
REINFORCEMENT OF EPDM ELASTOMER BY ALUMINUM TRIACRYLATE REACTIVE FILLER ...... 203 Akram Shokrzadeh, Gholam Reza Bakhshandeh, Mohammad J. Zohuriaan Mehr, Ghasem Naderi
QUASI-STATIC BEHAVIOR OF GLASS FIBER/UNSATURATED POLYESTER RESIN/ORGANOCLAY NANOCOMPOSITES...... 204 Reza Gashtil, Javad Moftakharian, Masoud Esfandeh, Alireza Sabet
MODELING OF COMPACTION PRESSURE ON BEHAVIOR OF FIBER ...... 209 Pouyan Ghabezi, Mohammad Golzar, Daniel Mastbergen
EFFECT OF FOAMING AGENT TYPE ON THE MICROSTRUCTURE OF FINECELLULAR INJECTION MOLDING WOOD-HDPE PARTS ...... 210 Seyed Yasser Daryabari, Amir Hossein Behravesh, Peyman Shahi
NEW POLYMERIC COMPOSITE COATING FOR E-GLASS FIBER IN CEMENTITIOUS MATRIX ...... 211 Herish Moradi, Majid Abdouss, Mozhdeh Zargaran, Majid Mazhar
EFFECT OF HGCP FLAME RETARDANT ON THE FLAMMABILITY PROPERTIES AND THERMAL BEHAVIOR OF COMPOSITE MATERIAL...... 215 Mustapha El Gouri, Rabi Ziraoui, Ahmed El Harfi
GRAFT POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE FOR THE PURPOSE OF ION ABSORPTION AND POLARITY ...... 216 Majid Abdouss, Ebadullah Asadi, Nasrin Shamloo, Ahmad Mousavi Shoushtari, Aliasghar Roghanizad
INFLUENCE OF DIFFERENT FILLERS ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF PHBV COMPOSITES BEFORE AND AFTER BIODEGRADATION ...... 218 Marcio Kobayashi, Jose Augusto Marcondes Agnelli, Alessandra Lucas Marinelli
ECOCOMPOSITES OBTAINED FROM MATER-BI® AND LIGNOCELLULOSIC FILLERS ...... 219 Giada Lo Re, Marco Morreale, Roberto Scaffaro, Francesco Paolo La Mantia
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON EFFECT OF MATRIX MELT FLOW BEHAVIOR ON RECYCLING WOOD- HDPE COMPOSITES ...... 224 Majid Tabkhpaz Sarabi, Amir Hosein Behravesh, Peyman Shahi, Abbas Zolfaghari
PHASE STRUCTURE AND IMPACT-TOUGHENING MECHANISMS IN POLYPROPYLENE/POLYOLEFIN ELASTOMER/NANO CACO3 TERNARY COMPOSITES...... 225 Ahmed Elloumi, Sylvie Pimbert, Chedly Bradai
ACTION OF INORGANIC PARTICLES ON THE CONDUCTIVITIES OF CONDUCTIVE POLYMER COMPOSITES ...... 226 S. Konagaya, M. Terada, M. Mutoh, T. Yamada
RESIN SPRAY PREPREGGING – HIGH VOLUME CAPABLE MANUFACTURING PROCESS FOR STRUCTURAL COMPOSITE PARTS WITH POLYURETHANE MATRIX ...... 230 Marco Poehler, Walter Michaeli, Kai Fischer, Lars Lambrecht, Ch. Hopmann
STRENGTH PREDICTION OF CONTINUOUS FIBRE REINFORCED PLASTICS CONCERNING THICKNESS EFFECTS...... 235 Ch. Hopmann, Fabian Preller, Walter Michaeli, Kai Fischer, Lars Lambrecht
ADAPTATION OF THE RESIN TRANSFER MOULDING (RTM) PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING A THERMOPLASTIC-BASED COMPOSITES...... 243 Abderrahim Maazouz, G Seytre, F Lortie, G. Van Den Broek d'Obrenan
EVALUATION OF VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES OF CURAUA COMPOSITES...... 245 Heitor Luiz Ornaghi Jr., Humberto S.P. Da Silva, Ademir J Zattera, Sandro Campos Amico, V. Pistor
EFFECT OF FREQUENCY VARIATION ON VARIOUS CURAUA/GLASS LAMINATE COMPOSITES...... 250 Heitor Luiz Ornaghi Jr., Clarissa Coussirat Angrizani, Ademir J Zattera, Sandro Campos Amico
MECHANICAL AND TRIBOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYAMIDE–6/GLASS FIBERS/MICA TERNARY COMPOSITES...... 254 Abdullah Mimaroglu, Huseyin Unal, Iskender Ozsoy
POLY(VINYL BUTYRAL)-LEATHER FIBER COMPOSITES ...... 255 Jose Ambrosio, Alessandra Lucas, Harumi Otaguro, Lidiane Costa
LONG GLASS FIBER REINFORCEMENT OF RIGID PVC MOLDING COMPOUNDS...... 260 Leandro Grizzo, Elias Hage Jr
PREDICTING THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF PA6/GF COMPOSITE USING ANNS AND ANFIS COMPUTATIONAL METHODS...... 266 Hakimeh Fazilat, Zeinab Arab Asadi, Marzieh Ghatarband, Mohammadreza Kalaee, Mohammad E. Shiri, Saeedeh Mazinani
KNOWLEDGE BASED MODEL FOR POLYMER COMPOSITE DESIGN AND PRODUCTION...... 269 Angyal Csilla Varga, Laszlo Bartha, B Csukas, Monika Varga, Norbert Miskolczi, S. Balogh
THE STUDY ABOUT THERMAL STABILITY OF POLY (LACTIC ACID) (PLA) REINFORCED WITH FLAX FIBER ...... 270 Fengmei Yu, Tao Liu, Xuejiang Yu
DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERIZATION OF HYBRID COMPOSITES FROM RECYCLED POLYPROPYLENE, RUBBER WASTE TIRE AND CALCIUM CARBONATE...... 271 Nilson Pereira, Tiago Regis
3 – POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES
CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN DESIGN OF NANOCOMPOSITES OF POLYOLEFINS ...... 282 Sayantan Roy, Sadhan Jana
STATE OF DISPERSION OF MULTIWALL CARBON NANOTUBES IN MELT-MIXED CO-CONTINUOUS BLENDS OF POLYPROPYLENE/ACRYLONITRILE BUTADIENE STYRENE...... 283 Arup R Bhattacharyya, Rupesh A Khare, Ajay S Panwar, Ajit R Kulkarni, S. Bose
IN LINE AND OFF LINE RHEOLOGY OF PP-CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES ...... 290 Phil Coates, Atif Khan, Raj Patel, Hadj Benkreira
STUDY ON NANOCLAY DISPERSION IN A POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE BY HIGH-RESOLUTION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY COMBINED WITH ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY...... 292 Suprakas Sinha Ray, Jayita Bandyopadhyay, Thomas Malwela
POLYMER/ORGANOCLAY NANOCOMPOSITES: PROCESSING, THERMO MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND MODELING OF THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES...... 298 Rodrigue Matadi, Nadia Bahlouli, Kui Wang, Said Ahzi, Yves Remond, Ren Muller, D. Ruch, J. Gracio, M. Skouri
SUPERNUCLEATION VERSUS CONFINEMENT IN POLYETHYLENE/CARBON NANOTUBES NANOCOMPOSITES OBTAINED BY IN SITU POLYMERIZATION ...... 299 Alejandro Muller, M. Trujillo, M. L. Arnal, Ph. Dubois
INFLUENCE OF BALL MILLING ON THE PROPERTIES OF MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES AND THEIR COMPOSITES WITH POLYCARBONATE ...... 300 Beate Krause, Tobias Villmow, Mandy Mende, Gudrun Petzold, Petra Potschke
POLYMER NANO-COMPOSITES: A NEW LABORATORY PREPARATION TO AFFECT AND CONTROL INTERCALATION AND EXFOLIATION ...... 301 Hadj Benkreira, Atif Khan, Phil Coates, Raj Patel
POLYMERIC NANO-COMPOSITE FORMATION VIA SOLID-STATE PROCESSING...... 311 Tomotaka Saito, Masami Okamoto
STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF PVC AND WPC NANOCOMPOSITES WITH NANOSILVER...... 316 Jolanta Tomaszewska, Tomasz Sterzynski
EFFECT OF BLENDING SEQUENCE ON THE MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF PA6/ABS/ORGANOCLAY TERNARY NANOCOMPOSITES ...... 317 Amanda Oliveira, Nelson Larocca, Luiz Pessan
EFFECT OF ORGANOCLAY ON MORPHOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF DYNAMICALLY VULCANIZED NANOCOMPOSITES BASED PP/EPDM/ORGANOCLAY ...... 325 Davood Bagheri Asl, Fatemeh Safdari Shadloo, Hossein Nazockdast, M. Mehranpour
ENHANCED THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES FILLED WITH GRAPHENE SHEETS...... 332 Muhammad O Khan, Siu N. Leung, Ellen Chan, Hani Naguib, Francis Dawson, V. Adinkrah, L. Hayward
PROCESS DESIGN FOR POLYETHYLENE-LDH-NANOCOMPOSITES...... 341 Andreas Leuteritz, Daniel Hung, Juliane Meinl, Bernd Kretzschmar, H. Brunig
EFFECT OF ORGANOCLAY ON MORPHOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF DYNAMICALLY VULCANIZED NANOCOMPOSITES BASED PP/EPDM/ORGANOCLAY ...... 345 Davood Bagheri Asl, Fatemeh Safdari Shadloo, Hossein Nazockdast
INFLUENCE OF CLAY ON THE THERMAL PROPERTIES OF THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANE NANOCOMPOSITE...... 353 Clodoaldo Lazareti, Carlos Scuracchio, G. L. Mantovani
NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY FOR THE ON-LINE CHARACTERIZATION OF NANOCOMPOSITES ...... 354 Joana Barbas, Ana Machado, Jose Covas
PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF PET-MMT/I NANOCOMPOSITES THROUGH THE SPRAY DRYING PROCESS...... 359 Paulo Rodrigo Alves, Antonio Jos Felix, Luiz Antonio
IONIC LIQUIDS AS ADDITIVES FOR POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES...... 360 Ricardo Keitel Donato, Henri Schrekker, Libor Matejka
DIELECTRIC BEHAVIOR OF POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES BASED ON POLY(VINYLIDENE DIFLUORIDE) ...... 364 Natthaphon Bunnak, Pitak Laoratanakul, Amar Bhalla, Hathaikarn Manuspiya
NUCLEATION OF ISOTACTIC POLYPROPYLENE CRYSTALLIZATION IN MULTILAYERED SANDWICH NANOCOMPOSITES BY GOLD NANOPARTICLES WITH DIFFERENT MORPHOLOGIES ...... 365 Miroslav Slouf, Antonin Sikora, Helena Vlkova, Bojan Dimzoski, Tatana Vackova, Tomas Base
MECHANICAL PERFORMANCES AND MORPHOLOGY OF HDPE/HALLOYSITE NANOCOMPOSITES: EFFECTS OF MATRIX FLUIDITY AND NANOFILLER ORGANIC MODIFICATION ...... 366 Pietro Russo, Domenico Acierno, Paola Scarfato
CREEP-RECOVERY OF NANOCOMPOSITES : AN INNOVATIVE METHOD TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECT OF PROCESSING CONDITIONS ON THE DISPERSION OF NANOPARTICLES IN POLYMERS ...... 374 Rose-Marie Gouttefarde, Felipe Wolff Fabris, Volker Altstadt
INFLUENCE OF PROCESSING CONDITIONS AND INDUCED SHEAR WORK ON THE THERMAL, RHEOLOGICAL AND MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES ...... 382 Hannelore Mattausch, Stephan Laske, Ivica Duretek, Clemens Holzer, A. Witschnigg
INVESTIGATION OF HYBRID NANOFILLER SYSTEMS IN POLYSTYRENE (PS/MWNTS/CUNW) USING A NOVEL SOLUTION MIXING METHOD ...... 386 Joyce Chau, Genaro Gelves, Uttandaraman Sundararaj, Celine Bellehumeur
THE STUDY ON DISPERSED NANO-CLAY MORPHOLOGY IN POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES BY SMALL-ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING COMBINED WITH ELECTRON MICROSCOPY...... 392 Jayita Bandyopadhyay, Suprakas Sinha Ray
EFFECT OF POLARITY OF THE ORGANOCLAY ON THE MORPHOLOGY AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLY (ACRYLONITRILE-BUTADIENE-STYRENE)/POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE) BLENDS ...... 403 Tayebe Nazari, Hmid Garmabi, Ahmad Arefazar
MECHANICAL AND THERMAL CHARACTERISATION OF BIOPOLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES BASED ON PLA/NANOGRAPHENE PLATELETS...... 408 Esmaeil Narmissa, Margaret Jollands, Nhol Kao, Rahul Gupta
EFFECTS OF CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCNTS) ON PERORMANCE OF PHOSPHORUS CONTAINING FLAME RETRDANTS IN POLYPROPYLENE ...... 416 Hoda Azimi, Reza Jahanmardi, Mehdi Ghaffari
NOVEL HIGH PERFORMANCE HETEROGENEOUS NANOCOMPOSITE PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE BASED ON POLY(ETHER SULFONE) WITH MAGNETIC FIELD-ALIGNED γ-FE2O3 NANOPARTICLES ...... 421 Noushin Hassanabadi, S. Reza Ghaffarian Anbaran, Mohammad Mahdi Hasani Sadrabadi
INFLUENCE OF INDUCED SHEAR ENERGY AND RESIDENCE TIME ON MATERIAL PROPERTIES OF POLYPROPYLENE NANOCOMPOSITES ...... 422 Andreas Witschnigg, Stephan Laske, Ivica Duretek, Clemens Holzer
INFLUENCE OF THE ADDITION OF NANOCLAY AND CONVENTIONAL LOAD IN THE PROPERTIES OF POLYMERIC NANOCOMPOSITES EPOXY-BASED APPLIED TO POWDER COATINGS...... 429 Diego Piazza, Lisete Cristine Scienza, Ademir Jos Zattera
FORMATION OF PP/EPDM/ORGANOCLAY NANOCOMPOSITES: EFFECT OF PROCESSING CONDITIONS ...... 435 Ramin Khosrokhavar, Ghasem Naderi, Gholamreza Bakhshandeh, Sh. Shokoohi
CHEMICAL MODIFIED CARBON NANOTUBE-EPOXY LAMINATED WOVEN CARBON FIBER FABRIC COMPOSITES FOR USE AS A BIPOLAR PLATE ...... 438 Darunee Aussawasathien, Chanpen Teerawattananon
BI-COMPONENT INJECTION MOULDING OF CARBON NANOFIBRE /POLYPROPYLENE COMPOSITES: MORPHOLOGY EVALUATION AND CORRELATION WITH MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES...... 446 Carla Martins, Angelo Rodrigues, Eduarda Carvalho, Maria C. Paiva
SILANE-GRAFTING OF MONTMORILLONITE FOR CLAY/FKM NANOCOMPOSITES...... 447 Maryam Khajehpour, Genaro Alberto Gelves, Uttandaraman Sundararaj
MICROSTRUCTURE OF THE PS / ORGANOCLAY NANOCOMPOSITES: INJECTION MOLDING VERSUS UNIAXIAL HOT PRESSING...... 448 Pedro Lins, Ticiane Valera, Nicole Demarquette
INVESTIGATION ON MORPHOLOGY AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF RUBBER-TOUGHENED POLYAMIDE 6,6 NANOCOMPOSITES ...... 449 Maryam Roshanali, Hamid Garmabi, Ahmad Arefazar
NANOCOMPOSITES BASED ON TPU AND DIFFERENTLY MODIFIED EXPANDED GRAPHITES: ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND MICROSTRUCTURES OBTAINED BY DIFFERENT PROCESSING CONDITIONS...... 455 Jurgen Pionteck, Francesco Piana, Ulrich Schulze
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE DISPERSION OF CARBON NANOTUBES AND NANOFIBRES IN POLYMER MELTS...... 456 Maria C. Paiva, Jose Covas, Rui M. Novais
PROCESS STRUCTURING OF POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES...... 461 Phil Coates, Hadj Benkriera, Raj Patel, Eileen Harkin-Jones, Rund Abu- Zurayk, Atif Khan, Y. Shen, T. McNally, P. Hornsby
INTERFACIALLY COMPATIBILIZED RTV SILICONE RUBBER/EXPANDED GRAPHITE NANOCOMPOSITE AS A CONDUCTIVE PRESSURE SENSOR...... 462 Rezvan Soltani, Ali Asghar Katbab
STUDY ON POLYMER/CLAY NANO COMPOSITE COMPOUNDING PROCESS UNDER HIGH SHEAR STRESS AND PRESSURE CONDITIONS ...... 467 Yasuyoshi Nakayasu, Tomoyuki Otoshi, Tatsuya Tanaka, Yutaka Imaida
AN INVESTIGATION ON THE EFFECT OF CLAY TYPE AND COMPATIBILIZER CONTENT ON THE BARRIER AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF BLOW MOLDED HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE BASED NANOCOMPOSITES ...... 468 Sirwe Abdollahi, Hamid Garmabi
THERMAL BEHAVIOUR OF POLYPROPYLENE/HALLOYSITE NANOTUBES NANOCOMPOSITES: WATER-ASSISTED EXTRUSION ...... 474 Benoit Lecouvet, Michel Sclavons, Serge Bourbigot, Jacques Devaux, Christian Bailly
IMPACT OF SYNERGY BETWEEN CARBON NANOTUBES AND CARBON BLACK ON THE RHEOLOGICAL AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF AN EPDM RUBBER...... 481 Maxime Charman, F. Leonardi, Cedric Bissuel, Christophe Derail
EFFECT OF ORGANIC MONTMORILLONITE, TALC AND FUMED SILICA FILLERS ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND THERMAL PROPERTIES OF POLYLACTIDE COMPOSITES ...... 485 Fengmei Yu
HIGH GRAPHITIC CONTENT CARBON NANOCOMPOSITES...... 486 Amod Ogale, Byron Villacorta
EVALUATION OF FLOW INDUCED NANOCLAY ORIENTATION IN POLYPROPYLENE/ PP-G- MAH/ORGANOCLAY BY MEANS OF RHEOLOGICAL AND BIREFRINGENCE TECHNIQUES ...... 487 Shima Akbarpoursarabi, Hossein Nazockdast, Mahmood Masoomi
STUDY ON PARAMETERS AFFECTING THE MORPHOLOGY AND MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES PARTITIONING IN POLYPROPYLENE/POLYAMIDE BASED BLEND NANOCOMPOSITES...... 488 Abbas Mazarei, Hossein Nazockdast, Bahram Dabir
EFFECT OF THE PRESENCE OF FUNCTIONALIZED GRAPHENE SHEET ON THE PHASE SEPARATION OF PαMSAN/PMMA BLENDS...... 492 Giovanni Vleminckx, Suryasarathi Bose, Jan Leys, Michael Wubbenhorst, J. Vermant, Chris Macosko, Paula Moldenaers
THE ROLE OF FLOW-INDUCED ORGANOCLAY ORIENTATION IN RHEOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR AND CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS OF POLYETHYLENE/CLAY NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS...... 499 Behzad Nazari Nasrabad, Hossein Nazockdast, Ali Asghar Katbab
PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ALUMINIUM OXIDE/ POLY(ETHYLENE-CO-BUTYL ACRYLATE) NANOCOMPOSITES...... 504 Patrica Nordell, Sohail Nawaz, Bruska Azhdar, Henrik Hillborg, Ulf Gedde
ROLE OF SPECIFIC INTERACTION IN ACHIEVING DEBUNDLING AND UNIFORM DISPERSION OF MULTIWALL CARBON NANOTUBES IN MULTICOMPONENT POLYMER BLENDS...... 505 Arup R Bhattacharyya, Rupesh A Khare, Suryasarathi Bose, Ajit R Kulkarni, Srikanth S. Kamath
SHEAR-INDUCED STRUCTURE BUILDUP IN POLYMER-CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES ...... 514 Ruth Cardinaels, Yutian Zhu, Paula Moldenaers, Jan Mewis
INFLUENCE OF THE DEGREE OF EXFOLIATION ON THE HEAT CONDUCTIVITY OF POLYPROPYLENE NANOCOMPOSITES ...... 522 Stephan Laske, Ivica Duretek, Andreas Witschnigg, Clemens Holzer
INFLUENCE OF THE DISPERSION DEGREE ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYAMIDE 6 NANOCOMPOSITES FILMS...... 526 Jrmie Soulestin, Sbastien Alix, Baralu Rashmi, Serge Bourbigot, Marie-France Lacrampe, Patricia Krawczak
FUNCTINALIZATION OF CARBON NANOTUBES FOR CNTs/PEEK COMPOSITE FABRICATION ...... 532 Moulay-Rachid Babaa, Nurul Huda Zailani, Edy Abou-Hamad, Anita Ramli
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND ABRASION WEAR RESISTANCE OF PU/AL2O3 NANOCOMPOSITES PREPARED BY SOLUTION MIXING...... 537 Reza Chegeni, Mona Mahboob Kanafi, Fathollah Moztarzadeh
STUDY OF THE VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIS OF POLYCARBONATE/ACRYLONITRILE-BUTADIENE- STYRENE ALLOY CONTAINING TRIPHENYL PHOSPHATE AND NANOCLAY AS FLAME RETARDANT...... 538 Elham Feyz, Y. Jahani, M. Esfandeh
HIGH THERMAL RESISTANT NANODIAMOND BASED PP/EPDM THERMOPLASTIC OLEFIN (TPO) NANOCOMPOSITES...... 540 Fateme Hejazi, Ali Asghar Katbab
INLINE-MONITORING OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE INJECTION MOULDING CONDITIONS ON THE ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY OF POLYMER-CARBON NANOTUBE COMPOSITES...... N/A Ingo Alig, Dirk Lellinger, Donghua Xu, Alexander Ohneiser
EFFECT OF CELLULOSIC NANO- FIBERS ON THE CONDUCTIVITIES OF THEIR CONDUCTIVE POLYMER COMPOSITES...... 547 Shigeji Konagaya, Hiroaki Iriyama, Takeharu Oshio
SIMPLE APPROACH TO CHARACTERIZE THE DISPERSION STATE OF MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES IN AN EPOXY MATRIX FROM RHEOLOGY AND ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENTS...... 551 Maxime Pras, Jannick Duchet Rumeau, Jean-Francois Gerard
PP CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES: DEGRADATION AND STABILISATION ...... 552 Sahar Al-Malaika, H Sheena
EFFECT OF REACTIVE COMPATIBILIZATION ON CLAY PARTITIONING IN PP/PS BLEND NANOCOMPOSITES...... 555 Fatemeh Abbasi, Mir Karim Razavi Aghjeh, Akram Tavakoli
EFFECT OF NA-MONTMORILLONITE SLURRY ON MECHANICAL AND THERMAL PROPERTIES OF UNSATURATED POLYESTER RESIN...... 556 Alejandro Rivera-Gonzaga, Antonio Sanchez-Solis, Octavio Manero
DEGRADATION EFFECT OF CLAY ON BURNING BEHAVIOR OF POLY(ETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE)/ ORGANO CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES ...... 557 Sima Habibi, Hossein Nazockdast, Abosaeed Rashidi, Saeed Bazgir
CRYSTAL TRANSFORMATION OF PVDF IN THE PRESENCE OF NANOCLAY AND MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES...... 562 Ali Akbar Yousefi
PREPARATION AND PROPERTIES OF NANO-CELLUSOSE REINFORCED POLYMERS...... 563 Peter Hornsby, Patrick Qua
MORPHOLOGY AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYLACTIDE NANOCOMPOSITE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY...... 568 Norazura Ibrahim, Margaret Jollands, Rajarathinam Parthasarathy
EVALUATION OF PERMEABILITY OF LDPE/PA6/CLAY NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS...... 574 Moslem Zhubin, Mahmood Mehrabzadeh, Jalil Morshedian
STUDYING INTERACTIONS OF MODIFIED CLAYS ON POLYPROPYLENE BY USING DIFFERENT MODIFIERS ...... 578 Jose Maria Alonso, Ileana Recalde, Natalia Ortuo, Maria Jorda, Susana Aucejo, A. Devis
DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL PACKAGING SOLUTIONS BASED ON PLA NANOCOMPOSITES...... 583 Maria Jorda, Jose Maria Alonso, Natalia Ortuno, Alejandro Devis, Miguel Ventura, Susana Aucejo
PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THERMALLY STABLE POLYPROPYLENE- HETEROCYCLE-EXCHANGED MONTMORILLONITE NANOCOMPOSITE ...... 589 Hamid Ennajih, Rachid Bouhfid, El Mokhtar Essassi, Mostapha Bousmina
THE EFFECTS OF ALUMINA NANOPARTICLE ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND ABRASION WEAR RESISTANCE OF POLYURETHANE MATRIX ...... 590 Amin Hooshafza, Fatollah Moztarzadeh, Mehdi Saboohi, Davood Bazregari, Mona Mahboob, Reza Chegeni
COATING AND FUNCTIONALIZATION OF MONTMORILLONITE NANOPARTICLES FOR IMPROVED POLYMER PROCESSING...... 591 Rainer Puchleitner, Gisbert Riess, Wolfgang Kern, Hannelore Mattausch, Stephan Laske
PREDICTION OF ORGANOCLAY DISTRIBUTION IN PA6/EOR-G-MAH BLENDS: THE EFFECT OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF SURFACTANT...... 595 Sepideh Gomari, Ismail Ghasemi, Mohammad Karrabi, Hamed Azizi
PROPERTIES OF PBT/CLAY NANOCOMPOSITE TREATED BY ELECTRON-BEAM RADIATION ...... 599 Everton Nascimento, Nelson Lima, Anne Chinellato, Francisco Valenzuela Diaz, Esperidiana Moura
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND ABRASION WEAR BEHAVIOR OF TIO2/POLYURETHANE NANOCOMPOSITES PREPARED BY SOLUTION BLENDING ...... 600 Mona Mahboob Kanafi, Reza Chegeni, Fathollah Moztarzadeh, Mehdi Barikani
EFFECT OF AN IMPACT MODIFIER AND AN ORGANOCLAY ON THE PROCESSABILITY AND TOUGHENING OF PLA ...... 601 Gustavo De Figueiredo Brito, Pankaj Agrawal, Bartira Brandao Da Cunha, Edcleide Maria Araujo, Tomas Jefferson Alves De Melo
LAYERED SILICATES CONTROLLED RHEOLOGY IN NYLON 6-CLAY NANO-COMPOSITE...... 605 Chihiro Mizuno, Masami Okamoto
INFLUENCE OF TYPE SUFACTANTE ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF NANOCOMPOSITES HDPE/CLAY NATIONAL...... 610 Ariana Sa Dantas Wanderley Ariana, Sara Verusca De Oliveira Sara, Edcleide Maria Araujo Edcleide
SYNTHESIS AND COMPARISON BETWEEN MECHANICAL AND THERMAL PROPERTIES OF TWO DIFFERENT TPU NANOCOMPOSITE SERIES ...... 611 Mohammadreza Rahnama, Mehdi Barikani
FORMULATION OF MONOCOMPONENT EPOXY MATERIAL FOR MICROELECTRONIC COATINGS APPLICATIONS...... 621 Rabi Ziraoui, Hafid Meghraoui, Said Fetouaki, Mustapha Elgouri, Hamza Tagmouti, Ahmed Elharfi
INFLUENCE OF A QUATERNARY AMMONIUM SALT IN THE ORGANOPHILIZATION AN BENTONITE CLAY...... 622 Sara Verusca De Oliveira Sara, Geilza Alves Porto Geilza, Edcleide Maria Araujo Edcleide, Antonio Gilson Barbosa De Lima Gilson
STRUCTURAL AND THERMAL CHARACTERIZATION OF NANOCOMPOSITES HDPE/CLAY NATIONAL...... 623 Sara Verusca De Oliveira Sara, Ariana Sa Dantas Wanderley Ariana, Edcleide Maria Araujo Edcleide, Antonio Gilson Barbosa De Lima Gilson
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF HIGHLY CRYSTALLIZED PET REINFORCED WITH MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES...... 624 Marco Aurilia, Luigi Sorrentino, Salvatore Iannace, Eva Milella
EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT PROCESSING CONDITIONS ON THE IN-LINE TURBIDITY AND COLOR FORMATION OF PP/MMT NANOCOMPOSITES...... 625 Kelen C. Reis, Sebastiao V. Canevarolo
POLYMERIC OPTICAL FIBERS PRODUCED WITH POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE/LAPONITE NANOCOMPOSITE...... 626 Evren Aslan-Gurel, Lukas J. Scherer, Rene M. Rossi
RANDOM TELEGRAPH NOISE IN HDPE/MWCNT COMPOSITES NEAR PERCOLATION THRESHOLD ...... 627 Heinz Christoph Neitzert, Olga Valentino, Maria Rosella Nobile, Maria Sarno, Paolo Ciambelli
INFLUENCE OF THE ORGANICALLY MODIFIED CLAY CONCENTRATION ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND MORPHOLOGY OF POLYPROPYLNE/CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES...... 631 Bartira Cunha, Gustavo Brito, Carlos Cunha, Pankaj Agrawal, Edcleide Araujo, Tomas Melo
CHAR EFFECT OF INTERLAYER MOLECULE IN POLYOLEFIN/LDH NANOCOMPOSITES ...... 632 Burak Kutlu, De-Yi Wang, Andreas Leuteritz, Udo Wagenknecht, Gert Heinrich
INFLUENCE OF THE ORGANICALLY MODIFIED CLAY CONCENTRATION ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND MORPHOLOGY OF POLYPROPYLENE/CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES ...... 635 Bartira Cunha, Rodolfo Ferreira, Pankaj Agrawal, Edcleide Araujo, Tomas Melo
INFLUENCE OF THE PREPARATION METHOD ON THE THERMAL PROPERTIES OF PA6/COPOLYMER/ORGANOCLAY NANOCOMPOSITES...... 636 Pankaj Agrawal, Gustavo Brito, Carlos Cunha, Edcleide Araujo, Tomas Melo
EFFECT OF FUNCTIONALIZED MWCNT ON THE ELECTRICAL AND RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYCARBONATE NANOCOMPOSITES...... 637 Won Seok Choi, Sung Hun Ryu
STRESS-STRAIN BEHAVIOR OF NBR/PVC/CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES: THE EFFECT OF MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURE ON CONSTITUTIVE MODELS ...... 638 Elnaz Esmizadeh, Ghasem Naderi, Mir Hamid Reza Ghoreishy, Gholam Reza Bakhshandeh
SYNERGISTIC EFFECT OF POLYPROPYLENE CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES WITH A PHOSPHORUS INTUMESCENT FLAME RETARDANT ...... 642 Jair Fiori Jr., Rafael Dias, Claudia Sayer, Pedro Henrique Hermes De Araujo
INVESTIGATION OF PVC NANOCOMPOSITES PREPARED BY MELT BLENDING...... 643 Daniel Ortiz Martins, Gerson Luiz Mantovani, Nelson Larocca, Talita Souza, Carlos Henrique Scuracchio
VULCANIZATION BEHAVIOR OF NBR WITH ORGANICALLY MODIFIED CLAY...... 647 Fabiula Sousa, Carlos Scuracchio
EFFECTS OF ORGANOCLAY ON CURE KINETICS OF THE VINYL ESTER RESIN USING RHEOLOGICAL METHODS...... 649 Shahin Akhlaghi, Mohammadreza Kalaee, Saeedeh Mazinani, Alireza Sharif
PREPARATION OF NANOCOMPOSITES BASED ON BR/EPDM/ORGANOCLAY (MICROSTRUCTUR, CURE CHARACTERISTICS AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES) ...... 655 Mehdi Kharazmkia, Ghasem Naderi, Mir Hamid Reza Ghoreishi
MELT PROCESSING OF PP/PA-66/ORGANOCLAY NANOCOMOPOSITES AND CHARACTERIZATION BY X-RAY DIFFRACTION ...... N/A Benalia Kouini, Aicha Serier
DISPERSION EFFECT ON PROPERTIES AND MORPHOLOGY IN PC/ABS-MWCNT NANOCOMPOSITES OBTAINED BY EXTRUSION ...... 658 Marcin Wegrzyn, Enrique Gimenez
EFFECT OF CHEMICAL BONDING OF NANOCLAY SURFACE MODIFIER AND COMPATIBILIZER ON THE MICROSTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT AND RHEOLOGICAL PEROPERTIES OF PP/PP-G-MA/ DIAMINE MODIFIED NANOCLAY...... 659 Gholamreza Pircheraghi, Hossein Nazockdast, Mohammadmehdi Salehi
A STUDY OF MATERIAL BASED CLAY: « POLYETHYLENE LOW DENSITE-CLAY »...... 660 Dalila Smail, R. Gadi, N. Grine, S. Deghnouche, B. Djellouli
STRATEGIES OF REINFORCEMENT OF SILICA AND POLYMERIC AEROGELS...... 661 Yannan Duan, Sadhan Jana
THE ROLE OF ORGANOCLAY ON MICROSTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT AND RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF POLY(BUTYLENE TEREPHTALATE)/EPOXY/ORGANOCLAY HYBRID SYSTEMS...... 662 Mohammad Mahdi Salehi Barmi, Hossein Nazockdast, Gholamreza Pircheraghi
AN INVESTIGATION ON INTERACTIONS OF NANOCLAY LAYERS AND POLYMERIC CHAINS USING DMTA AND SEM...... 663 Elnaz Esmizadeh, Ghasem Naderi, Mir Hamid Reza Ghoreishy, Gholam Reza Bakhshandeh
STUDY THE ROLE OF NANO-SIZED CACO3 ON THE CURE KINETIC OF POLYESTER/EPOXY HYBRID COATING ...... 666 Shahin Akhlaghi, Mohammadreza Kalaee, Saeedeh Mazinani, Alireza Sharif, Ali Nouri, Mohsen Sadeghi
VOLUME 2
STUDY ON MOLECULAR WEIGHT GROWTH THROUGH EMULSION POLYMERIZATION OF VINYL CHLORIDE BY USING RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY ...... 673 Mohammad Rezaei, M. R. Saeb
CORRELATING MORPHOLOGY AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF VINYL ESTER RESIN/MONTMORILLONITE NANOCOMPOSITES...... 674 Shahin Akhlaghi, Mohammadreza Kalaee, Saeedeh Mazinani, Alireza Sharif
EVALUATION OF DEGRADATIVE PROCESSES ON LOW MOLAR MASS PET/ORGANOCLAY NANOCOMPOSITES PREPARED VIA MELT EXTRUSION ...... 680 Daniel Chiaretti, Manuela Kaneko, Sandra Cruz
A NOVEL ROUTE TO DEVELOP HIGHLY EXFOLIATED POLYMER/ORGANOCLAY NANOCOMPOSITES USING SUPERCRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDE ASSISTED TWIN SCREW EXTRUSION ...... 681 Kwang Ho Jang, Kyoungmin Kim, Tae Yong Hwang, Youngjoon Ahn, Jae Wook Lee
EVALUATION OF MECHANICAL PROPERTIES PLA/PBAT/BRAZILIAN CLAY OBTAINED BY DIFFERENT SEQUENCE OF MIXTURE...... 682 J. D. Viana, V. C. Oliveira, E. M. Araujo, T. J. A. Melo
BIONANOCOMPOSITES BASED ON POLY(ε-CAPROLACTONE) AND TITANIUM ...... 686 Ana Machado, Ana Lima
OPTIMIZATION FORMULATION OF NANOCOMPOSITE EPOXY-CARBON NANOTUBE...... 687 Hafid Meghraoui, R. Ziraoui, N. Rami, M. Grich, A. Elharfi
INVESTIGATION OF MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF LDPELLDPENANOCLAY HYBRIDS PREPARED WITH WATER INJECTION METHOD IN A TWIN-SCREW EXTRUDER USING PRISTINE CLAY...... 688 Seied Ismail Seied Shahabadi, Hamid Garmabi
EXPERIMENTAL AND ANALYTICAL STUDY ON HIGH VELOCITY IMPACT OF NANOCOMPOSITES BASED ON GLASS FIBER/POLYESTER/NANOCLAY ...... 689 Reza Gashtil, Javad Moftakharian, Masoud Esfandeh, Alireza Sabet
POLYPROPYLENE–MONTMORILLONITE NANOCOMPOSITES: STRUCTURAL, MORPHOLOGY AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES ...... 696 Ana Morales, Lucilene Paiva, Daniela Zattarelli, Thiago Guimaraes
DISPERSION BEHAVIOUR OF MWCNT IN THE EPOXY MATRIX AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF THE RESULTING COMPOSITES ...... 697 Tejendra Gupta, Bhanu Pratap Singh, Indresh Kumar Pandey, Parveen Garg, R. B. Mathur
INFLUENCE OF CLAY ON THE THERMAL PROPERTIES OF THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANE NANOCOMPOSITE...... 698 Clodoaldo Lazareti, Carlos Henrique Scuracchio, Gerson Luiz Mantovani
DISPERSION BEHAVIOUR OF MWCNT IN THE EPOXY MATRIX AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF THE RESULTING COMPOSITES ...... 704 Tejendra Gupta, Bhanu Pratap Singh, Indresh Kumar Pandey, Parveen Garg, R. B. Mathur
DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF CURAUA/GLASS LAMINATE COMPOSITES...... 705 Heitor Luiz Ornaghi Jr., Clarissa C. Angrizani, Ademir J Zattera, Sandro Campos Amico
DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF EVA/PVC/CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES OBTAINED USING A TWIN-SCREW EXTRUDER ...... 709 Aline Gelhen, Heitor Luiz Ornaghi Jr., Mara Zeni, Ademir J Zattera
MODIFICATION OF POLYMER SURFACE BY IMPRINTING TECHNIQUE OF NANOFIBERS ...... 713 Anh Vu Doan, Howon Yoon, Masayuki Yamaguchi
PS/PA6/PS-G-PA6 AND MONTMORILLONITE CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES: MORPHOLOGY AND RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES...... 717 Marina Magaton, Luis Antonio Pessan, Guo-Hua Hu
THE PERFORMANCE OF THE PP/C15A NANOCOMPOSITES PRODUCED IN DIFFERENT EXTRUDERS ...... 718 Kelly Dos Santos, Raquel Mauler, Mauro Oviedo, Susana Liberman
TRIBOLOGICAL PROPERTIES AND GEAR STRENGTH OF VARIOUS CARBON FIBER FILLED PBT COMPOSITES ...... 725 Yosuke Nishitani, Isamu Sekiguchi, Takeshi Kitano
THERMOPLASTIC NANOCOMPOSITES BASED ON REDUCED GRAPHENE NANOSHEETS...... N/A Mounir Elachaby, Rachid Aitbelale, Fatima Zahra Arrakiz, Abdelilah Benyoussef, Abou el kacem Qaiss, Mostapha Bousmina
DEVELOPMENT OF EXFOLIATED NANOCLAY IN PP MATRIX AS THE SHEATH MATERIAL FOR TEMPERATURE-REGULATING BICOMPONENT FIBERS ...... 732 Zengwei Guo, Bengt Hagstrom
PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SILANE GRAFTED POLYPROPYLENE CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES...... 733 Heriarivelo Risite, Mostapha Bousmina, Omar Fassi Fehri, Khalil El Mabrouk
INFLUENCE OF MMT CONTENT AND PROCESSING SPEED ON THE MORPHOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF NANOCOMPOSITES - EPOXY-BASED POWDER COATING ...... 734 Diego Piazza, Ester S. Rieder, Lisete C. Scienza, Ademir J. Zattera
MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE AND BARRIER PROPERTIES OF ECOBRAS/BENTONITE FILMS...... 739 Ana Nery Mattos Costa, Arthur Rafael Albuquerque Araujo, Eduardo Luis Canedo, Laura Hecker De Carvalho
EFFECT OF CLAY PURIFICATION AND ORGANIC MODIFICATION ON THE MECHANICAL AND BARRIER PROPERIES OF LLDPE/BENTONITE FILMS...... 740 Eduardo Mello, Pamela Bento Cipriano, Arthur Rafael Albuquerque Araujo, Eduardo Luis Canedo, Laura Hecker De Carvalho
EFFECT OF DIFFERENT ORGANIC SALTS IN THE THERMAL STABILITY OF THE ORGANOCLAYS ...... 741 Rodholfo Da Silva Barbosa Ferreira, Danilo Siqueira Diniz, Itamara Farias Leite, S Maria De Lima Silva
POLYLACTIDE-BASED NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS BY MELT COMPOUNDING ...... 748 Emilia Garofalo, Paola Scarfato, Luciano Di Maio, Loredana Incarnato
EFFECT OF POLYPROPYLENE OXIDE IN THE MELT PHASE AS A COMPATIBILIZER TO IMPROVE THE PRACTICAL PROPERTIES WPC COMPOSITES FROM WOOD FIBERS - POLYPROPYLENE - NANO CLAY...... 749 Majid Abdouss, Hajar Rrisi, Saeed Kazemi Najafi
PREPARATION OF NANOCOMPOSITES POLY( ε-CAPROLACTONE)/ CELLULOSE NANOFIBERS BY IN SITU RING-OPENING POLYMERIZATION ...... 751 M. Lahcini, A. Boujmaaoui, M. Raihane, A. Carlmark Malkoch, E. Malmstrom Jonsson, H. Sehaqui, L. Carlsson
DRIVING POLYSTYRENE-COATED-CNTS TO THE INTERFACE OF IMMISCIBLE POLYMER BLENDS ...... 752 Fangfang Tao, Anne-Christine Baudouin, Daniela Vuluga, Christoph Detrembleur, Christian Bailly
ELASTOMER NANOCOMPOSITES BASED ON NR/SBR/EPDM/NANOCLAY (MICROSTRUCTURE & MECHANICAL PROPERTIES)...... 756 Ghasem Naderi, Hojatollah Vali
EVALUATION OF PERMEABILITY OF LDPE/PA6/CLAY NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS...... 759 Moslem Zhubin, Mahmood Mehrabzadeh, Jalil Morshedian
PREPARATION, CHARACTERIZATION AND FLAMMABILITY OF POLYPROPYLENE (PP)/LAYERED DOUBLE HYDROXIDE (LDH) NANOCOMPOSITES...... 763 De-Yi Wang, Andreas Leuteritz, Udo Wagenknecht, Gert Heinrich
INFLUENCE OF SCREW CONFIGURATION, RESIDENCE TIME, AND SPECIFIC MECHANICAL ENERGY IN TWIN-SCREW EXTRUSION OF POLYCAPROLACTONE/MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE COMPOSITES...... 764 Tobias Villmow, Bernd Kretzschmar, Petra Potschke
EFFECT OF POLYMER CONTENT IN THE MEMBRANE PREPARATION OF NANOCOMPOSITE PA6 ...... 765 Amanda Melissa Damiao Leite, Rene Anisio Paz, Vanessa Da Nobrega Medeiros, Edcleide Maria Araujo, Helio De Lucena Lira, Luiz Antonio Pessan
THE ROLE OF FEEDING CONDITIONS IN TWIN-SCREW EXTRUSION OF PP/MWNT COMPOSITES ...... 771 Michael Thomas Muller, Beate Krause, Bernd Kretzschmar, Petra Potschke
POLYETHYLENE LDH NANOCOMPOSITES USED IN FIBER SPINNING...... 772 Juliane Meinl, Andreas Leuteritz, Harald Brunig, Udo Wagenknecht, Gert Heinrich
LDH AS VERSATILE VULCANIZING ADDITIVE IN RUBBER NANOCOMPOSITES...... 773 Amit Das, Deyi Wang, Jino George, Andreas Leuteritz, Gert Heinrich
INFLUENCE OF FEED RATE IN THE PREPARATION OF HYBRID POLYAMIDE 6/BENTONITE CLAY...... 774 Rene Anisio Paz, Edcleide Maria Araujo, Luiz Antonio Pessan, Tomas J. Alves Melo, Amanda Melissa D. Leite, Vanessa N. Medeiros
DEVELOPMENT OF POLYMER/INORGANIC NANOCOMPOSITES PROCESSING BASED ON AN IN-SITU NON-AQUEOUS SOL-GEL TECHNOLOGY...... 781 Walter Michaeli, Martin Moeller, Christian Hopmann, Eike Kunker, Karin Peter, Christoph Kremer
ISOTHERM CRYSTALLISATION OF POLYPROPYLENE - MULTIWALL CARBON NANOTUBE COMPOSITES ...... 788 Andras Szucs, Andras Adamne Major, Karoly Belina
NR/SBR/ORGANOCLAY NANOCOMPOSITES: THE ROLE OF THE MOONEY VISCOSITY AND MELT ELASTICITY IN MELT INTERCALATION OF RUBBER PHASES ...... 793 Mitra Tavakoli, Ali Asghar Katbab, Hossein Nazockdast
PREPARATION, MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND MOISTURE ABSORPTION OF URETHANE ACRYLATE RESIN/CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES...... 799 Reza Gashtil, Masoud Esfandeh, Seyed Mojtaba Mirabedini, Amir Masood Rezadoust, M. Behzadnasab
STUDY OF STRUCTURE AND RHEOLOGICAL, MECHANICAL AND THERMAL PROPERTIES OF POLYACTIDE/CLOISITE 30B NANOCOMPOSITES ELABORATED BY MELT BLENDING...... 806 Lynda Zaidi, Stephane Bruzaud, Alain Bourmaud, Pascal Mederic, Mustapha Kaci, Yves Grohens
PHOTO-STABILIZATION OF POLYPROPYLENE-CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES : EFFECT OF HINDERED AMINE LIGHT STABILIZERS ON DURABILITY ...... 807 Naima Touati, Mustapha Kaci, Yves Grohens, Stephane Bruzaud
EFFECTS OF REPROCESSING ON THE STRUCTURE, MOLECULAR WEIGHT AND PROPERTIES OF POLYSTYRENE/ ORGANOPHILIC CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES ...... 808 Cherifa Remili, Mustapha Kaci, Stephane Bruzaud, Yves Grohens
EFFECTS OF EPOXY-POLYESTER HYBRID AND NANOCLAY ON MORPHOLOGY, RHEOLOGICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF STYRENE-BUTADIENE RUBBER ...... 809 M. Haghnegahdar, G. Naderi, G.R. Bakhshandeh
POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES BASED ON BUTADIENE RUBBER/PCW/NANOCLAY ...... 811 Sepideh Zoghi, Gholam Reza Bakhshandeh, Ghasem Naderi, Morteza Ehsani
PA6/ CLAY NANO COMPOSITE PREPARATION CONTAINING NANO FIBRIL MORPHOLOGY VIA INSITU POLYMERIZATION OF ?- CAPROLACTAM IN PRESENCE OF NANO CLAY...... 812 Shervin Ahmadi, Jalil Morshedian, Seyeed Ali Hashemi
NANOCOMPOSITE MEMBRANES OF POLYETHERIMIDE/NATIONAL CLAY FOR GAS SEPARATION...... 813 Vanessa Da Nobrega Medeiros, Amanda Melissa Damiao Leite, Rene Anisio Da Paz, Larissa Fernandes Maia, Edcleide Maria Araujo, Luiz Antonio Pessan
THE EFFECTS OF MOONEY VISCOSITY AND MELT ELASTICITY UPON MICROSTRUCTURE AND DYNAMO-MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF EPDM-G-MA COMPATIBILIZED NATURAL RUBBER/ORGANOCLAY NANOCOMPOSITES...... 814 Parisa Khoshnoud, Ali Asghar Katbab, Nima Mostofi
4 – EXTRUSION AND EXTRUSION PROCESSES
A SCALING-UP METHODOLOGY FOR CO-ROTATING TWIN-SCREW EXTRUDERS...... 822 Antnio Gapar-Cunha, Jos Covas
ROLE OF THE INTERPHASE ON THE STABILITY FLOW ON MULTILAYER POLYMER IN REACTIVE COEXTRUSION PROCESS...... 828 Abderrahim Maazouz, Khalid Lamnawar
EXPLANATION OF THE EFFECT OF DIE SURFACE ON EXTRUSION INSTABILITIES IN POLYMER PROCESSING ...... 833 Ahmed Allal, Bruno Vergnes, John Dealy
LAMELLAR MORPHOLOGY EVOLUTION IN SINGLE SCREW EXTRUSION ...... 836 Frederic Omnes, Alain Guinault, Cyrille Sollogoub
COMPUTER MODELING FOR COUNTER-ROTATING TWIN SCREW EXTRUSION...... 837 Krzysztof Wilczynski, Andrzej Nastaj, Adrian Lewandowski, K. J. Wilczynski
STUDY OF VISCOELASTIC EFFECTS IN EXTRUSION USING A MESHLESS TECHNIQUE...... 840 I. D. Lopez, Jorge I. Villegas, Tim A. Osswald
CALCULATION OF THE TEMPERATURE AT THE BARREL'S INNER SURFACE OF CO- ROTATING TWIN-SCREW EXTRUDERS ...... 848 Anne Thuemen, Philipp Kloke, Helmut Potente, Volker Schoeppner
COMPARING AUTOMATED DIE OPTIMISATION WITH REALITY ...... 856 Walter Michaeli, Christian Windeck, Christoph Kremer, Stefanie Elgeti, Markus Probst, Christian Hopmann
FREQUENCY ANALYSIS AS A TOOL FOR DESCRIBING THE INSTABILITIES OF POLYMER MELT IN EXTRUSION PROCESS...... 862 Mateusz Barczewski, Roman Barczewski, Jacek Andrzejewski, Tomasz Sterzynski
ROTATION EXTRUSION OF HDPE PIPES WITH HIGHER PERFORMANCES...... 866 Qi Wang, Yue Guo, Min Nie, Shibing Bai
MANUFACTURE OF SELF- STRENGTHENED POLYCARBONATE BY EXTRUSION...... 868 Andrea Wibbeke, Volker Schoppner, Miriam Sasse
THERMOPLASTIC STARCH MODIFICATION BY REACTIVE EXTRUSION: NEW MATERIALS FROM STARCH BY DEPOLYMERIZATION AND POLYMERIZATION IN A SINGLE STEP PROCESSING ...... 876 Antonio Jos Felix Carvalho, Adriane De Medeiros Ferreira
INVESTIGATION OF THE PLASTIFICATION BEHAVIOUR OF POLYMERS IN HIGH SPEED CO- ROTATING TWIN SCREW EXTRUDERS ...... 877 Simone Heib, Christian Beinert
EXTRUDER CONTROL USING GENERALIZED PREDICTIVE CONTROL...... 885 Yi Yang, Furong Gao, Zhijun Jiang
FIRST ATTEMPTS FOR A CLOSE- LOOP CONTROLLED THICKNESS PRODUCTION OF CORE FOAMED PVC PIPES...... 894 Heinz Gross
INFLUENCE OF TWIN-SCREW PROCESSING CONDITIONS ON STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF POLYPROPYLENE - ORGANOCLAY NANOCOMPOSITES ...... 899 Trystan Domenech, Edith Peuvrel-Disdier, Bruno Vergnes, S. Bonny
PROCESS AND CONTROL ENGINEERING MODEL OF AN INTEGRATED FULLY AUTOMATED PIPE- EXTRUSION LINE...... 909 Miriam Sasse, Volker Schoeppner, Stefan Seibel
INFLUENCE OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS ON THE EXTERNAL COEFFICIENT OF FRICTION OF POLYMER PELLETS IN SINGLE SCREW PLASTICIZING UNITS ...... 918 Gernot Zitzenbacher, Christian Kneidinger, Keyan Liu
VISUALIZATION OF STARVED FLOW IN AN INTERMESHING REGION OF A TWIN-SCREW EXTRUDER...... 923 Kazuya Maeda, Takeshi Ishikawa, Tatsuya Tanaka, Yutaka Imaida
A PHYSICAL - MATHEMATICAL MODEL DESCRIBING THE PROCESS BEHAVIOUR OF PLANETARY ROLLER EXTRUDERS ...... 924 Karsten Kretschmer, Johannes Rudloff, Peter Heidemeyer, Martin Bastian, Michael Koch
FLOW DYNAMICS AND STRUCTURE OF SOLID PELLETS ALONG THE CHANNEL OF A SINGLE SCREW EXTRUDER...... 931 Oliver Pozo Michelangelli, Mikio Yamanoi, Antonio Gaspar-Cunha, J. A. Covas
COUPLED CALCULATION FOR INTERNALLY-TEMPERED SINGLE EXTRUSION-SCREWS...... 935 Christoph Lakemeyer, Heinrich Hrmann, Volker Schppner
EFFECT OF SLOT VALVE ADJUSTMENTS ON THE MELT FLOW INDEX IN A TWIN SCREW EXTRUDER...... 942 Ali Keshavarzian
STUDY OF HEAT TRANSFER IN DISPERSIVE MIXERS AT HIGH SCREW SPEEDS ...... 945 Michael Olbrich, Gernot Zitzenbacher, Christoph Hochenauer, V. Hochenauer
ASSESSMENT OF THE SPECIFIC POLIPROPHYLENE DEGRADATION FOR FILM AND TISSUE NONWOVEN...... 949 Douglas M. Schmidt, Ruth M. Santana
NEW INSIGHTS INTO CONVEYING SOLIDS USING HELICAL GROOVED BUSH EXTRUDERS...... 955 Robert Weddige, Markus Bornemann, Volker Schoppner
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF IMMISCIBLE POLYMER BLEND WITH REACTIVE EXTRUSION ASSISTED SUPERCRITICAL CO2 ...... 966 Tae Yong Hwang, Jae Wook Lee
VARIOTHERMAL EXTRUSION EMBOSSING FOR MANUFACTURING OF MICRO-STRUCTURED FILMS ...... 967 Walter Michaeli, Christian Hopmann, Stephan Eilbracht, Christoph Kremer, Micha Scharf
MONITORING OF THE THERMAL DEGRADATION OF POLY (L-LACTIC ACID) DURING MELT EXTRUSION ...... 976 Ingo Alig, Yaming Wang, Bernd Steinhoff
IN-LINE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE SECOND PHASE DEFORMATION DURING POLYMER BLEND EXTRUSION ...... 977 Leonardo Zborowski, Sebastino Canevarolo
A NEW INTERFACIAL SURFACE GENERATOR FOR THE CO-EXTRUSION OF MICRO- AND NANO- LAYERED POLYMERS...... 980 Patrick Harris, Jorge Silva, Erwan Chabert, Roger Bonnecaze, Joao Maia
EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT PROCESSING METHODS ON THE RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF THE POST-CONSUMER POLYPROPYLENE...... 981 Pamela Sierra Garcia, Sandra Andrea Cruz
FEED SECTION OF THE EXTRUDER PLASTICIZING SYSTEM...... 987 J. W. Sikora
5 – FIBER, FILMS, AND MEMBRANES
HIGH GAS BARRIER PROPERTIES OF PVA NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS WITH EQUI-BIAXIAL STRETCHING ...... 991 Jeong-Cheol Kim, Jin-Hae Chang
ANALYSIS ON THE STRUCTURAL VARIATION DURING STRETCHING AND RECOVERY OF ELASTOMERIC FIBERS PREPARED FROM POLYPROPYLENES OF LOW STEREO-REGULARITY ...... 995 Takeshi Kikutani, Takahiro Sakurai, Wataru Takarada, Toshitaka Kanai, Shigeyuki Toki, Benjamin Hsiao, T. Takebe, Y. MinamiY. Kohri, L. Rong, S. Toki, B. S. Hsiao
ULTRASONIC CUTTING OF POLYLACTIC ACID (PLA) FILMS ...... 1001 Julius Vogel, David Grewell
CHARACTERIZATION AND PROPERTIES OF RECYCLED PERFLUOSULFONATED MEMBRANE...... 1006 Fereidoun Mohammadi, M. Takrousta
QUANTUM DOT-PVA NANOFIBER COMPOSITE AS HIGHLY SENSITIVE QUENCHING FLUORESCENCE-BASED SENSORS...... 1010 Ahmad Mousavi Shoushtari, Matin Mahmoudi Fard, Afshin Mohseni Far
PROCESSING AND ELONGATIONAL DEFORMATION BEHAVIOR OF BIAXIALLY STRETCHED POLYLACTIC ACID (PLA) FILMS...... 1011 Wannee Chinsirikul, Noppadon Kerddonfag, Charinee Winotapun, Pramote Kumsang, B. Hararak
COLD-DRAWING BEHAVIOR IN METALLOCENE-CATALYZED POLYETHYLENE ...... 1017 Mizue Kuriyagawa, Koh-Hei Nitta
MICRO-FIBRILLAR FIBRES ON BASIS OF THERMOPLASTIC BIO- POLYMERS PRODUCED BY MELT- SPINNING...... 1027 Harald Brnig, Claudia Hinber, Pit Wiedemann
BLOWN FILM OF LDPE/HDPE BLENDS. I. MISCIBILITY STUDY...... 1031 Mohsen Mohammadi, Ali Akbar Yousefi, Morteza Ehsani
A STUDY OF MECHANICAL AND PHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF FIBRES EXTRACTED FROM MOROCCAN ALFA PLANT ...... 1032 Youssef Benyoussif
SYNTHESIS AND FILM PROPERTIES OF POLYTHIOPHENE COPOLYMERS ...... 1033 Debora Balogh, Eduardo Machado, Vanessa Goncalves
A DUAL-SCALE MODELING AND SIMULATION OF STRETCHED ISOTACTIC POLYPROPYLENE FILMS...... 1034 Ying-Guo Zhou, Feng-Jian Shi, Guang-Long Wang
EFFECT OF MECHANICAL RECYCLING OF PLA AND ASSESSMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROFILE OF PLA AND PET FILMS BY LCA METHODOLOGY...... 1038 Loredana Incarnato, Maria Galdi, Francesco Mansi
PHOTOCROSSLINKING OF HIGHLY SOFTEN TPUS WITH UV RADIATION AND COMPARISON OF THEIR MECHANICAL PROPERTIES WITH THE TPU AND UV CURABLE ACRYLATED PU WITH SIMILAR STRUCTURE...... 1039 Zahra Khubi-Arani, Seyed Reza Ghaffarian, Gity Mir Mohamad Sadeghi
EFFECTS OF SOLVENT ON PERFLUORINATED IONOMER SOLUTION AND MEMBRANE PROPERITES...... 1040 Fereidoun Mohammadi, M. E. Zeynali
REACTION OF POLYACRILIC FIBERS WITH DIETHYLENETRIAMINE (DETA) TO TRANSFORM IT TO NANO FIBERS AND IMPROVING OF SOME PROPERTIES ...... 1046 Majid Abdouss, Behnam Moshref, Ahmad M. Shoushtary, Ebadullah Asadi
NANO AND MICRO FIBROUS COMPOSITES FOR SOUND ABSORPTION APPLICATION...... 1050 Ahmad Mousavi Shoushtari, Amir Rabbi, Hossein Bahrambeygi
CHARACTERIZATION OF COMMERCIAL POLYMERIC MEMBRANES FOR MEMBRANE DISTILLATION PROCESSES ...... 1051 Gianluca Mannella, Vincenzo La Carrubba, Valerio Brucato
GRAFT COPOLYMERIZATION OF 2-HYDROXYPROPYL METHACRYLATE ONTO POLY (ETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE ) FIBERS USING 4,4- AZOBIS ( 4-CYANOVALERIC ACID)...... 1057 Fariborz Azizinezhad, Majid Abdouss
POLYMER INCLUSION MEMBRANE (PIM) USING D2EHPA AS CARRIER FOR GAS PERMEATION ...... 1060 Ounissa Senhadji-Kebiche, Said Bey, Lynda Mansouri, Gabriele Carizia, Mohamed Benamor
PROCESSING OF RADAR ABSORBING STRUCTURE BASED ON POLYANILINE-CARBON NANOTUBE IMPRENATED IN TEXTILE MATERIAL ...... 1061 Luiza Folgueras, Mirabel Rezende
INFLUENCE OF MATERIAL PROPERTIES OF EACH LAYER ON THE DEFORMATION BEHAVIOR OF MULTILAYER FILM IN A TRANSVERSE STRETCHING PROCESS...... 1065 Takahiro Tosa, Kazutoshi Kuroyanagi, Toshiro Yamada
ELECTROSPUN NYLON NANOFIBERS FOR IMMOBILIZATION OF ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE ENZYME...... 1072 Saeed Hormozi, Seyed-Omid Ranaei-Siadat, Mohammadreza Kalaee, Navid Amini, Saeedeh Mazinani, Mohammad Barshan- Tashnizi, K. Niknam, N. Firouzian, V. Adlfar
DEVELOPMENT OF POLYMERS MEMBRANES FROM PA6/HDPE BLENDS BY PHASE INVERSION METHOD ...... 1075 Carlos Thiago Candido Cunha, Bartira Brandao Da Cunha, Pankaj Agrawal, Helio De Lucena Lira, Tomas Jeferson Alves De Melo
BLOWN FILM OF LDPE/HDPE BLENDS. II. MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR...... 1076 Mohsen Mohammadi, Ali Akbar Yousefi, Morteza Ehsani
A SURVEY ON MODELS FOR THE PREDICTION OF PHASE EQUILIBRIA IN POLYMER SOLUTIONS...... 1077 Gianluca Mannella, Vincenzo La Carrubba, Valerio Brucato
SYNTHESIS OF POLYURETHANE FERROELECTRET WITH NEW METHOD BASED ON POLYMERIC MEMBRANE FORMATION ...... 1082 Zahra Khubi-Arani, Seyed Reza Ghaffarian
SYNTHESIS OF HIGHLY ANION-EXCHANGE ADSORBENT BY AMINATION OF ACRYLIC ACID PLASMA GRAFTED POLYPROPYLENE NONWOVEN FIBER ...... 1083 Majid Abdouss, Elahe Kowsari, Soodeh Rahmani, Ahmad Mousavi Shoushtari
INFLUENCE OF THE FUNCTIONALIZING AGENT ON THE LLDPE FILMS PROPERTIES ...... 1086 Mauro Silveira, Giordano Bernardes, Ruth M. Santana, Ana Moreira, Antonio C. Quental
ACTIVE PACKAGING FOR FRUITS AND VEGETABLES...... 1092 Patrucia Ponce, Natalia Naime, Oscar Vega Bustillos, Ademar Benevolo Lugao
EFFECT OF NANOFIBER TYPE ON FILTRATION PERFORMANCE OF COALESCING FILTERS ...... 1097 Saeed Bazgir, Kazem Farmani, Ali Asghar Katbab
PREPARATION OF MEMBRANES FROM CELLULOSE OBTANEID SUGARCANE BAGASSE ...... 1098 Paulo Pereira, Maria Odila Cioffi, Herman Voorwald, Maria Lucia Da Silva, M. B. De Pinho
OXYGEN BARRIER PROPERTIES OF POLYIMIDE NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS WITH VARIOUS EQUI- BIAXIAL STRETCHING RATIOS...... 1105 Soo-Bok Lee, Jin-Hae Chang, Jeong-Cheol Kim
FREE-RADICAL GRAFTING OF 2-HYDROXYPROPYL METHACRYLATE ONTO POLY ( ETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE ) FIBERS ...... 1108 Fariborz Azizinezhad, Majid Abdouss
CLARIFIED POLYPROPYLENE COATED WITH THE A-C: H OBTAINED BY PECVD: RELATION BETWEEN THICKNESS, ADHESION AND SURFACE MODIFICATION OF SUBSTRATE...... 1115 Paulo Henrique Lopes Aguiar, Sandra Andrea Cruz
6 – INJECTION MOLDING AND MOLDS
VISUALIZATION ANALYSIS ON WRINKLE GENERATION PHENOMENA CAUSED BY BREAKING-UP OF SOLIDIFIED LAYER DURING CAVITY FILLING PROCESS...... 1116 Hidetoshi Yokoi, Yoshinori Kanetoh, Masakazu Ishida
MODELLING THE INJECTION MOULDING PROCESS UP TO FINAL MORPHOLOGY...... 1122 Roberto Pantani, Andrea Sorrentino, Vito Speranza, Giuseppe Titomanlio
INJECTION MOULDING RHEOMETER FOR SHEAR AND ELONGATIONAL VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT ...... 1127 A. Szucs, L. Halsz, K. Belina
LOCAL CONTINUOUS FIBRE-REINFORCEMENT - TAILORED INJECTION MOULDING INFLUENCE ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF STRUCTURAL THERMOPLASTIC PARTS...... 1132 Timo Huber, Alexander Roch, Jan Diemert, P. Elsner, F. Henning
IN-MOLD SURFACE MODIFICATION AND IN-MOLD PRINTING DURING INJECTION MOLDING...... 1138 Thomas Haertig, Guenther Mennig, Michael Gehde
FOUNTAIN FLOW EFFECT ON FIBER MATRIX SEPARATION DURING MANUFACTURING OF SHORT FIBER FILLED INJECTION MOLDED PARTS ...... 1142 Natalie Rudolph, I. D. Lopez, Omar A. Estrada, Daniel Ramrez, Katharina Kurth, Tim A. Osswald
MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF THE INTERFACE'S TEMPERATURE DEVELOPMENT USING FINITE DIFFERENCE METHODS (FDM) FOR THE MULTI COMPONENT INJECTION MOULDING OF A HARD-SOFT COMBINATION OF A THERMOPLASTIC AND THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMER (TPE)...... 1151 Rainer Kleeschulte, Elmar Moritzer
ON THE EFFECT OF MELT COMPRESSION ON MOLD FILLING...... 1159 Gerard Haagh, Han Slot, Markus Bulters
ONLINE QUALITY MANAGEMENT FOR INJECTION MOULDING COMPOUNDERS...... 1165 Thomas Erb, Christian Bonten
THREE-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATION OF MOLD FILLING OF VISCOELASTIC FLUIDS USING FINE VOLUME METHOD...... 1170 Bahareh Azinfar, Narjes Jafari Esfad, Mohammad Ghoroghi, Ahmad Ramazani
3D SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY IN DETERMINING RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES FOR HIGH SPEED INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS ...... 1174 Chih-Chung Hsu, Chao-Tsai Huang, Hsien-Sen Chiu, Rong-Yeu Chang, Shia-Chung Chen
ULTRA-HIGH-MAGNIFICATION VISUALIZATION OF MELT FILLING BEHAVIORS IN LINE & SPACE REPLICATION MOLDING USING A MICROSCOPE BUILT-IN MOLD ...... 1178 Hidetoshi Yokoi, Daisuke Yoshida
IMPROVING THE POLYMER SURFACE QUALITY BY INFRARED RADIATION DRIVEN DYNAMIC MOLD TEMPERATURE CONTROL...... 1184 Gerald R. Berger, Susanne Roock, Josef Giessauf, Dieter P. Gruber, Walter Friesenbichler, G. Steinbichler
QUANTITATIVE METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZING FLOW MARK IN PP COMPOSITES ...... 1191 Hyun-Deung Shin, Jae-Gon Lim, Chun-Soo Lee, Soonho Lim
DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A PHYSICAL MODEL FOR THE EXPANSION INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS...... 1193 Walter Friesenbichler, Rajganesh Jegadeesan, Georg Steinbichler
HYBRID MULTI-COMPONENT INJECTION MOLDING FOR ELECTRO- AND ELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS...... 1201 Walter Michaeli, Christian Hopmann, Andreas Neuss, Johannes Wunderle
STUDY ON INJECTION MOLDING OF GLASS FIBER REINFORCED POLYPROPYLENE WITH FIBER LENGTH AND DISPERSION...... 1206 Kazuya Morita, Tatsuya Tanaka, Yutaka Imaida, Akira Inoue
MIXER TESTS ON MIM FEEDSTOCK AND BLENDS WITH REGROUND SPRUE TO DETERMINE TO THE OPTIMUM MIXTURE FOR THE INJECTION MOULDING PROCESS...... 1207 Bernd Jakob
INVESTIGATION OF PROCESS CONDITION EFFECTS ON OPTICAL PROPERTY IN INJECTION COMPRESSION MOLDING ...... 1209 Tzu-Chau Chen, Hsien-Sen Chiu, Yuan-Jung Chang, CT Huang, Shi-Chang Tseng, Rong-Yeu Chang
AN INNOVATIVE RAPID THERMAL CYCLING SYSTEM TO IMPROVE THE REPLICATION CAPABILITY OF INJECTION-MOULDED MICROSTRUCTURED SURFACES ...... 1217 Matteo Berton, Giovanni Lucchetta
WARPAGE OF INJECTION MOLDED IN-MOLD LABELING PARTS ...... 1218 Patcharee Larpsuriyakul, Hans-Gerhard Fritz
ULTRASOUND FOR MICROMOULDING CHARACTERISATION...... 1225 Ben Whiteside, Elaine Brown, Cristina Tunea- Bobe, Phil Coates
SOLIDIFICATION DURING THE FILLING STAGE OF INJECTION MOLDING: A SIMULATION- ORIENTED STUDY ...... 1229 Gianluca Mannella, Vincenzo La Carrubba, Valerio Brucato, Wim Zoetelief, Gerard Haagh
REAL-TIME INJECTION MOULDING PRODUCT MASS PREDICTION ...... 1235 Mohammad Umar, Leigh Mulvaney-Johnson, Phil Coates, Russell Speight
DESIGN AND REALIZATION OF A FULL-POLYMERIC INJECTION MOULDABLE MULTIFUNCTIONAL MICROFLUIDIC REACTOR...... 1242 Peter Neerincx
PROPERTIES AND STRUCTURE OF INJECTION MOUDED PARTS MADE OF RECYCLED FOAM HDPE...... 1243 Elzbieta Bociaga, Pawel Palutkiewicz
THE EFFECTS OF INJECTION MOLDING CONDITIONS ON DIMENSIONAL ACCURACY OF MOLDED PLASTIC PARTS...... 1250 Sukran Katmer, Cetin Karatas, H. Ibrahim Unal
WELD LINES STRENGTH IN INJECTION MOULDED PARTS FROM POLYAMIDE COMPOSITE ...... 1251 Tomasz Jaruga, Damian Szymanski, Pawel Palutkiewicz
SIMULATIONS OF THREE DIMENSIONAL FLUID PENETRATIONS FOR WATER ASSISTED INJECTION MOLDED PARTS...... 1255 Chih-Chung Hsu, Fu-Hung Hsu, Hsien-Sen Chiu, Rong-Yeu Chang
PROCESS DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROJECTILE INJECTION TECHNIQUE (PIT)...... 1259 Walter Michaeli, Christian Hopmann, Andreas Neuss, Moritz Grundler
WATER ASSISTED INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS PARAMETERS OPTIMIZATION OF POLYPROPYLENE BY EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN OVERALL EVALUATION CRITERIA (OEC) METHOD...... 1264 Zahra Mohammadian, Taher Azdast, Ahmad Zia Ahmadzai, Amir Hosein Behravesh
MECHANICAL AND RHEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF POLYPROPYLENE/POLY (ETHYLENE OXIDE) BLENDS FILLED WITH HYDROXY- MODIFIED NANOCLAYS...... 1269 Abdulhadi Al-Juhani
STRUCTURE AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYPROPYLENE INJECTION MOLDED PARTS SUBJECTED TO CYCLIC LOADING...... 1273 Elzbieta Bociaga, Monika Kula
7 – MICROINJECTION MOULDING AND RAPID PROTOTYPING
SKIN-CORE CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE OF MICRO INJECTION MOLDED POM AND HDPE ...... 1277 Musa R. Kamal, Jingsong Chu, Abdessalem Derdouri, Andrew Hrymak
NANO-FABRICATION IN PRECISION POLYMER MOLDING...... 1287 Hiroshi Ito, Shohei Takahagi, Akira Hariu, Tetsuo Takayama, Takashi Kyotani
FEA SIMULATION STUDY ON MOULD FEEDING SYSTEM DESIGN OPTIMIZATION FOR PRECISION MICRO MOULDING OF POLYMERIC MICROFLUIDIC CHIP...... 1291 Ge Chen, Jianhong Zhao, Szu Hui Lim, Feng Lin Ng
REALISING NANO-SCALE STRUCTURED SURFACES IN MICROMOULDING...... 1292 Ben Whiteside, Rob Spares, Newsun Jose, Phil Coates
HIGH SHEAR RHEOMETRY OF NANO-FILLED POLYMER SYSTEMS FOR MICRO-INJECTION MOULDING ...... 1296 Ben Whiteside, Tim Gough, Adrian Kelly, Phil Coates, Rob Spares
INFLUENCE OF MOLECULAR WEIGHT AND VISCOSITY ON PARTICLE COALESCENCE FOR LASER SINTERING OF NYLON-12 ...... 1299 Barry Haworth, Neil Hopkinson, David Hitt, Mike Vasquez
PDMS MICROFLUIDICS STRUCTURES IRREVERSIBLY BONDED TO MODIFIED POLYMER FILMS BY SILANOL SURFACE ACTIVATION...... 1306 Michael Lee, Maria Lopez-Martinez, Jaume Esteve, Jose Plaza, Nicole Jaffrezic-Renault, Abdelhamid Errachid, N. Zine
DIRECT MANUFACTURING OF THERMOPLASTIC PARTS BY POWDER LASER SINTERING: COMPARISON OF COALESCENCE SIMULATIONS AND FRENKEL BASED PHYSICAL MODEL ...... 1307 Denis Defauchy, Gilles Regnier, Illoul Amran, Patrice Peyre, Amine Ammar
MICRO MOULDING OF POLYMER MICROFLUIDIC CHIPS USING NICKEL INJECTION MOULD FABRICATED VIA PROTON BEAM WRITING AND UV LITHOGRAPHY...... 1314 Jianhong Zhao, Jeroen Van Kan, Yinghui Wang, Sebastian Wagner, Piravi Perumal Malar, Wai Tuck Kong
METAL MOULD DEVELOPMENT AND MOULDING OF POLYMER MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES WITH FINE MICRO CHANNEL AND PILLAR STRUCTURES ...... 1315 Jianhong Zhao, Kui Liu, Ge Chen, Yang Kay Juay, Fern Lan Ng, Feng Lin Ng
A SERVICE ORIENTATED ARCHITECTURE ENABLED WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK APPROACH APPLIED TO MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL OF A MICRO INJECTION MOULDING PROCESS...... 1316 Umar Raza, Ben Whiteside, Fun Hu, Phil Coates
EFFECTS OF GATE DIMENSION ON PRECISION MICRO MOLDING OF MICRO FEATURE FOR POLYMERIC MICROFLUIDIC CHIP APPLICATION ...... 1325 Ge Chen, Jianhong Zhao, Feng Lin Ng
8 – MIXING AND COMPOUNDING
QUANTIFYING MIXING: A MEASURE OF INHOMOGENEITY IN MULTIPLE SCALES ...... 1326 Yasuya Nakayama, Toshihisa Kajiwara
ULTRASONIC TECHNOLOGY FOR DISPERSION OF NANOFILLERS: REINFORCEMENT OF RIGID AND SOFT POLYMERS...... 1328 Avraam I. Isayev, Todd M Lewis, Rishi Kumar, Jaesun Choi
ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION OF MIXING INSIDE INTERMESHING CO-ROTATING TWIN-SCREW EXTRUDERS...... 1329 Arash Sarhangi Fard, Patrick D. Anderson, Han E.H. Meijer
IMPROVEMENT OF CARBONBLACK DISPERSIBILITY WITH SILOXANE-COPOLYMER...... 1333 Kazuaki Uchiyama, Makoto Aoshima, Katsuyoshi Ebata, Masanori Nikaido
ADVANCED MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT-TARGETED WORKFLOW FROM R&D TO MANUFACTURING ...... 1336 Roland Hingmann, Anne Thuemen, Dirk Opfermann
SENSITIVITY OF COLOURS IN COMPOUNDING OF PLASTICS TO MINUTE VARIATIONS IN PIGMENT COMPOSITIONS...... 1340 Musharaf Rabbani, Jamal Alsadi, Ghaus Rizvi, Daniel Ross, S. Ahmed
COMBINATORIAL COMPOUNDING AND HIGH-THROUGHPUT-SCREENING - A TOOL FOR THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF COMPLEX AND INNOVATIVE COMPOUND RECIPES -...... 1346 Jan Barth, Christian Beinert
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF THE DISPERSING GLASS FIBER BUNCH FOR THE POLYMER COMPOUND PROCESS BY THE TWIN-SCREW EXTRUDER ...... 1354 Kunihiro Hirata, Hiroshi Ishida, Motohito Hiragohri, Yasuya Nakayama, Toshihisa Kajiwara
VOLUME 3
INVESTIGATION OF THE PROCESSING, THE MORPHOLOGY AND THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF MICRO/NANO-COMPOUNDS...... 1362 Walter Michaeli, Christian Hopmann, Florian Puch, Christoph Kremer
9 – MORPHOLOGY AND STRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT
WHEN CRYSTALLIZATION TAKES PLACE IN PROCESSING CONDITIONS...... 1369 Luigi Balzano, Dario Cavallo, Giuseppe Portale, Giancarlo Alfonso, Gerrit Peters
MODEL EXPERIMENTS AND STRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT IN HIGH-PRESSURE CRYSTALLIZATION: THE CRISTAPRESS PROJECT ...... 1370 Severine A.E. Boyer, Francis Fournier, Jean-Marc Haudin, Charles-Andre Gandin
THE PROCESSING OF “POLYMER OPALS” TO PRODUCE STRESS INDUCED COLOUR CHANGES WITHIN PLASTIC FILMS ...... 1375 Malcolm Mackley, Jeremy Baumberg, David Snoswell
EVAPORATION INDUCED ANISOTROPY IN CAST POLYMER SOLUTIONS THROUGH A NOVEL REAL TIME MEASUREMENT SYSTEM...... 1376 Emre Unsal, Jason Drum, Orcun Yucel, Baris Yalcin, Mukerrem Cakmak
FLOW INDUCED CRYSTALLIZATION OF HIGH-DENSITY POLYETHYLENE: THE EFFECTS OF SHEAR, UNIAXIAL EXTENSION AND TEMPERATURE ...... 1379 Maziar Derakhshandeh, Savvas G. Hatzikiriakos
EFFECT OF THE VARIATION OF PARTICLE DIAMETER, SIZE AND SHAPE ON THE FLOW-INDUCED CRYSTALLIZATION OF PARTICLE-CONTAINING POLYMERS ...... 1380 Peter Van Puyvelde, F. Langouche, M. D'Haese
FROM HIGHLY CRYSTALLINE TO AMPORPHOUS THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANES: SENSITIVITY OF THE MECHANICAL RESPONSE TO PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL STRUCTURE ...... 1383 Cristina Prisacariu, Elena Scortanu, Bogdan Agapie
NMR INVESTIGATION OF DYNAMICS AND ORDER OF POLYMERS UNDER MECHANICAL STRESS ...... 1388 Ulrich Scheler
INFLUENCE OF POLYMER CHARACTERISTICS AND PROCESS PARAMETERS ON THE MICROSTRUCTURE AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF PARTS MADE BY SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING...... 1389 Stephane Dupin, Claire Barres, Olivier Lame, Jean-Yves Charmeau
MODELLING OF THE NON-ISOTHERMAL CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS OF SEMI-CRYSTALLINE POLYMERS...... 1394 Julien Giboz, Patrice Mele
NUCLEATION AND CRYSTALLIZATION OF POLYMERS UNDER ISOTHERMAL CONDITIONS STUDIED BY FAST SCANNING CALORIMETRY...... 1399 Evgeny Zhuravlev, Christoph Schick
EVOLUTION OF POLYPROPYLENE MORPHOLOGY AT THE RUBBERY STATE UNDER UNIAXIAL STRAIN ...... 1409 Anthony Thevenon, Rene Fulchiron
RHEOLOGY OF UNFILLED AND FILLED INJECTION MOULDING GRADE LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS...... 1414 Ahmed Rahman, Rahul Gupta, Sati Bhattacharya, Shishir Ray, Franco Costa
SUPERFAST X-RAY ANALYSIS OF SOLIDIFICATION OF POLYAMIDE 6...... 1420 Dario Cavallo, Giovanni C. Alfonso, Luigi Balzano, Giuseppe Portale, Zhe Ma, Ren Androsch, L. Gardella
PRESSURE-QUENCH OF FLOW-INDUCED CRYSTALLIZATION, A NOVEL EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUE...... 1427 Zhe Ma, Luigi Balzano, Gerrit Peters
CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS OF SEMI-CRYSTALLINE POLYMERS: FROM PROCESSING TO PROPERTIES...... 1428 T.B. Van Erp, M. Van Drongelen, G.W.M. Peters
PRESSURE INFLUENCES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF POLYMER MORPHOLOGIES...... 1429 Gerhard Eder, P. Hierzenberger, P. Amorim
A CRYSTALLISATION KINETICS MODEL FOR POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE (PTFE) BASED ON TWO COUPLED KJMA MODELS ...... 1433 Anne-Charlotte Cochez, Rodrigo Bresciani Canto, Ren Billardon, Nicolas Schmitt, L. B. Canto
POLYMER MOLDING PROCESS AT POST CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURE REGION ...... 1442 Arif Rochman, Achim Frick, P. J. Martin
MECHANICAL AND THERMAL ANALYSIS OF PET SUBJECTED TO NON-LINEAR UNIAXIAL DEFORMATIONS...... 1443 Carla Martins, Natalia M. Alves
MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES OF POLYETHYLENE VIA HIGH ENERGY ELECTRON TREATMENT...... 1444 Regine Boldt, Andreas Leuteritz, Sven Wiessner, Uwe Gohs, Udo Wagenknecht, Gert Heinrich
INFLUENCE OF PLASMA PROCESSES ON THE MOLECULAR ORIENTATION AND CRYSTALLINITY OF THERMOPLASTIC SURFACES...... 1445 Walter Michaeli, Tim Arping, Henrik Behm, Friederike Von Fragstein, Karim Bahroun, Wolfgang Dorscheid, Christian Hopmann
INFLUENCE OF MOLECULAR INDUCED SEQUENTIAL ORDERING ON THE TENSILE PROPERTIES OF SEGMENTED POLYURETHANE ELASTOMERS ...... 1450 Cristina Prisacariu, Elena Scortanu, Bogdan Agapie
MORPHOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN APET DURING CONSTANT WIDTH STRETCHING...... 1454 Raja Raja Mohamed, Peter Martin, Gary Menary
ANOMALOUS MECHANICAL ANISOTROPY OF EXTRUDED POLYPROPYLENE SHEET WITH ?-FORM CRYSTALLITES ...... 1455 Panitha Phulkerd, Masayuki Yamaguchi
UNDERSTANDING AND CONTROLLING THE MICROSTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT IN PLASTIC PARTS MANUFACTURED BY SELECTIVE SINTERING : WHAT ARE THE KEY ISSUES IN RE- PROCESSING AGED POLYAMIDE-12 POWDERS ? ...... 1456 Claire Barres, Stephane Dupin, Amir Msakni, Jean-Yves Charmeau
EFFECT OF ADDITIVES ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYETHYLENE ...... 1457 Mohamed Ellafi, Erribae Jalla
FORMATION AND REORGANIZATION OF THE MESOPHASE OF RANDOM COPOLYMERS OF PROPYLENE AND 1-BUTENE...... 1458 Daniela Mileva, Rene Androsch, Evgeny Zhuravlev, Christoph Schick, B. Wunderlich
INTEGRATIVE MATERIALS MODELING OF MOLECULAR ORIENTATION IN AMORPHOUS THERMOPLASTIC PARTS ...... 1463 Walter Michaeli, Tim Arping, Barbara Heesel, Thomas Baranowski, Christian Hopmann
COMPARATIVE STRENGTH TESTS OF SELECTED POLYCAPROLACTAM (PA6) ADHESIVE BONDED JOINTS...... 1468 Anna Rudawska, Bronislaw Samujlo
MICROGEL SPHERULITIES FORMATION IN POLYPROPYLENE THIN FILMS ...... 1472 Ademar Lugao, Humberto Riella, Duclerc Parra, Luis Lima, Washington Oliani
ANOMALOUS MECHANICAL ANISOTROPY OF EXTRUDED POLYPROPYLENE SHEET WITH β-FORM CRYSTALLITES ...... 1478 Panitha Phulkerd, Masayuki Yamaguchi, Yohei Uchiyama
SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF SHAPE-MEMORY RESERVE OF POLYETHYLENES WITH DIFFERENT DEGREE OF BRANCHING AND CROSSLINK DENSITY ...... 1481 Igor Kolesov, Alexander Dolynchuk, Hans-Joachim Radusch
THE INFLUENCE OF KIND OF ADHESIVES ON LOW-DENSITY POLYETHYLENE BONDED JOINTS STRENGTH...... 1486 Anna Rudawska, Beata Kowalska, Tomasz Garbacz
10 – POLYMER BLENDS AND ALLOYS
STUDY ON THE DEGRADATION BEHAVIOR OF PBT/ABS BLENDS PROCESSED BY TWIN SCREW EXTRUSION ...... 1490 Andr Cortegoso Prezenszky, Jos Donato Ambrsio, L. C. Costa, Elias Hage Jr.
COALESCENCE IN QUIESCENT POLYMER BLENDS...... 1497 Ivan Fortelny, Bojan Dimzoski, Josef Juza
POLYPROPYLENE BASED BLENDS FOR LASER SINTER TECHNOLOGY ...... 1504 Hans-Joachim Radusch, Lothar Fiedler, Andreas Haendel, Martin Hristov, Joerg Gerken
THE ROLE OF THE CLAY IN MORPHOLOGY MODIFICATION OF THE UNCOMPATIBLE POLYMER BLENDS ...... 1512 Nadka Tzankova Dintcheva, Giovanni Filippone, Francesco Paolo La Mantia, Domenico Acierno
A SIMPLIFIED MODEL FOR THE EVOLUTION OF THE DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION IN AN EMULSION UNDER STRONG-FLOW CONDITIONS ...... 1515 Michael Loewenberg, Rekha Rao
CRITICAL CONDITIONS FOR DROPLET BREAK-UP: EFFECT OF CONFINEMENT AND COMPONENT VISCOELASTICITY...... 1525 Ruth Cardinaels, Paula Moldenaers
MORPHOLOGY DEVELOPMENT OF IMMISCIBLE POLYMER BLENDS DURING MELTING IN SINGLE- SCREW EXTRUDERS: EFFECT OF COMPOSITION AND COMPATIBILIZATION ...... 1532 Snia Cunha, A. Gaspar-Cunha, Jos Covas
BLENDS OF COMMODITY AND ENGINEERING PLASTICS FOR AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS ...... 1536 Norbert Miskolczi, Csilla Varga, Hajnalka Szakacs, Vladimir Sedlarik, A. Angyal
LASER WELDING OF INCOMPATIBLE THERMOPLASTICS BY MEANS OF INTERMEDIATE LAYERS...... 1537 Walter Michaeli, Tim Arping, Mathias Weber, Christian Hopmann
RHEOLOGY AND MORPHOLOGY OF EXTRUDED THERMOPLASTIC FLOUR/ PBAT BLENDS : INFLUENCES AND INTERACTIONS OF SPECIFIC ENERGY, PLASTICIZER CONTENT AND BOTANICAL ORIGIN...... 1541 Florian Deme, Edith Peuvrel-Disdier, Bruno Vergnes
PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BLENDS OF POLYHYDROXYALKANOATES (PHA) AND POLYLACTIDE (PLA) ...... 1542 Thibaut Gerard, Tatiana Budtova
CELLULOSE ESTER - POLYOLEFIN BINARY BLENDS: MORPHOLOGIES AND PROPERTIES ...... 1546 Francois Besson, Tatiana Budtova
THE EFFECT OF STRUCTURAL PARAMETERS ON THE BEHAVIOR AND PROPERTIES OF PP/EPR IN- REACTOR ALLOY SYNTHESIZED BY MULTI-STAGE SEQUENTIAL POLYMERIZATION ...... 1550 Mehdi Nekoomanesh, Hamed Bagheri, Shokoufeh Hakim, Yousef Jahani, Zhiqiang Fan
IMPACT OF NANOPARTICLES ON THE ONSET OF CO-CONTINUITY OF IMMISCIBLE BLENDS ...... 1551 Giovanni Filippone, Domenico Acierno
IN SITU REACTIVE COMPATIBILIZATION OF PE/ PP/ PS TERNARY BLENDS ...... 1557 Mehdi Partovi Miran, Mir Karim Razavi Aghjeh, Farhang Abbasi
SOLUBILITY, DIFFUSIVITY, INTERFACIAL TENSION AND SPECIFIC VOLUME OF PCL/CO2 SOLUTIONS...... 1560 Maria Giovanna Pastore Carbone, Ernesto Di Maio, Salvatore Iannace, Giuseppe Mensitieri
MORPHOLOGY-PROPERTY RELATIONSHIP OF POLYMER BLENDS BASED ON ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGN POLYMERIC MATERIALS AND ORGANOCLAY ...... 1568 Vincent Ojijo, Suprakas Sinha Ray, Hastings Cele, Rotimi Sadiku
ELABORATION OF THERMOPLASTIC/ELASTOMER BLENDS USING A NEW MIXING DEVICE BASED ON ELONGATIONAL FLOW...... 1574 Jrme Rondin, Michel Bouquey, Ren Muller, C. Serra, G. Martin, P. Sonntag
DYNAMIC SHEAR RHEOLOGICAL BEHAVIOUR OF PP/EPR IN-REACTOR ALLOYS SYNTHESIZED BY MULTI-STAGE SEQUENTIAL POLYMERIZATION PROCESS ...... 1575 Yousef Jahani, Hamed Bagheri, Mehdi Nekoomanesh, Shokoufeh Hakim, Zhiqiang Fan
MISCIBILITY, THERMAL BEHAVIOR AND MORPHOLOGY OF DEPROTEINIZED NATURAL RUBBER HAVING EPOXY GROUP AND POLYETHYLENE OXIDE ...... 1576 Warunee Klinklai, Seiichi Kawahara, Jitladda Sakdapipanich
FORMATION OF PP/EPDM/PA6 TERNARY BLENDS: EFFECT OF PROCESSING CONDITIONS ...... 1577 Shirin Shokoohi, Ahmad Arefazar, Ghasem Naderi
EFFECT OF MODIFIED MONTMORILLONITE ON THE MORPHOLOGY AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLY(ETHYLENETEREPHTALATE)/POLYETHYLENE BLENDS - ROLE OF THE POLARITY AND THERMAL STABILITY OF THE SURFACTANT...... 1581 Mohamed Yousfi, Jrmie Soulestin, Marie-France Lacrampe, B. Vergnes
PARAMETERS AFFECTING CRYSTALLINITY OF THE BLEND COMPONENTS INPP/PBT/NANOCLAY BLEND NANOCOMPOSITE FIBERS WITH MICROFIBRILLAR MORPHOLOGY ...... 1589 Ahmad Bigdeli, Hossien Nazockdast, Abosaied Rashidi, Mohhamd-Esmail Yazdanshenas
CONTROL AND STABILIZATION OF MORPHOLOGIES IN IMMISCIBLE POLYMER BLENDS ...... 1594 Alexandra Fabre, Paul Sotta, Lise Trouillet-Fonti, Simona Ceccia
EFFECT OF SEBS-G-MAH ON THE PHASE MORPHOLOGY AND IMPACT PROPERTIES OF POLYPROPYLENE/POLYCARBONATE/SEBS TERNARY POLYMER BLENDS ...... 1603 Omid Moini Jazani, Ahmad Arefazar, Seyyed Hassan Jafari, Mohammad Reza Peymanfar
EFFECTS OF PROCESSING PARAMETERS ON THE IMPACT STRENGTH OF PP/PC/SEBS TERNARY BLENDS USING TAGUCHI EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS...... 1612 Omid Moini Jazani, Ahmad Arefazar, Seyyed Hassan Jafari, Mohammad Reza Peymanfar
DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE PP/PC ALLOYS...... 1619 Koji Matsumoto, Kentaro Iwasawa, Fumihiko Kakuwa, Shotaro Nishitsuji, Junya Ishibashi, Takashi Inoue
RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTY AND THERMAL STABILITY OF POLYETHYLENE/ISOBUTENE/BITUMEN BLEND...... 1621 Neda Sanatkaran, Bahram Dabir, Hossein Nazockdast
TOUGHENING AND ANTI-AGEING BY THE EVOLUTION OF NEGATIVE PRESSURE IN POLYMER ALLOYS...... 1622 Shotaro Nishitsuji, Shuta Suzuki, Kazuhiro Hashima, Takashi Inoue
COMPATIBILIZATION AND PROPERTIES OF PLA/PBAT BLENDS ...... 1624 Racha Al-Itry, Abderrahim Maazouz
COMPARISON BETWEEN MICROSTRUCTURE/ PROPERTIES OF THERMOPLASTICOLEFINE (TPO) AND THERMOPLASTIC VULCANIZATE (TPV) / ORGANOCLAY NANOCOMPOSITES BASED ON PP/EPDM ...... 1630 Pouya Katbab, Ali Asghar Katbab
RHEOLOGY AND MORPHOLOGY OF PARTICLE CONTAINING IMMISCIBLE POLYMER BLENDS...... 1638 Fatemeh Goharpey, Esmaeel Moghimi, Reza Foudazi
PROPERTIES, HYDROLYSIS AND BIODEGRADATION OF COMPATIBILIZED P(L)LA/PCL BLENDS FOR OUT-DOOR APPLICATIONS ...... 1639 Vincent Berthe, Anne Bergeret, Laurent Ferry, Jean-Charles Benezet
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF BLENDS WITH POLYPROPYLENE...... 1640 Tatana Vackov, Miroslav Šlouf, Martina Nevoralov
TOUGHENING OF THE CELLULOSE ACETATE COMPATIBILIZED POLY (VINYL CHLORIDE) (PVC)/STARCH BLENDS BY METHYL METHACRYLATE- BUTADIENE-STYRENE (MBS) CORE/SHELL RUBBER PARTICLES ...... 1644 Azizeh Javadi, Naser Mohammadi, Gila Mashayekhi
ENCAPSULATION IN MULTIPHASE POLYMERS: ROLE OF VISCOELASTICITY, GEOMETRICAL AND INTERFACIAL PROPERTIES ...... 1649 Khalid Lamnawar, Mosto Bousmina, Abderrahim Maazouz
EFFECTS OF BINARY BLEND COMPOSITIONS OF PPA AND ITS CONCENTRATIONS ON MELT PRESSURE OF HDPE IN FILM BLOWING PROCESS...... 1659 Zahra Akbari, Majid Habibelahi, Marzieh Nouri, Mohamdali Rostami, Ali Ranji
MORPHOLOGY AND ELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF ELECTROSPUN POLYMER ELECTROLYTE BASED ON PVDF/PAN BLEND FOR LITHIUM POLYMER BATTERY: EFFECTS OF BLEND COMPOSITION, VOLTAGE AND SOLUTION CONCENTRATION ...... 1666 Fatemeh Hakkak, Mehdi Rafizadeh, Ali Asghar Sarabi
PREPARATION OF BLENDS OF POLYAMIDE 6/PE-G-MA/ WASTE SBR...... 1667 Daniella Bezerra, Divania Silva, Luzzia Reul, Edcleide Araujo, Ana Cristina Costa
EFFECT OF BLENDING SEQUENCE ON THE RHEOLOGICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF HDPE/LLDPE BLEND-BASED NANOCOMPOSITES ...... 1668 Fabio Roberto Passador, Adhemar Colla Ruvolo Filho, Luiz Antonio Pessan
PP/PA6 BLENDS: EFFECT OF PA6 CONCENTRATION AND OF DIFFERENT COMPATIBILIZERS ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND MORPHOLOGY ...... 1675 Walber Nascimento, Jessica Lima, Pankaj Agrawal, Helio Lira, Tomas Melo
EFFECT OF REPROCESSING CYCLES ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF AN ABS/PC BLEND...... 1676 Luis Henrique Alves Candido, Wilson Kindlein Junior, Renan Demori, Larissa Nardini Carli, Raquel Santos Mauler
INVESTIGATION OF PHYSICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND BEHAVIOR OF BLEND OF POLYPROPYLENE WITH α-OLEFIN COPOLYMERS...... 1680 Hadis Tashakori, Milad Mehranpour, Hossein Nazokdast
RHEOLOGY AND MORPHOLOGY OF IMMISCIBLE POLYMER BLENDS STABILIZED WITH PARTICLES ...... 1687 Esmaeel Moghimi, Fatemeh Goharpey, Reza Foudazi
RECYCLED PET/PP AND RECYCLED PET/EP BLENDS COMPATIBILIZED OR NOT WITH ETHYLENE/ETHYL ACRYLATE/ GLYCIDYL METHACRYLATE TERPOLYMER (P(E-CO-EA-CO-GMA)): MORPHOLOGY AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES...... 1688 Adriana Souza, Caren Caldeira
INFLUENCE OF COMPATIBILIZER ON THE RHEOLOGICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF RECYCLE PET/PC BLENDS...... 1693 Zahra Akbari, Shahrzad Khoramnezhadian, Alireza Mojarrad
THE SYNERGETIC PROPERTIES OF PLASTICIZED LINEAR / BRANCHED PLA BLENDS ...... 1694 Kullawadee Sungsanit, Sati Bhattacharya, Nhol Kao
EVALUATION OF MECHANICAL AND THERMAL PROPERTIES BLENDS PLA/PHBV...... 1701 J. D. Viana, R. F. Farias, F. G. Oliveira, V. C. Paixao, W. M. Pachekoski
STUDY ON PARAMETERS AFFECTING MICROFIBULLAR MORPHOLOGY DEVELOPMENT IN PP/PBT/NANOCLAY BLEND NANOCOMPOSITE FIBERS...... 1705 Ahmad Bigdeli, Hossien Nazockdast, Abo-Saeid Rashidi, Mohamad Esmaeil Yazdanshenas
ISOTHERMAL CRYSTALLIZATION AND MELTING BEHAVIOR OF POLYPROPYLENE /POLY (TRIMETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE) BLEND IN PRESENCE OF NANOCLAY PARTICLES...... 1709 Ali Kalati Vahid, Seyed-Hassan Jafari, Hossein Ali Khonakdar, Rudiger Habler, Dieter Jehnicgen, Parisa Saen, Mahshad Mansouri
TOUGHENING MODIFICATION OF PC/PET ALLOYS BY EMA...... 1713 Teerawat Inpota, Satida Krailas, Hathaikarn Manuspiya
MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF POLYMER BLENDS BASED ON POSTCONSUMER LDPE AND PET IN PRESENCE OF NEW COMPATIBILIZERS BASED ON EBAGMA TERPOLYMER ...... 1714 Aida Benhamida, Mustapha Kaci, Sossio Cimmino, C. Silvestre, Donatella Duraccio
EFFECT OF GRAFTING STRUCTURE OF ACRYLONITRILE-BUTADIENE-STYRENE ON THE MORPHOLOGY AND RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF PC/ABS BLEND ...... 1715 Hyuk Jin Jung, Seung-Shik Shin, Jongtae Yoon, Youngjun Lee, O Ok Park
INFLUENCE OF MATRIX PHASE STATE ON THE COALESCENCE DURING ANNEALING OF QUIESCENT IMMISCIBLE POLYMER BLENDS ...... 1722 Bojan Dimzoski, Ivan Fortelny, Miroslav Šlouf, Danuše Michalkova
NATURAL RUBBER-TOUGHENED POLYAMIDE12...... 1725 Saravalee Saengthaveep, Rathanawan Magaraphan
A STUDY OF THE INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS OF PBT/ABS BLENDS: THE CORRELATION AMONG DUCTILE-BRITTLE TRANSITION TEMPERATURE, MORPHOLOGY AND DEGRADATION...... 1729 Daniel Albuquerque Cardinali, Jose Donato Ambrosio, Elias Hage Jr., N. Larocca
CORRELATION BETWEEN MORPHOLOGICAL & MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF TERNARY POLYMER BLENDS BASE ON RPET/NBR-G-GMA/PA6 ...... 1735 Mohamad Reza Peymanfar, Omid Moini Jazani, Navid Sedaghat
INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF EPOXY-POLYSULFIDE COPOLYMER CURING METHODS ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND CURE BEHAVIORS...... 1736 Majid Abdouss, Tohid Farajpour, Hamid Salarieh
INVESTIGATION OF TRANSESTERIFICATION REACTION IN PBT/PC BLEND: THE EFFECT OF MIXING TIME AND TEMPERATURE, NANOCLAY AND CATALYST ...... 1739 Razieh Mehrabi Kooshki, Ismaeil Ghasemi, Mohammad Karrabi, Hamed Azizi
TOUGHENING OF POLY(BUTYLENE TEREPHTHALATE) WITH FUNCTIONALIZED ETHYLENE PROPYLENE DIENE MONOMER COPOLYMER...... 1743 Deeplata Singh, S. N. Maiti
SHAPE RECOVERY VERSUS DROPLET BREAKUP IN POLYMER BLENDS AFTER UNIAXIAL EXTENSION...... 1744 Zdenek Stary, Helmut Munstedt
11 – POLYMER FOAMS
CO2 INDUCED REINFORCEMENT OF MECHANICAL PROPERTY IN POLYOLEFIN-BASED NANOCELLULAR FOAMS ...... 1749 Rahida Wati Binti Sharudin, Masahiro Ohshima
NOVEL THERMOPLASTIC BASED SUBSTRATES FOR PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS ...... 1757 Volker Altstdt, Thomas Apeldorn, Clemens Keilholz, Felipe Wolff- Fabris
PROCESSING OF HMS-PP/CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES FOAM IN CONTINUOUS FOAM INJECTION MOULDING SYSTEM...... 1764 Subhendu Bhattacharya, Rahul Gupta, Sati Bhattacharya, S Maiti, Anup Ghosh
DESIGN OF CHEMICALLY BLOWN EPOXY FOAMS...... 1769 Lisa Mondy, Mathew Celina, Jamie Kropka, Ed Russick, Rekha Rao
AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE STRUCTURAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF BATCH PROCESSED PVC/NBR BLEND FOAMS...... 1774 Taher Azdast, Kiumars Shakarami, Ali Donyavi, Samarand Rash Ahmadi
EFFECT OF MOLD SHAPE IN RAPID ROTATIONAL FOAM MOLDING ...... 1775 Remon Pop-Iliev
NANOCOMPOSITE FOAMS BASED ON PEN AND GRAPHITE: FOAMING PROCESS AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES...... 1781 Luigi Sorrentino, Marco Aurilia, Livia Cafiero, Salvatore Cioffi, Salvatore Iannace
APPLICATION OF HIGH POROSITY METAL FOAMS ON A HEATING/COOLING SYSTEM FOR RAPID HEAT CYCLE INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS...... 1782 Marco Fiorotto, Giovanni Lucchetta
PRODUCTION OF POROUS POLYMERIC FILMS WITH UNIMODAL OR BIMODAL PORE-SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS VIA DEPRESSURIZATION- AND PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION-INDUCED BUBBLE NUCLEATION IN LOW-VISCOSITY UV-CURABLE MONOMER/HIGH-PRESSURE CO2 SOLUTIONS ...... 1792 Kentao Taki, Shuhei Okumura
RECENT PROGRESS IN THE PROCESSING AND CHARACTERISATION OF HYBRID FOAMS -HYBSCH- ...... 1800 Jan Diemert, Eva Potyra, F. Rapp, A. Kauffmann, F. Henning
MICROSTRUCTURAL INVESTIGATION OF ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE POLYMER COMPOSITE FOAMS CONTAINING CARBON BLACK, GRAPHITE AND EXPANDED GRAPHITE...... 1805 Goolia Nikravan, Ghodratollah Hashemi Motlagh
CORRELATION BETWEEN INJECTION MOULDING PARAMETERS, FOAM MORPHOLOGY AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYCARBONATE FOAMS...... 1812 Hans-Peter Heim, Andrzej K. Bledzki, Hendrik Kirschling, Martin Rohleder
POLY (LACTIC ACID) FOAMING ASSISTED BY SUPERCRITICAL CO2...... 1821 Yves Marie Corre , Jannick Duchet, Abderrahim Maazouz, Joeel Reignier
PRODUCTION OF BIODEGRADABLE FOAMS USING SUPERCRITICAL CO2 ...... 1826 Catherine Kelly, Mike Jenkins, Shona Murphy, Gary Leeke, S. Massoudi, A. Hillerstrom
COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN VEGETAL AND PETROCHEMICAL BASED POLYOLS IN THE RECYCLED POLYURETHANE RIGID FOAMS PROPERTIES ...... 1834 Matheus R. Mezzomo, Giordano Bernardes, Ruth M. Santana
CELLULAR STRUCTURE POLYMERIC THIN FILM USING BIAXIAL STRETCHING TECHNIQUE ...... 1839 Fatima Ezzahra Arrakhiz, Rachid Ait Belale, Mounir Elachaby, Abou Qaiss, Mostapha Bousmina
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE EFFECTS OF SHOT SIZE ON THE DEFLECTION STRENGTH OF INJECTION MOLDED THERMOPLASTIC FOAMS ...... 1840 Reza Mirabzadeh, Ehsan Soodmand Soodmand, Amir Behshad
TRIS(2-BUTOXYETHYL) PHOSPHATE/SULFUR AS AN ALTERNATIVE FLAME RETARDANT SYSTEM FOR EXPANDABLE POLYSTYRENE MADE BY SUSPENSION POLYMERIZATION ...... 1841 Silvia Adriana Collins Abarca, Ricardo Antonio Francisco Machado, Mariana Bianchi, Mateus Lenz Leite
NANOCOMPOSITE FOAMS BASED ON PEN AND GRAPHITE: FOAMING PROCESS AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES...... 1847 Luigi Sorrentino, Marco Aurilia, Livia Cafiero, Salvatore Cioffi, Salvatore Iannace
FINITE ELEMENT MODELING OF COMPRESSIVE ELASTIC BEHAVIOR OF POLYPROPYLENE FOAM ...... 1848 Milad Sadeghipour, F. R. Biglari, H. Garmabi
EXTRUSION METHOD OF THIN-WALLED, AXIS-SYMMETRICAL CELLULAR PRODUCTS...... 1849 Tomasz Garbacz, Anna Rudawska
A NEW CALIBRATION DEVICE FOR THE CELLULAR EXTRUSION OF THERMOPLASTICS...... 1855 Tomasz Garbacz, Tomasz Klepka
DSC SIMULATION TO INVESTIGATE THE INTER-BEAD BONDING MECHANISM BETWEEN EPP BEADS DURING STEAM CHEST MOLDING ...... 1856 Wentao Zhai, Chul B. Park
EXPERIMENTALLY INVESTIGATES THE EFFECT OF INJECTION PRESSURE AND MELT TEMPERATURE ON FLEXURAL STRENGTH AND IMPACT RESISTANCE OF INJECTION MOLDED THERMOPLASTIC FOAMS...... 1857 Reza Mirabzadeh, Ehsan Soodmand, Amir Behshad
STUDY OF THE INFLUENCE OF EXTERNAL AGENTS IN THE FLEXIBLE POLYURETHANE FOAM PRODUCTION FOR SOLE...... 1858 Claudia R. Da Silva, Ruth M. Santana
A COMPARISON BETWEEN CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL PROCESS FOR LDPE FOAMS ...... 1859 Elizabeth Cardoso, Sandra Scagliusi, Duclerc Parra, Ademar Lugao
EFFECTS OF INCORPORATING WASTE RIGID POLYURETHANE FOAM IN POLYMER COMPOUNDS BASED ON POLYPROPYLENE...... 1868 Simone Pereira
THE EFFECTS OF PROCESSING PARAMETERS AND LAYERED SILICA NANOCLAY CONTENT ON MORPHOLOGY OF MICROCELLULAR FOAM BASED ON PP/EPDM/ORGANOCLAY BY RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY (RSM) ...... 1869 Mohsen Keramati, Ismail Ghasemi, Mohammad Karrabi, Hamed Azizi
FOAM EXTRUSION USING NOVEL PHYSICAL BLOWING AGENTS AND INJECTION TECHNIQUE ...... 1875 Walter Michaeli, Christian Hopmann, Tilo Hildebrand, Christoph Kremer
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A VISUALIZATION SYSTEM TO OBSERVE PLASTIC FOAMING PROCESSES UNDER SHEAR STRESSES ...... 1881 Anson Wong, Hiu C. Lee, Chul B. Park
SYNTHESIS OF FLEXIBLE POLYURETHANE NANOCOMPOSITE FOAM WITH ORGANOCLAY ...... 1890 Sara Tabnadeh, Faramarz Afshar Taromi, Hossein Nazockdast
A COMPARATIVE STUDY ABOUT THE EFFECT OF MOLECULAR WEIGHT ON MORPHOLOGY AND THERMAL PROPERTIES OF POLY-LACTIC ACID FOAMS PREPARED VIA TIPS ...... 1891 Valerio Brucato, Francesco Carfi Pavia, Vincenzo La Carrubba
12 – POLYMERS FROM RENEWABLE RESOURCES
DATE PALM SOURCE OF CELLULOSE FILLERS AND NANOFILLERS FOR POLYMER REINFORCEMENT - SUMMARY OF RESEARCH WORK AND PROSPECTS ...... 1892 Hamid Kaddami, Abdelkader Bendahou, Alain Dufresne, Abderrahim Maazouz, E. Fleury, A. Sbiat
AC ELECTRIC FIELD MANIPULATION OF CELLULOSE WHISKERS IN POLYVINYL ACETATE...... 1901 Sanjay Kalidindi, Zoubeida Ounaies, Hamid Kaddami
RHEOLOGICAL TOOLS FOR INVESTIGATING STEREOCOMPLEXATION OF PLA...... 1906 Sajjad Saeidlou, Michel A. Huneault, Hongbo Li, Pierre, Sammut
INFLUENCE OF IONIC PLASTICIZERS ON THE PROCESSING AND MECHANICAL PROPETIES OF STARCH, ZEIN AND THEIR BLENDS...... 1907 Eric Leroy, P. Jacquet, G. Coativy, D. Lourdin
STUDY OF MONOMER FEED RATIO AND PRESSURE EFFECTS ON SYNTHESIS OF POLY(ETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE) BY ANTIMONY-BASED AND TITANIUM-BASED CATALYSTS ...... 1911 Ali Keshavarzian, Mehdi Rafizadeh, Faramarz Afshar-Taromi
SYNTHESIS OF CELLULOSE ESTERS IN IONIC LIQUIDS - MORE THAN A LABORATORY PROCEDURE?...... 1915 Werner Mormann, Wei Leng, M. Wezstein
NEW COMPOSITES BASED ON CASTOR OIL WITH ISOPHORONE DIISOCYANATE POLYURETHANES AND CELLULOSE FIBERS ...... 1918 Ikram Ganetri, Lan Tighzert, Philippe Dony, Allal Challioui
SOL-GEL TRANSITION AND GELATINIZATION KINETICS OF WHEAT STARCH ...... 1919 Fabien Teyssandier, Philippe Cassagnau, Jean-Franois Grard, Nathalie Mignard
COMPARISON OF PLASTICIZING PERFORMANCE, PROCESSABILITY AND LONG-TERM PROPERTIES OF BIOBASED CITRATES AND DI-2- ETHYLHEXYL PHTHALATE DEHP IN FLEXIBLE PVC COMPOUNDS...... 1924 Juan D. Sierra, Mara Del Pilar Noriega, Miguel Blanco, Elkin Cardona, P. P. Vallejo
CELLULOSE NANOFIBRES ACHIEVEMENTS AND FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES ...... 1930 Mly Ahmed Said Azizi Samir
EVALUATION OF RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF PEG35000 AS A LOW MELTING BINDER IN HOT MELT EXTRUSION- SPHERONIZATION PROCESS ...... 1931 Bahareh Bahramian, Ghodratollah Hashemi Motlagh, Ismaeil Haririan, Babak Kafashi
EFFECT OF FIBER SIZE, COMPATIBILIZER AND BAMBOO FIBER CONTENT ON PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF PP-G-MA COMPATIBILIZED POLYPROPYLENE/BAMBOO FIBER COMPOSITES ...... 1939 Baltus Cornelius Bonse, Lilian Arisa Caranti, Rodrigo Magnabosco, Sergio Delijaicov, M. P. P. M. Josefovich, R. A. Da Costa
EFFECT OF PIGMENTS IN PROPERTIES OF EXTRUDED POLYMER/NATURAL FIBER FOAMS...... 1946 Diego Andrs Dominguez, Jorge Alberto Medina
EFFECT OF PHYSICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION COATING ON THE FLOW PROPERTIES OF THE THERMOPLASTICS AND WOOD PLASTIC COMPOSITES...... 1951 Ivica Duretek, Ramesh Kumar Selvasankar, Clemens Holzer
EFFECT OF PROCESS CONDITIONS ON THE RHEOLOGY, MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND STABILITY OF STARCH-BASED POLYMERS ...... 1957 Adrian Kelly, Magdi Omer, Phil Coates
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLY(3-HYDROXYBUTYRATE)-BASED MATERIALS...... 1962 Rafael Kurusu Salles, Nicole Demarquette
PHYSICAL AND MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF WOOD–PLASTIC NANOCOMPOSITES BASED ON RECYCLED AND VIRGIN POLYPROPYLENE AND WASTE NEWSPAPER FIBERS ...... 1963 Mohammadamin Danesh, Reza Hosseinpour, Hassan Ziaei Tabari, Mohammad Pourbakhsh
BIODEGRADATION AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLY(HYDROXYBUTYRATE) AND POLY(ACID LACTIC) ...... 1968 Caroline Faria Bellani, Marcia Cristina Branciforti, Jose Augusto Marcondes Agnelli
PROPERTIES OF BAMBOO FIBERS REINFORCED POLY(HYDROXYBUTYRATE) COMPOSITES...... 1969 Alessandra Lucas, Osvaldo Francisco De Souza Junior, Jose Augusto Marcondes Agnelli, Marcia Cristina Branciforti
CHARACTERIZATION OF HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE/SUGARCANE BAGASSE FIBER/ ORGANOCLAY NANOCOMPOSITE MODIFIED BY ELECTRON-BEAM IRRADIATION ...... 1970 Maria De Fatima Nascimento, Anibal Castilho, Alejandra Teran, Anne Chinellato, Francisco Valenzuela Diaz, Esperidiana Moura
RECYCLED PE/PET/COCONUT POWDER COMPOSITES: INFLUENCE OF CLAY ON THE THERMAL STABILITY AND FLAMMABILITY...... 1971 Izarelle Da Silva Duarte, Debora Braga Gama, Daniela De Lourdes Anjos Coutinho Simoes Andrade, Laura Hecker De Carvalho, Suedina Maria De Lima Silva, Renate Maria Ramos Wellen
EFFECTS OF RADIATION PROCESS AND CLAY PRESENCE IN STARCH – PVA FILMS TO DIFFERENT GLYCEROL CONTENT ...... 1972 Duclerc Parra, Monise Almeida
EFFECTS OF RECYCLING ON THE PROPERTIES OF PLA/THERMOPLASTIC STARCH BLENDS...... 1973 Tulin Taskin, Humeyra Sirin, Guralp Ozkoc
INFLUENCE OF EXTRACTIVE CONTENT ON WOOD FLOUR THERMAL STABILITY OF DIFFERENT SPECIES FROM BRAZIL...... 1978 Matheus Poletto, Ademir Jose Zattera, Maria M.C. Forte, Ruth M.C. Santana
APPLICATION OF CHITOSAN DERIVATIVES AS SIZING AIDS IN PAPERMAKING ...... 1983 Raluca Nicu, Elena Bobu
THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITES FROM THE RESIDUES FOOTWEAR INDUSTRY ...... 1984 Luiz G. F. Boff, Alessandro C. Chies, Cristiano J. J. Oliveira, Ruth M. C. Santana
DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION OF CELLULOSE FIBRES WITH HIGHLY HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE...... 1988 Abdelghani Hajlane, Hamid Kaddami, Roberts Joffe, Lennart Wallstrom, Abderrahim Maazouz
STUDY OF MINERAL FILLER AND STARCH INFLUENCE ON PLA BIODEGRADATION...... 1996 Mariana Sanz
APPLICATIONS OF CHITIN- AND CHITOSAN-DERIVATIVES FOR THE DETOXIFICATION OF WATER AND WASTEWATER...... 1997 Sofia Kara Slimane, Sofiane Bensaha, Asma Benosman, Kamel Benmansour
POLY(3-HYDROXYLBUTYRATE-CO-4-HYDROXYLBUTYRATE)/ TIN COMPOSITES...... 1998 Dingsheng Yu, Xiaoye Liu, Maoshan Niu, Riwei Xu
13 – POLYMER SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION
POLYELECTROLYTE BEHAVIOR OF IONIZED ARBORESCENT POLYSTYRENE-GRAFT-POLY(2- VINYLPYRIDINE) COPOLYMERS ...... 1999 Mario Gauthier, Abdul Munam
RING-OPENING POLYMERIZATION OF CYCLIC ESTERS BY METAL COMPLEXES ...... 2000 M. Lahcini, M. Raihane, H. R. Kricheldorf, M. Kalmi, P. Castro, T. Repo
IN-SITU MONITORING OF POLYMER CRYSTALLIZATION BY OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT)...... 2006 Peter Hierzenberger, Gerhard Eder, Elisabeth Leiss-Holzinger, David Stifter, D. Stifter
POLYPYRROLE FILMS ON ALUMINIUM FROM ACID ELECTROLYTES: SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERISATION ...... 2011 Lisete Scienza, George Thompson
SYNTHESIZING PLA FOR A NEW APPROACH OF REACTIVE PROCESSING: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STRUCTURAL, THERMAL AND RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES...... 2019 Fouad Chakraoui, Mohamed Lahcini, Khalid Lamnawar, Abderrahim Maazouz, M. Raihane
IONIC POLYESTERS BASED ON N-ALKYL DIETHANOLAMINE...... 2021 Miroslav Huskic, Majda Zigon, Ema Zagar
ETHYLENE POLYMERIZATION USING MGCL2/SIO2 SUPPORTED ZIEGLER-NATTA CATALYST...... 2022 Amir Rouhisefat, Saeed Pourmahdian, Mohammad Vatankhah, Framarz Afshar Taromi
HIGHLY BRANCHED (ARBORESCENT) GRAFT POLYMERS AS POLYMER PROCESSING ADDITIVES...... 2023 Mario Gauthier, Firmin Moingeon, Wai Yau Lin, Steven J. Teertstra, Costas Tzoganakis
SYNTHESIS OF MOLECULAR IMPRINTED POLYMER OF CITALOPRAM AND ITS APPLICATION IN SOLID-PHASE EXTRACTION...... 2024 Majid Abdouss, Neda Beik Mohammadi
PREPARATION OF NOVEL MALEIC-ANHYDRIDE MODIFIED STYRENE BUTADIENE RUBBER /SEGMENTED POLYURETHANE AND EVALUATION OF THEIR PROPERTIES AND COMPATIBILITY ...... 2031 Younes Hassani, Gity Mir Mohamad Sadeghi
EFFECT OF REACTION CONDITIONS ON THE MOLECULAR WEIGHT OF HYDROXYLATED LACTIC ACID-BASED PREPOLYMERS (PLA-OH)...... 2032 Saeed Saeedzadeh, Gity Mir Mohamad Sadeghi, Hosain Izadi-Vasafi, Hamid Garmabi
FLASH DSC 1: A NOVEL FAST DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETER...... 2037 Juergen Schawe
VOLUME 4
CRYSTALLIZATION AND RELAXATION OF POLYPROPYLENE MEASURED BY DMA, TEMPERATURE MODULATED DSC AND DSC IN A WIDE COOLING RATE RANGE...... 2041 Juergen Schawe
NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY CROSS-CORRELATION OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES FOR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERED (SLS) PARTS BUILT AT DIFFERENT LASER SCAN SPEEDS...... 2045 Mark Beard, Oana Ghita
SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NEW CELLULOSE DERIVATIVE FILMS BASED ON THE HYDROXYETHYL CELLULOSE PREPARED FROM "STIPA TENACISSIMA" CELLULOSE OF EASTERN MOROCCO. PART I: SOLUBILITY STUDY...... 2050 El Idrissi
SORPTION PROPERTIES OF A POLYSTYRENE SUPPORTED SCHIFF BASE RESIN, TOWARD DIVALENT METAL IONS ...... 2051 Noureddine Charef, Lekhmici Arrar, Abderrahmane Baghiani, Seddik Khenouf, Mohammad Mubarak
HIGHLY TRANSPARENT POLYPROPYLENE SHEET CONTROLLED BY POLYMER DESIGN AND BLENDING LINEAR LOW DENSITY POLYETHYLENE...... 2062 Toshitaka Kanai, Akira Funaki, Kaname Kondo
KINETICS AND RHEOLOGY OF RING OPENING POLYMERISATION OF CYCLIC SILOXANE MONOMERS INITIATED BY PHOSPAZENE "SUPER" BASES...... 2074 Philippe Chaumont, Guillaume Pibre, Etienne Fleury, Philippe Cassagnau
CONTINUOUS ANIONIC POLYMERISATION OF A NEW IMPACT MODIFIER FOR PA 6...... 2079 Marcus Poindl, Simon Geier, Christian Bonten
ADVANCES IN RADICAL COPOLYMERIZATION OF F-MONOMERS WITH CYANO COMONOMERS: SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND PROPERTIES...... 2080 Raihane Mustapha
INFLUENCE THE RATE OF VINYL ACETATE ON THE SOLUBILITY OF THE POLYMER EVAC. EXPERIMENTATION AND MODELING ...... 2086 Ahmed Oughilas, A Benghalem
ENERGY EFFICIENT DEPOLYMERIZATION OF POST CONSUMER POLY-LACTIC ACID WITH ULTRASONICS ...... 2087 Gowrishankar Srinivasan, David Grewell
PREPARATION OF A NEW POLYSTYRENE SUPPORTED- ETHYLENEDIAMINEDICARBOXYLIC ACID RESIN AND ITS SORPTION BEHAVIOR TOWARD DIVALENT METAL IONS ...... 2095 Noureddine Charef, Lekhmici Arrar, Abderrahmane Baghiani, Mohammad Mubarak, Z. Benmaamar, S. Khennouf, R. M. Zalloum
IN-SITU POLYMERIZATION OF ?-CAPROLACTAM IN PRESENCE OF AMMONIUM POLYPHOSPHATE TOWARD FIRE RETARDANT PA6 ...... 2101 Sima Habibi, Shervin Ahmadi, Mohammad Yousefi, Azam Mohammadi
LIGHTENED POLYAMIDE 6,6 OBTAINED BY A CHEMICAL REACTION BETWEEN THE POLYMER END-GROUPS AND A SPECIFIC FOAMING AGENT...... 2102 Clio Cocquet, Lise Trouillet-Fonti, Simona Ceccia, Didier Long, Serge Henrot, Eric Roche, L. Odoni
MODIFYING PMMA BY COMPOUNDING WITH PMMA-COLLOIDS ...... 2108 Viola Sauer, Hans-Peter Heim
CHARACTERIZATION AND WEATHERABILITY PERFORMANCE EVOLUTION IN SAN/EPDM BLENDS VIA PHISICAL AND CHEMICAL MODIFICATION ...... 2113 Mona Taheri, Jalil Morshedian, Hossein Ali Khonakdar
POLYETHYLENE ADDITIVE OPTIMIZATION HDF-5116 ...... 2114 Mahmoud Abdulghader, Mohamed Kalifa, Hussain Elzaeddy
MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYCARBONATE UNDER GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE...... 2115 Yao-Wen Chang, Jung-Ho Cheng
EXTENDING THE CAPABILITIES OF MS TECHNOLOGIES FOR POLYMERS ANALYSIS USING NOVEL SOURCES AND ION MOBILITY...... 2124 Gerard Bondoux, Mike Mccullagh, H Major
SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A NEW ALIPHATIC-AROMATIC POLYAMIDE PREPARED BY IN-SITU INTERFACIAL POLYMERIZATION ...... 2130 Donya Pakdaman Gohari, Mohammadreza Kalaee, Alireza Sharif, S. Milad Samar, Mohammadreza Manafi
PREPERATION OF POLY(ACRYLONITRILE-CO-METHYLMETHACRYLATE) NANOPARTICLES AND THEIR HEAT RELEASE PROPERTIES ...... 2135 Young Ho Kim, Won Seon Lee, Heung Su Park, Hyeon Tae Cho
THERMAL DEGRADATION BEHAVIOR OF A NEARLY ALTERNATING COPOLYMER OF VINYLIDENE CYANIDE WITH 2,2,2-TRIFLUOROETHYL METHACRYLATE ...... 2136 Mustapha Raihane, Valter Castelvetro, Sabrina Bianchi, Salima Atlas, Ilaria Bonaduce, Mohammed Lahcini
POLYMERIZATION OF MATERIALS RESULTING FROM AGRO-RESOURCES WITH BOROHYDRIDO LANTHANIDE COMPOUND...... 2144 Saliha Loughmari, Abderrafia Hafid, Aicha Bouazza, Addelaziz El Bouadili, Marc Visseaux
PREPARATION OF INORGANIC POLYMERS BASED ON WASTES FROM CHLORINATION UNIT...... 2145 Mohammadreza Kalaee, Mohammad H. N.Famili, Mohsen Zeeb, Ali Mehdinia, S. Milad Samar
SYNTHESIS OF AMORPHOUS COPOLYMER OF POLY(ETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE) BASED ON 1,4- CYCLOHEXANEDIMETHANOL AND STUDY THE EFFECT OF DIFFERENT PROCESS PARAMETERS ON IMPROVING PROCESSABILITY PROPERTIES ...... 2148 Hadi Shirali, Mehdi Rafizadeh, Faramarz Afshar Taromi
PREPARATION OF POLYSULFIDE RESIN BY PHASE TRANSFER CATALYZED: SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION...... 2149 Mohamadreza Kalaee, Fatemeh Saadaty, Melika Hajiali, Mohsen Dadgar, Mohammad H. N. Famili, Pedram Manafi
CORONA DISCHARGE TREATMENT OF POLYPROPYLENE POWDER...... 2152 Momtahan Rahmat, Hamid Rahimi, Seyed Mojtaba Mirabedini
MODIFICATION OF POLYPROPYLENE FIBERS BY GRAFT COPOLYMERIZATION OF METHACRYLIC ACID MONOMERS FOR REINFORCING OF CONCRETE ...... 2155 Majid Mazhar, Majid Abdouss, Mozhdeh Zargaran, Herish Moradi
SYNTHESIS AND PROPERTIES OF AN AMPHIPHILIC THREE-BLOCK COPOLYMER BASED ON POLYSTYRENE- β-CYCLODEXTRIN-POLY GLYCIDOL...... 2158 Majid Abdouss, Ahmad Dehghan, Mohsen Adeli, Ebadullah Asadi, Mehran Ghiaci
REDUCTION OF THE USE OF SOLVENT IN THE CASTING INDUSTRY: USE OF POLYURETHANE FOUNDRY BINDER SYSTEM OF LOW TOXICITY...... 2161 Rinaldo Geronimo Joaquim, Carlos Perez Bergmann, R. M. C. Santana
INFLUENCE OF PROCESSING PARAMETERS ON THE PROPERTIES OF PET REGRANULATES...... 2167 Marek Szostak
STUDY OF THE RHEOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR OF THE CHITOSAN HYDROGELS VIA ENZYMATIC SYNTHESIS FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS ...... 2170 Ricardo Serrato-Millan, Luis Medina-Torres, Fausto Calderas, Yaneth Garcua-Carvajal, Gabriel Luna-Barcenas
SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND INVESTIGATION THE EFFECTS OF TWO PROCESS PARAMETERS ON MOLECULAR WEIGHT OF POLY(BUTYLENE TEREPHTHALATE)...... 2174 Nina Heidarzadeh, Mehdi Rafizadeh, Famarz Afshar Taromi
CORRELATION BETWEEN THE FRICTION COEFFICIENT AND THE IMPACT ABSORPTION RATE IN FOOTWEAR WITH DIFFERENT HARDNESSES...... 2175 Ademir P. Vargas, Gustavo Balbinot, Clarissa Schuch, Ruth M. Santana
A NEW TECHNIQUE TO OBTAIN THE GELATION TIME OF HYDROGELS...... 2176 Fausto Calderas, E. Emilio Herrera-Valencia, Guadalupe Sanchez-Olivares, Luis Medina-Torres, Antonio Sanchez-Solus, Octavio Manero
SOLID STATE POLYMERIZATION IN POST-CONSUMER PET: EVALUATION OF THE DIFFERENT SHAPES IN THE EFFICIENCY OF THE PROCESS...... 2177 Fernando Oliveira, Sandra Cruz
CHARACTERIZATION OF THE LINEAR LOW DENSITY POLYETHYLENE (LLDPE) GRAFTED WITH FLUOROCARBONS BY GAMMA IRRADIATION ...... 2181 Helio Ferreto, Ana Oliveira, Luis Filipe Lima, Duclerc Parra, Ademar Lugao
PREPARING UNIFORM MICROSPHERULE AND NANOSPHERULE MOLECULE-IMPRINTING POLYMERS AND CONTROLLING THEIR SIZE AND MORPHOLOGY AS DRUG-DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR GABAPENTIN...... 2182 Majid Abdouss, Saeed Noee, Alireza Dabirsiaghic, Ebadullah As
NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN HARD-PHASE REINFORCED ELASTOMERS: A STUDY OF COPOLYURETHANES DERIVED FROM MIXTURES OF DIISOCYANATES...... 2183 Cristina Prisacariu, Elena Scortanu, Bogdan Agapie
COMPARISON OF THE STRESS CRACK RESISTANCE OF POLYETHYLENE GRADES WITH THE TEST PERFORMANCE BEHAVIOUR OF PACKAGING FOR THE TRANSPORT OF DANGEROUS GOODS...... 2187 Ute Niebergall, Margit Weltschev
SYNTHESIS AND STUDY OF NOVEL MULTIFUNCTIONAL CARBOHYDRATE HYPERBRANCHED POLYMERS...... 2191 Maria Micha-Screttas, Mazen Sleiman, Cecile Arbez-Gindre, Georgios A. Heropoulos, Theodora Calogeropoulou, Barry R. Steele
COMPAIRING THE EFFECT OF SB AND TI BASED CATALYSTS ON INCREASING THE MOLECULAR WEIGHT OF THE SYNTHESIED POLY (TRIMETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE) ...... 2192 Sogol Naghavi Sheikholeslami, Mehdi Rafizadeh, Faramarz Afshar Taromi
SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NEW ORGANOPHILIC CLAYS. PREPARATION OF POLYSTYRENE/CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES...... 2193 Mohamed Ali Ben Yahia, Said El Kazzouli, El Mokhtar Essassi, Mosto Bousmina
INVESTIGATION ON ELECTROFUSION WELD PROPERTIES OF POLYETHYLENE GAS PIPES ...... 2196 Pero Raos, Zlatko Tonkovic, Mladen Sercer
ETUDE DE LA RÉTICULATION DU POLYÉTHYLÈNE HAUTE DENSITÉ PAR UN PEROXYDE ORGANIQUE ...... 2197 Cheraz Khaloua, Abdelmalek Douibi, Djaafar Benachour
NANOFIBRILLATED CELLULOSE FROM TEMPO-OXYDATED EUCALYPTUS FIBRES: EFFECT OF THE CARBOXYLIC CONTENT...... 2198 Iskander Besbes, Sami Boufi, Sabrine Alila
CHANGES IN THERMAL BEHAVIOUR OF AMINORESINS AT STORAGE ...... 2207 Kadri Siimer, Tiia-Maaja Suld
OPTIMIZATION OF DOUBLE-BOND CONVERSION OF ACRYLIC UV-CURABLE RESIN FORMULATIONS...... 2208 J. G. Schauberger, Rainer Puchleitner, Ling Yue, Gisbert Riess, Wolfgang Kern
SYNTHESIS AND PROPERTIES OF TEMPO-SUBSTITUTED GLYCIDILMETHACRYLATE COPOLYMERS...... 2211 V. Konsulov, I. Parushev, A. Lyapova, Tz. Godjevargova
THERMO-SENSITIVE AND BIODEGRADABLE BLOCK COPOLYMERS OBTAINED BY CONTROLLED POLYMERISATION...... 2212 Mohammed Lahcini, Hicham Qayouh, Cecile Nouvel, Jerome Babin, Mustapha Raihane, Jean-Luc Six
POLYMERIZATION OF CYCLOSILOXANES IN ANION POLYMERIZATION, STARTED BY BUTYLLITHIUM IN THE PRESENCE OF DMF...... 2214 A Hannioui, A El Malki, E Rakib, N Knouzi, M Vaultier
SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A NOVEL AROMATIC POLYSULFDE IN THE PRESENCE OF PHASE TRANSFER CATALYST...... 2216 Milad Sheidaie, Mohammadreza Kalaee, Mohsen Dadgar, Mohammad H. N. Famili, Abbas Shockravi, S. Milad Samar, Ahmad Allahbakhsh, Hamid Aliasgari Dehaghi, Ali Amirsadri
SYNTHESES AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THE MOLECULARLY IMPRINTED POLYMER FOR CONTROLLED RELEASE OF BROMHEXINE...... 2219 Majid Abdouss, Saman Azodi Deilami, Ebadullah Asadi
COPOLYMERIZATION OF TRIOXANE WITH DIOXOLANE CATALYZED BY MAGHNITE-H+...... 2221 Khadidja Beloufa
STUDY OF PLASTICIZERS TO THE PVC IN REPLACEMENT OF DIOCTHYLPHTALATE (DOP)...... 2222 Marcelo Giovanela, Janaina Da Silva Crespo, Eder Peritto, Machado Giovanna
THE INFLUENCE OF RECYCLING PROCESS OF EXTRUDED UNFLAMMABLE POLYETHYLENE ON ITS SURFACE GEOMETRIC STRUCTURE ...... 2227 Bronislaw Samujlo, Anna Rudawska
SYNTHESIS AND PROPERTIES OF FURANIC POLYAMIDE BY DIRECT POLYCONDENSATION USING REACTOR AND MICROWAVE...... 2230 Claudia Fontoura, Jorge Candido, Raquel Mauler, Rosina Coimbra
SUPERABSORBENT POLYACRYLAMIDE HYDROGELS OBTAINED BY TWO DIFFERENT CROSS- LINKING PROCESSES...... 2231 Hellen Costenaro Guadagnin, Mara Tania Silva Alcantara, Antonio Jedson Caldeira Brant, Ademar Benevolo Lugao
DIELECTRIC POLYMERS BASED ON 2,2,2-TRIFLUOROETHYL ACRYLATE : STRUCTURE, THERMAL AND DIELECTRIC CHARACTERIZATIONS ...... 2241 Salima Atlas, Mustapha Raihane, Ahmed Belfkira, M. Dionisio, N. Correia, Anders Hult, M Malkoch, E Merino
IN SITU, ELECTROPOLYMERIZATION OF EUGENOL IN BASIC MEDIUM. APPLICATION TO STAINLESS STEELS CORROSION INHIBITION...... 2250 Abdelilah Chtaini, Abderrafia Hafid, Mostafa Khouili
14 – PROCESS MODELING AND SIMULATIONS
COMPUTER MODELING FOR STARVE FED SINGLE SCREW EXTRUSION...... 2251 Krzysztof Wilczynski, Andrzej Nastaj, Adrian Lewandowski, Krzysztof J. Wilczynski
MODEL DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF CRYSTALLIZATION BEHAVIOR IN INJECTION MOLDING PROTOTYPE FLOWS ...... 2254 Patrick Anderson, Frederico Custodio, Gerrit Peters, Han Meijer
NUMERICAL DETERMINATION OF PERMEABILITY OF FIBER REINFORCEMENT FOR THE RTM PROCESS...... 2255 Gregory Puaux, Luisa Silva, Patrice Laure, Michel Vincent, Thierry Coupez
FIBRE ORIENTATION AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES PREDICTIONS FOR SHORT GLASS FIBRE REINFORCED INJECTION MOULDING...... 2256 Phil Caton-Rose, Pete Hine, Franco Costa, Xiaoshi Jin, Jin Wang, Bushra Parveen
RELATING SUBTLE STRUCTURAL VARIATIONS OF POLYMERS TO KEY VISCOELASTIC FEATURES USING BRANCH-ON-BRANCH MODELS ...... 2261 Jaap Den Doelder
BEM INVESTIGATIONS ON LIQUID COMPOSITE MOLDING FLOW...... 2266 Fabrice Schmidt, Jean-Nol Felices, Olivier Pascal, Gilles Dusserre, Benot Cosson, Arthur Cantarel, Renaud Gantois
A PHYSICAL MODEL FOR A QUALITY CONTROL CONCEPT IN INJECTION MOULDING...... 2267 Thomas Lucyshyn, Michael Kipperer, Christian Kukla, Gnter R. Langecker, Clemens Holzer
SECONDARY FLOWS AND THE COMPUTATION OF FREE SURFACE VISCOELASTIC FLUID FLOW PROBLEMS...... 2277 Andr Fortin, Robert Gunette, Abdoulaye Kane, Yves Bourgault
ANALYSIS OF FREE SURFACE FLOW IN EXTRUSION FILM CASTING USING EXPERIMENTS AND MODELING STUDIES ...... 2283 Harshawardhan Pol, Sumeet Thete, B. P. Gautham, Pankaj Doshi, Ashish Lele
EXTENSIONAL PROPERTIES OF AMORPHOUS POLYMER FILMS: TEMPERATURE EFFECT AND MODELING...... 2284 Anthony Thevenon, Rene Fulchiron
A STUDY ON THE EFFECTS OF PROCESSING PARAMETERS ON PLASTIC COLOUR DURING COMPOUNDING OPERATIONS...... 2289 Musharaf Rabbani, Jamal Al-Sadi, Shahid Ahmed, Ghaus Rizvi, Daniel Ross
NON-ISOTHERMAL FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF FREE INFLATION OF FLAT MEMBRANE OF HDPE CHARGED BY WOOD FLOURS ...... 2293 Fouad Erchiqui, Mostafa Tazi, Franois Godard
FIBER LENGTH DISTRIBUTION CALCULATION IN INJECTION MOLDING SIMULATION...... 2294 Xiaoshi Jin, Jin Wang
VALIDATION OF THREE- DIMENSIONAL MICRO INJECTION MOULDING SIMULATION ACCURACY...... 2303 Guido Tosello, F. S. Costa, H. N. Hansen
SIMULATION OF THE STRETCH BLOW MOULDING PROCESS ...... 2310 James Nixon, Gary Menary
REALISTIC THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW SIMULATION OF VICOELASTIC FLUIDS IN EXTRUDER USING FINITE-VOLUME METHOD...... 2311 S. A. Ahmad Ramazani, Yousef Tamsilian, Amirhossein Ahmadian
SIMULATION OF FLOW OF CONFORMATIONAL RHEOLOGICAL MODELS IN CONTRACTION FLOWS...... 2312 S. A. Ahmad Ramazani, Arash Behrang, Yousef Tamsilian
NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF FILLING PROCESSES WITH NEWTONIAN AND SHEAR-THINNING FLUIDS...... 2317 Rekha Rao, Lisa Mondy, Scott Roberts, David Noble
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS METHOD FOR DEFORMATION BEHAVIOR OF POLYMER FOAM MATERIAL IN HEATING COMPRESSION MOLDING...... 2323 Atsushi Yokoyama
PULSATING AND OSCILLATING FLOW OF BIOLOGICAL LIQUID ...... 2328 Edtson Emilio Herrera-Valencia, Mayra Sanchez-Villavicencio, Fausto Calderas, Guadalupe Sanchez-Olivares, Antonio Sanchez- Sols, Octavio Manero
DYNAMICS AND RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF ENTANGLED POLYMERIC SYSTEMS BY DISSIPATIVE PARTICLE DYNAMICS ...... 2335 Mikio Yamanoi, Joao Maia, O. Pozo Michellangelli
METAHEURISTIC ALGORITHMS FOR OPTIMIZATION OF INFRARED HEATING STAGE OF THE THERMOFORMING...... 2340 Nahas Nabil, Fouad Erchiqui
ANISOTROPIC MESH ADAPTATION FOR 3D FINITE ELEMENT MODELING OF TWIN-SCREW EXTRUSION PROCESS...... 2346 Rudy Valette, Audrey Durin, Bruno Vergnes, Pascal De Micheli, Hong-Chau Nguyen, Hugues Digonnet, Thierry Coupez
PREDICTING THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF PA6/EPR-G-MA BLEND USING ANFIS METHOD...... 2347 Marzieh Ghatarband, Zeinab Arab Asadi, Hakimeh Fazilat, Mohammad E. Shiri, Mohammadreza Kalaee, Saeedeh Mazinani
A OPTIMIZATION METHOD FOR INJECTION MOLD DESIGN WITH COMPLICATED CAVITY TO IMPROVE RESIN FLOW PATTERN...... 2351 Tomoo Hirota, Yoshiaki Togawa, Atsushi Yokoyama
DEVELOPMENT OF 3D SIMULATIONS OF MICROINJECTION MOULDING PROCESS; COMPARISON BETWEEN EXPERIMENTS AND SIMULATIONS...... 2352 Patrice Mele, Sylvain Carrier, Julien Giboz
15 – THERMAL PROPERTIES AND HEAT TRANSFER IN PROCESSING
THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF AN INJECTED POLYMER AND SHORT GLASS FIBERS COMPOSITE PART: MEASUREMENT AND MODEL...... 2357 Ronan Le Goff, Nicolas Boyard, D. Delaunay, Vincent Sobotka
STUDY OF HEAT ABSORPTION IN THE THERMOFORMING PROCESS FOR OF TRANSPARENT AND FILLED POLYSTYRENE ...... 2364 Josef Friedrich Puehringer, Gernot Zitzenbacher, Christoph Spreitzer
SIMULATION FOR A DRYING PROCESS OF SOLVENT CAST FILMS SUCH AS A TAC FILM ...... 2372 Toshiro Yamada, Hiroko Nakamura, Kaoru Tada, Yongwon Kim
THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF POLYMERS BY STEADY AND NON STEADY STATE TECHNIQUES...... 2382 Wilson Santos
ANISOTROPIC THERMAL CONDUCTION IN POLYMERIC MATERIALS...... 2397 David Venerus, Jay Schieber, Sahil Gupta, Abhilesh Agarwal, David Nieto Simavilla, David Sun
POLYMER CRYSTALLIZATION DATA AT PROCESSING RELEVANT COOLING RATES FOR MORE REALISTIC PROCESS MODELING...... 2398 Christoph Schick, Evgeny Zhuravlev
MICRO AND MACRO SCALE ANALYSIS OF THE STRUCTURE AND THERMOPHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF POLYMERS...... 2402 Nicolas Maillon, Lo Foulon, Sverine Goms, Mohamed Boutaous
THERMAL ANALYSIS OF THE POLYMER-MOLD INTERFACE IN THE INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS...... 2409 Rabie El Otmani, Franois Rousset, Hamda Benhadid, M. Boutaous, P. Bourgin
THERMAL PROPERTIES OF POLYMERS DURING SOLIDIFICATION AT PROCESSING RELEVANT COOLING RATES...... 2419 Evgeny Zhuravlev, Christoph Schick, Andreas Wurm
THE EFFECT OF ADDING POLYSILANE ON HEAT FUSION PROPERTIES OF VARIOUS KINDS OF POLYETHYLENE...... 2423 Katsuhisa Tokumitsu, Masahiro Yamada, Kana Kobori, Mika Nakamura
REDUCED MODEL FOR THE DETERMINATION OF THE COOLING TIMES OF INJECTED SEMI- CRYSTALLINE POLYMERS ...... 2431 Vincent Sobotka, Nicolas Boyard, Didier Delaunay
INTERPLAY OF VISCOELASTICITY AND INERTIA: HEAT TRANSFER ASYMPTOTE IN LAMINAR TUBE FLOW WITH CONSTANT BOUNDARY HEAT FLUX ...... 2432 Dennis Siginer, Mario Letelier
SOLVING PART WARPAGR FOR INJECTION MOLDING UNDER ASYMMETRY MOLD COOLING CONDITIONS ...... 2442 Shia Chung Chen, Yin Chang, Shih Tsun Huang, Sung-Wei Huang
MEASUREMENT OF THERMAL PROPERTIES OF RUBBERS DURING THE CURING PROCESS ...... 2443 Zied Cheheb, Pierre Mousseau, Alain Sarda, Remi Deterre
FABRICATION OF RIGID POLYURETHANE SOLID PLATES WITH THERMAL-ACOUSTICAL ISOLATION PROPERTIES BY PRIMARY RECYCLING FROM SURFBOARD SHAPING PROCESS RESIDUES ...... 2444 Felipe A L Sanchez, Diego P Tarrago, Ruth M. Santana
THERMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS IN PU TENSILE TEST...... 2450 Guillermo Mudry, Rudnei Palhano, Facundo Lopez, Telmo Strohaecker
PHASE SEPARATION AND DYNAMICAL-MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYSULFIDE MODIFIED EPOXY RESIN...... 2451 Majid Abdouss, Tohid Farajpour, Hamid Salarieh
EFFICIENCY AND QUALITY CAPABILITY OF DISCONTINUOUS COOLING TECHNIQUES ...... 2454 Walter Michaeli, Christian Hopmann, Andreas Neuss, Silke Allert
ONE-STEP-PRODUCTION OF SUPERHYDROPHOBIC PLASTICS SURFACES ...... 2459 Walter Michaeli, Christian Hopmann, Andreas Neuss, Maximilian Schoengart
CHANGES IN THERMAL BEHAVIOUR OF AMINORESINS AT STORAGE ...... 2464 Kadri Siimer, Tiia-Maaja Suld, Tiit Kaljuvee, Peep Christjanson, Tonis Pehk
NATURAL AGEING OF THE POLYPROPYLENE: MORPHOLOGICAL AND THERMAL PROPERTIES ...... 2465 Larissa S. Montagna, Ruth M. Santana
AN INNOVATIVE DEVICE TO ANALYZE HEAT TRANSFERS IN SELECTIVE INFRARED SINTERING (SIS) AND TO IMPROVE MODELLING OF THE PROCESS ...... 2471 Amir Msakni, Mhamed Boutaous, Stephane Dupin, Claire Barres, Jean-Yves Charmeau
EFFECT OF THERMAL ANNEALING ON THE DIRECTIONAL MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF EXTRUDED POLY PROPYLENE SHEETS...... 2472 Reza Mirabzadeh, Ehsan Soodmand, Amir Behshad
VISCOUS DISSIPATION OF A COMPLEX LIQUID IN AN OSCILLATORY PIPE FLOW ...... 2473 Edtson Emilio Herrera-Valencia, Fausto Calderas, Guadalupe Sanchez-Olivares, Luis Medina-Torres, Octavio Manero
16 – PROCESS MONITORING, CONTROL AND SENSORS
CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYMER MELT BEHAVIOR USING A TWIN- SCREW EXTRUDER, OPERATING AS AN INTERNAL RHEOMETER...... 2477 Sebastio V. Canevarolo, Leonardo Sborowsky
MEASUREMENT OF FLOW FRONT VELOCITY BY SINGLE OPTICAL FIBER SENSOR...... 2483 Hidetoshi Yokoi, Norimichi Masuda
MICROWAVE ENERGY APPLIED TO CHLOROPRENE/SILICA COMPOUND DEVULCANIZATION ...... 2487 Sandra Scagliusi, Elizabeth Cardoso, Sumair Araujo, Liliane Landini, Duclerc Parra, Ademar Lugao
IN-PROCESS MONITORING OF PS/PMMA POLYMER BLENDS FLOW DURING EXTRUSION ...... 2492 Adillys Santos, Sebastiao Canevarolo
STUDY ON THERMO – HYDROLYTIC DEGRADATION OF ESTER ELASTOMERS...... 2493 Konrad Kwiatkowski
17 – REACTIVE PROCESSING
MORPHOLOGY EVOLUTION DRIVEN BY TRANSREACTIONS DURING THE REACTIVE BLENDING OF A THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANE AND AMINO-TERMINATED POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE OLIGOMERS ...... 2497 Mahdi Mnif, Tomasz Pokropski, Tasnim Kallel, Pierre Alcouffe, Fernande Boisson, Franoise Mechin, Francoise Fenouillot
RECENT PROGRESS IN REACTIVE PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY FOR POLYMERS USING A TWIN SCREW EXTRUDER...... 2500 Tadamoto Sakai
GENERATION OF ADVANCED MULTIPHASE POLYMER MATERIALS VIA ELECTRON INDUCED REACTIVE COMPOUNDING ...... 2503 Udo Wagenknecht, Uwe Gohs, Sandip Rooj, Kinsuk Naskar, Varun Thakur, Gert Heinrich
REACTIVE BLENDING OF PP WITH DYNAMICALLY CROSSLINKED POLYOLEFINE ELASTOMER (POE) BASED ON PE-LLD ...... 2504 Shilpa Khare, Christian Beinert
INFLUENCE OF A NEW CONTROL VARIABLE IN REACTION INJECTION MOLDING'S MIXING QUALITY...... 2510 Nuno Gomes, Ricardo Santos, Madelena M. Dias, Artur Mateus, Paulo Brtolo, Jos Carlos Lopes
INVESTIGATION ON THE TRANSESTERIFICATION REACTION IN PBT/PC BLEND: THE EFFECT OF TIME AND MIXING TEMPERATURE, NANOCLAY AND CATALYST ...... 2511 Razieh Mehrabi Kooshki, Ismaeil Ghasemi, Mohammad Karrabi, Hamed Azizi
CHEMICAL MODIFICATION OF PP ARCHITECTURE: STRATEGIES FOR INTRODUCING LONG- CHAIN BRANCHING...... 2515 Khalil El Mabrouk, Bharat I Chaudhary, Ronjuan Cong, J.Scott Parent
REACTIVE EXTRUSION TO FLAME RETARDANT POLYPROPYLENE...... 2516 Yuan Liu, Yinghong Chen, Qi Wang
IMPROVEMENT OF HYDROPHILIC PART OF POLYETHYLENE PELLETS BY FUNCTIONALIZATION OF MMA MONOMER WITH COLD PLASMA TREATMENT...... 2518 Mintra Meemusaw, Rathanawan Magaraphan
HIGH PERFORMANCE POLYPROPYLENE/POLY (LACTIC ACID) POLYMER ALLOY VIA REACTIVE PROCESSING ...... 2521 Koji Kameo, Koichiro Tajima, Mitsuyoshi Shimano
POLYSILAZANE CROSSLINKING BY HYDROLYSIS-CONDENSATION ...... 2525 Nicolas Dargre, Vronique Bounor-Legar, Philippe Cassagnau, Grgory Martin, Philippe Sonntag, Nicolas Garois
CARBONYL HYDROSILYLATION REACTION IN POLYMER PROCESSING CONDITIONS: A NEW APPROACH FOR EVA CROSSLINKING ...... 2530 Veronique Bounor-Legare, Julien Bonnet, Philippe Cassagnau, Fernande Boisson
CHARACTERIZATION OF COMPATIBILIZATION REACTION IN POLYAMIDE 6 / HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE BLENDS...... 2534 Alexandra Fabre, Paul Sotta, Simona Ceccia, Lise Trouillet-Fonti
FRACTURE BEHAVIOR OF POLYCARBONATE SHEETS MODIFIED BY REACTIVE EXTRUSION OF POLYETHYLENE PET USING ESSENTIAL WORK OF FRACTURE APPROACH ...... 2539 Ahmad Al-Jabareen, Silvia Illescas, Orlando Santana, M. Maspoch
GRAFTING OF PCL TO EVA BY REACTIVE PROCESSING: EFFECT OF PCL MOLAR MASS...... 2559 Isabel Moura, Ana Vera Machado, Regina Nogueira, Vronique Bounor-Legare
MORPHOLOGY DEVELOPMENT IN NOVEL COMPOSITION OF THERMOPLASTIC VULCANIZATED (TPV) BASED ON PA12/PDMS REACTIVE BLENDS...... 2563 Skander Mani, Philippe Cassagnau, Mosto Bousmina, Philippe Chaumont
OPTIMIZING THE LONG CHAIN BRANCHING PROCESS OF POLYPROPYLENE USING TAGUCHI METHOD OF EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN TO PRODUCE BALANCED EXTRUDED POLYPROPYLENE FOAM ...... 2573 Milad Sadeghipour, H. Garmabi, F. R. Biglari
PHOSPHORUS BASED ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID MATERIALS ELABORATED BY REACTIVE PROCESSING ...... 2574 Julien Bonnet, Veronique Bounor-Legar, Fernande Boisson, Flavien Melis, Philippe Cassagnau, G. Camino
EVALUATION OF THE USE OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF MONTMORILLONITE TO GRAFTING OF MALEIC ANHYDRIDE ONTO POLYPROPYLENE...... 2580 Pablo Andres Riveros Munoz, Sulvia Helena Prado Bettini
TWO STEP PROCESSING OF POLYETHYLENE AND THERMOPLASTIC STARCH MODIFIED BY REACTIVE EXTRUSION ...... 2587 Antonio Jose Felix Carvalho, Vinucius Atulio Rostelato Miranda
TOUGHENING OF POLY ETHYLENE TERPHETHALATE WITH FUNCTIONALIZED ACRYLONITRILE- BUTADIENE RUBBER THROUGH REACTIVE MIXING ...... 2588 Mohamad Reza Peymanfar, Omid Moini Jazani
DEVELOPMENT OF A REACTIVE EXTRUSION PROCESS FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF POLYESTERAMIDES - POTENTIALS FOR MEDICAL ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS...... 2589 Felixine Siegmund, Edmund Haberstroh, Manisha Gupta, Xiaomin Zhu, Martin Moller
PREPARATION OF LAYERED SILICATE/POLYCRAPOLACTONE NANOCOMPOSITES BY IN SITU RING OPENING POLYMERIZATION...... 2590 Hanane El-Ghaoui, Mohammed Lahcini, Mustapha Raihane, B. Rhouta, Miguel Angel Lopez-Manchadob, Raquel Verdejo, Miguel Arroyo
MORPHOLOGY AND SURFACE ENERGY OF PET POST-CONSUMER AFTER THE CHEMICAL TREATMENT ...... 2595 Anie K. Oliveira, Carlos H. Beraldo, Ruth M. Santana
18 – RHEOLOGY AND RHEOMETRY
UNDERSTANDING THE RHEOLOGY OF DYNAMICALLY ASYMMETRIC POLYMER BLENDS DURING PHASE SEPARATION ...... 2602 Wei Yu
INVESTIGATION OF THE RHEOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR OF POLYMER MELTS IN EQUIBIAXIAL ELONGATIONAL FLOWS ...... 2603 David Venerus, Teresita Teresita Kashyap, Tai-Yi Shiu, Rebecca Heimerl
ELONGATIONAL VISCOSITY OF POLY(VINYL CHLORIDE) PHYSICAL GEL...... 2604 Masataka Sugimoto, Kiyohito Koyama
RHEOLOGY OF PDMS/GRAPHENE SUSPENSIONS...... 2605 Aline Guimont, Emmanuel Beyou, Philippe Cassagnau
SIMULTANEOUS ELECTRICAL-RHEOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS ON POLYMER COMPOSITES: BREAKDOWN AND RECOVERY OF CONDUCTIVE FILLER NETWORK UNDER SHEAR ...... 2606 Zdenek Stary, Johannes Krckel, Helmut Mnstedt
LINEAR VICOELASTIC RHEOLOGY AS A TOOL FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF THE CHEMICAL ARCHITECTURE OF SYNDIOTACTIC POLYPROPYLENE ...... 2611 Naveed Amhad, Nino Grizzuti
YIELDING PHENOMENA IN LYOTROPIC PHASES OF CHARGED INTERCONNECTED BILAYERS ...... 2614 Nadia El Kissi, Y. Auffret, D. C. D. Roux, D. E. Dunstan, F. Caton
YIELD STRESS OF A COMPLEX LIQUID...... 2624 Octavio Manero, Fausto Calderas, E. Emilio Herrera, Guadalupe Sanchez-Olivares, A. Sanchez-Solis
A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF A MOLTEN LDPE IN CAPILLARY FLOW ...... 2630 Mahmoud Ansari, Savvas Hatzikiriakos, Evan Mitsoulis
PROCESSING CHARACTERISTICS OF TOOTHPASTE IN CAPILLARY DIES ...... 2631 Hesam Anvari Ardakani, Savvas Hatzikiriakos, Thanasis Zisis, Evan Mitsoulis
INLINE RHEOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF A PHBV COPOLYMER ...... 2632 Eric Leroy, Isabelle Petit, Remi Deterre, Q. Beuguel, T. Keerle, G. Colomines
MORPHOLOGY MODIFICATION IN NANOFILLED POLYMER BASED SYSTEMS UPON SHEAR AND ELONGATIONAL FLOW...... 2637 Nadka Tzankova Dintcheva, Rossella Arrigo, Francesco Paolo La Mantia
VISCOELASTIC BEHAVIOUR AND FLOW INSTABILITIES OF BIODEGRADABLE POLY (?- CAPROLACTONE) POLYESTERS...... 2641 Nazbanoo Noroozi, Laurel L. Schafer, Savvas G. Hatzikiriakos
EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE ON THE RHEOLOGICAL AND THERMO- PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF THE WOOD-PLASTIC COMPOSITE ...... 2642 Mostafa Tazi, Fouad Erchiqui, Franois Godard, Hamid Kaddami
STUDY ON THE RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYSTYRENE SUBJECTED TO ULTRA HIGH SPEED INJECTION MOLDING...... 2649 Shia-Chung Chen, Ping- Shun Hsu, Yu-Wan Lin, Sung-Wei Huang
RHEOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF ETHYLENE VINYL ACETATE/POLYPROPYLENE...... 2650 Othman Alothman
MORPHOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND MELT LINEAR VISCOELASTIC BEHAVIOR OF PC/ABS BLENDS ...... 2656 Zahra Saleh, Golnaz Isapur, Hossein Nazockdast, Sima Nabavizade
IMPACT ON RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES BY ADDITION OF FLEXIBLE NANOFIBERS ...... 2661 Masayuki Yamaguchi
RHEOLOGY - COALESCENCE OF SILICON FOAMS ...... 2665 Marie-Claire Dib Jawhar, P. Cassagnau, P. Chaumont
SIMULATION OF DIE SWELL PHENOMENON USING MICROSTRUCTURE OF POLYMER CHAINS...... 2669 S. A. Ahmad Ramazani, Mohsen Khodadadi, Ata Kamyabi
MAGNETO-RHEOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYMER-BONDED MAGNETS...... 2674 Piertommaso Carraro, Giovanni Lucchetta
A NEW SETUP FOR VISCOSITY MEASUREMENTS OF FLUIDS AS A FUNCTION OF SHEAR RATE AND PRESSURE ...... 2680 Uwe Gallaun, August-P. Zurk, Thomas Lucyshyn, Christian Kukla, Clemens Holzer
CONSTANT FORCE SQUEEZE FLOW OF A BIOLOGICAL FLUID...... 2685 Fausto Calderas, Mayra Sanchez-Villavicencio, E. E. Herrera-Valencia, Luis Medina-Torres, Guadalupe Sanchez-Olivares, Octavio Manero
A NUMERICAL TREATMENT OF CRYSTALLIZATION IN TUBE FLOW ...... 2689 Duane Lee Wo, Roger Tanner, D> F. Fletcher
THE CONTINUOUS SQUEEZE FLOW FILM OF A COMPLEX LIQUID ...... 2696 E. E. Herrera-Valencia, Fausto Calderas, Guadalupe Sanchez-Olivares, Luis Medina-Torres, Octavio Manero
INVESTIGATION ON EFFECTS OF VISCOELASTICITY IN SWEEP EFFICIENCY ...... 2700 Ata Kamyabi, S. A. Ahmad Ramazani
MESOSCOPIC RHEOLOGICAL MODEL FOR POLYMERIC FLUIDS AND SOME EXAMPLES OF FLOWS ...... 2705 Ivan Pyshnograi, Grigory Afonin, Ilya Tretyakov, Haider Nadhom
INFLUENCE OF MULTIPROCESSING ON RHEOLOGICAL AND APPLICATION PROPERTIES OF PP BASED WPC...... 2706 Jacek Andrzejewski, Mateusz Barczewski, Tomasz Sterzynski
ON-LINE RHEOMETRY TO MONITOR NANOCOMPOSITES PRODUCTION AT THE INDUSTRIAL SCALE...... 2710 Joao Nobrega, Sacha Mould, Enrico Masarati, Ana Machado, Jose Covas
SHEAR-INDUCED POLARIZED LIGHT IMAGING (SIPLI) TECHNIQUE FOR RHEO-OPTICAL STUDIES OF POLYMERS...... 2711 Oleksandr Mykhaylyk
EFFECT OF EPOXY ON RHEOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR OF ACRYLIC POLYMER/SIO2 BLENDS ...... 2715 Masataka Sugimoto, H. Uematsu, Y. Aoki, K. Koyama
PASSIVE MICRORHEOLOGY : NON INTRUSIVE MEASUREMENT TO FOLLOW VISCOELASTIC EVOLUTION AND CONCENTRATION EFFECTS ...... 2717 Christelle Tisserand, Anton Kotzev, Laurent Brunel, Grard Meunier, Mathias Fleury, Pascal Bru
VOLUME 5
PASSIVE MICRORHEOLOGY : CONTACT FREE METHOD FOR VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES MEASUREMENT AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF POLYMERS AND MATERIALS ...... 2724 Christelle Tisserand, Anton Kotzev, Laurent Brunel, Grard Meunier, Mathias Fleury, Pascal Bru
A NEW RHEOLOGICAL MODEL FOR POLYMER SOLUTIONS AND MELTS...... 2733 Hossein Ebrahimi, S. A. Ahman Ramazani, Babak Kafashi
RHEOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF MODEL PRESSURE SENSITIVE ADHESIVES...... 2739 Lalaso Mohite, Dietmar Auhl, Johan Padding, Christian Bailly
EVALUATION OF THE RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF WET POWDER MASSES USED IN THE PREPARATION OF PELLETS BY EXTRUSION/SPHERONIZATION ...... 2744 Shabnam Majidi, Ghodratollah Hashemi Motlagh, I. Haririan, Babak Kafashi
INVESTIGATION OF THERMORHEOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR AND TRANSIENT EXTENSIONAL VISCOSITY OF COMMERCIAL LDPES ...... 2751 Masood Khabazian Esfahani, Mahdi Abbasi, Mahdi Nadali, Nadereh Golshan Ebrahimi
MODIFICATION OF MOLECULAR STRESS FUNCTION (MSF) THEORY TO PREDICT THE EXTENSIONAL VISCOSITY OF AUTOCLAVE LDPES ...... 2756 Mahdi Abbasi, Masood Khabazian Esfahani, Mahdi Nadali, Nadereh Golshan Ebrahimi
NONLINEAR RHEOLOGY AND MORPHOLOGY OF LCST BLENDS WITH HIGH VISCOCITY RATIO...... 2761 Jafar Khademzadeh Yeganeh, Fatemeh Goharpey, Reza Foudazi
RHEOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF CLAY-POLYESTER COMPOSITES ...... 2769 Basim Abu-Jdayil, Salah Addin Al-Omari, Hanifa Taher, Latifa Al-Nuaimi
RHEOLOGICALLY DETERMINED PHASE DIAGRAM OF POLY (VINYL METHYL ETHER) (PVME) AQUEOUS SOLUTION IN THE PRESENCE AND ABSENCE OF SPHERICAL NANOPARTICLES ...... 2770 Hadi Abbasi, Helia Sojoudiasli, Fatemeh Goharpey
CARACTERISATION RHEOLOGIQUE DE L’HUILE MOTEUR ALGERIENNE ‘’CHIFFA’’ PAR RAPPORT AUX HUILES ‘’MAG’’ ET ‘’PIONNER’’...... N/A Abdelhamid Benhamel, Abderahim Benmoussat
ANALITICAL AND NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS OF A COUETTE-POISEUILLE FLOW OF A COMPLEX KINETIC LIQUID ...... 2775 Edtson Emilio Herrera-Valencia , Fausto Calderas, Guadalupe Sanchez-Olivares, Octavio Manero
EFFECT OF RANDOM LONGITUDINAL VIBRATIONS ON THE POISEUILLE FLOW OF A COMPLEX LIQUID...... 2779 Edtson Emilio Herrera-Valencia, Fausto Calderas, Guadalupe Sanchez-Olivares, Octavio Manero, L. Medina-Torres
STUDY ON THE PULSATING FLOW OF A WORM-LIKE MICELLAR SOLUTION...... 2782 Edtson Emilio Herrera-Valencia, Fausto Calderas, Luis Medina-Torres, Octavio Manero
THERMAL, TENSILE AND RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF LOW DENSITY POLYETHYLENE (LDPE) IRRADIATED BY GAMMA-RAY IN DIFFERENT ATMOSPHERES ...... 2785 Helio Ferreto, Ana Oliveira, Harumi Otaguro, Felipi Lima, Duclerc Parra, Ademar Lugao
THE CONTINUOUS SQUEEZE FLOW FILM OF A COMPLEX LIQUID ...... 2790 Edtson Emilio Herrera-Valencia, Alejandro D. Rey
SQUEEZE FLOW OF A VISCOELASTIC LESLIE-ERICKSEN...... 2791 Alejandro D. Rey, Edtson Emilio Herrera-Valencia
RHEOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE FLOW OF A BIOLOGICAL LIQUID CRYSTALS. (SPIDER SILKE SPINNING) ...... 2792 Alejandro D Rey, Edtson Emilio Herrera
RHEOLOGICAL BEHAVIOUR OF THE SYSTEM: 27% HYDROLYZED POLYACRYLAMIDE [AD37] - POLY (4-VINYLPYRIDINE) [P4VP]- SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE (SDS), IN AQUEOUS SOLUTION: INFLUENCE OF NEUTRALIZATION DEGREE...... 2793 Lahcene Tennouga, Chahrazed Ghezouali, Ali Mansri
RHEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF BITUMEN MODIFIED WITH COMBINATION OF WASTE TIRE POWDER (WTP) AND BIO POLYMERIC COATED HYDRATED LIME (BPCHL) ...... 2797 Abbas Kebritchi, Azam Jalali Arani
FREE VOLUME THEORY IN PHYSICAL AND RHEOLOGICAL EQUATION OF STATE...... 2801 Laszlo Halasz
RHEOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF ALGINATE-CHITOSAN BASED POLYMERIC GELS ...... 2811 Basim Abu-Jdayil, Deeb Abu Fara
THE EFFECT OF POLYISOBUTYLENE RESIN ON THE RHEOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR OF ELECTRON BEAM IRRADIATED POLYPROPYLENE IN THE PRESENCE OF A MULTIFUNCTIONAL MONOMER...... 2812 Yousef Jahani, Fatemeh Shamsoddini Zarch, Mehdi Nekoomanesh Haghighi, Jalil Morshedian
INFLUENCE OF VISCOSITY-MODIFYING ADMIXTURES ON THE THIXOTROPIC BEHAVIOUR OF CEMENT PASTES ...... 2813 Rachid Bouras, Mohend Chaouche, Salah Kaci
DIRECT SIMULATION FOR TRANSPORT PHENOMENA OF COLLOIDAL DISPERSIONS: SMOOTHED PROFILE METHOD...... 2820 Yasuya Nakayama, Kang Kim, Ryoichi Yamamoto
PREPARATION AND CHARATERIZATION OF CARBON NANOTUBES SURFACE-FUNCTIONALIZED WITH SILICA AND THEIR APPLICATION TO SHEAR THICKENING FLUIDS...... 2822 Young Ho Kim, Won Seon Lee, Heung Su Park, Jeong Cheol Kim
INFLUENCE OF BRANCH STRUCTURE OF LLDPE ON RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES...... 2823 Milad Mehranpour, Naghmeh Fazeli, Sara Shahidi Anvar
RHEOLOGICAL AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES IN EPOXY RESIN REINFORCED WITH CARBON NANOTUBES ...... 2829 Nadir Kchit, Catherine Billotte, Edu Ruiz, Francois Trochu
LINEAR VISCOELASTIC BEHAVIOR OF BLOCK POLYMERS OF STYRENE AND BUTADIENE SB AND SBS TYPES, AND THEIR PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED DERIVATIVES SEB AND SEBES, RESPECTIVELY...... 2830 Hugo Xicohtencatl-Serrano, Luis Medina-Torres, Rafael Herrera-Najera
EVIDENCE OF TIME DEPENDANT BEHAVIOUR IN POLYMER GELS UNDER LAOS ...... 2831 Joanne Langridge, Gerhard Heinzmann, Samiul Amin, Fred A. Mazzeo
EFFECT OF FILLER LEVEL ON RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYLACTIDE/MONTMORILLONITE NANOCOMPOSITES ...... 2834 Margaret Jollands, Rahul Gupta
ANALYTICAL RESULTS OF CAPILLARY RHEOMETRY OF A MICELLAR AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS...... 2840 Edtson Emilio Herrera-Valencia , Fausto Calderas, Guadalupe Sanchez-Olivares, Luis Medina-Torres, Octavio Manero
DEVELOPMENT OF A HYPERELASTIC MATERIAL MODEL FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF MULTIAXIAL LOAD CONDITIONS...... 2843 Walter Michaeli, Tim Arping, Andreas Schobel, Christian Hopmann
REOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS AND MODELING OF VISCOELASTIC PAINTS ...... 2847 Edtson Emilio Herrera, Fausto Calderas, Guadalupe Sanchez-Olivares, Luis Medina-Torres, Octavio Manero
PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYBUTADIENE RUBBER/ORGANOCLAY AND STUDY OF THEIR RHEOLOGICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES ...... 2848 Hoofar Sadadi, Azam Jalali Arani
RHEOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF DIFFERENT ASPHALTS, AND THEIR MALTENES ...... 2849 Martin Rodriguez-Aguilar, Luis Medina-Torres, Rafael Herrera-Najera
RHEOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF A SODIUM POLYACRILATE STABILIZED COSMETIC EMULSION ...... 2850 Luis Medina-Torres, Edson-Emilio Herrera-Valencia, Fausto Calderas, Jose-Alberto Gallegos-Infante, Nuria Rocha-Guzman, O. Manero
THE INFLUENCE OF SURFACE MODIFICATION OF CACO3 ON THE RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF HIGHLY FILLED COMPOSITES...... 2857 Paulina Jakubowska, Arkadiusz Klozinski, Tomasz Sterzynski
PREPARATION OF DYNAMICALLY VULCANIZED THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMER BASED ON NBR/PVC REINFORCED WITH SWNT...... 2861 Armin Hajibaba, Ghasem Naderi, Mir Hamidreza Ghoreishi, Gholamreza Bakhshandeh, M. Razavi Nouri
THE INFLUENCE OF AN ULTRASONIC VIBRATION AND PULSATING AND OSCILLANTING FLOW OF A WORM-LIKE MICELAR SOLUTION ...... 2864 Edtson Emilio Herrera-Valencia, Guadalupe Sanchez-Olivares, Fausto Calderas, Antonio Sanchez-Solus, Octavio Manero
STUDY OF VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES OF EVA/PVC/CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES USING NLREG SOFTWARE ...... 2867 Aline Gelhen, Heitor Luiz Ornaghi, Mara Zeni, Ademir Jose Zattera
19 – RUBBER PROCESSING
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND MORPHOLOGY OF NATURAL RUBBER WITH NANOMATERIX STRUCTURE AFTER PROCESSING...... 2872 Seiichi Kawahara, Patjaree Suksawad
BETTER RUBBER TESTING THAT CONTRIBUTES TO THE RUBBER INDUSTRY'S PRODUCTIVITY GAINS...... 2882 John Dick
A CHALLENGE TO RHEOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF PP/EPR IN-REACTOR ALLOYS SYNTHESIZED BY SPLIT-FEED COPOLYMERIZATION PROCESS ...... 2892 Yousef Jahani, Hamed Bagheri, Mehdi Nekoomanesh, Shokoufeh Hakim, Zhiqiang Fan
SEBS ELASTOMERS: INFLUENCE OF THE TYPE OIL PLASTICIZER ON THE EMISSIONS BEHAVIOR AND PHYSICAL, MECHANICAL AND RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES...... 2893 Vanda F. Ribeiro, Ruth M. Santana
CHEMICAL DEGRADATION OF NATURAL RUBBER UNDER SUPERCRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDE BASED HYDROXYTELECHELIC NATURAL RUBBER : STUDY TO PREPARING THE POLYURETHANE FOAM ...... 2900 Chokchai Boonchuay, Surat Areerat
MANUFACTURE OF ACCELERATOR- FREE MEDICAL GLOVES VIA UV TECHNIQUES...... 2901 Sandra Schlogl, Armin Temel, Wolfgang Kern, Raimund Schaller, Armin Holzner
INVESTIGATION OF THE FLOW BEHAVIOR OF A RUBBER COMPOUND IN AN AXISYMMETRIC EXTRUSION DIE USING DIFFERENT CONSTITUTIVE MODELS...... 2904 Mojtaba Bagheri-Jaghargh, Mir Hamid Reza Ghoreishy, Ghasem Naderi, Sedigheh Soltani
COMPOUNDING AND PROCESSING STUDIES OF RUBBER COMPOUNDS REINFORCED BY SHORT- CUT ARAMID FIBRES WITH DIFFERENT SURFACE TREATMENTS ...... 2907 Christian Hintze, Sven Wiessner, Udo U. Wagenknecht, Gert Heinrich
PROCESS DEVELOPMENT OF RUBBER COMPOUNDS WITH PTFE MICRO POWDER IN ORDER TO IMPROVE TRIBOLOGICAL PROPERTIES...... 2913 Walter Michaeli, Christian Hopmann, Ullrich Masberg, Jan Peter Dering, Christoph Kremer
ACCELERATED AGING OF SBR COMPOSITES FILLED WITH SBR-R SCRAPS DEVULCANIZED BY MICROWAVES ...... 2918 Aline Zanchet, Larissa N. Carli, Marcelo Giovanela, Janaina Da Silva Crespo, R. N. Brandalise
CHARACTERIZATION OF ELASTOMERIC COMPOSITES FILLED WITH INDUSTRIAL EPDM WASTE...... 2922 Aline Zanchet, Aline L. Bandeira, L. N. Carli, Marcelo Giovanela, Rosmary N. Brandalise, Janaina S. Crespo
MODIFICATION OF FE2O3 AND ITS EFFECT ON THE THERMAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SILICONE RUBBER...... 2926 Mahboobeh Rahnavard, Ghodratollah Hashemi Motlagh, Javad Heidarian
CHARACTERIZATION OF THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANE ADDITIONED GRANULATED SCRAP TIRES ...... 2927 Mauro Terence, Renan Oliveira Ferreira, Nilson Casimiro Pereira, Sonia Braunstein Faldini, Leila Figueiredo De Miranda
THE EFFECT OF NANO-SIZED ZINC OXIDE ON THE CURE BEHAVIOR AND PROPERTIES OF ETHYLENE PROPYLENE DIENE RUBBER ...... 2931 Shahin Akhlaghi, Mohammadreza Kalaee, Saeedeh Mazinani, Alireza Sharif
CHARACTERIZATION OF RUBBER TIRES SUBMITTED TO RADIATION PROCESSING IN ITS RECYCLING...... 2938 Clecia Souza, Rita De Cassia Silva, Leonardo Silva
A – NANOMATERIALS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
MAGNETO-RHEOLOGY OF NANOCOMPOSITES MATERIALS BASED ON BIOPOLYMERS ...... 2939 Alain Ponton, C. Galindo-Gonzalez
REINFORCEMENT EFFICIENCY OF CARBON NANOTUBES - MYTH AND REALITY...... 2944 Marcio Loos, Ica Manas-Zloczower
NANO ENHANCED REACTIVE POLYMER SYSTEMS...... 2953 Samuel Dodiuk-Kenig, Hanna Dodiuk-Kenig
ULTRAHIGH DENSITY ARRAY OF NANOPATTERNS ON BAROPLASTIC BLOCK COPOLYMER FILMS BY PHASE TRANSITION AT ROOM TEMPERATURE...... N/A Ara Jo, Jin Kon Kim
OPTIMIZATION OF SURFACE MODIFICATION OF POLYMER SUBSTRATES BONDED TO PDMS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF MICROFLUIDIC SYSTEMS ...... 2961 Abdellatif Baraket, Nadia Zine, Joan Bausells, Nicole Jaffrezic-Renault, Francois Bessueille, Nourdin Yacoubi, A. Errachid
PREPARATION OF CONDUCTIVE FLEXIBLE TRANSPARENT POLYMER ELECTRODES USING SPINS COATING METHOD...... 2962 Majid Abdouss, Sadegh Shoukatian, Hossein Salar Amoli
PREPARATION AND TOUGHENING OF NANOFIBRILLATED CELLULOSE NANOPAPER ...... 2965 Houssine Sehaqui, Andong Liu, Qi Zhou, Lars Berglund
EFFECT OF NANOFIBER TYPE ON FILTRATION PERFORMANCE OF COALESCING FILTERS ...... 2966 Saeed Bazgir, Kazem Farmani, Ali Asghar Katbab
INFLUENCE OF THE CARBON NANOTUBE ADDITION ON THE STABILITY UNDER 65MEV PROTON IRRADIATION OF PANI-CSA THIN FILMS ...... 2967 Heinz Christoph Neitzert, Raffaele Di Giacomo, Vito Speranza, Paolo Vacca
IMMOBILISATION OF GOLD NANOPARTICLES ON A POLYMER SURFACE DURING MOULDING ...... 2970 Jrgen Nagel, Felix Kroschwald, Gert Heinrich
CARBON NANOTUBES- CONTAINING NAFION COMPOSITE MEMBRANES FOR FUEL CELL APPLICATIONS...... 2971 Nonhlanhla Cele, Suprakas Sinha Ray
HYBRID POLYMER CONTAINING IN-SITU GENERATED ALUMINIUM NANOPARTICLES...... 2979 Manuel Oliveira, Regina Nogueira, Ana Vera Machado
NOVEL STRATEGY FOR THE PRODUCTION OF NANO-OBJECTS COMBINING SUBMERGED NANOCONTACT PRINTING AND ELECTROPOLYMERIZATION OF POLYPYRROLE...... 2982 David Caballero, Francesc Teixidor, Josep Samitier, Abdelhamid Errachid
FUNCTIONAL PROPERTY OF ELECTRO-SPUN NANOFIBER ...... 2983 Yoshihiro Yamashita, Katsuhisa Tokumitsu, Yuta Wakamoto
INVESTIGATION OF THERMAL BEHAVIOR OF LDPE/LLDPE/NANOCLAY NANOCOMPOSITES PREPARED IN A TWIN SCREW EXTRUDER USING THE NOVEL METHOD OF WATER INJECTION...... 2988 S. Ismail S. Shahabadi, Hamid Garmabi
INDUCED PERCOLATION OF ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE GRAPHITE NANOSHEETS BY THE NETWORK ELASTICITY OF CROSSLINKED SILICONE RUBBER/GRAPHITE NANOCOMPOSITES...... 2989 Ahmad Reza Shafieizadegan-Esfahani, Ali Asghar Katbab
UV PROTECTION ABILITY OF SINGLE WALL AND MULTI WALL CARBON NANOTUBES FOR MODIFICATION OF POLYMERIC COATINGS ...... 2995 Matin Mahmoudi Fard, Mahdi Safi, Ahmad Mousavi Shoushtari, Samaneh Rahmani, Ali Zarei
NEW TYPE OF OLEFIN-MALEIC ANHYDRIDE COPOLYMER BASED COUPLING AGENTS FOR CARBON NANOTUBE CONTAINING POLYMER COMPOSITES...... 2996 Csilla Varga, Adrienn Szentes, Lszl Bartha, Gza Horvath
ABOUT FORMATION OF THE “BOUND” WATER ON THE SURFACE OF FRACTAL CLASTERS FROM NANOPARTICLES ...... 2997 Valery Ugrozov
SPHERICAL SILICA FILLED NANOSTRUCTURED POLYOLEFINES COMPOSITES...... 2998 Regina Jezirska, Agnieszka Szadkowska, Barbara Swierz-Motysia, Maria Zielecka
EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF HYDROGEL NANOPARTICLES PREPARATION USING IONOTROPIC GELATION METHOD...... 2999 Mehrdad Hamidi, Mohammad Nasiri, Amir Azadi, Alieh Karimi, Reihaneh Shaiesteh, Fatemeh Molavi, Mohammad Moslehi
ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES: /TCO/(PEDOT/PSS)/ZNPC/1,4-DAAQ/AL ...... 3002 B. Reguig, K. Benchouk, A. Khelil
SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ELECTROSPUN CONDUCTING POLYIMIDE/SWCNT COMPOSITE NANOFIBROUS ELECTRODES FOR ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES...... 3003 B. Mansoor Akhthar, T. V. Muhammed Suhail, R. Vasanthakumari, T. S. Natarajan
HIGH-CURRENT ...... 3004 Fatima Zahra Bouanis, Vincent Huc, Costel Sorin Cojocaru, Evgeny Norman
INSITU ENHANCEMENT OF MELT STRENGTH BY MOLECULAR MODIFICATION OF POLYPROPYLENE IN FOAMING PROCESS ...... 3005 Ali Sharif Pakdaman
USE OF CARBON NANOTUBES FUNCTIONALIZED VIA PLASMA FOR THE PREPARATION OF PA6- BASED NANOHYBRIDS...... 3006 Andrea Maio, Roberto Scaffaro
NEW BIODEGRADALE NANAOCOMPOSITES BASED ON NANOPARTICULES OF CELLULOSE AND POLYURETHANE ...... 3011 Karima Benhamou, Hamid Kaddami, Fouad Erchiqui, Moustapha Raihane, Mouhamed Lahcini, Roberts Joffe, A. Dufresne
MELT RHEOLOGY AND STRUCTURE OF PS/SILICA NANOCOMPOSITES: EFFECT OF SILICA SURFACE MODIFICATION...... 3020 Mohamad Ali Sanjari Shahrezaee, Fatemeh Goharpey, Reza Foudazi
DESIGNING A NANOSTRUCTURED DIPHOSPHATE FOR 2-AMINO-CHROMENES SYNTHESIS IN WATER ...... 3021 Mohamed Karkouri, Asmae Snik, Abdelhakim Elmakssoudi, Mohamed Zahouily, Mosto Bousmina, Abdelrrahim Solhy
PREPARATION AND CHARATERIZATION OF CARBON NANOTUBES FUNCTIONALIZED WITH SILICA AND THEIR APPLICATION IN SHEAR THICKENING FLUIDS ...... 3022 Young Ho Kim, Hye Na Hwang, Heung Su Park, Jeong Cheol Kim
CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS EFFECT ON THE NANOPARTICLES SHAPE BY MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION...... 3023 Abdallah Sahlaoui, Abdelilah Benyoussef, Mostapha Bousmina
INVESTIGATION OF MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF EPOXY-ALUMINA NANOCOMPOSITES...... 3024 Davood Bazrgari, Fatollah Moztarzade, Ali Asghar Sabagh Alvani, Amin Hoosh Afza, Mehdi Sabohi
EFFECT OF THE MAIN PARAMETERS ON PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF NANO PARTICLE OF POLYSTYRENE MADE BY MINIEMULSION POLYMERIZATION ...... 3025 Sara Maleki Esfandabadi, Mehdi Samadi, S. Pourmahdian
NANOSTRUCTURE AND ADSORPTION BEHAVIOR OF NATURAL/SYNTHETIC ALLOPHANES...... 3029 Fumitoshi Iyoda, Shuhei Hayashi, Shuichi Arakawa, Masami Okamoto
EXPLOSIVE EMBOSSING OF HOLOGRAPHIC AUTHENTICITY SIGNETS...... 3033 Guenter Helferich, Bernd Bader, Christian Anselment
A NOVEL INTENSIFIED DEVICE FOR THE PRODUCTION OF HIGHLY MONODISPERSE POLYMER PARTICLES IN THE LOW NANOMETER RANGE THROUGH MINIEMULSION POLYMERIZATION...... 3034 Ines Souilem, Rene Muller, Michel Bouquey, Benjamin Paci, Yves Holl, Christophe A. Serra
POLYPROPYLENE/GRAPHITE NANOCOMPOSITES: USE OF SONICATION IN THE GRAPHITE FOLIATION ...... 3035 Creusa Ferreira, Luiz Barbosa, Mauro Oviedo, Raquel Mauler
SYNTHESIS OF MOLECULAR IMPRINTED POLYMER AND ITS APPLICATION IN DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM (DDS) ...... 3039 Majid Abdouss, Ebadullah Asadi, Saeeideh Khaghani
NEW DEFECTS IN GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS...... 3041 Hamza Mhamdi, Lalla Btissam Drissi, El Hassan Saidi, Mostapha Bousmina
MORPHOLOGICAL AND CRYSTALLINE STUDIES OF PHBV NANOCOMPOSITES FILLED WITH DIFFERENT TYPES OF NANOPARTICLES ...... 3042 Larissa Nardini Carli, Otavio Bianchi, Giovanna Machado, Janaina Da Silva Crespo, Raquel Santos Mauler
ELECTROSPINNING OF NANOFIBERS OF PA6/PANI-TSA BLENDS AND PA6/PANI/MWNT NANOCOMPOSITES: THERMAL, STRUCTURAL AND MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION...... 3048 Aline Bruna Silva, Rosario Suman Bretas
RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF MELT MIXED THERMOPLASTIC/POLYHEDRAL OLIGOMERIC SILSESQUIOXANE (POSS) NANOCOMPOSITES...... 3056 Arkadiusz Klozinski, Paulina Jakubowska, Ewa Andrzejewska, Michal Dutkiewicz, Bogdan Marciniec
MODIFICATION OF ACRYLONITRILE COPOLYMER WITH CITRIC ACID AND TRANSFORM TO NANOFIBERS FOR REMOVAL METAL IONS FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS...... 3060 Majid Abdouss, S. Ahmad Majidi, S. A. Mousavi Shoushtari, Somaye Akbari, Ebadullah Asadi
SURFACE MODIFICATIONS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NANOPARTICLES: REINFORCEMENT AND IMPROVE WEAR RESISTANCE OF PA 11...... 3063 Jose Donato Ambrosio, Harumi Otaguro, Marcelo Chinelatto, Luiz Meniconi
PRODUCTION OF POLYMER STRUCTURES FOR MICROFLUIDICS BASED ON SOFT-LITHOGRAPHY PROCESS...... 3067 Michael Lee, M. Jose Lopez-Martinez, Nadia Zine, Jaume Esteve, Jose Antonio Plaza, Nicole Jaffrezic-Renault, A. Errachid
NANOSTRUCTURED PALLADIUM-PEROVSKITES: INTERESTING “RELEASE AND CATCH” CATALYTIC SYSTEM IN CROSS-COUPLING CHEMISTRY...... 3068 Abdellatif Essoumhi, Said El Kazzouli, Mosto Bousmina, Abderrahim Solhy, Abdelkrim El Kadib
FUNCTIONALIZED NANOPOROUS TRACK-ETCHED ?-PVDF MEMBRANE ELECTRODES FOR LEAD(II) DETERMINATION BY SQUARE WAVE ANODIC STRIPPING VOLTAMMETRY ...... 3069 Haad Bessbousse
SEMICONDUCTIVE COATINGS FOR OUTDOOR INSULATION...... 3070 Adam Michalik, Spiros Tzavalas
SNO2/SILICA CORE-SHELL NANOWIRES ...... 3071 Hyoun Woo Kim, Jong Il Kim, Myung Ho Kong
ELABORATION AND CHARACTERISATION OF A NEW CAYALYSTS SUPPORTED BASED OF DIOXIDE OF TITANIUM FOR THE CLEANUP OF WASTE WATER BY PHOTOCATALYSIS ...... 3072 Ouafa Tahiri Alaoui
ANTIBACTERIAL PROPERTIES OF PET/COTTON FABRIC...... 3073 Laleh Maleknia
SYNTHESIS OF LARGE-AREA HYBRID GRAPHENE FILMS ON TRANSITION METAL SUBSTRATES BY CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION (CVD)...... 3074 Hassan El Moussaoui, Sebastien Vaudreuil, Abderahim Solhy, Mostapha Bousmina
INFLUENCE OF GOLD-SILVER NANOSTRUCTURES ON P3HT/PCBM PROPERTIES AND MORPHOLOGY...... 3075 Hajar Cherrad, Khalid Nouneh Abdellatif Essoumhi
NANOSTRUCTURED CATALYSTS FOR FINE CHEMICAL...... 3076 Abderrahim Solhy, Mohamed Zahouily
SURFACE FUNCTIONALIZATION OF CARBON NANOTUBES WITH METAL COMPLEXES: APPLICATION TO ENANTIOSELECTIVE HYDROGENATION REACTIONS ...... 3077 Walid Amer, Hugo Ramananarivo, Mohammed Zahouily, Mostapha Bousmina, Abderrahim Solhy
EVALUATION OF THE DIFFUSION GOLD NANOPARTICLES IN FILMS OF WEAK POLYELECTROLYTES ...... 3078 Tatiane M. Popiolski, Cuntia L. Amorim, Andre Galembeck, Marcelo B. Pereira, Janaina Da Silva Crespo, Giovanna Machado
THE EFFECT OF PULSED LASER ON CRYSTALLIZATION OF ITO ON POLYCARBONATE ...... 3083 Sadegh Shoukatian, Majid Abdouss, Hossein Salar Amoli
CHARACTERIZATION OF NANOSTRUTURED PHOTOSENSITIZES OBTAINED BY L-B-L METHOD...... 3084 Ana Claudia R. Faria, Frederico D. Menezes, Marcelo Pereira, Marcelo Giovanela, Giovanna Machado, Janaina Da Silva Crespo, R. Milani
DYNAMICALLY VULCANIZED THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS NANOCOMPOSITES BASED LLDPE/RECLAIMED RUBBER: (MORPHOLOGY AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES) ...... 3089 Fatemeh Razmjooei, Gholam Reza Bakhshandeh, Ghasem Naderi
SYNTHESIS AND SORPTION PROPERTIES, TOWARDS SOME HEAVY METAL IONS, OF A NEW POLYSTYRENE-BASED TERPYRIDINE POLYMER ...... 3093 Noureddine Charef, Lekhmici Arrar, Abderrahmane Baghiani, Mohammad Mubarak, H. Saadeh
BINDING PROPERTIES OF THIACALIX[2]THIANTRENES...... 3104 Abdallah Alayed, Warda Thabet, Lassaad Baklouti, Rym Abidi, Stephane Parola
CHEMICAL DESIGN OF FLEXIBLE SKIN-CORE POLY(ETHYLENE-CO-ACRYLIC ACID)/ NANOSTRUCTURED POLYANILINE HYBRIDS...... 3105 Roberto Scaffaro, Giada Lo Re, Lidia Armelao, Maria Antonietta Sabatino, Clelia Dispenza
SURFACE MODIFICATION OF POLY(ETHYLENE-CO-ACRYLIC ACID) WITH AMINO- FUNCTIONALIZED SILICA NANOPARTICLES ...... 3110 Roberto Scaffaro, Luigi Botta, Giada Lo Re, Roberta Bertani, Roberto Milani, Alessandro Sassi
THE USE OF CARBON NANOTUBES AS SUPPORT OF CATALYST: ONE-POT DIASTEREOSELECTIVE SYNTHESIS OF 3-MERCAPTO- 2-PYRIDINONES ...... 3117 Asmae Lemaanni, Samir Farhi, Mohamed Zahouily, Mosto Bousmina, Abderrahim Solhy
ORTHODONTIC APPLICATIONS OF POLYURETHANES...... 3118 Abdelali Halimi, Fatima Zaoui, Anbalagan Balamurugan, Khalil El Mabrouk, Mostapha Bousmina
B – OPTICS – PHOTONICS & THIN FILMS
COHERENCE EFFECTS IN MAGNETISM: SINGLE MOLECULAR MAGNET QUBITS AND SPIN-ORBIT QUBITS ...... 3119 Bernard Barbara
MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES : SYNTHESIS, SHAPE CONTROL, ORGANIZATION AND TRANSPORT PROPERTIES...... 3120 Bruno Chaudret
MAGNETOCALORIC EFFECTS IN MANGANITES WITH PEROVSKITE STRUCTURE...... 3121 Abdelwaheb Cheikh-Rouhou, W. Cheikh-Rouhou Koubaa, M Koubaa
FUNCTIONAL MOLECULAR NANOMATERIALS : MAGETIC AND PHOTOMAGNETIC BEHAVIOR ...... 3122 Talal Mallah, Florence Volatron, Yoann Prado, Alexandre Gloter, Odile Stephan, Corine Mathoniere, Laure Catala
ELECTRIC FIELD-INDUCED SWITCHING AND CHARGE TRANSPORT IN SPIN CROSSOVER AND PRUSSIAN BLUE TYPE COMPLEXES...... 3123 Tarik Mahfoud, Philippe Demont, Lionel Salmon, Azzedine Bousseksou, Gabor Molnar
MODIFICATION OF ORIENTATION BIREFRINGENCE IN CELLULOSE ESTER FOR MULTI-BAND RETARDATION FILMS BY BLENDING TECHNIQUE ...... 3124 Mohd Edeerozey Abd Manaf, So Young Lee, Masayuki Yamaguchi
EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE AND STRAIN RATE ON STRESS VERSUS BIREFRINGENCE BEHAVIORS DURING UNIAXIAL STRETCHING OF CYCLO-OLEFIN COPOLYMER FILMS ...... 3128 Wataru Takarada, Hiroto Menju, Takeshi Kikutani
NANOSTRUCTURED TIO2 AND TIO2-CU THIN FILMS SYNTHESIZED BY COST EFFECTIVE SOL-GEL PROCESS FOR ANTIMICROBIAL APPLICATIONS ...... 3133 Ayalasomayajula Phani, R. G. S. V. Prasad, D. Basavaraju, K. Narasimha Rao, C. S. Naveen, Jose Endrino
THIN FILMS AND NANOSTRUCTURES: THE SPIN WAVES AS A PROBE OF MAGNETIC PROPERTIES ...... 3134 Salim Mourad Cherif
LIQUID SENSORS BASED ON ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE POLYCARBONATE/MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE COMPOSITES: PROCESSING, PROPERTIES AND PHYSICAL MODEL...... 3135 Tobias Villmow, Sven Pegel, Petra Ptschke, Gert Heinrich
INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR MANUFACTURING OF A PANE OF PLASTIC WITH FUNCTIONAL INTEGRATION ...... 3136 Ralf-Urs Giesen, Hans-Peter Heim
TWO PHOTON STRUCTURING OF 3D OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES IN FLEXIBLE POLYSILOXANE MATERIALS...... 3142 Rachel Woods, S. Feldbacher, D. Zidal, G. Langer, V. Satzinger, W. Kern
MODELLING OF THE RADIATIVE PROPERTIES OF MORPHO RHETENOR: A NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION ...... 3147 Abdelilah Mejdoubi, Julie Boulenguez, Christine Arnaud, Serge Berthier, Jacques Lafait
ON THE EFFECT OF THE DEPOSITION METHOD ON THE STRUCTURAL AND THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF TIO2 THIN FILMS ...... 3148 Ahmed Ihlal, A. Elfanaoui, L. Boulkaddat, E. Elhamri, M. Meddah, K. Bouabid, A. Talen, L. Laanab, X. Portier
SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE GAS SENSOR ...... 3149 Mohssin Zekriti, Georgi Dyankov, Saidi El Hassan, Mosto Bousmina
PLASMONIC DEVICE BASED ON METAL LAYERS WITH POROUS STRUCTURE...... 3150 Mohamed Malki, Georgi Dyankov, Abdelillah Benyoussef, Mostapha Bousmina
PREPARATION AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYMERIC NANO-PARTICLES MULTI-LAYER FILMS...... 3151 Mohamad Reza Shamshiri, Ali Akbar Yousefi, Farhad Ameri
OPTICAL AND PHOTO-ELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF CONDUCTING POLYMER/INORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR NANOPARTICLE...... 3152 Farid Habelhames, Belkacem Nessark, Zerguine Wided, Leila Lamiri
ANALYSIS OF THE SELECTIVE INFRARED SINTERING (SIS) PROCESS WITH A SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED LAB DEVICE ...... 3158 Amir Msakni, Stephane Dupin, Claire Barres, Jean-Yves Charmeau
COMPACT AND FLEXIBLE OPTICAL SENSOR DESIGNED FOR ON-LINE MONITORING...... 3159 Badi Triki, Rene Muller, Michel Bouquey
C – BIOMATERIALS AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
RHEOLOGICAL, THERMAL AND MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATIONS OF POLYOLEFIN-ALGAE COMPOUNDS...... 3160 Markus Piontek, Stephan Laske, Gisbert Rie, Clemens Holzer
A HYDROPHOBICALLY-MODIFIED ALGINATE GEL SYSTEM: UTILITY IN THE REPAIR OF ARTICULAR CARTILAGE DEFECTS...... 3166 Sayed Alireza Hassani Najafabadi, Mohamad Kazem Ghahramanpoor, Majid Abdouss, Hamid Payrovand, Mohamadreza Baghaban Eslaminejad, Fatimah Bagheri
VASCULAR AND NEURONAL TISSUE REGENERATION USING FIBROUS BASED SCAFFOLDS ...... 3175 Afra Hadjizadeh, Maria Moreno, Mahmud Bani, Martin Bureau, Abdellah Ajji
PHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND IN VITRO CYTOXICITY STUDIES OF POLY(?- CAPROLACTONE) SCAFFOLDS OF HIGHLY CONTROLLED POROSITY FOR NONUNION BONE FRACTURE REPAIR ...... 3176 Nima Ghavidel Mehr, Basil Favis, Caroline Hoemann, Marianne Ariganello
A COVALENTLY MODIFIED, AMPHIPHILIC ALGINATE DERIVATIVE: UTILITY IN ANTI CANCER DRUG DELIVERY ...... 3187 Sayed Alireza Hassani Najafabadi, Mohammad Kazem Ghahramanpoor, Majid Abdouss, Seyed Jamaledin Afjei
PHEA-PLLA SCAFFOLDS FOR SOFT TISSUE REGENERATION PREPARED VIA THERMALLY INDUCED PHASE SEPARATION...... 3196 Vincenzo La Carrubba, Francesco Carf Pavia, Fabio Palumbo, Gaetano Giammona, Valerio Brucato
PREPARATION OF NOVEL ACRYLIC ACID MODIFIED STYRENE BUTADIENE RUBBER /SEGMENTED POLYURETHANE USING IN BIOMEDICAL APPLICATION AND EVALUATION OF THEIR PROPERTIES AND COMPATIBILITY...... 3201 Younes Hassani, Gity Mir Mohamad Sadeghi
ATTAINMENT OF HYDROGELS BASED ON PVP/ SODIUM ALGINATE CONTAINING END PSEUDOBOEHMITE NANOPARTICLES TREATED WITH OCTADECYLAMINE FOR APPLICATIONS IN PHARMACOS...... 3202 L. F. Miranda, M. C. Terence, S. B. Faldini, A. H. Munhoz, N. C. Pereira, I. T. F. Barbosa, C. S. Silva, L. G. Andrade e Silva
SYNTHESIS OF BIODEGRADABLE NANO MOLECULAR IMPRINTED POLYMERS FOR DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM ...... 3209 Majid Abdouss, Ebadullah Asadi, Fatemeh Atyabi, Mehdi Esfandyarimansh, Mehran Javanbakht
IMPROVING THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF BIOMATERIALS FOR SOFT-TISSUE REPLACEMENT APPLICATIONS ...... 3211 Fabrice Detrez, Laurent Corte, David Ku, Sabine Cantournet, Mohammed Cherkaoui
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF CEMENT MTA AND TCP USED IN ENDODONTIC ...... 3212 Criseuda Maria Benicio Barros Criseuda, Sara Verusca De Oliveira Sara, Janaina Benicio Marques Janaina, Marcus Vinicius Lia Fook Marcus, Cladia Maria De Oliveira Raposo Cladia
POLY(N-2-VINIL- PIRROLIDONE) (PVP) POLY(VINYLALCOHOL)(PVAL)/LAPONITE RD HYDROGELS NANOCOMPOSITE MEMBRANES ...... 3213 Maria Jos Oliveira, Duclerc Parra, Valdir Amato, Ademar Lugao
ELECTROSPUN POLYACRYLAMIDE MEMBRANE FOR IMMOBILIZATION OF ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE ENZYME ...... 3217 Navid Amini, Saeedeh Mazinani, Seyed-Omid Ranaei-Siadat, Saeed Hormozi, Mohammadreza Kalaee, Mohammad Barshan- Tashnizi, K. Niknam, N. Firouzian, V. Adlfar
EVALUATION OF ALGINATE GEL SYSTEM TO REPAIR COMPLEX DEFECTS IN ARTICULAR CARTILAGE...... 3221 Sayed Alireza Hassani Najafabadi, Majid Abdouss, Mohamad Kazem Ghahramanpoor, Mohamadreza Baghaban Eslaminejad, Fatimah Bagheri
FUNCTIONAL BIOCOMPOSITES...... 3229 Marek Kozlowski, Anna Kozlowska, Stanislaw Frackowiak, Andrzej Iwanczuk
PROCESSING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYCAPROLACTONE SCAFFOLDS FOR BONE TISSUE ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS...... 3230 Linus Leung, Hani Naguib
THE EFFECTS OF GAMMA-RAY STERILISATION ON HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT PMMA FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS...... 3238 Bassem Sabagh, Gerhard Heinzmann, B. Ghatora
THE EFFECT OF PROCESSING AND MOLECULAR WEIGHT OF POLY(ETHYLENGLYCOL) OF POLYLACTIDE-BASED SCAFFOLDS ON VIABILITY AND CELL ADHESION OF SK-HEP1 CELLS ...... 3243 Giada Lo Re, Roberto Scaffaro, Silvia Rigogliuso, Giulio Ghersi
INFLUENCE OF NANOCLAY ON BIODEGRADABILITY OF POLYURETHANE BIO-NANOCOMPOSITE BASED ON CHITIN ...... 3248 Alireza Jarahha, Mehdi Barikani, Hossein Ebrahimi
EFFECT OF SURFACE PEG CONTENT ON THE VIABILITY AND CELL ADHESION IN PLA/PEG POROUS SCAFFOLDS...... 3249 Giada Lo Re, Jean-Marie Raquez, Philippe Dubois, Roberto Scaffaro, S. Rigogliuso, G. Ghersi
NANOSTRUCTURED ORGANOSILICA BIOMATERIALS FROM RENEWABLE RESOURCES ...... 3253 Nadia Katir, Annie Castel, Annie Finiels, Daniel Brunel, Mosto Bousmina, Abdelkrim El Kadib
REOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS AND MODELLING OF STRUCTURAL BIOLOGICALLY FLUID (BLOOD) ...... 3254 Mayra Sanchez-Villavicencio, Edtson Emilio Herrera-Valencia, Luis Medina-Torres, Guadalupe Sanchez-Olivares, A. Sanchez- Solis, O. Manero
MONITORING EXTRUSION OF PHARMACEUTICAL POLYMER FORMULATIONS USING NEAR INFRA- RED SPECTROSCOPY ...... 3257 Adrian Kelly, Tim Gough, Ravindra Dhuma, Sheelagh Halsey, Anant Paradkar
INTRODUCTION OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL COMPLETE UNILAYER FLEXIBLE POLYMERIC VALVULAR RING : A NEW CONCEPT FOR TRICUSPID VALVE REPAIR IN CARDIAC SURGERY...... 3258 Wajih Maazouzi, Hicham Benyoussef, Alaa Boutayeb, Omar Amar
STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE FIRST REMODELING MITRAL MECHANICAL HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS WITH DOUBLE CURVED LEAFLET...... 3259 Wajih Maazouzi, Hicham Benyoussef, Omar Amar, Alaa Boutayeb, Mohammed Agouzoul
SURFACE MODIFICATION OF CAFFEIC ACID-GRAFTED POLY(LACTIC ACID) ELECTROSPUN FIBER MATS FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS...... 3260 Piyachat Chuysinuan, Pitt Supaphol
MICROENCAPSULATION OF GALLIC ACID ON NOPAL MUCILAGE (OPUNTIA FICUS-INDICA) BY SPRAY DRYING...... 3261 Elena Garcua-Cruz, Juan Rodruguez-Ramurez, Luis Medina-Torres, F. Calderas, J. Alberto Gallegos-Infante, Angelica Roman- Guerrero
A STUDY ON THE PREPARATION AND PHYSICO-CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF SILICA NANOTUBE REINFORCED SILICA/APATITE NANOCOMPOSITE...... 3270 Younes Belmamouni, Anbalagan Balamurugan, Meriame Bricha, Mostapha Bousmina, El Mokhtar Essassi, Khalil Elmabrouk
SPRAY DRYING OF PITAHAYA MUCILAGE AND THE EFFECT ON THEIR RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES...... 3271 Elena Garcua-Cruz, Juan Rodruguez-Ramurez, Fausto Calderas, Jose-Alberto Gallegos-Infante, Angelica Roman-Guerrero, Luis Medina-Torres, O. Manero
BIONANOCOMPOSITES OF FREEZE-DRIED CHITOSAN AND XANTHAN GUM BIOPOLYMER FOR ENZYME ENCAPSULATION...... 3278 Huihua Liu, Kyuya Nakagawa, Deeptangshu Chaudhary, Dai-Ichiro Kato
MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION USING SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING OF IONOMERIC POLYMER METAL COMPOSITES APPLIED ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARTIFICIAL MUSCLES...... 3279 Laos Alexandre Hirano, Marcia Tsuyama Escote, Gerson Luiz Mantovani, Luiz De Siqueira Martins, Jose Fernando Queiruga Rey, Carlos Henrique Scuracchio
PVA HYDROGELS PREPARED BY DISSOLUTION PROCESS DIFFERENT...... 3281 Mara Tania Silva Alcantara, Danielle Ribeiro Giannini, Andreia Barbosa Navarro De Andrade, Gustavo Henrique Varca, Humberto Gracher Riella, Ademar Benevolo Lugao
DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL POROUS NASAL SCAFFOLD USING PRECISION INJECTION MOLDING ...... 3282 Yung Kang Shen, Ping Tun Teng
ALFA FIBERS IN COMPOSITE MATERIALS ...... 3283 Youssef Benyoussif, B. Vermeulen, P. Vroman, X. Legrand, A. Perwuelz, R. Bencheikh
INFLUENCE OF FLUORIDE ION ON TITANIUM BASED DENTAL ALLOY (NITI): AN IN VITRO STUDY ...... 3284 Wiam Rerhrhaye, Loubna Bahije, A Balamurugan, Fatima Zaoui, Khalil El Mabrouk
EFFECT OF THE BIOCORROSION ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF NITI BINARY TITANIUM ALLOYS: AN IN VITRO STUDY ...... 3285 Loubna Bahije, Wiam Rerhrhaye, A Balamurugan, Fatima Zaoui, Khalil El Mabrouk
STRUCTURE DIRECTING AGENTS ASSISTED HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS OF NANOSCALE HYDROXYAPATITE FOR ORTHOPEDIC APPLICATIONS...... 3286 Meriame Bricha, Anbalagan Balamurugan, Younes Belmamouni, El Mokhtar Essassi, Mosto Mostapha Bousmina, Khalil El Mabrouk
NANOSTRUCTURED POLYMER SURFACES TO OPTIMIZE CELL BEHAVIOUR ...... 3287 Clemens Holzer, Matthias Katschnig, S. Laske, W. Balika
D – MAGNETISM AND SPINTRONICS
STATIC AND DYNAMIC CORRELATIONS IN MAGNETIC NANOMATERIALS STUDIED BY SMALL ANGLE NEUTRON SCATTERING TECHNIQUES ...... 3292 A Wiedenmann
STUDY OF ELECTRIC FIELD AND MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS ON ALIGNING PAN NANOFIBER USING DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS...... 3293 Sharzad Rahmani, Mehdi Rafizadeh, Faramarz Afshar Taromi
SYNTHESIS OF CONDUCTIVE POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES USING NOVEL CORE-SHELL NANOFILLERS ...... 3294 Ali Sarvi, Genaro Alberto Gelves, Uttandaraman Sundararaj, Maria Tresa Cortes
ELECTRICAL AND ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE SHIELDING PROPERTIES OF FLOW- INDUCED ORIENTED CARBON NANOTUBE IN POLYCARBONATE ...... 3299 Mohammad Arjmand, Mehdi Mahmoodi, Simon Park, Uttandaraman Sundararaj
QUANTUM CRITICALITY AND HIDDEN ORDER IN HIGH-TC MATERIALS ...... 3304 Mohamed Azzouz
FIRST PRINCIPLE VS EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN OF DILUTED MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS FOR SPINTRONIC APPLICATION...... 3308 Omar Mounkachi, Abdelilah Benyoussef, Mohamed Hamedoun, Mohamed Belaiche, Mostapha Bousmina
WET CHEMICAL APPROACH TO SURFACE FUNCTIONALIZATION OF TRANSPARENT SUBSTRATE FOR REGULAR GROWTH OF NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS...... 3309 Khalid Nouneh, Abdellatif Essoumhi, Hajar Cherrad, Philippe Bebin, Mosto Bousmina
MONTE CARLO SIMULATION ...... 3310 Lalla Btissam Drissi
MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF SPINEL FERRITES: SN1-X-YNIXCOYFE2O4 ...... 3312 Mohammed Bouaouda, Mohammed Belaiche, Mohammed Hamedoun, Abdelillah Benyoussef, Mostapha Boussmina
MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF SPINEL FERRITES: NIXCO1-XFE2O4 ...... 3313 Mohammed Bouaouda, Mohammed Belaiche, Mohammed Hamedoun, Abdelillah Benyoussef, Mostapha Boussmina
SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND EVALUATION OF NEW CONJUGATED COPOLYMERS ...... 3314 Ali Ben Yahia, Said El Kazzouli, El Mokhtar Essassi, Mosto Bousmina
PREPARATION, CHARACTERIZATION AND THERMAL PROPERTIES OF NI(CO)-EXCHANGED MONTMORILLONITE WITH THIABENDAZOLE...... 3315 Hamid Ennajih, Hicham Gueddar, Rachid Bouhfid, El Mokhtar Essassi, Mostapha Bousmina
E - DENDRIMERS
DRUG-DENDRIMERS: AN OVERVIEW ...... 3321 Serge Mignani, Said El Kazzouli, Mosto M. Bousmina, Jean-Pierre Majoral
BIORELEVANCE OF GLYCODENDRIMERS: FROM SYNTHESES TO APPLICATIONS...... 3333 Ren Roy, Yoann M. Chabre, Tze Chieh Shiao, Rabindra Rej
CHARACTERIZATION OF DENDRIMERS, DEPENDING ON THEIR PROPERTIES ...... 3334 Anne-Marie Caminade, Regis Laurent, Jean-Pierre Majoral
APPLICATIONS OF PHOSPHORUS CONTAINING DENDRIMERS. A SURVEY ...... 3335 Jean Pierre Majoral, Anne Marie Caminade, Regis Laurent, Cedric-Olivier Turrin, Armelle Ouali, Beatrice Delavaux-Nicot
VISUAL OBSERVATION OF FLUORESCENT POLY(AMIDO AMINE) DENDRIMER FILM ...... 3336 Toyoko Imae
PPH-DENDRIMERS. IMMUNE RESPONSE & ANTI-INFLAMMATORY PROPERTIES...... 3340 Cedric-Olivier Turrin, Anne-Marie Caminade, Jean-Pierre Majoral, Mary Poupot, Remy Poupot, Jean-Luc Davignon
DENDRITIC LIGANDS FOR ORGANOMETALLIC CATALYSIS...... 3341 Regis Laurent, Paul Servin, Mar Tristany, Armelle Ouali, Jean-Pierre Majoral, Anne-Marie Caminade
EFFECTIVE CHARGE AND SIZE OF DENDRIMERS ...... 3342 Ulrich Scheler
DEGRADABLE DENDRIMERS: DESIGN BIOCOMPATIBILITY AND EVALUATION OF DRUG RELEASE...... 3343 Marc Gingras, Y. M. Chabre, J.-M. Raimundo, M. Boix, M. Do
NANOSTRUCTURED MULTIFUNCTIONAL MATERIALS: DENDRONIZED MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES ...... 3344 Gareth Nealon, Solenne Fleutot, Romain Greget, Zsuzsanna Nagy, Bertrand Donnio, Sylvie Begin-Colin, J.-L. Gallani
DENDRON-FUNCTIONALIZED CORE-SHELL SUPERPARAMAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES: MAGNETICALLY RECOVERABLE AND RE-USABLE CATALYSTS FOR C-C CROSS-COUPLING REACTIONS ...... 3345 Karine Heuze, Daniel Rosario-Amorin, Xin Wang, Manuel Gaboyard, Rodolphe Clerac, Sylvain Nlate
CARBOSILANE DENDRIMERS AS A NEW APPROACH FOR THE TREATMENT OF HIV INFECTION ...... 3346 Paula Ortega, Maria Bryszewska, M. Angeles Muoz-Fernandez, Rafael Gomez, F. J. De La Mata
SUPRAMOLECULAR 1D-, 2D-, 3D-METALLO-COORDINATION POLYMERS AND METALLO DENDRIMERS...... 3347 Rolf. W. Saalfrank
PHOSPHORUS DENDRIMERS FUNCTIONALIZED WITH TEMPO RADICALS...... 3348 Jos Vidal-Gancedo, Elena Badetti, Vega Lloveras, Rosa Mara Sebastin, Anne Marie Caminade, Jaume Veciana
DENDRITIC RADIOLABELED CHELATES AND DENDRONIZED NANOPARTICLES AS USEFUL TOOLS FOR BIOMEDICAL IMAGING...... 3349 Delphine Felder-Flesch, Giuseppe Lamanna, Brice Basly, Sylvie Begin-Colin, Claire Billotey
SYNTHESIS OF DENDRITIC NANO-OBJECTS DEDICATED TO HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER BETWEEN BACTERIA IN SOIL POLLUTANT BIO-ATTENUATION PROCESSES...... 3350 Cynthia Ghobril, G. Pourroy, S. Begin-Colin, D. Felder-Flesh
DENDRIMER-ORDERED MESOPOROUS INORGANIC OXIDE BY CO-CONDENSATION APPROACH...... 3351 Younes Brahmi, Aurlien Hameau, N. Katir, Abdellatif Essoumhi, Mosto Bousmina, Jean-Pierre Majoral, Abdelkrim El Kadib
SYNTHETIC ROUTE TOWARDS DENDRITIC DYE-CONTAINING NANO-OBJECTS DEVOTED TO SENTINEL NODE DETECTION THROUGH A MAGNETO-OPTICAL DEVICE ...... 3352 Marie Kueny-Stotz, Lai Truong Phuoc, Franois-Xavier Ble, Patrick Poulet, Sylvie Begin-Colin, Delphine Felder-Flesch, F. Tellier
TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY OF DENDRIMERS: STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF DEFECTIVE MOLECULES...... 3353 Laurence Charles, Aura Tintaru, Monnier Valrie, Chendo Christophe, Quelever Gilles, Peng Ling
SIMULTANEOUSLY POLYMERIZABLE AND CLEAVABLE DENDRITIC STRUCTURES FOR EFFICIENT DISPERSION OF FUNCTIONAL GROUPS WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF MESOPOROUS MATERIALS...... N/A Younes Brahmi, Nadia Katir, Anne-Marie Caminade, Mosto Bousmina, Jean-Pierre Majoral, Abdelkrim El Kadib
SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND BIOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF NEW DRUG-LOADED PHOSPHORUS DENDRIMERS...... 3360 Nabil El Brahmi, Said El Kazzouli, Aurelien Hameau, Serge Mignani, El Mokhtar Essassi, Mosto Bousmina, Jean-Pierre Majoral
POLYANIONIC DENDRIMERS AS SUPPORTS FOR THE NON-COVALENT IMMOBILISATION OF HOMOGENEOUS CATALYSTS ...... 3361 Mykhailo Ianchuk, Armelle Ouali, Maria Zablocka, Anne-Marie Caminade, Jean-Pierre Majoral
ROLE OF CHOLESTEROL IN DENDRIMER – MEMBRANE INTERACTION ...... 3362 Maksim Ionov, Barbara Klajnert, Konstantinos Gardikis, Costas Demetzos, Jean-Pierre Majoral, Maria Bryszewska
DENDRIMER CATALYSTS BASED ON PALLADIUM FOR PREPARING LACTAMS AND LACTONES...... 3363 Rachid Touzani, Howard Alper
DESIGN OF GLYCOCLUSTERS AND GLYCODENDRIMERS TOWARDS PROMISING THERAPEUTICAL AGENTS...... 3364 Yoann Chabre, Tze Chieh Shiao, Rabindra Rej, Rene Roy
BENEFITS DERIVED FROM MODIFICATION OF PPI DENDRIMER SURFACE BY ATTACHING SUGAR RESIDUES ...... 3365 Barbara Klajnert
ORGANOMETALLIC DENDRIMERIC POLYMERS WITH NEAR-INFRARED CHROMOPHORES ...... 3366 Barry R. Steele, Spyros Georgakopoulos, Carolina Villalonga-Barber, Constantinos G. Screttas
CARREAU – HONORARY SYMPOSIUM
INJECTION MOULDING OF FIBRE REINFORCED THERMOPLASTICS: INTEGRATION OF FIBRE ORIENTATION AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES COMPUTATIONS...... 3367 Hedi Miled, Luisa Silva, Thierry Coupez, Jean-Franois Agassant
FROM RHEOLOGY TO POYMER PROCESSING ...... 3373 Musa Kamal
STRUCTURE AND PERFORMANCE OF NANOCOMPOSITES BASED MULTILAYER FILMS ...... 3374 Maryam Fereydoon, Farhad Sadeghi, Abdellah Ajji, H. Tabatabaei
MODELING OF FREE- WITHDRAWAL COATING WITH UV-CURING TIO2 FILLED RESINS ...... 3378 Andrew Hrymak, Mahyar Javidid, Michael Pope
DEFECTS IN INDUSTRIAL EXTRUSION...... 3379 John Vlachopoulos
A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON ORIENTATION AND VISCOUS AND ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF NANO- SIZED PLATELETS IN NEWTONIAN AND VISCOELASTIC FLUIDS ...... 3380 Mahmoud Rajabian, Charles Dubois, Pierre Carreau
CARBON NANOTUBE CONDUCTIVE NETWORKS THROUGH THE DOUBLE PERCOLATION CONCEPT IN POLYPROPYLENE-CYCLIC BUTYLENE TEREPHTHALATE COMPOSITE BLENDS...... 3381 Samaneh Abbasi, Abdessalem Derdouri, Pierre J. Carreau
PREDICTING THE ORIENTATION OF CONCENTRATED LONG GLASS FIBER SUSPENSIONS IN SIMPLE SHEAR FLOW: APPLICATION TO PROCESSING FLOWS ...... 3390 Donald Baird, Kevin Ortman, Peter Wapperom, A. Jeffrey Giacomin, Adam W. Mix
PROCESSING OF POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES REINFORCED WITH POLYSACCHARIDE NANOCRYSTALS...... 3391 Alain Dufresne
EFFECT OF PLASTICIZER TYPE ON THE PROPERTIES OF THERMOPLASTIC STARCH/POLYETHYLENE BLENDS...... 3392 Ata Taghizadeh, Basil D. Favis
STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF ELECTROSPUN CHITOSAN-BASED NANOFIBERS ...... 3396 Mehdi Pakravan, Marie-Claude Heuzey, Abdellah Ajji
EFFECT OF NANOCLAY ON THE CELLULAR AND CRYSTALLIZATION MORPHOLOGIES OF PLA DURING EXTRUSION FOAMING ...... 3398 Wentao Zhai, Chul B. Park
KINETICS OF THE ISOTHERMAL STEREOCOMPLEX FORMATION BETWEEN ENANTIOMERIC POLY(LACTIC ACID)S ...... 3403 Michel Huneault, Pierre Sammut, Sajjad Saeidlou, Hongbo Li
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