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Plastics Encounter at ANTEC 2008

May 4 – 8, 2008 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

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Society of Plastics Engineers

66th Annual Technical Conference of the Society of Plastics Engineers 2008

TABLE OF CONTENTS

VOLUME 1

AUTOMOTIVE – D31

AUTOMOTIVE DIVISION INTERACTIVE SESSION

POLYMER FLOW ANALYSIS ON AN AUTOMOTIVE INSTRUMENT PANEL...... 1 Bhagat, Harsh

COMPOSITES – D39

COMPOSITE PROCESSING AND APPLICATION

SELF-REINFORCING THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITES ...... 6 Lesser, Alan; McCarthy, Thomas; Yoon, Joonsung

HYDROXYAPATITE- POLYLACTIDE COMPOSITE FOR BONE REPAIR...... 11 Olson, James; Shaw, Montgomery; Sun, Shih-Po; Wei, Mei

STRUCTURAL REINFORCED INJECTION MOLDING OF FIBERGLASS AND POLYDICYCLOPENTADIENE...... 14 Hoekstra, Nicole; Lao, Edward

IMPROVING WATER RESISTANCE OF WOOD-PLASTIC COMPOSITES THROUGH CO-EXTRUSION...... 19 Jin, Shan; Matuana, Laurent

DEVELOPMENT OF GRUBBS' CATALYZED COMPOSITIONS AS A SINGLE - COMPONENT AMBIENT CURABLE BINDER...... 24 Feng, Jianxin; Gogos, Costas; Wan, Chen; Young, Ming-wan

COMPOSITES - INTERACTIVE

NEXT GENERATION ANTIMICROBIALS FOR WOOD FILLED PLASTICS ...... 29 Woods, William

EFFECT OF SHEAR MIXING CONDITIONS ON EMI SHIELDING EFFECTIVENESS AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF VGCNF FILLED THERMOPLASTIC...... 34 Al-Saleh, Mohammed; Sundararaj, Uttandaraman

EFFECT OF FILLERS SHAPE FACTOR ON THE PERFORMANCE OF THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE POLYMER COMPOSITES ...... 39 Hong, Chang Min; Kim, Sungjun; Lee, Young Jun; Park, Sun Ho

RHEOLOGICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF HDPE-WOOD COMPOSITES: EFFECTS OF FILLER-FILLER AND POLYMER-FILLER INTERACTIONS ...... 44 Huang, Han-Xiong; Zhang, Jing-Jing

UV-CURING OF ACRYLATE THIN FILMS ON PARTICULATES THROUGH FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION MECHANISM ...... 49 Feng, Jianxin; Gogos, Costas; Lu, Chunmeng; Patel, Subhash; Tan, Victor; Teng, Shu-Li; Wang, Peng; Young, Ming-wan; Zhang, Qi; Zhu, Linjie

ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC – D24

ELECTRICALS & ELECTRONICS MATERIALS: SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND APPLICATIONS

DEVELOPMENT OF ION CONDUCTIVE POLYMER GELS WITH ADDITION OF IONIC LIQUID ...... 54 Guo, Jiao; Min, Kyonsuku

DEVELOPMENT OF ANHYDROUS PROTON CONDUCTING POLYELECTROLYTE BLENDS BASED ON SULFONATED BISPHENOL A POLYETHERIMIDE AND 1H- 1,2,4-TRIAZOLE ...... 59 Guhathakurta, Soma; Min, Kyonsuku

EFFECTS OF SOLVENT-CASTING CONDITIONS ON THE MORPHOLOGY AND PROPERTIES OF DISULFONATED POLY (ARYLENE ETHER SULFONE) COPOLYMER FILMS FOR POLYMER ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANES ...... 64 Baird, Donald; Lane, Ozma; Lee, Myoungbae; McGrath, James

CONTINUOUS SOLUTION CASTING AND PROPERTIES OF SULFONATED POLY(ARYLENE ETHER SULFONE) COPOLYMER MEMBRANES FOR FUEL CELLS...... 69 Baird, Donald; Huang, Jianhua; McGrath, James

RHEOLOGICAL, MECHANICAL AND THERMAL PROPERTIES OF PVDF/CARBON NANOFIBER (CNF) COMPOSITE ...... 74 D'Souza, Nandika; Vidhate, Shailesh

PREPARATION OF POLYSTYRENE COATED M-NA SINGLE CRYSTALS AND THEIR NLO PROPERTIES...... 78 Ambekar, Abhishek; Pardhy, Neeraj

ENGINEERING PROPERTIES & STRUCTURE – D26

ADVANCES IN BIO-DERIVED MATERIALS

HIGH WATER BARRIER NANOBIOCOMPOSITES FOR COATING AND LAMINATION APPLICATIONS...... 82 Lagaron, Jose

BIO-DEGRADABLE POLY(HYDROXYBUTANOIC ACID) COPOLYMERS FOR AGRICULTURAL MULCH FILM APPLICATIONS ...... 87 Krishnaswamy, Raj; Orzolek, Mike

A STUDY OF THE EFFECTS ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF WPC DUE TO SMALL INCLUSIONS OF GLASS FIBER REINFORCEMENTS (GRF) ...... 92 Rizvi, Ghaus; Semeralul, Hamid

THERMAL STABILIZATION OF BIODEGRADABLE POLY-HYDROXY-BUTYRATE (PHB) IN MELT EXTRUSION, PART 1: POLY-OLIGOMERIC-SILSESQUIOXANES (POSS)...... 95 Dodiuk, Hanna; Kenig, Sam; McCarthy, Stephen; Schwier, Chris; Shaked, Yanir

ADVANCES IN POLYOLEFINS

THE ROLE OF MOLECULAR PARAMETERS OF PP IN THE SENSITIVITY TO SPECIFIC NUCLEATION...... 100 Cermak, Roman; Chvatalova, Lenka; Obadal, Martin; Vychopnova, Jana

STRACTURE AND INTERFACIAL ADHESION OF PP/PBS SANDWICH INJECTION MOLDINGS...... 105 Aoki, Naoya; Fujita, Yuji; Hamada, Hiroyuki; Kotaki, Masaya; Sano, Hironari; Yoshida, Toshihiro

ULTRASONIC DECROSSLINKING OF CROSSLINKED POLYETHYLENE ...... 109 Isayev, Avraam; Jenkins, John

MISCIBILITY AND CRYSTALLIZATION OF OBC / EO BLENDS...... 114 Baer, Eric; Chen, Hongyu; Hiltner, Anne; Khariwala, Devang; Wang, Haopeng; Weinhold, Jeff

ADHESION OF ELASTOMERIC COPOLYMERS TO POLYOLEFINS ...... 119 Ansems, Patricia; Baer, Eric; Dias, Peter; Hiltner, Anne; Kamdar, Akshay; Lin, Yijian; Poon, Benjamin

ENGINEERING PROPERTIES AND STRUCTURE

POLYMERIC MEMBRANES FOR SELECTIVE PERMEATION OF CO2 AND O2 ...... 124 Baer, Eric; Freeman, Benny; Hiltner, Anne; Pethe, Vishwas; Wang, Haopeng

EFFECT OF FORCED ASSEMBLY NANOLAYERING ON THE PHYSICAL AGING OF A POLYSULFONE FILM ...... 129 Baer, Eric; Hiltner, Anne; Langhe, Deepak; Paul, Donald; Ponting, Michael

INVESTIGATION OF FIBER ORIENTATION IN FILLING AND PACKING PHASES ...... 134 Chiu, Hsian-Sen; Hsieh, Dar-Der; Hsu, Chih-Chung; Yamabe, Masashi

ANALYSIS OF THERMOPLASTIC PROPERTIES AFTER CRYOGENIC TREATMENT AND NORMALIZATION ...... 139 Dibble, Benjamin; Dropik, Martin; Lewis, Dean; Tullai, David

EFFECT OF ORIENTATION ON THE INDENTATION HARDNESS AND ELASTIC RECOVERY OF A TRANSPARENT NYLON ...... 144 Baer, Eric; Hiltner, Anne; Song, John; Thompson, Geoffrey; Yang, Yankai

INTERACTIVE SESSION - EPSDIV

KINETICS OF MICROEMULSION COPOLYMERIZATION FOLLOWED BY RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY ...... 149 Corona, Miguel; Flores, Jorge; Mendizabal, Eduardo; Puig, Jorge

THE FORMATION OF STRUCTURE IN PTFE POROUS MEMBRANES INDUCED BY THE UNIAXIAL STRETCHING OPERATION...... 154 Juin-Yih, Lai; Lei-Ti, Huang; Ping-Shun, Hsu; Shia-Chung, Chen

EFFECT OF NORBORNENE CONTENT ON THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF CYCLO OLEFIN COPOLYMERS...... 159 Han, J.; Kang, Ho-Jong; Kim, Jaehyun

POLYMER MODIFIERS & ADDITIVES INTERACTIVE SESSION

RELATING NANOCLAY DIMENSIONS AND ARRANGEMENT TO BARRIER PROPERTIES OF POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES ...... 163 Gupta, Rakesh; Statler Jr, David

STRUCTURE-PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS IN NANOCOMPOSITES

NANOCOMPOSITES FROM POLY(ETHYLENE-CO-METHACRYLIC ACID) IONOMERS: EFFECT OF NEUTRALIZATION OF ACID GROUPS ON MORPHOLOGY AND PROPERTIES...... 168 Cui, Lili; Paul, Donald; Troeltzsch, Christina

EVALUATION OF SHAPE MEMORY PROPERTIES OF POLYURETHANE NANOCOMPSOITES WITH HIGH HARD SEGMENT CONTENT ...... 172 Cao, Feina; Jana, Sadhan

STRENGTHENING OF POLYOLEFINS BY BOTTOM-UP SELF-ASSEMBLY OF POSS NANOPARTICLES ...... 177 Jana, Sadhan; Lee, Byoung Jo

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF ELECTROSPUN COMPOSITES AND THEIR CRYSTALLINITY MEASUREMENTS USING X-RAY DIFFRACTION...... 182 Baji, Avinash; Blackledge, Todd; Leng, Siwei; Wong, Shing-Chung

EXTRUSION – D22

EXTRUSION DIVISION – DIES

POLYPROPYLENE FOAM PRESSURE DROP FUNDAMENTALS...... 187 Dooley, Joseph; Koppi, Kurt; Smith, Roy; Tusim, Martin

ANALYSIS OF METALLOCENE BASED LLDPE FLOW WITH RESPECT TO DIE DROOL PHENOMENON BY USING FEM AND FLOW VISUALIZATION EXPERIMENT...... 192 Chaloupkova, Katerina; Coates, Phil; Martyn, Mike; Zatloukal, Martin

NEW DIE CONCEPT "ROTATION DISTRIBUTOR" ...... 197 Limper, Andreas; Rübbelke, Ingo; Schöppner, Volker; Witt, Michael

MULTILAYER RHEOLOGY EFFECTS IN COEXTRUDED STRUCTURE DESIGN...... 202 Costeux, Chunxia; Dooley, Joseph; Schlader, Andrew; Wrisley, Robert

COEXTRUSION OF MULTILAYER POLYMER COMPOSITES: BLEND MORPHOLOGY AND ADHESION PERFORMANCE ...... 207 Asthana, Himanshu; Patham, Bhaskar; Prakash, Om

NUMERICAL PREDICTION OF THE FLOW OF COEXTRUDED POLYMERS IN A TUBE...... 212 Costeux, Chunxia; Dooley, Joseph

MESH PARTITIONING TECHNIQUE FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATION OF COEXTRUSION...... 217 Gupta, Mahesh

EXTRUSION DIVISION – GENERAL

DETERMINING MELT FLOW INDEX ON-LINE USING A HELICAL BARREL RHEOMETER ...... 223 Gogos, Costas; Lu, Chunmeng; Tan, Victor; Todd, David; Wan, Chen; Young, Ming-wan; Zhu, Linjie

DYNAMIC TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT IN POLYMER PROCESSING...... 228 Anger, Karsten; Giese, Erhard; Potente, Helmut; Schöppner, Volker

ADVANCED PROCESS DESIGN IN HIGH VOLUME KNEADER REACTORS USING MULTIPLE FEED PORTS TO AVOID CRUST FORMING, FOAMING AND LOW HEAT TRANSFER...... 233 Witte, Daniel

A MODEL TO PREDICT EXTRUSION OUTPUT IMPROVEMENT RESULTING FROM IMPROVED FEEDSCREW WEAR PROTECTION ...... 243 Kvinge, Tom

ENVIRONMENTAL, HEALTH AND SAFETY ISSUES AND APPROACHES FOR THE PROCESSING OF POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES ...... 247 Wetzel, Mark

SIMULATION OF MULTIFILAMENT FIBER SPINNING ...... 252 Cox, Christopher; Jeon, YoungPyo

KNEADER TECHNOLOGY FOR THE DIRECT DEVOLATILIZATION OF TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE ELASTOMERS...... 257 Diener, Andreas; Safrit, Boyd

EXTRUSION DIVISION – SINGLE SCREW

THE ACCURACY OF STANDARD DRAG FLOW AND PRESSURE GRADIENT CALCULATIONS FOR SINGLE-SCREW EXTRUDERS...... 262 Campbell, Greg; Spalding, M.

PREDICTION OF MELT TEMPERATURE RISE IN SINGLE-SCREW PUMP EXTRUDERS ...... 267 Campbell, Greg; Carlson, Frederick; Spalding, M.

NOVEL SINGLE SCREW ELONGATIONAL COMPOUNDER FOR THERMALLY SENSITVE MATERIALS ...... 272 Luker, Keith

SINGLE SCREW DESIGN OPTIMIZATION FOR FUEL LINE BARRIER LAYER MATERIAL...... 277 Böttner, Dietmar; Perdikoulias, John; Vlcek, Jiri; Zatloukal, Martin

DETERMINATION OF TEMPERATURE OF THE SCREW...... 289 Altinkaynak, Atakan; Crabtree, Sam; Pavlicek, Calvin; Pham, Hoang; Spalding, M.

EXTRUSION DIVISION – TWIN SCREW

DETERMINATION OF SCREW CHARACTERISTICS IN CLOSELY INTERMESHING COUNTER-ROTATING TWIN SCREW EXTRUDER...... 295 Hong, Myung; Jiang, Qibo; White, James

SIMULATION OF DISTRIBUTIVE AND DISPERSIVE MIXING IN A CO-ROTATING TWIN-SCREW EXTRUDER...... 300 Cong, Laibin; Gupta, Mahesh

SCALE-UP CALCULATIONS FOR REACTIVE EXTRUSION OPERATIONS ...... 305 Ortiz-Rodriguez, Estanislao; Tzoganakis, Costas

ANALYSIS OF COMPOUNDING PERFORMANCE OF VARIOUS TYPES OF CONTINUOUS EXTRUSION EQUIPMENT FOR HIGHLY-FILLED POLYPROPYLENE COMPOSITES ...... 310 Abe, Daudi; Barger, Mark; Dooley, Joseph; Kim, Eung Kyu

NON-ISOTHERMAL SIMULATION OF THE FLOW IN CO-ROTATING AND COUNTER-ROTATING TWIN-SCREW EXTRUDERS USING MESH PARTITIOING TECHNIQUE ...... 316 Gupta, Mahesh

FUNDAMENTALS FORUM INVENTION AND INNOVATION IN POLYMERS AND POLYMER PROCESSING

POLYMERIC NANO-ALLOY: MECHANISM AND UNIQUE PROPERTIES...... 321 Chou, Richard

BREAKTHROUGH INVENTIONS IN POLYMER BLENDS & COMPOUNDING - SELECTED CASES...... 322 Flexman, Edmund; Shih, CHI-KAI

INTERACTIVE (POSTERS)

NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF EFFECT OF SCREW GEOMETRY ON MIXING IN A COOLING EXTRUDER...... 327 Bussmann, Markus; Park, Chul; Wang, Lilac

PRESSURE/FLOW PERFORMANCE OF VISCOELASTIC POLYMERIC MELTS IN CYLINDRICAL CHANNELS...... 332 Berdyshev, Boris; Hosseini, Hossein; Mosadegh, Mohammad

INJECTION MOLDING – D23

APPLICATIONS I

A COMPARISON OF SEVENTRANSFER METHODS FOR VELOCITY TO PRESSURE SWITCHOVER...... 337 Gao, Robert; Johnston, Stephen; Kazmer, David; Velusamy, Suganya; Westerdale, Sarah

EFFECT OF PROCESSING PARAMETERS ON FLOW HESITATION WITH GLASS- FILLED REINFORCED THERMOPLASTICS: EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION WITH DIRECT VISUALIZATION...... 342 Coulter, John; Layser, Gregory

ADVANCED COMPATIBILITY MATRICES BY MULTI-COMPONENT INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS...... 349 Kuehnert, Ines; Schmachtenberg, Ernst; Schuck, Marcus

MELT BULK TEMPERATURE DYNAMICS DURING MOLD FILLING ...... 354 Flaharty, Ryan; Gidwani, Mohit; Johnston, Stephen; Kazmer, David; Somani, Parikshit

AN INVESTIGATION OF PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE PROFILES IN THE BARREL DURING INJECTION AND PLASTICIZING IN AN INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE ...... 359 Chen, Zengtao; Dubay, Rickey; Imbert, Clement; Lutchman, Aviane; Zhang, Deng

DEVELOPMENT OF A MATHEMATICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CAVITY PRESSURE AND BARREL NOZZLE PRESSURE IN AN INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE ...... 364 Dubay, Rickey; Hernandez, Jose; Imbert, Clement; Lutchman, Aviane

CAE & SIMULATION I

COUPLED FEA SIMULATION OF THE DEMOULDING PROCEDURE OF INJECTION MOULDED PARTS...... 369 Helbich, Bernhard; Michaeli, Walter

FILLING SIMULATION AND TEMPERATURE PREDICTION IN HOT RUNNER SYSTEMS ...... 374 Bednar, Al; Hoffmann, Sven; Lopez, Ivan; Osswald, Tim

NUMERICAL VISUALIZATION OF MELT FLOW IN COLD RUNNER AND HOT RUNNER...... 379 Chang, Cheng-Yi; Chen, Shiachung; Hsu, Cheng-Li; Lin, Yo-Tseng; Tsai, Cheng-Han; Yang, Wen-Hsien

SIMULATION AND VERIFICATION MOLD TEMPERATURE VARIATION OF PULSED-COOLING...... 385 Shia-Chung, Chen; Shih-Hsien, Tarng; Tsai, T.P.; Yan-Chen, Chiou; Yang, Wen-Hsien

3D NUMERICAL SIMULATION INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF VOLUMETRIC FLOW RATE ON CORE DEFLECTION...... 390 Chou, Ya-Yuen; Giacomin, A. Jeffrey; Hade, A. J.; Yang, Wen-Hsien

INJECTION MOLDING - INTERACTIVE

EFFECT OF FOUR STRESS CONCENTRATORS OVER THE MECANICAL PROPERTIES OF INJECTED PLASTIC PARTS ...... 395 Campero, Joel; Candal, Maria; Rojas, Hector

EFFECTS OF PROCESSING PARAMETERS ON SHRINKAGE UNIFORMITY OF INJECTION-COMPRESSION MOLDED PART ...... 400 Huang, Han-Xiong; Li, Kun; Li, Sha

STUDY ON CELLULAR STRUCTURE AND SKIN LAYER THICKNESS OF MICROCELLULAR INJECTION MOLDED PARTS USING NEWLY-DEVELOPED EQUIPMENT...... 405 Huang, Han-Xiong; Wang, Jian-Kang; Xu, Hong-Fei

EFFECT OF ORGANOCLAY ON THE MECHANICAL / THERMAL PROPERTIES OF MICROCELLULAR INJECTION MOLDED POLYSTYRENE-CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES...... 410 Hu, Ching-hsin; Hwang, Shyh-shin; Liu, Sung-po

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PROCESSING-THERMOMECHANICAL ENVIRONMENT AND STRUCTURE ON INJECTED FLAT PARTS ...... 416 Gordillo, Antonio; Morales, Rosa; Sanchéz-Soto, Miguel; Villarroel, Sobeida

EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATIONS OF CAE PREDICTIONS ON BIREFRINGENCE OF INJECTION MOLDED LENSES...... 421 Lai, Huai En; Wang, Peijen

VARIABLE MOLD TEMPERATURE FOR IMPROVING SURFACE QUALITY OF MICROCELLULAR INJECTION MOLDED PARTS USING INDUCTION HEATING TECHNOLOGY...... 426 Ho-Hsiang, Wang; Jeng-Shen, Huang; Jui-Pin, Yang; Ping-Shun, Hsu; Shia-Chung, Chen

EFFECTS OF THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES ON THE SCRATCH BEHAVIOR OF ABS COPOLYMER ...... 431 Kim, Il-Jin; Kwon, Keehae

LEARNING EFFICIENCY OF USING VIRTUAL MANUFACTURING IN E-LEARNING FOR THE OPERATION TECHNOLOGY OF INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE...... 436 Lin, Shuan-Liang; Ming-Chang, Jeng; Shia-Chung, Chen

RAPID MOLD HEATING BY INDUCTION HEATING AND ITS APPLICATION TO THIN-WALL INJECTION MOLDING...... 440 Eom, Hyeju; Kim, Young-Seog; Park, Keun

USE OF LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS AND SIMULATION TO ASSESS THE EFFECT OF THE INJECTION PARAMETERS ON THE DIMENSIONS OF POLYPROPYLENE TEST SPECIMENS...... 445 Gordillo, Antonio; Morales, Rosa; Sanchez, Johan; Trejo, Melissa; Villablanca, Valeska; Villarroel, Sobeida

DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTOMATED OPTIMIZER OF COOLING CIRCUIT IN INJECTION MOLDING...... 450 Chang, Hyung-Kun; Jung, Hyun-Woo; Rhee, Byung-Ohk; Yi, Young-Joo

EFFECT OF RHEOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF RESIN ON THE PERFORMANCE OF THE RUNNER VALVE IN FAMILY-MOLD ...... 455 Cha, Baeg-soon; Choi, Kwon-Il; Koo, Bon-heung; Park, Hyung-Pil; Rhee, Byung-Ohk

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS FOR THE DEFORMATION OF THE INNER TUBE OF ELECTRIC POWER PLUGS MANUFACTURED BY INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS...... 459 Cha, Baeg-soon; Choi, Kwon-Il; Hong, Seok-Kwan; Koo, Bon-heung; Park, Hyung-Pil; Rhee, Byung-Ohk; Yi, Young-Joo

EFFECT OF INJECTION CONDITIONS ON FRACTURE BEHAVIOR OF HIPS AT LOW STRAIN RATE STUDIED BY DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS...... 464 Gordillo, Antonio; Morales, Rosa; Rodrigues, Rosa; Sanchez, Johan; Santana, Orlando

PROCESS & TOOLING

DEVELOPING A SYSTEMIZED MOLD MAINTENANCE PROGRAM ...... 469 Johnson, Steve

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF DIFFERENT SCREW DESIGNS FOR INJECTION MOLDING...... 474 Elsass, Mark; Kelsay, Steve; Myers, Jeff; Ruberg, Mark; Waterfield, Ritch

WEAR LIFESPAN PREDICTION AND EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BALL SCREWS FOR INJECTION MOLDING MACHINES ...... 478 Forstmann, Jochen; Jarosch, Peter; Wortberg, Johannes

A STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF CONFORMAL COOLING ON PART TEMPERATURE...... 483 Edwards, Robert; Meckley, Jonathan

TEMPERATURE EFFECTS ON MICRO-CHANNEL REPLICATION OF HOT EMBOSSING AND INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS ...... 489 Chen, Shiachung; Li, Haimei; Wang, Ying-Chieh

HEATING/COOLING TECHNOLOGIES OF INJECTION MODING TO IMPROVE PRODUCTS QUALITY ...... 494 Chen, Shiachung; Li, Haimei; Shen, Changyu; Wang, Hosiang; Wang, Xin

CYCLE TO CYCLE BASED MONITORING AND CONTROL OF DYNAMIC MOLD SURFACE TEMPERATURE USING INDUCTION HEATING ...... 499 Jin-Chuan, Cin; Jong, Wen-Ren; Kuen-Ying, Yang; Shia-Chung, Chen

MARKETING & MANAGEMENT – D37

MARKETING AND MANAGEMENT PRESENTATIONS

A MANAGERS´ VIEW OF CRITICAL FACTORS OF PLASTIC CLUSTERS PERFORMANCE...... 503 Goldsmith, Jim; Green, Paul; Jircikova, Eva; Pavelkova, Drahomira

MEDICAL PLASTICS – D36

MEDICAL PLASTICS

POLYPROPYLENE BIO-CD: A NOVEL PHOTOLUMINESCENCE BASED ESTIMATION OF GLUCOSE CONCENTRATION WITH ULTRASONIC TECHNOLOGY AS AN ENABLER ...... 508 Vengasandra, Srikanth; Cai, Yuankun; Shinar, Ruth; Shinar, Joseph; Grewell, David

NOVEL DUAL ELECTRODE MODE ELECTRO-SPINNING OF BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS ...... 513 He, Yadong; Juang, Yi-Je; Li, Mei; Li, Qingchun; Lu, Chunmeng; Wei, Xiaopeng; Xin, Chunling

CHARACTERISATION OF BIOACTIVE POLYCAPROLACTONE...... 518 Douglas, Paula

THE EFFECTS OF DYNAMIC POLYMER MELT MANIPULATION OF THE BIOINERT AND BIODEGRADABLE PERFORMANCE OF INJECTION MOLDED BIOMEDICAL PRODUCTS ...... 523 Coulter, John; Gomatam, Rajesh; Kim, Y; Rajagopalan, Padma

SOL-GEL DERIVED POLYCAPROLACTONE / CASTOR OIL BASED COPOLYURETHANES FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS ...... 528 Lippincott, Hugh; Schmidt, Daniel

MEDICAL PLASTICS AND BIOMATERIALS

MICROPATTERNING PROTEINS ON PLA FILMS USING PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY...... 533 Hirt, Douglas; Rasal, Rahul

MECHANICAL AND THERMAL ANALYSES OF DIFFERENT LOTS OF FILM MADE FROM THERMOFORMABLE GLYCOL MODIFIED POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE (PETG) ...... 538 McGinley, Ronan; McNally, Gerry; Millar, Bronagh; Murphy, Raymond; O'Brien, Thomas

DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION OF PLASTIC HYPODERMIC NEEDLES...... 543 Busillo, Eric; Colton, Jonathan

THE SCIENCE OF MARRYING TECHNOLOGIES TO PRODUCE CROSSLINKED NANOCOMPOSITES-WHY?...... 548 Acquarulo, Lawrence; Listro, Tony; Nilajkar, Amar; O'Neil, Charles

THE EFFECTS OF PLGA COMPOSITION ON MORPHOLOGY AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF BIOSCAFFOLDS ...... 553 Baek, Soo; Chan, Christine; Leung, Linus; Naguib, Hani

THERMAL, RHEOLOGICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLY(ETHER- BLOCK-AMIDE) COMPOUNDS FILLED WITH BASO4 ...... 558 Guo, Xiaoping

DESIGN OF BIORESORBABLE POLYMER FOR TISSUE GROWTH ...... 563 Crugnola, Aldo; DiTaranto, Vincent; Mandeville, Matthew

NEW TECHNOLOGY FORUMS

DATA MANAGEMENT, MODELING, SIMULATION AND PREDICTION OF POLYMER PERFORMANCE

SIMULATION STUDY ON WARPAGE DEVELOPMENT OF MICROELECTRONICS PACKAGING ...... 567 Kim, Yeong

THE EFFECTS OF MATERIAL SELECTION ON RF SYSTEMS INCLUDING RFID...... 568 Austin, Timothy

EXPEDITION TO FIND TREASURES IN THE FIELD OF NANOTECHNOLOGY: COMPUTATIONAL NANOTECHNOLOGY ...... 573 Jang, Seung Soon

GENERATION OF EXPERIMENTAL POLYMER STRUCTURE-PROPERTY DATA USING COMBINATORIAL AND HIGH THROUGHPUT METHODS ...... 574 Webster, Dean

TRANSPARENT ABS ; SIMULATION APPROACHES TO THE COMPOSITION CONTROL ...... 575 Kim, Joongin

PLASTICS ENVIRONMENTAL – D40

ENVIRONMENTAL PLASTICS POSTER SESSION

HYDROLYTIC DEGRADATION OF POLYLACTIC ACID MICRO- AND NANOCOMPOSITES...... 576 Zhou, Q.; Xanthos, M.

THERMAL DEGRADATION OF FIBER-REINFORCED BIO-BASED RIGID POLYURETHANE FOAMS ...... 581 Alvarado, Patricia; Jimenez, Guillermo; Sibaja, Maria; Vega, Jose

RIGID COMPOSITE MATERIALS FROM OLIVE BRUSH SEED AND UNSATURATED POLYESTER RESIN...... 585 Alvarado, Patricia; Jimenez, Guillermo; Jimenez, Lisbeth; Sibaja, Maria; Vega, Jose

NATURAL ADHESIVES FROM NOVEL SOURCES...... 589 Alvarado, Patricia; Jimenez, Guillermo; Sandi, Ana; Sibaja, Maria; Vega, Jose

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES COMPARISON OF BIO-BASED AND SYNTHETIC MATERIALS WHEN SUBMITTED TO DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS ...... 592 Bonadiman, Renato; Cauper, Hudson; Da Silva, Ocileide; Oliveira, Jacqueline; Siqueira, Barbara

PLASTICS RECYCLING

THE EFFECT OF COMPATIBLIZATION ON THE PROPERTIES OF ULTRAFINE SCRAP TIRE RUBBER AND RECYCLED THERMOPLASTIC BLENDS ...... 598 Grubb, Michael; Mead, Joey; Murphy, Daniel; Wei, Ming

SOLID STATE SHEAR PULVERIZATION TECHNOLOGY AND RECYCLING OF POLYMERS ...... 603 Hosseini, Hossein

DEVELOPMENT OF MOISTURE RESISTANT PET FROM RECYCLED BOTTLES...... 606 Hamada, Hiroyuki; Inoya, Hiroyuki; Leong, Yew Wei

POLYMER ANALYSIS – D33

POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES: CHARACTERIZATION AND ANALYSIS

STRUCTURE, MECHANICAL AND THERMAL PROPERTIES OF POLY-3 HYDROXYBUTYRATE-CO-HYDROXYVALERATE (PHBV)/ZN-AL STEARATE LAYERED DOUBLE HYDROXIDE (LDH) NANOCOMPOSITES...... 610 Chen, Hua; Dagnon, Koffi; DSouza, Nandika; Mei, Lucia

USING NANOPARTICLE EMBEDDING TECHNIQUES TO STUDY POLYMER BONDING UNDER CARBON DIOXIDE PRESSURE...... 615 Chen, Hongmin; Jean, Y.C; Lee, Ly; Liu, Chuntai; Yang, Jintao; Yang, Yong

POLYSTYRENE NANOCOMPOSITE MATERIALS BY IN SITU POLYMERIZATION INTO ZN AL LAYER DOUBLE HYDROXIDE STEARATE HEXADECANE STYRENE MONOMER INTERLAYER...... 620 Braterman, Paul; D'Souza, Nandika; Ogbomo, Sunny; Xu, Zhiping

EFFECTS OF NANOPARTICLES ON CURING KINETICS OF EPOXY SYSTEM...... 624 Cai, Zhi-qi; Castro, Jose; Guerra, Dante; Hioe, Yunior; Lee, L. James; Movva, Siva

POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES: ANALYSIS AND CHARACTERIZATION

INTERFACIAL AND BULK POLYMER EFFECTS IN POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES ...... 629 D'Souza, Nandika

EVALUATING THE DEGREE OF NANOTUBE AGGLOMERATION AND ITS EFFECT ON THE THERMAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CARBON NANOTUBE- REINFORCED POLYETHYLENE OXIDE...... 630 Agwedicham, Ahmed-Tijani; Jallo, Laila; Narh, Kwabena; Y. Rhee, Kyong

WETTING BEHAVIOR OF IONOMERS ON SILICA ...... 635 Schmidt, Randall; Swier, Steven; Weiss, Robert; Zhai, Xiaowen

ANALYSIS OF POSITIVE TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT EFFECT IN CARBON NANOFIBER AND CARBON BLACK FILLED SHAPE MEMORY POLYURETHANE COMPOSITES ...... 640 Du, Ling; Gunes, Sedat; Jana, Sadhan; Jimenez, Guillermo

POLYETHYLENE - LAYER DOUBLE HYDROXIDE NANOCOMPOSITES: FLAMMABILITY AND THERMO PHYSICAL PROPERTIES ...... 645 D'Souza, Nandika; Kosuri, Divya; Ogbomo, Sunny

VOLUME 2

POLYMER MODIFIERS & ADDITIVES – D38

POLYMER MODIFIERS & ADDITIVES INTERACTIVE SESSION

EFFECT OF ACCELERANTS ON EPOXY’S CURE RATE AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES ...... 649 Larson, Nicole; Yu, Eric

RHEOLOGICAL PROPETIES OF BRANCHED POLYSTYRENE PREPARED BY AN ULTRASOUND ASSISTED INTENSIVE MIXER ...... 654 Kim, Hee Jung; Kim, Hyungsu; Lee, Hooseok; Lee, Jae Wook

PET/EP-g-MA BLEND SYSTEM: A PRACTICAL WAY TO RECYCLE POST CONSUMER PLASTICS INTO VALUE ADDED PRODUCTS ...... 659 Alsewailem, Fares

LASER SURFACE TREATMENT OF THERMOPLASTIC POLYMERS: INFLUENCE OF THE ATMOSPHERE NATURE ...... 663 Habas, Jean-pierre; Pignolet, Pascal; Ricbourg, Maxime

FLUID ENERGY MILL PROCESS SIMULATION FOR MANUFACTURING MICRON- SIZE POLYMERIC COMPOSITE PARTICULATES ...... 668 Wang, Peng; Teng, Shuli; Zhang, Qi; Gogos, Costas G.; Zhu, Linjie; Young, Ming-Wan

PRODUCT DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT – D41

PD3 DIVISION

A STUDY OF USING FILLED PLASTIC BOTTLES AS CRASH BARRIERS...... 672 Masood, S.H.

UNLUBRICATED GEARS - WEAR MEASUREMENT AND DESIGN TECHNIQUE...... 678 Dallner, Claus; Feulner, Robert; Kobes, Michael; Schmachtenberg, Ernst

DESIGN CONCEPTS OF LINK CROSS-SECTIONS FOR DEVELOPING COMPOSITE-BASED LONG-REACH ROBOTIC ARMS...... 683 Nokleby, Scott; Pop-Iliev, Remon; Willis, Darrin

PD3 PRODUCT DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT DIVISION

MODELLING THE ACOUSTIC BEHAVIOUR OF PLASTIC PARTS IN THE ENGINE COMPARTMENT...... 688 Arping, Tim; Krumpholz, Thorsten; Michaeli, Walter

ADDITIVE PROCESSING - NEW MATERIALS FOR FUSED DEPOSITION MODELLING...... 693 Schmachtenberg, Ernst; Wendel, Bettina

PRODUCT DESIGN AND COURT CASES ...... 698 Spoormaker, Jan

SMOKE AND MIRRORS: HIDING SINK IN PLAIN SIGHT...... 703 Engelmann, Paul; Hayden, Kurt

SIG002 – FAILURE ANALYSIS & PREVENTION

FAILURE OF MATERIALS

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF PS INJECTED PARTS UNDER SURFACE-ACTIVE SUBSTANCES ...... 708 Candal, Maria; Duarte, Desiree; Morales, Rosa

MATERIALS & OPEN PANEL DISCUSSION

ENVIRONMENTAL, RECYCLING AND HEALTH ASPECTS OF PLASTICS FAILURE ...... 713 Ezrin, Myer

MATERIAL SELECTION'S ROLE IN CHEMICAL RELATED FAILURES...... 723 Kurtz, Melissa

THEORY AND PRACTICES I

NONLINEAR CREEP OF POLYETHYLENE MODIFIED BY AN AMORPHOUS MALEATED POLYETHYLENE ...... 728 DSouza, Nandika; Fairbrother, Deborah; Shaito, Ali; Sterling, Jerry

THE DIFFERENT USES OF THE MELT FLOW INDEX EQUIPMENT...... 733 Elleithy, Rabeh

UNDERSTANDING THE CONSEQUENCE OF DUCTILE-TO-BRITTLE TRANSITIONS IN A PLASTIC MATERIALS FAILURE ANALYSIS ...... 736 Jansen, Jeffrey

SHAPE MEMORY POLYMERS BASED ON CBDO: STRUCTURAL RECOVERY EFFECTS...... 743 Beall, Gary; DSouza, Nandika; Powell, Bert; Shaito, Ali

CHARACTERIZATION OF SLOW CRACK GROWTH IN HDPE UNDER CREEP CONDITION ...... 746 Caratus, Andrei; Chudnovsky, Alexander; Michie, William; Zhou, Zhenwen

SIG006 – THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS

THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS

CONTRASTING DEFORMATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS BETWEEN LAMELLAR AND CYLINDRICALLY PHASE SEPARATED TPES ...... 752 Lesser, Alan; Mamodia, Mohit

PREDICTING LONG-TERM LIFE OF SEALS VIA VISCOELASTIC PARAMETERS AND TIME-TEMPERATURE SUPERPOSITION ...... 757 Narhi, Ward

STRUCTURE-PROPERTY-PROCESSING RELATIONSHIPS OF OBC/SEBS BLENDS ...... 762 Ansems, Patricia; Marchand, Gary; Poon, Benjamin; Weinhold, Jeffrey

EXPANDING POSSIBILITIES WITH HIGH MELT STRENGTH ELASTOMERS...... 767 Hemphill, Jim

THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS PART II

THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANES: THE OTHER TPE...... 773 Meltzer, Donald; Walder, Anthony

NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS WITH POLYETHER BLOCK AMIDE COPOLYMER ...... 775 Arsenault, Sean

AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE MERITS OF USING NATURALLY DERIVED POLYURETHANES BASED ON CASTOR OIL AS A BARRIER MATERIAL IN SALINE AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS...... 789 Bonin, Hughes; Bui, Tam; Mortley, Aba

SIG010 – ALLOYS & BLENDS

MORPHOLOGICAL AND PROCESSING STUDIES OF DIVERSE POLYMER BLEND SYSTEMS

THERMOPLASTIC POLYIMIDE - POLYETHERETHERKETONE BLENDS WITH EXCEPTIONAL HIGH TEMPERATURE PROPERTIES...... 794 Gallucci, Robert; Haralur, Gurulingamurthy; Sheth, Kapil

HIGH IMPACT STRENGTH POLYPROPYLENE PRODUCED VIA REACTIVE EXTRUSION WITH AN ETHYLENE-OCTENE COPOLYMER...... 798 Beatty, Charles; Tortorella, Nathan

MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF NOVEL BIO-BASED HYBRID RESINS...... 803 Alexander, Nicole; Bagrodia, Shriram; Flaris, Vicki

PROCESSING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BLENDS OF POLYLACTIC ACID (PLA) AND SAPINDUS TRIFOLIATUS...... 807 Ambekar, Abhishek; Bhoite, Aditya; Kadam, Amruta

SIG 012 – JOINING OF PLASTICS & COMPOSITES

JOINING OF NANOCOMPOSITES

THROUGH TRANSMISSION INFRARED WELDING OF POLYPROPYLENE NANOCLAY COMPOSITES...... 816 Benatar, Avraham; Flowers, Sean

EVALUATION OF PATTERNED JOINT DESIGNS FOR ULTRASONIC WELDING OF HDPE NANOCOMPOSITES ...... 821 Benatar, Avraham; Flowers, Sean

VIBRATION AND HOT PLATE WELDING

USE OF SHEAR FORCE AND ACCELERATION MEASUREMENTS IN VIBRATION WELDING OF POLYPROPYLENE ...... 826 Bates, Phil; Kontopoulou, Marianna; Lee, Jennifer

VIBRATION JOINING OF FILAMENT REINFORCED THERMOSETS ...... 831 Beiss, Tobias; Dallner, Claus; Schmachtenberg, Ernst

RAZOR BLADE WELDING OF 100% RECYCLED STRUCTURAL HIGH-DENSITY POLYETHYLENE (HDPE)...... 836 Baumann, Peter; Patel, Bhavin

FRICRIVETING: A NEW TECHNIQUE FOR JOINING THERMOPLASTICS TO LIGHTWEIGHT ALLOYS ...... 841 Amancio, Sergio; Dos Santos, Jorge

FAILURE CHARACTERIZATION OF VIBRATION WELDED POLYPROPYLENE JOINTS ...... 846 Fasce, Laura; Frontini, Patricia; Pettarin, Valeria

COMPARISON OF HOT PLATE AND VIBRATION WELDING OF PMMA TO POLYCARBONATE ...... 851 Benatar, Avraham; Mokhtarzadeh, Abbass; Wu, Chung-Yuan

COMPARISON OF HOT PLATE AND VIBRATION WELDING OF PMMA TO ABS ...... 856 Benatar, Avraham; Mokhtarzadeh, Abbass; Wu, Chung-Yuan

SIG013 – APPLIED RHEOLOGY

ENTANGLED MELTS AND SOLUTIONS

RHEOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND MODELING OF METALLOCENE BASED POLYPROPYLENES PREPARED BY REACTIVE EXTRUSION PROCESS...... 862 Filip, Petr; Pivokonsky, Radek; Tzoganakis, Costas; Zatloukal, Martin

THE DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF A CONCENTRATED POLYMERIC SUSPENSION CONTAINING NON-BROWNIAN GLASS FIBERS IN SIMPLE SHEAR FLOW...... 868 Baird, Donald; Eberle, Aaron; Velez, Gregorio; Wapperom, Peter

RHEOLOGY AND STRUCTURE OF FILLED PROPYLENE/ETHYLENE COPOLYMERS...... 873 Ansems, Patricia; Fatseyeu, Arkadz; Karjala, Teresa; Wood-Adams, Paula

STRUCTURE-PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS OF LDPE...... 878 DeGroot, Willem; Demirors, Mehmet; Karjala, Teresa; Mangnus, Marc; Yau, Wallace

INCORPORATING STEP-STRAIN AND ENCAPSULATED EXTENSIONAL RHEOLOGY INTO THE METHODOLOGY OF THE MULTI-MODE MCLEISH- LARSON POM-POM MODEL ...... 882 Baird, Donald; McGrady, Christopher; Seay, Christopher

DETECTION OF LOW LEVELS OF LONG-CHAIN BRANCHING IN POLYOLEFINS ...... 887 Hagen Jr., Charles; Hazlitt, Lonnie; Huang, Joe; Johnson, Mark; Karjala, Teresa; Mangnus, Marc; Reichek, Kenneth; Sammler, Robert

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATOIN OF VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES AND SLIP BEHAVIOR OF THIN FILMS OF N-HEXADECANE IN THE SHEAR FLOW ...... 892 Chang, Rong-Yeu; Wang, Chen-Chieh

SIG016 – PROCESS MONITORING & CONTROL

PROCESS CONTROL INTERACTIVE POSTER PRESENTATIONS

A COMPARISON OF STATISTIAL PROCESS CONTROL AND PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS ...... 897 Hazen, Daniel; Westerdale, Sarah

EFFECT OF THERMAL CONDUCTANCE TO MOLD ON THE TEMPERATURE RISE MEASURED BY RESIN TEMPERATURE SENSORS ...... 902 Cho, Young-Kee; Lee, Eun-Jin; Rhee, Byung-Ohk; Yi, Young-Joo

SIG018 – PLASTICS EDUCATORS

PLASTICS EDUCATORS POSTERS

STUDENT PROJECTS COMPLETED IN AN INJECTION MOLDS DESIGN COURSE OF THE POLYMER ENGINEERING CAREER...... 907 Candal, Maria; Morales, Rosa

STUDENT INTERACTIVE SESSION

PACLITAXEL ATTACHMENT TO PLA-PHA BLEND FILMS ...... 912 Hirt, Douglas; Rasal, Rahul; Taylor, Courtney

A STUDY ON THE BLENDS OF HDPE AND LLDPE FOR ROTOMOLDING APPLICATIONS ...... 917 Fabre, Alexandra; Tangchareetsakul, Pornthip

STUDENT SESSION

EFFECTS OF E-BEAM IRRADIATION ON MELT BEHAVIOR OF POLY(LACTIC) ACID...... 922 Di Fonzo, Anthony; Lazarus, Jon

FABRICATION OF NANOSTRUCTURE ELASTIC MEMBRANES BY ELECTROSPINNING GLASSY POLYMERS ...... 926 Martz, Thomas

LEUCO DYE ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION DEGRADATION PREVENTION ...... 931 Lawrence, John; White, David

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS ON THE EFFECTS OF PROCESSING PARAMETERS FOR LEUCO DYES ...... 936 Lawrence, John M.; White, David A.

INVESTIGATION OF COMPARITIVE STRESS DISTRIBUTIONS IN THERMOFORMING VERSUS INJECTION MOLDING ...... 941 Shoaf, Thomas

THE EFFECTS OF RADIUSED CORNERS ON MELT FLOW IMBALANCES ...... 945 Harris, Patrick J.; Miller, Patrick T.

THE EFFECTS OF GRADUATED VERSUS CONSTANT RUNNER DIAMETERS ON FILLING AND PACKING OF A PLASTIC PART IN INJECTION MOLDING...... 950 Swanson, Gregory; Weller, Matthew

MATERIAL WARPAGE RESPONSE CHARACTERIZATION VIA STRATEGIC PLACEMENT OF HIGH AND LOW SHEAR LAMINATES...... 955 Skiba, Tyler; Toomey, Nicholas

THERMOFORMING – D25

THERMOFORMING DEVELOPMENT

THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE THERMOFORMABILITY OF PC/PBT BLENDS ...... 960 Ellington, Donald; Zhu, Yantao

ASSESSING THE THERMOFORMABILITY OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE POLYMERS FOR USE IN MEDICAL PACKAGING APPLICATIONS ...... 963 Clarke, Alan; Garrett, Graham; McGinley, Ronan; McNally, Gerry; Millar, Bronagh; Murphy, Raymond; O'Brien, Thomas

TRANSFER OF TEMPLATE PATTERNED CARBON NANOTUBES TO A POLYMER SURFACE USING THE THERMOFORMING PROCESS...... 968 Barry, Carol; Busnaina, Ahmed; Kumar, Arun; Mead, Joey; Orroth, Stephen; Wei, Ming

CELL NUCLEATION AND MORPHOLOGY OF BATCH-FOAMED POLYPROPYLENE COPOLYMER/POLY(DIMETHYLSILOXANE) WITH CO2 ...... 973 Lee, Eung Kee; Naguib, Hani; Park, Chul; Wan, Eileen; Wong, Anson; Wu, Qingfeng; Zhu, Wenli

THERMOFORMING TECHNOLOGY

THERMOFORMING TROUGHS ...... 978 Giacomin, A. Jeffrey; Lieg, Katie

DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF PLUG - ASSIST THERMOFORMING...... 983 Berdyshev, Boris; Ghaffari, Naser; Hosseini, Hossein

EFFECT OF THE MOLDING PROCESS OVER THE ADJUSTABLE PARAMETERS IN CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS...... 987 Morales, Rosa; Santana, Orlando

OPTIMIZING THE PLUG ASSIST GEOMETRY USING SIMULATIONS...... 992 Dees, Jerry

THERMOPLASTIC MATERIALS & FOAMS – D29

FOAM PROCESSING

EXTRUSION FOAMING OF HIGH-MELT-STRENGTH PP WITH SUPERCRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDE I: CELL NUCLEATION BEHAVIORS...... 997 Azdast, Taher; Behravesh, Amir; Lee, Eung Kee; Lee, Kyungmin; Naguib, Hani; Pachner, Elke; Prallen, Andreas

BENIGN PROCESSING OF HIGH PERFORMANCE POLYMER FOAMS OF POLY(ARYLENE ETHER SULFONE) ...... 1003 Baird, Donald; VanHouten, Desmond

A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE FOAMING ABILITIES OF POLYMERS PREPARED WITH CO2 AND N2 ...... 1008 Guo, Qingping

SYNTHESIS AND FOAMING OF WATER EXPANDABLE POLYSTYRENE- ACTIVATED CARBON COMPOSITES...... 1013 Cai, Zhi-qi; Chiou, Nan-Rong; Daniel, Thomas; Guo, Zhihua; Lee, Ly; Yang, Jintao; Yeh, Shu-Kai

PROFOAM - A NEW FOAMING PROCESS FOR INJECTION MOLDING...... 1019 Krumpholz, Thorsten; Michaeli, Walter; Obeloer, Dominik

PROPERTIES OF FOAMS

EFFECTS OF THE FOAM MORPHOLOGY IN THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF INJECTION MOLDED THERMOPLASTIC FOAMS ...... 1024 Florez, Laura; Krumpholz, Thorsten; Michaeli, Walter; Obeloer, Dominik

SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF OPEN-CELL FOAMS FOR SOUND ABSORPTION WITH ROTATIONAL MOLDING METHOD ...... 1029 Atalla, Noureddine; Chu, Raymond; Naguib, Hani

MECHANICAL PROPERTY PREDICTION OF STRUCTURAL FOAMS USING DENSITY PROFILE...... 1034 Barzegari, Mohamad Reza; Rodrigue, Denis

POLYMER FOAMS FLEXURAL MODULUS OPTIMAZATION: EFFECT OF DENSITY PROFILE...... 1039 Rodrigue, Denis

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF INJECTION MOLDED THERMOPLASTIC POLYOLEFIN (TPO) CELLULAR FOAMS...... 1044 Lee, John; Naguib, Hani; Wong, Steven

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SYNTACTIC FOAMS...... 1049 Beyle, Andrey; Ibeh, Christopher; Onovo, Obiageli

VINYL PLASTICS – D27

VINYL PLASTICS AND ADDITIVES

DISCUSSIONS ON THE MELTING TEMPERATURE OF POLY(VINYL CHLORIDE)...... 1054 Summers, James

NANOSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATION OF PLASTISOL GELATION AND FUSION PROCESS UTILIZING SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY AND ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY...... 1059 Jourdan, Jerome; Owen, David

POLYMER PLASTICIZATION USING SUPERCRITICAL CO2...... 1064 Billham, Mark; Hornsby, Peter R.; Kusmanto, Febe

VINYL PLASTICS AND ADDITIVES II

CARBON NANOTUBE REINFORCED RIGID PVC AS A MATRIX FOR PVC/WOOD- FLOUR COMPOSITES...... 1068 Faruk, Omar; Matuana, Laurent

PVC COMPOSITES BASED ON NOVEL NANOCLAYS ...... 1074 Benderly, Daphne; IJdo, Wouter; McKimmy, Emily

THE INTERACTION OF NANOCLAY, PLASTICIZER AND STABILIZER IN PVC WIRE AND CABLE FORMULATIONS WITH ENHANCED ACCEPTABILITY...... 1079 Dorairaju, Gowri; Morose, Gregory; Schmidt, Daniel

NOVEL SINGLE SCREW FOR RPVC DRY BLEND WITH HIGH OUTPUT CHARACTER ...... 1084 Lorenc, David; Luker, Keith

ORGANIC BASED STABILIZERS FOR FLEXIBLE PVC APPLICATIONS ...... 1088 Dave, Parashar; Krainer, Edward

AUTOMOTIVE – D31

AUTOMOTIVE SESSION T21

OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLASTICS MATERIALS AND PROCESSES FOR UNDER- THE-HOOD APPLICATIONS...... 1093 Shah, Suresh

HIGH GLOSS EXTERIOR TPO MATERIALS WITH SUPERIOR STIFFNESS, IMPACT RESISTANCE, ULTRAVIOLET STABILITY & SCRATCH AND MAR PERFORMANCE ...... 1094 Gasbarro, Anthony

NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN HIGH GLOSS MOLD-IN COLOR ENGINEERED POLYOLEFINS...... 1098 Bafna, Sudhir; Cai, Kevin; Drewniak, Marta; Shah, Mitesh

UNDERSTANDING UV INDUCED OIL BLEED OUT IN STYRENIC TPES: TEST METHOD DEVELOPMENT ...... 1103 Cordo, Oscar; Dumbleton, David; Wright, Kathryn

ASSESSMENT OF THE POTENTIALITY OF MICROCELLULAR PLASTIC FOAMS FOR PASSIVE NOISE CONTROL IN AUTOMOTIVE STRUCTURES ...... 1109 Ahmed, Mohammed; Atalla, Noureddine; Park, Chul

ADVANCED EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION OF AUTOMOTIVE DAMPING TREATMENTS...... 1113 Samardzic, Nikolina; Sergiyenko, Sergiy

TOOLING AND PROCESSING OF CORNER MOLDS USING SIMULATION SOFTWARE...... 1120 Kropf, Ashley

HEAVY DUTY TRUCK PLASTIC COMPOSITE DOOR MODULE AND TRIM SYSTEM...... 1125 Barr, Geoffrey; Raisoni, Jay

COLOR & APPEARANCE – D21

COLOR & APPEARANCE

SMALL PALETTE STYLIZATIONS: EFFICIENT AND PROFITABLE COLOR ARRAYS FROM SELECTED HIGH QUALITY COLORANTS ...... 1148 Rediske, James

NEW MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGIES FOR CHARACTERIZING THE TOTAL IMPRESSION OF EFFECT COATINGS ...... 1162 Kigle-Böckler, Gabriele; Roberts, James

A VISUAL AND NUMERICAL TOOL FOR COLOR NAMING ...... 1167 Fairman, Hugh; Ladson, Jack

ADVANCES IN WEATHERING RESISTANCE OF COPE ...... 1171 Mulholland, Bruce

COLOR AND APPEARANCE

PROVIDING OPACITY WITH INORGANIC SOLIDS FOR PLASTICS...... 1178 Connolly, J; Niedenzu, Philipp; Reid, A

PHOTOSTABILIZATION OF DYES AND A FLUOROPHORE IN ENGINEERING THERMOPLASTICS...... 1181 Hein, Christopher

A TECHNIQUE COMPARISON FOR THE QUANTIFICATION OF COLOR CONCENTRATE IN A POLYACETAL COMPONENT ...... 1185 Klebanov, Lena; Kosarzycki, Mary

COMPOSITES – D39

NANOCOMPOSITES

VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES OF EPOXY AND VINYL ESTER NANOCOMPOSITES ...... 1188 Beyle, Andrey; Ibeh, Christopher; Zhou, Nanjia

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON THE CONSOLIDATION OF POLYPROPYLENE-CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES FIBERS...... 1193 Ajji, Abdellah; Denault, Johanne; Trudel-Boucher, David

EFFECT OF THERMAL EXPANSION ON SHAPE MEMORY BEHAVIOR OF POLYURETHANE NANOCOMPOSITES...... 1198 Cao, Feina; Gunes, Sedat; Jana, Sadhan

EFFECT OF COMPATIBLIZER BLENDS ON POLYETHYLENE/WOOD/CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES...... 1203 De Kee, Daniel; Hetzer, Max; Poloso, Tony

NANOCOMPOSITES II

EFFECT OF STYRENE-MALEIC ANHYDRIDE COPOLYMER ON CLAY DISPERSION IN POLYSTYRENE NANOCOMPOSITES...... 1208 Calderon, Jorge; Kamal, Musa

INFRARED ACTUATION OF CARBON NANOTUBE-LIQUID CRYSTALLINE ELASTOMER NANOCOMPOSITES...... 1213 Chen, Jian; Gong, Shaoqin; Li, An; Setyowati, Kristina; Yang, Liqiang

MULTI WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWNTS) SURFACE MODIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF FLUOROELASTOMER/MWNT COMPOSITES ...... 1218 Kim, Kwang-Jea

RELATING MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR TO MORPHOLOGY IN CLAY/AMORPHOUS POLYAMIDE NANOCOMPOSITES ...... 1223 Dorairaju, Gowri; Reynaud, Emmanuelle; Schmidt, Daniel; Toshniwal, Saurabh; Tulsyan, Kunal

COMPARISON OF THE THREE METHODS OF SYNTHESIS OF CARBON NANOTUBES ...... 1228 Sharma, Kal

EFFECT OF CLAY CONTENT AND DISPERSION ON THE FLAME RETARDANCY IN EVA-BASED-POLYOLEFIN/CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES ...... 1238 Cho, Ho Sook; Kim, Whan Ki; Kim, Won Jung; Lee, Gun Joo; Lee, Ju Ha; Lim, Hwa Joon; Nam, Gi Joon

EFFECT OF COMPOUNDING PROCEDURE ON THE PROPERTIES OF NANOCLAY-REINFROCED POLYPROPYLENE-BASED WOOD-PLASTIC COMPOSITES ...... 1243 Gupta, Rakesh; Yeh, Shu-Kai

THERMOSETTING MATERIALS

MOULDING OF FRP SANDWICH PARTS USING A POLYURETHANE SPRAY- TECHNOLOGY...... 1248 Haberstroh, Edmund; Meyer, Florian; Michaeli, Walter

DECORATING & ASSEMBLY – D34

DECORATING AND ASSEMBLY OF PLASTICS

CUSTOMIZATION WITH A TOUCH OF A BUTTON - PLASTICS DECORATING VIA UV CURABLE INKJET INKS ...... 1253 Edison, Sara

IMPROVING ADHESION PERFORMANCE BETWEEN LOW SURFACE TENSION COMPOSITE AND DISSIMILAR SUBSTRATES ...... 1256 Wolf, Rory

ADVANCEMENTS IN PAINT SYSTEM DESIGN ...... 1260 Zerilli, Dominic

WEAR DAMAGE ON DECORATED PLASTICS TECHNIQUES TO UNDERSTAND AND IMPROVE YOUR TESTING...... 1263 Jaenecke, Alan

LASER WELDING OF TRANSPARENT PLASTICS BY MEANS OF THE INTERMEDIATE FILM METHOD ...... 1268 Haberstroh, Edmund; Hoffmann, Wolf-Martin; Michaeli, Walter

LASER WELDING OF CO-EXTRUDED TUBING ...... 1273 Cawley, William

ENGINEERING PROPERTIES & STRUCTURE – D26

ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATERIALS

INJECTION MOLDING OF TRANSPARENT HIGH IMPACT POLYETHERIMIDE BLENDS ...... 1278 Gallucci, Robert; May, Andy; Sanner, Mark

SILOXANE-POLYETHERIMIDE BLOCK COPOLYMERS...... 1283 Bhandari, Yashpal; Catsman, Peter; Haralur, Gurulingamurthy

INVESTIGATION OF THE ACOUSTICAL BEHAVIORS OF MICROCELLULAR CERAMIC FOAMS ...... 1287 Ahmed, Mohammed; Atalla, Noureddine; Park, Chul

HIGH HEAT AMORPHOUS THERMOPLASTIC POLYIMIDE ...... 1292 Donovan, Michael; Lowery, Daniel; Montgomery, Steven

DESIGN OF GRADIENT COPOLYMERS FOR DAMPING APPLICATIONS OVER UNIQUELY BROAD TEMPERATURE RANGES ...... 1296 Kim, Jungki; Mok, Michelle; Torkelson, John

VOLUME 3

ENGINEERING PLASTICS: POLYCARBONATE ALLOYS

THIRTY YEARS OF PC/ABS IN THE PLASTICS INDUSTRY...... 1301 Hager, Bruce; Wenz, Eckhard; Wittmann, Dieter

FLAME RESISTANT PC/ABS BLENDS WITH LOW SMOKE GENERATION...... N/A Siripurapu, Srinivas

DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL BAYBLEND® FR BLENDS WITH IMPROVED FLAMMABILITY AND HYDROLYSIS RESISTANCE ...... 1306 Eckel, Thomas; Mason, Jim; Rogunova, Marina

ECO-FRIENDLY FLAME RETARDANT POLYCARBONATE AND POLYESTER ALLOYS...... 1309 Boykin, Marty; Gorny, Rudy; Li, Xy; Mason, Jim; Nyers, Mike; Urick, Marie

NOTCHED IZOD- AND MULTIAXIAL- IMPACT STRENGTH OF IMPACT-MODIFIED POLYCARBONATE BLENDS ...... 1314 Chung, James

MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION AND STRUCTURE-PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS

LOCAL STRESS/STRAIN-MEASUREMENT FOR CHARACTERIZATION OF THE TRUE DEFORMATION BEHAVIOR OF POLYMERS ...... 1319 Hobeika, Sven

MECHANICAL HOLE BURNING SPECTROSCOPY TO PROBE POLYMER HETEROGENEITY ...... 1324 McKenna, Gregory; Qin, Qian

AN ALTERNATIVE METHOD TO DETERMINE STRENGTH AND ELASTICITY OF THERMOPLASTIC AT ELEVATED TEMPERATURES...... 1328 Dharia, Amitkumar

APPLICATION OF THE HAMMETT ACIDITY FUNCTION FOR THE EVALUATION OF RESINS RESISTANCE ...... 1333 Glukhovskiy, Pavel; Makarov, Valery; Sinelnikova, Rakhil

THERMAL-INDUCED TRANSFORMATION OF MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYBUTENE-1 ...... 1336 Benicek, Lubomir; Cermak, Roman; Chvatalova, Lenka; Verney, Vincent

NANOCOMPOSITES

FRACTURE BEHAVIOR STUDY OF MELT COMPOUNDED POLYCARBONATE/ALUMINA NANOCOMPOSITES...... 1341 Chandra, Alexander; Gopalan, Padma; Turng, Lih-Sheng

STRUCTURE-PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS IN MATERIALS FOR PACKAGING

FUNDAMENTAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TEAR PROPERTY AND ORIENTATION/CRYSTAL MORPHOLOGY...... 1346 Anderson, Ken; Choi, Byoung-Ho; Demirors, Mehmet; Liu, Lizhi; Patel, Rajen

THE EFFECT OF ETHYLENE VINYL ACETATE (EVA) CONTENT ON HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE (HDPE) FILMS IN STRETCHED FILM TAPES...... 1351 Lahuerta-Calahorra, Francisco; Leathem, Mark; McNally, Gerry; Murphy, Raymond; Orr, Philip; Robinson, Stan

INTERFACIAL STRENGTH OF METALLOCENE-PE/PP HEAT SEALED FILMS ...... 1356 Hamada, Hiroyuki; Kitano, Katsuhisa; Kitayama, Takeo; Kotaki, Masaya

SHRINK FORCE MEASUREMENT OF LOW SHRINK FORCE FILMS ...... 1360 Allen, Donald; Demirors, Mehmet; Hermel, Theresa; Jin, Yi; Karjala, Teresa; Leyva, Edwardo; Wang, Jian

NANOCOMPOSITE POLYPROPYLENE FILM FOR FOOD PACKAGING APPLICATIONS...... 1365 Froio, Danielle; Lucciarini, Jeanne; Ratto, Jo Ann; Schirmer, Sarah; Thellen, Christopher

EXTRUSION – D22

EXTRUSION DIVISION - FILM

FILM BLOWING PROCESS STABILITY ANALYSIS FOR NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS BY USING VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLES ...... 1370 Kolarik, Roman; Zatloukal, Martin

THE ROLE OF MOLECULAR ARCHITECTURE ON RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES AND ITS EFFECT ON FILM-CASTING PERFORMANCE ...... 1376 Baird, Donald; McGrady, Christopher; Seay, Christopher

MULTIFUNCTIONAL, MULTILAYER, TRANSPARENT HIGH IMPACT STRUCTURES BY COEXTRUSION AND LAMINATION ...... 1381 Beyer, Rick; Moffitt, Ronald; Sands, James; Zhang, Wei

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF EXTRUSION AND SURFACE TREATMENT OF ORGANO CLAY WITH PET NANOCOMPOSITES ...... 1387 Sontikaew, Somchoke; Tarverdi, Karnik

CONTROL OF THE THICKNESS DISTRIBUTION OF BLOWN FILM BY CHANGING THE FLOW CHANNEL GAP OF THE DIE OVER THE CIRCUMFERENCE ...... 1392 Gross, Heinz

EXTRUSION DIVISION - SINGLE

A NOVEL MICRO-BATCH MIXER THAT SCALES TO A SINGLE SCREW COMPOUNDER...... 1396 Luker, Keith; Lynch, Jennifer; Nosker, Tom

SHEAR STRESS AND MELTING FLUX FOR POLYCARBONATE RESINS ...... 1401 Altinkaynak, Atakan; Crabtree, Sam; Gupta, Mahesh; Spalding, M.

SINGLE SCREW EXTRUDER ZONE TEMPERATURE SELECTION FOR OPTIMIZED PERFORMANCE...... 1406 Crabtree, Sam; Pavlicek, Calvin; Spalding, M.

THE TANDEM SCREW EXTRUDER ...... 1412 Derezinski, Stephen

EXTRUSION OF PHYSICALLY FOAMED RUBBER PROFILES...... 1417 Epping, Kira; Haberstroh, Edmund; Michaeli, Walter

THE EFFECTS OF RUNNING DIFFERENT BARREL TEMPERATURE PROFILES FOR VARIOUS RESINS...... 1422 Miller, Luke; Smith, Walter; Willis, Jason; Womer, Timothy

EXTRUSION DIVISION – TWIN

INDUSTRIAL SCALE-UP FEASIBILITY OF EXRUDED PVC FOAMS USING BLENDS OF VIRGIN AND SUB-CRITICAL CO2 GAS-SATURATED PELLETS...... 1428 Kumar, Vipin; Miller, Dustin

ANALYSIS OF MIXING IN A VARIABLE SPEED CO-ROTATING INTERMESHING TWIN SCREW EXTRUDER...... 1433 Shigeishi, Takashi; Tikara, Kenjirou; Tzoganakis, Costas; Zhu, Shuihan

COMBINATORIAL DEVELOPMENT OF POLYMER COMPOSITES USING TRANSIENT PROCESS CONDTIONS IN TWIN SCREW EXTRUSION...... 1438 Bigio, David; Bruck, Hugh; Koda, Arun; Powell, Dan; Strohmer, Timo

APPLYING EXTRUSION TO PHARMACEUTICAL FORMULATION DESIGN...... 1445 Lowinger, Mike; McKelvey, Craig; Schenck, Luke; Troup, Greg

REACTION KINETICS STUDY USING SPECIALIZED BATCH MIXER...... 1450 Avgousti, Marios; Best, Fred; Shih, CHI-KAI; Wetzel, Mark

FLEXIBLE PACKAGING – D44

MATERIALS IN FLEXIBLE PACKAGING

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF HEAT-SEALED PART IN THERMAL LAMINATED FILM...... 1456 Hamada, Hiroyuki; Hashimoto, Yasuo; Konishi, Reiichi; Leong, Yew Wei; Tsujii, Tetsuya; Yamada, Kazushi

EFFECT OF MULTIPLE HEAT HISTORIES ON A MEDICAL-GRADE FLEXIBLE PVC / LAYERED SILICATE NANOCOMPOSITES...... 1461 Francis, Noble; Schmidt, Daniel; Shrivastava, Anshuman

MORPHOLOGY DEVELOPMENT BY CHAOTIC ADVECTION IN PA-EVOH BLENDS WITH POLYMER COMPONENT INTERACTIONS ...... 1466 Jin, Xing; Zumbrunnen, Daviid

THE EFFECT OF LDPE CONTENT ON HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE (HDPE) FILMS FOR STRETCHED FILM TAPES ...... 1471 Lahuerta-Calahorra, Francisco; Leathem, Mark; McNally, Gerry; Murphy, Raymond; Orr, Philip; Robinson, Stan

IMPROVEMENT OF PROCESSABILITY IN LDPE-BASED PACKAGING BLOWN FILM...... 1476 Zahedi, Alireza

INJECTION MOLDING – D23

CAE & SIMULATION II

NEW MODEL AND METHOD FOR THE DETERMINATION OF THE THERMAL DIFFUSIVITY IN SEMI-CRYSTALLINE POLYMERS UNDER DIFFERENT PROCESSING CONDITIONS IN INJECTION MOLDING...... 1480 Michaeli, Walter; Naranjo, Alberto

BIREFRINGENCE IN INJECTION-COMPRESSION MOLDING OF AMORPHOUS POLYMER: SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENT ...... 1485 Isayev, Avraam; Kim, Nam Hyung; Mehranpour, Milad

BIRIFRINGENCE AND INTERFACE DISTRIBUTION IN SEQUENTIAL CO- INJECTION MOLDING OF AMORPHOUS POLYMERS: SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENT...... 1490 Isayev, Avraam; Kim, Nam Hyung

INTEGRATED NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF BIREFRINGENCE PREDICTION IN INJECTION MOLDED PARTS ...... 1495 Chang, Rong-Yeu; Chang, Yuan-Jung; Hsu, Chia-Hsiang; Yang, Wen-Hsien

SIMULATON AND VERIFICATION ON PART SURFACE QUALITY USING EXTERNAL GAS-ASSISTED INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS ...... 1500 Chang, Cheng-Yi; Hung, Hsin-Wei; Shia-Chung, Chen; Yang, Wen-Hsien; Yeon-Pun, Chang

EMERGING TECHNOLOGY

INJECTION MOLDING OF POLYMER-BONDED MAGNETS WITH MULTI-POLAR STRUCTURE ...... 1504 Brocka, Zaneta; Eimeke, Stefan; Gardocki, Aleksander; Schmachtenberg, Ernst

INJECTION MOLDING CREATES LARGE HOLLOW CHANNELS- THE NEW INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUE GITBLOW...... 1509 Potente, Helmut; Schäfers, Martin; Schöppner, Volker

MORPHOLOGY AND PROPERTIES OF MICROINJECTED POLYCARBONATE/MWCNT NANOCOMPOSITES...... 1513 Abbasi, Samaneh; Carreau, Pierre; Derdouri, Abdessalem; Leelapornpisit, Weawkamol

EVALUATION OF MOLECULAR ORIENTATION IN POLYSTYRENE BY LASER RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY...... 1518 Hamada, Hiroyuki; Tomari, Kiyotaka; Yamada, Koji

INTEGRATION OF FORMING AND INJECTION MOLDING PROCESSES ON IN- MOLD DECORATION PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT...... 1523 Chen, Meng-Chih; Huang, Chao-Tsai; Lin, Jian-Hong; Lu, Kin-Fu; Tang, Chao-Chang; Yu, Chau-Kai

EFFECTS OF MOLDING PROCESS PARAMETERS ON THE CONDUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENT OF INJECTION MOLDED BIPOLAR PLATE USED FOR FUEL CELL...... 1528 Chih-Kai, Cheng; Jeng-Shen, Huang; Ming-Yi, Shih; Shia-Chung, Chen

MARKETING & MANAGEMENT – D37

MARKETING AND MANAGEMENT PRESENTATIONS

NATUREWORKS PLA: A SUCCESSFUL COMMERCIALIZATION CASE STUDY...... 1532 Baumann, Margaret

AMT INVESTMENTS: MEASURING AND STRENGTHENING OF THEIR INFLUENCE ON COMPANY’S PERFORMANCE...... 1534 Dehning, Bruce; Drobny, Jiri; Friedel, Libor; Knapkova, Adriana

LESSONS LEARNED THROUGH DEPLOYING AN UNCONVENTIONAL DESIGN FOR LEAN SIX SIGMA DEPLOYMENT PROGRAM ...... 1539 Fowler, Norman

FLEXIBLE ABSORBENT THERMOPLASTIC FOAM ...... 1544 Baker, Andrew; Colman, Chuck; Krueger, Jeffrey; Ranganathan, Sridhar

UNCONVENTIONAL DESIGN FOR LEAN SIX SIGMA (DFLSS) PROGRAM DESIGN AND DEPLOYMENT ...... 1547 Fowler, Norman

THE FUTURE OF THE PLASTICS INDUSTRY: DECLINE OR GROWTH? ...... 1552 Jones, Roger

MEDICAL PLASTICS – D36

MEDICAL PLASTICS AND POLYMER ANALYSIS

NANOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF UHMWPE IRRADIATED WITH N IONS ...... 1555 Bermudez, Gerardo; Fasce, Laura; Frontini, Patricia; Grosso, Mariela

OXIDATIVE AND HYDROLYTIC STABILITY STUDIES ON MEDICAL THERMOPLASTIC URETHANES...... 1560 Anderson, Bill; Woo, Lecon

INFLUENCE OF MOLECULAR WEIGHT ON THERMAL AND RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF PAEK...... 1563 Galloway, Jeffrey; Hoffman, Rich; Yuan, Mingjun

MOLD MAKING & MOLD DESIGN – D35

MOLD MAKING AND MOLD DESIGN

A STUDY OF THE MOLD THERMAL CHARACTERISTICS OF COOLING LINES IN CONVENTIONAL AND RAPID TOOLING...... 1568 Edwards, Robert; Meckley, Jonathan

COMBINING FLOWS IN INJECTION MOLDING TO PRODUCE A UNIQUE VELOCITY PROFILE...... 1573 Boell, Kevin; Dropik, Martin; Young, Brian

THE EFFECTS OF ROTOR INCORPORATED MOLD FOR THE ELIMINATION OF THE WELDING LINE IN INJECTION MOLDING...... 1578 Jung-Chang, Wang; Ray-Quen, Hsu; Ta-Yi, Huang; Yu-Pin, Tsai

INTEGRATED SYSTEM OF MOLD DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING ...... 1582 Chen, Po-Chih; Chen, Shiachung; Jong, Wen-Ren; Li, Ming-Yan; Li, Tai-Chih; Wu, Chun- Hsein; Yang, Tsung-Lin

INTELLIGENT CORE AND MOLDBASE DESIGN WITH KNOWLEDGE-BASED MANAGEMENT ...... 1587 Jong, Wen-Ren; Li, Ming-Yan; Li, Tai-Chih; Wu, Chun-Hsein; Yang, Tsung-Lin

NEW TECHNOLOGY FORUMS

NEW TECHNOLOGY FORUM

BIOBASED AND BIODEGRADABLE POLY(HYDROXYBUTANOICACID) COPOLYMERS: A REVIEW OF PROPERTIES AND APPLICATIONS ...... 1593 Krishnaswamy, Rajendra K.

PROCESSING AND BLENDS OF BIOPLASTICS ...... 1594 McCarthy, Stephen P.

PLASTICS ENVIRONMENTAL – D40

ADVANCES IN BIORESIN TECHNOLOGY

HOW TO STRUCTURE, FUND, & FINANCE A CLEAN TECHNOLOGY VENTURE: TRENDS FOR DEVELOPING INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN A “GREENING” MARKETPLACE...... 1595 Koester, Eric

DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NOVEL BIODEGRADABLE COMPOSITE PLA/PHBV FOAMS ...... 1599 Chow, Andrew; Naguib, Hani; Richards, Esther; Rizvi, Reza

PREPARATION AND CHARACTERISATION OF POLYVINYL ALCHOL NANOCOMPOSITES MADE FROM CELLULOSE NANOFIBRES ...... 1605 Hornsby, Peter R.; Lyons, G.; McCall, D.; McNally, Gerry; Qua, E.H.; Sharma, S.

RESPONSIVE STARCH-BASED MATERIALS...... 1610 Willett, Jl

INTEGRATED APPROACH TO DESIGN CONCEPTS OF ACTIVE AND BIODEGRADABLE TAILOR MADE FOOD PACKAGING...... 1614 Chalier, Pascale; Gastaldi, Emmanuelle; Guillaume, Carole; Nathalie, Gontard

ADVANCED MATERIALS FROM NOVEL BIO-BASED RESINS...... 1619 Bagrodia, Shriram

BIOBASED – BIODEGRADABLE MATERIALS

SUBSTITUTION OF POLYLACTIC ACID IN PLACE OF POLYVINYLCHLORIDE IN TRANSPARENT IGNAGE FOR RETAIL USE...... 1624 Brittingham, Daniel; Larson, Nicole

IMPACT STUDY OF SUBSTITUTING NON DEGRADABLE PLASTICS BY BIODEGRADABLE COMPOSITES (DDGS AND ZEIN) AND THE POTENTIAL OF NANOCLAYS AS REINFORCEMENT...... 1629 Grewell, David; Vogel, Julius

FEASIBILITY STUDY OF THE USE OF DDGS PLASTIC COMPOSITES ...... 1634 Baboi, Maria; Grewell, David; Srinivasan, Gowrishankar

DEGRADATION BEHAVIOR OF HEMP FIBER REINFORCED THERMOSETTING POLYMER ...... 1638 Hamada, Hiroyuki; Kobayashi, Yuka; Nakai, Asami; Sugie, Tomohiko; Toyoyama, Shoko

INITIAL EVALUATION OF ZEIN-BASED BIOPLASTICS FOR HORTICULTURE ...... 1641 Graves, William; Grewell, David; Helgeson, Matthew

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND MOISTURE SENSITIVITY OF VIRGIN AND RECYCLED SOY PROTEIN-CORNSTARCH PLASTICS...... 1644 Osswald, Tim; Ralston, Brian

POLYMER ANALYSIS – D33

POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES

PLASTIC MWCNT COMPOUNDS A HOT SPOT FREE MATERIAL FOR USE IN ELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS...... 1649 Jozokos, Timothy; McLaughlin, Erin; Zhang, Thomas

Zn-Al LAYER DOUBLE HYDROXIDE IBUPROFEN PLLA NANOCOMPOSITES: SYNTHESIS, STRUCTURE AND CHARACTERIZATION...... 1654 Ambadapadi, Sriram; Braterman, Paul; Dagnon, Koffi; DSouza, Nandika; Nguyen, Kytai; Ogbomo, Sunny; Rahimi, Maham; Shaito, Ali

POLYMER THIN FILMS: NOVEL MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES AND CHARACTERIZATION

COMPARISON OF AFM NANOINDENTATION AND GOLD NANOPARTICLE EMBEDDING TECHNIQUE FOR MEASURING ELASTIC MODULUS OF POLYMER THIN FILMS ...... 1658 Agarwal, Gunjan; Isceu, Daniel; Lee, Ly; Liu, Chuntai; Yang, Jintao

EFFECTS OF NANOSCALE CONFINEMENT OF POLYMERS IN FILMS AND NANOCOMPOSITES: TUNING THE GLASS TRANSITION BY 100 K AND DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS BY AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE...... 1663 Hewlett, Sheldon; Kim, Soyoung; Mundra, Manish; Priestley, Rodney; Roth, Connie; Torkelson, John

THE GLASS TRANSITION AND KINETICS IN STACKED POLYSTYRENE ULTRATHIN FILMS...... 1668 Koh, Yung P.; Simon, Sindee L.

NANOMECHANICAL MEASUREMENTS IN ULTRATHIN POLYMER FILMS: RECTANGULAR "BUBBLE" INFLATION MEASUREMENTS...... 1674 McKenna, Gregory; O'Connell, Paul; Xu, Shanhong

POLYMER MODIFIERS & ADDITIVES – D38

POLYMER MODIFIERS & ADDITIVES

MULTIFUNCTIONAL POLYMERS AS CHAIN EXTENDERS AND COMPATIBLIZERS FOR POLYCONDENSATES AND BIOPOLYMERS ...... 1678 Awojulu, Abiodun; Edison, Michael; Frenz, Volker; Scherzer, Dietrich; Van der Meer, Roelof; Villalobos, Marco

IONIC LIQUIDS AS ADDITIVES FOR POLYLACTIC ACID...... 1683 Park, K.I.; Xanthos, M.

JETFINE® TALC PRODUCTS FOR SUPERIOR IMPACT PERFORMANCE AND DIMENSIONAL STABILITY ...... 1688 Crepin-Leblond, Jerome; Jouffret, Frederic; Kochesfahani, Saied

IMPROVED IMPACT PROPERTIES OF TPO/TPE SYSTEMS CONTAINING SCRATCH AND MAR ADDITIVES; EFFECT OF THE RESIN COMPOSITION ON THE EFFICACY OF THE ADDITIVES...... 1693 Kaprinidis, Nikolas

PROCESSING DEPENDANCE OF FRICTION FOR POLYACETAL, NEAT AND WITH TRIBOLOGICAL ADDITIVES ...... 1698 Christoffersen, Lasse; Laursen, Jens; Papsøe, Mogens; Sivebæk, Ion; Vigild, Martin

ROTATIONAL MOLDING – D42

ROTATIONAL MOLDING – TECHNOLOGY FOR PROGRESS

RECENT ADDITIVE DEVELOPMENT FOR ROTATIONAL MOLDING ...... 1703 Yu, Jiong

AN OVERVIEW OF INTERNAL COOLING IN ROTATIONAL MOULDING ...... 1708 Hanna, Paul; Hornsby, Peter R.; Kearns, Mark P.; McAfee, Marion; McCourt, Mark; Tan, Swee Boon

A STUDY ON THE BLENDS OF HDPE AND LLDPE FOR ROTOMOLDING APPLICATIONS ...... 1713 Fabre, Alexandra; Tangchareetsakul, Pornthip

MODELING THE MIXING OF TWO POLYMER POWDERS OF DIFFERENT PARTICLE SIZES...... 1720 Aït Aissa, Amara; Duchesne, Carl; Gosselin, Ryan; Rodrigue, Denis

ROTATIONAL MOLDING II – TECHNOLOGY FOR PROGRESS

POLYAMIDE 6/6 FOR ROTATIONAL MOLDING APPLICATIONS ...... 1725 Gehrig, Michael

POLYETHYLENE ROTOMOLDED DOME FOR BIOGAS PLANT ...... 1728 Diwan, Shreekant; Mallia, Vinod

ROTATIONAL MOULDING OF THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANES ...... 1736 Hanna, Paul; Kearns, Mark P.; McCourt, Mark; McNally, Gerry; Tcharkhtchi, Abbas

ACETAL ALOYS FOR ROTATIONAL MOLDING APPLICATIONS...... 1741 Gehrig, Michael

RECENT ADDITIVE DEVELOPMENT FOR ROTATIONAL MOLDING ...... 1743 Wallis, Eric; Yu, Jiong

SIG002 – FAILURE ANALYSIS & PREVENTION

CASE STUDY I

IMPACT RESISTANT POLYMERIC GLASSES USING COMPRESSIVE PRE-STRESS...... 1748 Archer, Jared; Lesser, Alan

FAILURE INVESTIGATION OF CROSS-LINKED POLYETHYLENE CHEMICAL STORAGE TANKS...... 1753 Duvall, Donald; Edwards, Dale

CASE STUDY OF COLOR VARIATION OF THERMAL FORMED AUTOMOTIVE BODY COMPONENTS...... 1758 Grewell, David; Kessler, Micheal; Kieffer, Nancy

SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF THE THERMOCHEMICAL AGEING OF HIGH PERFORMANCE POLYMERS USED AS POWER ELECTRONIC HOUSING IN AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY ...... 1763 Charlas, Mathieu; Habas, Jean-pierre; Meuret, Régis; Nassiet, Valérie; Vieillard, Sébastien

A STUDY OF PROCESSING INDUCED PART FAILURES...... 1768 Perez, Jose

CHARACTERIZATION OF MANUFACTURING DEFECTS IN BALLOON CATHETERS ...... 1772 Hoffman, Jennifer; Ledwith, Paul; Reitman, Maureen

SIG010 – ALLOYS & BLENDS

CHARACTERIZATION OF PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT OF VARIOUS POLYMER BLENDS

SYNTHESIS OF PLLA-GRAFT-PE COPOLYMERS AS IMPACT MODIFIERS...... 1777 Kolodka, Edward; Wang, Hongbo

SURFACE ENRICHMENT OF SILOXANE IN POLYCARBONATE-PDMS COPOLYMER COMPOSITIONS...... 1781 Cojocariu, Cristina; Maruvada, Krishna

POLYETHERIMIDE BLENDS WITH LOW HEAT RELEASE...... 1786 Bhandari, Yashpal; Gallucci, Robert; Sanner, Mark; Singh, Rajendra

UNDERSTANDING THE COMPATIBILIZATION OF POLYPROPYLENE/POLYSULFONE MEMBRANES ...... 1790 Flaris, Vicki; Montero, Noelisa

CONTINUOUS PRODUCTION OF POYLMER BLENDS NANOCOMPOSITES USING ULTRASONIC EXTRUDER...... 1793 Kim, Kyung Yl; Lee, Jae Wook

HIGHEST HEAT AMORPHOUS THERMOPLASTIC POLYIMIDE BLENDS ...... 1798 Sheth, Kapil

DESIGN, PERFORMANCE AND PROCESSABILITY OF POLYMER BLENDS AND NANOCOMPOSITES

POLYMER MELT FLOW ANALYSIS IN SPIRAL FLOW INJECTION MOLDING...... 1802 Hamada, Hiroyuki; Hashimoto, Tomohisa; Leong, Yew Wei; O-Charoen, Narongchai

POLYMER CLAY NANOCOMPOISTE OF LINEAR LOW DENSITY POLYETHYLENE (LLDPE) AND POLYOXYMETHYLENE (POM)...... 1807 Lee, Sunggyu; Roberts, Patricia; Shahlari, Mahin

EFFECTS OF PC-OLIGOMER ADDITION ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF ULTRA-HIGH SPEED INJECTION-MOLDED PC/ABS BLENDS...... 1812 Hamada, Hiroyuki; Mizoguchi, Machiko; Takashima, Susumu; Umemura, Toshikazu

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF RECYCLED PET/PP INJECTION MOLDINGS...... 1815 Hamada, Hiroyuki; Inoya, Hiroyuki; Klinklai, Warunee; Leong, Yew Wei

A DIRECT 3D NUMERICAL SIMULATION CODE FOR EXTRUSION AND MIXING PROCESSES...... 1819 Bruno, Vergnes; Chantal, David; Philippe, David; Thierry, Coupez; Valette, Rudy

SIG012 – JOINING OF PLASTICS & COMPOSITES

LASER WELDING

DETERMINING THE SHORT TERM PROPERTIES OF WELDED ECTFE-PIPES...... 1823 Haberstroh, Edmund; Kostrzewa, Meik; Michaeli, Walter

EXPERIMENTS REGARDING THE INFLUENCE OF FOAMING AGENTS ON THE LASER TRANSMISSION WELDING PROCESSES...... 1828 Bonefeld, Dirk; Potente, Helmut; Wilke, Lars

PREDICTION OF GAP BRIDGING IN LASER TRANSMISSION WELDING OF AMORPHOUS POLYMERS ...... 1833 Bates, Phil; Chen, Mingliang; Zak, Gene

THE MICROSTRUCTURE AND QUALITY OF LASER-WELDED JOINTS...... 1838 Al-Wohoush, Mohammad; Kamal, Musa

INVESTIGATION OF TRANSMISSION BEHAVIOR OF IR ABSORBERS ...... 1843 Flowers, Sean; Frech, Tim

GAP BRIDGING OF PLASTIC LASER WELDED PARTS USING THE ABSORBANCE CONTROL WELDING (ACW) METHOD...... 1848 Hatase, Yoshiteru; Kihara, Tetsuji; Yamamoto, Satoshi; Yushina, Heihachi

SIG013 – APPLIED RHEOLOGY

HIGH THROUGHPUT RHEOMETRY

RHEOMETERS FOR HIGH-THROUGHPUT POLYMER CHARACTERIZATION ...... 1853 Dealy, John

EVALUATION OF MULTI-SAMPLE MICRO-CAPILLARY RHEOMETER ...... 1856 Bur, Anthony; Migler, Kalman; Moon, Doyoung

AUTOMATION AND HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING IN ROTATIONAL RHEOMETRY FOR POLYMERS ...... 1860 Krenn, Michael; Laeuger, Joerg

RHEOLOGY OF NANOCOMPOSITE AND BLENDS

RHEOLOGY, PROCESSING AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF CARBON NANOTUBE/POLY(ETHER ETHER KETONE) NANOCOMPOSITES ...... 1864 Altstaedt, Volker; Ruckdaeschel, Holger; Sampath, Bangaru; Sandler, Jan; Shaffer, Milo

COMPARISON OF CARBON NANOFIBERS AND NANOCLAY ON RHEOLOGY OF POLYSTYRENE UNDER SUPERCRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDE ...... 1870 Guo, Zhihua; Lee, Ly; Tomasko, David L.; Wingert, Maxwell; Yeh, Shu-Kai

RELAXATION BEHAVIORS AND CLAY DISPERSION IN THE MALEATED POLYPROPYLENE NANOCOMPOSITES ...... 1875 Huang, Shy; Kuo, Jiang; Wang, Yeh

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SHEAR STRAIN AND MICROSTRUCTURE OF POLYPROPYLENE/CLAY NANOCOMPOSITE BASED ON RHEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS ...... 1880 Huang, Han-Xiong; Jiang, Guo

ULTRASONIC EFFECTS ON PLA/PCCD BLEND DURING MELT COMPOUNDING PROCESS...... 1885 Kim, Youngbum; Lee, Jae Wook; Lee, Sangmook

THERMOPLASTIC MATERIALS & FOAMS – D29

ADVANCES IN MATERIALS FOR FOAMS

EXPLORATORY EXPERIMENTS ON SOLID-STATE FOAMING OF PLA FILMS AND COC/LDPE MULTI-LAYERED FILMS ...... 1890 Kumar, Vipin; Lu, John

EFFECT OF CRYSTALLINITY ON THE CELL MORPHOLOGY AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF HDPE/CLAY NANOCOMPOSITE FOAMS...... 1895 Jo, Choonghee; Naguib, Hani

FOAMING POLYPROPYLENE WITH NANOCLAYS...... 1903 Chaudhary, Amit; Jayaraman, Krishnamurthy

MICROCELLULAR EXTRUSION OF POLYLACTIDE WITH CHAIN-EXTENDER ...... 1908 Auer, George; Gong, Shaoqin; Kim, Ryan; Pilla, Srikanth

THERMOPLASTIC MATERIALS AND FOAMS

BI-CELLULAR POLYSTYRENE FOAM USING WATER AND N-BUTANE...... 1913 Lee, Kyung-Min; Lee, E.K.; Kim, Seong G.; Park, Chul B.; Naguib, H. E.

THERMOSET – D28

THERMOSETTING MATERIALS

A NOVEL NET SHAPE MANUFACTURING PROCESS FOR CONCENTRATED POLYMER-PARTICULATE COMPOSITE PRODUCTS...... 1918 Gogos, Costas; Todd, David; Wan, Chen; Young, Ming-wan; Zhu, Linjie

VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES AND RESIDUAL STRESSES IN POLYHEDRAL OLIGOMERIC SILSEQUIOXANE (POSS)-REINFORCED EPOXY ...... 1923 Hutcheson, Stephen; Li, Qingxiu; McKenna, Gregory; Simon, Sindee L.

A CURE KINETICS MODEL FOR THE NON-ISOTHERMAL CURING OF POLYIMIDE ...... 1930 Isayev, Avraam; Keum, Jongmin; Lewis, Todd

PRESSURE EFFECTS ON FINAL MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF UNSATURATED POLYESTER RESIN ...... 1935 Cruz, Javier; Emmons, Andrea; Esch, Steven; Osswald, Tim

VOLUME 4

BLOW MOLDING – D30

NEW ADVANCES IN BLOW MOLDING

NEW TECHNOLOGY TO VARY THE RADIAL THICKNESS DISTRIBUTION OF THE PARISON IN EXTRUSION BLOW MOULDING ...... 1940 Gross, Heinz

OPTIMIZATION OF A PET PREFORM DESIGN FOR BETTER BOTTLE BARRIER PROPERTIES ...... 1947 Chettiar, Dinu; Erbulut, Deniz; Masood, S.H.

NEW IMPACT RESISTANT POLYESTER BLOW MOLDING COMPOSITIONS WITH EXCELLENT ETHANOL FUEL BARRIER PROPERTIES...... 1952 Agarwal, Parminder; Ellington, Donald; Gallucci, Robert

PROPERTY VERIFICATION OF THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMER BOTTLES PRODUCED FROM CUSTOM DESIGNED EXTRUSION BLOW MOLDING MOLDS...... N/A Adkins IV, Millington; Dempsey, Daniel

COMPOSITES – D39

COMPOSITE PROPERTIES I

NEW ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY FIRE-PROTECTION COMPOSITES ...... 1957 Kao, Che-I; Huang, Yung-Hsing

EVALUATION OF HYGROTHERMAL EFFECTS ON PROPERTIES OF HIGHLY CONDUCTIVE EPOXY/GRAPHITE COMPOSITES ...... 1960 Du, Ling; Jana, Sadhan

IMPROVING THE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF EPOXY HYBRID NANOCOMPOSITES FOR AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS...... 1965 Cai, Zhi-qi; Castro, Jose; Guerra, Dante; Hioe, Yunior; Lee, L. James; Movva, Siva

THE INFLUENCE OF POLYMER TYPE ON THE INTERFACIAL SHEAR STRENGTH OF SISAL FIBRE REINFORCED COMPOSITES...... 1970 Burgstaller, Christoph; Stadlbauer, Wolfgang

POLYMER-GRAPHITE NANOCOMPOSITES: EFFECTIVE DISPERSION AND MAJOR PROPERTY ENHANCEMENT VIA SOLID-STATE SHEAR PULVERIZATION ...... 1975 Brunner, Philip; Pierre, Cynthia; Torkelson, John; Wakabayashi, Katsuyuki

MORPHOLOGY DEVELOPMENT WITH TENSILE STRAIN IN GLASS FLAKE FILLED POLYPROPYLENE ...... 1980 Jayaraman, Krishnamurthy; Mazor, Michael; Nichols, Kevin; Shipley, Katherine

COMPOSITES II

EFFECTS OF CLAY ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF INJECTION MOLDED HIGH-DENSITY POLYETHYLENE/CLAY NANOCOMPOSITE FOAMS...... 1985 Kuboki, Takashi; Lee, John; Lee, Yoon; Park, Chul; Sain, Mohini; Zhu, Wenli

STRESS ANALYSIS OF AN ORTHOTROPIC PLATE JOINT BY RFM ...... 1990 Lopez, Ivan; Orozco, Rodrigo; Osswald, Tim; Rowlands, Robert

CHARACTERIZATION OF MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF EPOXY NANOCOMPOSITES USING FUNCTIONALIZED CLAYS AND LAYERED DOUBLE HYDROXIDES ...... 1995 Holmes, Gale; Kim, Jae Hyun; Richardson, Mickey

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF INJECTION-MOLDED JUTE/GLASS FIBER HYBRID COMPOSITES ...... 1999 Hamada, Hiroyuki; Leong, Yew Wei; Nagaoka, Tsutomu; Nakai, Asami; Ohta, Tomoko; Takai, Yoshihiro

WOOD AND NATURAL FIBER COMPOSITES

VOLATILE EXTRACTIVES EFFECTS ON INTERFACIAL ADHESION OF PINE WOOD FILLED PP COMPOUNDS ...... 2004 Kim, Kwang-Jea

INCORPORATION OF SILICONES IN WOOD USING SUPERCRITICAL CO2 ...... 2009 Eastman, Scott; Lesser, Alan; McCarthy, Thomas

MISCANTHUS-PHENOLIC BIOCOMPOSITES: STRUCTURAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES ...... 2014 Hofer, Stephen; Malhotra, Vivak; Markevicius, Gediminas

PROCESSING AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF NATURAL FIBER-FILLED SHEET MOLDING COMPOUND (SMC) ...... 2019 Coninck, Mathieu De; Hamada, Hiroyuki; Hidekuma, Yuya; Nakai, Asami; Sarata, Makoto

DAMAGE DEVELOPMENT IN A MULTIAXIAL TEXTILE REINFORCED COMPOSITE MATERIAL...... 2023 Canto-Chale, Rogelio; Cruz-Santos, Guadalupe; Rios-Soberanis, Carlos; Rodriguez- Laviada, Jose

ENGINEERING PROPERTIES & STRUCTURE – D26

ADVANCES IN NANOCOMPOSITES II: EXFOLIATION AND DISPERSION

CHARACTERIZATION OF PROCESSING EFFECTS IN HIPS-CNF COMPOSITES USING THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS...... 2027 Bigio, David; Bruck, Hugh; Kerzner, Rachel; Kota, Arun; Powell, Dan

COMPARING TWO METHODS FOR DEAGGLOMERATION OF HIGHLY AGGLOMERATED MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES...... 2032 Agwedicham, Ahmed-Tijani; Jallo, Laila; Narh, Kwabena

IMPROVING THE EXFOLIATION OF LAYERED SILICATE IN A POLY(ETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE) MATRIX USING SUPER CRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDE ...... 2036 Baird, Donald; Litchfield, David; Samaniuk, Joseph

DISPERSION OF FUNCTIONALIZED CARBON NANOFIBERS IN THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANES...... 2041 Jana, Sadhan; Jimenez, Guillermo

POLYMER/MULTIWALL CARBON NANOTUBE (MWCNT) NANOCOMPOSITES MADE BY SOLID-STATE SHEAR PULVERIZATION (SSSP): PROCESSING, DISPERSION AND PROPERTIES...... 2046 Kasimatis, Kosmas; Masuda, Junichi; Torkelson, John

ULTRASOUND AIDED EXTRUSION PROCESS FOR PREPARATION OF POLYOLEFIN-CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES ...... 2051 Lapshin, Sergey

MORPHOLOGY AND PERFORMANCE

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF COMPRESSED VISCOSE SPONGES...... 2056 Heidweiller, Anton; Spoormaker, Jan

ENVIRONMENTALLY DRIVEN CHANGES IN NYLON ...... 2060 Hoffman, Jennifer; Ledwith, Paul; Moalli, John; Reitman, Maureen; Xu, Tao

A NOVEL TECHNIQUE TO DETECT SMALL MOLECULES OF LOW CONCENTRATION IN POLYMER BLENDS BY RUO4 STAINING ...... 2065 Tzoganakis, Costas; Zhu, Shuihan

SOLID-STATE SHEAR PULVERIZATION: AN ALTERNATIVE TO NUCLEATING AGENTS FOR SOME SEMI-CRYSTALLINE POLYMERS ...... N/A Pierre, Cynthia; Torkelson, John; Wakabayashi, Katsuyuki; Walker, Amanda

PC/POLYESTER BLENDS: INFLUENCES OF MOLECULAR WEIGHT AND TRANSESTERIFICATION ON DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSIS...... 2070 Hobeika, Sven; Hufen, Ralf; Moulinie, Pierre

FLEXIBLE PACKAGING – D44

CUTTING EDGE OPPORTUNITIES IN FLEXIBLE PACKAGING

NEW UV ABSORBER FOR PET PACKAGING: BETTER PROTECTION WITH LESS DISCOLORATION...... 2075 Coughlin, Gregory; Schambony, Simon

DEVELOPMENT OF FLEXIBLE PACKAGING STRUCTURES PERMEABLE TO BOTH MOISTURE AND OXYGEN...... 2079 Brown, Richard; McAllister, Kevin; Visioli, Donna

NOVEL NANOBIOCOMPOSITES WITH ANTIMICROBIAL PROPERTIES OF INTEREST IN PACKAGING APPLICATIONS...... 2084 Lagaron, Jose

MULTILAYER POLYPROPYLENE/ETHYLENE CO-VINYL ALCOHOL FILMS FOR FOOD PACKAGING APPLICATIONS...... 2089 Auerbach, Margaret; Froio, Danielle; Lucciarini, Jeanne; Ratto, Jo Ann; Schirmer, Sarah; Thellen, Christopher

ADVANCED RESULTS OF A PROSPECTIVE STUDY ON FLEXIBLE PLASTIC PACKAGING IN ANDEAN COUNTRIES: SCENARIOS AND STRATEGIES FOR THE PERIOD 2003 - 2013 ...... 2094 Medina, Jorge; Noriega, Maria; Sierra, Juan

INJECTION MOLDING – D23

APPLICATIONS II

THE EFFECT OF MOLD TEMPERATURE ON THE SURFACE PHASE MORPHOLOGY OF INJECTION MOLDED THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS ...... 2099 Barry, Carol; Fang, Liang; Mead, Joey; Wei, Ming

APPLICATION OF GROUP TECHNOLOGY IN INJECTION MOLDING...... 2104 Bujanic, Bozo; Catic, Igor; Rujnic-Sokele, Maja

SINK MARK PREDICTION AND OPTIMIZATION - A REVIEW...... 2109 Dakshinamoorthi, Mathivanan; N.S., Parthasarathy

STUDY ON THE RIB-DESIGNED PART SURFACE QUALITY MOLDED BY EXTERNAL GAS-ASSISTED INJECTION ...... 2116 Chia-Yen, Tseng; Chien-Chia, Su; Shia-Chung, Chen

STUDY OF PROCESS CHARACTERISTICS ON THE OPTICAL PERFORMANCE OF THE LGP WITH THREE-SIDE MICRO FEATURE DESIGN ...... 2121 Shia-Chung, Chen; Sung-Wei, Huang; Wei-Yao, Hsu; Ying-Chieh, Wang

OPTICAL PROPERTY INVESTIGATION IN SEQUENTIAL MULTI-COMPONENT MOLDING ...... 2126 Chang, Huang-Yi; Chang, Yuan-Jung; Chen, Meng-Chih; Huang, Chao-Tsai; Tseng, Shi- Chang; Yang, Wen-Li

CELLULAR INJECTION MOLDING

INJECTION-MOLDED POLYMER SCAFFOLD FOAMS ...... 2131 Kramschuster, Adam; Turng, Lih-Sheng

IMPROVED MICRO-CELLULAR MOLDING OF LONG GLASS FIBER (LGF) REINFORCED THERMOPLASTICS...... 2136 Jaarsma, Frank

PROCESS OF LONG GLASS FIBER REINFORCED THERMOPLASTIC FOR MICROCELLULAR INJECTION MOLDING ...... 2141 Xu, Jingyi

MICROCELLULAR INJECTION MOLDING OF POLYPROPYLENE (PP) WITH NUCLEATING AND CLARIFYING AGENTS...... 2146 Kramschuster, Adam; Lee, Jungjoo; Martinez, Kristin; Turng, Lih-Sheng

CHALLENGE TO THE FOAMING OF A THIN-WALL INJECTION MOLDED PART - INFLUENCE OF INJECTION SPEED AND GATE GEOMETRY ...... 2151 Lee, John; Park, Chul; Wang, Jing; Yoon, Jae

EFFECT OF CAVITY PRESSURE PROFILE ON THE INJECTION-MOLDED HDPE STRUCTURAL FOAM...... 2156 Lee, John; Park, Chul; Wang, Jing; Yoon, Jae

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF CELL GROWTH DURING FILLING AND POST-FILLING STAGES IN INJECTION FOAM MOLDING...... 2161 Lee, John; Park, Chul; Wang, Jing; Zhu, Zhenjin

THE MECHANICAL/THERMAL PROPERTIES OF MICROCELLULAR INJECTION MOLDED POLY-LACTIC-ACID(PLA) NANOCOMPOSITES...... 2166 Hsu, Peming; Hwang, Shyh-shin; Yang, Raybing

PROCESS CONTROL

CAVITY PRESSURE CONTROL DURING INJECTION IN AN INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE ...... 2172 Abu-Ayyad, Ma'moun; Dubay, Rickey; Hernandez, Jose

IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENT ON INJECTION MOLDED PART QUALITY ...... 2177 Kazmer, David; Westerdale, Sarah

NONLINEAR PI CONTROLLER FOR INJECTION SPEED...... 2182 Abu-Ayyad, Ma'moun; Dubay, Rickey; Hernandez, Jose

INTELLIGENT PROCESS CONTROL FOR INJECTION MOLDING...... 2186 Turng, Lih-Sheng; Zhao, Peng; Zhou, Huamin

DEVELOPMENT OF GAS-ASSISTED DYNAMIC MOLD TEMPERATURE CONTROL SYSTEM AND ITS APPLICATION FOR MICRO MOLDING...... 2191 Chun-Feng, Yeh; Jen-An, Chang; Shia-Chung, Chen; Yu-Wan, Lin

MEDICAL PLASTICS – D36

MEDICAL PLASTICS COMMERCIAL SESSION

ENGINEERING THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS CONTAINING RADIOPAQUE FILLERS FOR MEDICAL DEVICE APPLICATIONS...... 2196 Acquarulo, Lawrence; Johnson, Lawrence; Listro, Anthony; Mirji, Sunil; O'Neil, Charles

VAPOR PHASE POLYMERS FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS...... 2201 Kumar, Rakesh

BIO-COMPATIBLE STRUCTURAL HYDROGEL CATHETER MATERIAL ...... 2206 Epstein, Scott

ADHESION OF PLASTICS WITH BONE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY USING COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE ADHESIVES AND BIODEGRADABLE POLYMER MELT ADHESIVES...... 2210 McCarthy, Stephen; Shrivastava, Anshuman; Weinzweig, Jeffrey

POLYMER ANALYSIS – D33

NOVEL CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES AND ANALYSIS

CONTACT ANALYSIS OF THE SOLID POLYPROPYLENE - AISI P20 MOLD STEEL TRIBOSYSTEM ...... 2214 Restrepo Zapata, Nora Catalina; Vélez Restrepo, Juan

SLIDING WEAR OF POLYMERS: REVIEW OF MECHANISMS, TEST METHODS, AND EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN ...... 2219 Galloway, Jeffrey; Hoffman, Rich; Yuan, Mingjun

INVESTIGATIVE STUDY ON TRIBOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTISCS OF PTFE AND GRAPHITE AT VARIOUS PRESSURES AND VELOCITIES USING NOVEL ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES ...... 2224 Bolvari, Anne; De Heer, Jos; K, Ramya; Meerman, Toob; Sikder, Arun

DEVELOPMENT OF A PRESSURE DRIVEN MICRO-RHEOMETER ...... 2229 Son, Younggon

POLYMER BLENDS

CHARACTERIZATION OF THE EFFECTS OF PREFORMING AND REDEFORMING ON MORPHOLOGY AND THERMO-MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYETHYLENE CLOSE-FIT LINERS FOR TRENCHLESS PIPE REHABILITATION...... 2234 Frank, Andreas; Lang, Reinhold W.; Mannsberger, Gernot; Pinter, Gerald

NETWORK FORMATION AND HEALING IN GLASSY NETWORKS...... 2239 Detwiler, Andrew; Gorman, James; Lesser, Alan

SUPERCRITICAL CO2 FOAMED BIODEGRADABLE POLYMER BLENDS OF POLYCAPROLACTONE AND MATER-BI ...... 2244 D'Souza, Nandika; Ogunsona, Emmanuel

INVESTIGATION OF POLYCAPROLACTONE/STARCH BASED MATERIAL MELT PROCESSED BLENDS...... 2248 Dagnon, Koffi; D'Souza, Nandika

POLYMER CHARACTERIZATION AND ANALYSIS

EXPERIENCING SYNERGY BETWEEN EXPERIMENTS AND THEORY IN RHEOLOGY...... 2253 Winter, H. Henning

THERMAL OXIDATIVE STABILITY TESTS, DSC AND TGA, AN RE-EXAMINATION...... 2257 Eu, Bruce; Krongauz, Vadim; Woo, Lecon

EFFECTS OF HIGH INTENSITY SONICATION ON AN EPOXY RESIN: PRE- AND POST-CURE BEHAVIOR...... 2261 Malhotra, Vivak; Rajan, Anita; West, Richard

THERMAL PROFILE OF SELECTED POLYMERS; APPLICATION OF A NOVEL METHOD...... 2266 Elleithy, Rabeh

THE ROLE OF PHYSICAL FACTORS IN PHOTODEGRADATION OF POLYPROPYLENE ...... 2271 Cermak, Roman; Commereuc, Sophie; Mosnovska, Radka

ROTATIONAL MOLDING – D42

ROTATIONAL MOLDING III - TECHNOLOGY FOR PROGRESS

CHARACTERISATION OF DENSIFICATION RATE IN ROTATIONAL MOULDING...... 2276 Hanna, Paul; Kearns, Mark P.; Maziers, Eric; McCourt, Mark; McNally, Gerry

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF AN EXTRUSION-ASSISTED ROTATIONAL FOAM MOLDING SYSTEM...... 2281 Abdalla, Emad; Christian, Kimberly; Pop-Iliev, Remon

STRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT OF SINGLE-SITE ETHYLENE COPOLYMERS IN ROTATIONAL MOLDING...... 2286 Bellehumeur, Celine; Xu, Haijun

POLYOXYMETHYLENE (POM) FOR ROTATIONAL MOLDING APPLICATIONS ...... 2291 Gehrig, Michael

SIG002 – FAILURE ANALYSIS & PREVENTION

CASE STUDY II

EFFECT OF ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS CRACKING AGENTS ON FATIGUE AND CREEP OF A MDPE PIPE ...... 2295 Ayyer, Ravi; Baer, Eric; Hiltner, Anne

SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION OF THE SUITABILITY OF HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE PIPES FOR THE TRANSPORTATION AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF PETROLEUM DERIVATIVES...... 2300 Habas ulloa, Amelia; Habas, Jean-pierre; Moraes d'almeida, José roberto

BENCHMARKING FRACTOGRAPHIC FEATURES USING HOUSEHOLD PRODUCT FAILURES ...... 2305 Stenmark, Niles

BOSTON’S BIG DIG FATAL EPOXY ADHESIVE FAILURE...... 2310 Ezrin, Myer

FAILURE ANALYSIS OF A GLASS FILLED POLYPROPYLENE COMPONENT...... 2315 Kosarzycki, Mary

FAILURE ANALYSIS OF CLASS IV RUBBER INSULATED GLOVES ...... 2320 Lavigne, Gary; Leek, Fiona; Pinatti, Laura; Raymond, Russell; Ristau, Roger

SIG010 – ALLOYS & BLENDS

POLYMER BLENDS: COMPATILIZATION, MORPHOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERIZATION

THE EFFECT OF COMPATIBILIZER ON MICROFIBRILLAR-PHASE FORMATION IN PE/PP BLENDS...... 2326 Cermak, Roman; Hnidakova, Dana; Vychopnova, Jana

UNIQUE CRYSTALLINE NATURE OF A HIGH IMPACT STRENGTH POLYPROPYLENE ALLOY...... 2331 Beatty, Charles; Tortorella, Nathan

POLYMER-POLYMER INTERFACIAL SLIP MEASUREMENTS IN MULTILAYERED FILM...... 2335 Dealy, John; Lee, Patrick C.; Macosko, Christopher; Park, Hee Eon

RHEOLOGY AND PROPERTIES OF BLENDS OF TWO LINEAR AND A LONG- CHAIN BRANCHED POLYPROPYLENES...... 2340 Ajji, Abdellah; Carreau, Pierre; Tabatabaei, Seyed Hesamoddin

SUPERCRITICAL CO2 ASSISTED GRAFTING OF GLYCIDYL METHACRYLATE ONTO ETHYLENE-1-OCTENE COPOLYMER...... 2346 Beatty, Charles; Chen, Zhuo; Gvozdic, Ned; Matthews, Siobhan; Selarka, Aniket

POLYCARBONATE-POLYESTER BLENDS FOR HIGH FLOW APPLICATIONS...... 2350 Chakravarti, Shreyas; Shi, Hongtao; Van Gisbergen, Jos; Vaze, Nina

NANOSTRUCTURED POLYMER BLENDS VIA CONVENTIONAL MELT PROCESSING UTILIZING GRADIENT COPOLYMERS AS INTERFACIAL AGENT...... 2354 Kim, Jungki; Sandoval, Robert; Torkelson, John

SIG016 – PROCESS MONITORING & CONTROL

INJECTION MOLDING MONITORING & CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES

IN-MOLD TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURE SENSORS FOR ON-LINE DETECTION OF JETTING ...... 2359 Gao, Robert; Johnston, Stephen; Kazmer, David

SWITCHOVER CONTROL IN THE POLYMER INJECTION FORMING PROCESS...... 2364 Baesso, Ruggero; Lucchetta, Giovanni

A SIX SIGMA QUALITY CONTROLLER...... 2369 Westerdale, Sarah

EFFECT OF THERMAL CONDUCTANCE TO MOLD ON THE TEMPERATURE RISE MEASURED BY RESIN TEMPERATURE SENSORS ...... 2374 Cho, Young-Kee; Lee, Eun-Jin; Rhee, Byung-Ohk; Yi, Young-Joo

INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF INJECTION PRESSURE, SCREW POSITION, BARREL TEMPERATURE, AND OTHER VARIABLES ON CAVITY PRESSURE...... 2379 Hazen, Daniel; Hutson, Lee

THE EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT PROCESS CONDITIONS ON THE QUALITY OF INJECTION-MOLDED PARTS...... 2384 Chang, Chuan-Wei; Chen, Chia-Hsun; Hsu, Chia-Hsiang

SIG018 – PLASTICS EDUCATORS

PLASTICS EDUCATORS

NANOCOMPOSITES ENTREPRENEURIAL EDUCATION ...... 2388 Bubacz, Monika; Ibeh, Christopher

A PLASTICS EDUCATION OUTREACH PROGRAM FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL AGED GIRLS ...... 2393 Dell, Elizabeth

LIONS AND TIGERS AND FRESHMEN!...... 2397 Johnston, Stephen; Kazmer, David

SIG021 – PLASTIC PIPE & FITTINGS

PLASTIC PIPE AND FITTINGS

THE MECHANISMS OF CHLORINE DIOXIDE OXIDATION ON PLASTIC PIPING SYSTEMS ...... 2402 Chung, Sarah; Li, Tieqi; Oliphant, Ken; Vibien, Patrick

CHARACTERIZING LONG-TERM PERFORMANCE OF PLASTIC PIPING MATERIALS IN POTABLE WATER APPLICATIONS ...... 2406 Chung, Sarah; Li, Tieqi; Oliphant, Ken; Vibien, Patrick

NEW FLEXRING DIES IMPROVE THE THICKNESS TOLERANCES OF PIPES AND THUS SAVE MATERIAL...... 2411 Gross, Heinz

ACCELERATED INVESTIGATION OF CREEP CRACK GROWTH IN POLYETHYLENE PIPE GRADE MATERIALS BY THE USE OF FATIGUE TESTS ON CRACKED ROUND BAR SPECIMENS...... 2418 Frank, Andreas; Lang, Reinhold W.; Pinter, Gerald

FRACTURE TOUGHNESS TESTING (KIC) OF PE 4710 PIPE MATERIAL ...... 2423 Edwards, Dale; Shabeer, Ahamed; Svetlik, Harvey

SEM AND FTIR ANALYSIS OF PE PIPE FRACTURE IN ACCELERATED TEST CONDITIONS...... 2427 Cham, Pak-Meng; Choi, Byoung-Ho; Chudnovsky, Alexander; Michie, William; Paradkar, Rajesh; Zhou, Zhenwen

FAILURE ANALYSIS OF A LARGE DIAMETER HEAT-FUSIBLE PVC PIPE IN A HORIZONTAL DIRECTIONAL DRILLING INSTALLATION ...... 2433 Duvall, Donald; Edwards, Dale

CORROSION RESISTANCE OF EVA-MLS NANOCOMPOSITE PIPE COATINGS...... 2438 D'Souza, Nandika; Ganpule, Parag; Seifolah, Nasr

FAILURE ANALYSIS OF A LARGE DIAMETER HEAT-FUSIBLE PVC PIPE IN A HORIZONTAL DIRECTIONAL DRILLING INSTALLATION ...... 2441 Duvall, Donald; Edwards, Dale

SIG023 – NANO/MICRO MOLDING

MICRO/NANO-MOLDING I – INJECTION MOLDING

EFFECT OF VACUUM VENTING IN MICRO-INJECTION MOLDING...... 2446 Barry, Carol; Busnaina, Ahmed; Cha, Nam-goo; Lee, Jun; Mead, Joey; Padmanabha, Purushotham; Yoon, SUNG-HWAN

EFFECTS OF PROCESSING CONDITIONS ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND CRYSTALLINITY OF MICRO INJECTION MOLDED THERMOPLASTICS ...... 2451 Chu, Jingsong; Derdouri, Abdessalem; Hrymak, Andrew; Kamal, Musa

EVALUATION OF METAL-POLYMER HYBRID TOOLING FOR MICRO-INJECTION MOLDING ...... 2456 Barry, Carol; Busnaina, Ahmed; Cha, Nam-goo; Lee, Jun; Mead, Joey; Padmanabha, Purushotham; Park, Keun; Yoon, SUNG-HWAN

THREE DIMENSIONAL VISCOELASTIC SIMULATION OF THIN-WALL INJECTION MOULDING WITH MICRO-FEATURES...... 2462 Gava, Alberto; Lucchetta, Giovanni

FACTORS INFLUENCING DIMENSIONS WHEN INJECTION MOLDING MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES ...... 2467 Barry, Carol; Lee, Jun; Mead, Joey; Thiruvenkataswamy, Rajkumar; Yoon, SUNG-HWAN

REALIZATION OF POLYMER-BASED NANOSTRUCTURED SURFACES FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS VIA NANOSCALE INJECTION MOLDING ...... 2472 Angelov, Aleksandar; Coulter, John; Gomatam, Rajesh; Jaafar, Israd; Kim, Y; Rajagopalan, Padma

MICRO/NANO-MOLDING II: MICRO-EMBOSSING & FEATURE REPLICATION

SURFACE REPLICATION AND THERMAL PROPERTIES OF POLYCARBONATE FILMS IN THERMAL NANO-IMPRINTING...... 2477 Furuta, Tomonobu; Ito, Hiroshi; Masashi, Matsumoto; Miyata, Ken; Suzuki, Hiroshi

MICRO-FEATURE REPLICATION OF CYCLO OLEFIN COPOLYMER AT ELEVATED MOLD TEMPERATURE ...... 2482 Mosaddegh, Peiman

HOT EMBOSSING OF DISCRETE MICROPARTS...... 2487 Kuduva-Raman-Thanumoorthy, Ramasubramani; Yao, Donggang

HOT EMBOSSING WITH AN ENLARGED PROCESS WINDOW ...... 2492 Kuduva-Raman-Thanumoorthy, Ramasubramani; Yao, Donggang

HOT EMBOSSING OF HIGH ASPECT RATIO SUB-µm STRUCTURED SURFACES FOR MICRO FLUIDIC APPLICATIONS ...... 2497 Fugier, Pascal; Gavillet, Jerome; Hansen, Hans; Heckele, Mathias; Koltay, Peter; Mappes, Timo; Metz, Tobias; Tosello, Guido; Worgull, Matthias

STRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND REPLICATION PROPERTIES OF MICRO- MOLDED PARTS IN INJECTION COMPRESSION MOLDING ...... 2502 Ito, Hiroshi; Kazama, Kunihiko; Kikutani, Takeshi; Suzuki, Hajime

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION OF NANOJET EJECTION PROCESS UNDER DIFFERENT OPERATING CONDITIONS...... 2507 Chang, Rong-Yeu; Dai, Chi-Fu

PROCESS AND PART FILLING CONTROL IN MICRO INJECTION MOLDING...... 2512 Hansen, Hans; Schoth, Andreas; Tosello, Guido

THERMOPLASTIC MATERIALS & FOAMS – D29

FUNDAMENTALS OF FOAMS

EFFECTS OF LONG-CHAIN BRANCHING, CONCENTRATION OF SUPERCRITICAL CO2 AND PRESSURE ON THE VISCOSITY OF LINEAR AND BRANCHED POLYPROPYLENES...... 2517 Dealy, John; Park, Hee Eon

MANUFACTURING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NOVEL POROUS TWO-PART SHAPE MEMORY POLYMER...... 2522 Naguib, Hani; Simkevitz, Steven

ANALYSIS OF BUBBLE NUCLEATION USING THE CRITICAL RADIUS CHANGE DURING DECOMPRESSION OR HEATING PROCESSES...... 2529 Guo, Qingping; Leung, Siu Ning Sunny; Ward, Charles

THE FOAMABILITY OF POLYPROPYLENE COPOLYMER BLOWN WITH ARGON, HELIUM AND NITROGEN...... 2534 Hasan, Mohammad; Leung, Siu Ning Sunny; Wong, Anson

PP/CO2 MELT VOLUME SWELLING FROM MEASUREMENT AND EOS PREDICTION ...... 2539 Li, Yao Gai Gary

THERMOPLASTICS AND ENGINEERING PLASTICS

EVALUATION OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL DONORS IN THE SUPPORTED ZIEGLER-NATTA CATALYST FOR STEREOSPECIFIC PROPYLENE POLYMERIZATION...... 2546 Cardoso, Renata; Marques, Maria; Silva, Micheli

WEATHERING OF TRANSPARENT POLYESTER-CARBONATES UNDER HIGH INTENSITY DISCHARGE LIGHTING ...... 2553 Blubaugh, Chris; Cojocariu, Gheorghe; Hamilton, Douglas

UNSATURATED POLYESTER RESIN FROM CHEMICAL RECYCLING OF OFF- GRADE POLYETYHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE ...... 2558 Zahedi, Alireza

NEW ENVIRONMENTALLY PROGRESSIVE POLYESTER FLAME RETARDANT RESINS...... 2563 Konduri, Rama; Van der Weele, Chris

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