Objective
The aim of t he research project is to begin to develop a fundamental understanding of HTX polymers, in particular the structure/property relationships and relevance to the manufacturing and converting processes and the mechanical properties of the composites. Excellent progress has been made with characterizing the polymers and getting an understanding of structure/property relationships. The chemistry occurring during the various stages of polymer synthesis is now more fully understood and modifications in reaction procedure may be made to tailor polymer properties to suit end-use requirements.
A fundamental understanding of the structure property relationships of a high temperature crystalline (HTX) material has been achieved.
The HTX material was synthesised and a good fundamental understanding of the structure-property relationship was obtained. It is claimed that this understanding has wider implications for materials of related chemical structure which will have far reaching benefits for the synthesis of other materials in the future. ICI claims that it will have a competitive advantage of around 2 years over companies in this field. In the course of the project the defence contractor changed the nature of his original request. The advanced material was required to perform at 145 C instead of 180 C. This necessitated the synthesis of a new material, intermediate temperature crystalline (ITX). Due to the fundamental work on HTX it was possible to synthesise ITX very rapidly. This is now being produced in substantial pilot plant quantities and development trials are in progress by several world scale defence equipment contractors. In the event of successful outcome of these trials an initial market is foreseen in 1 to 2 years time valued at around $5 million a year.
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology materials engineering composites
- natural sciences chemical sciences polymer sciences
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TS6 8JE Middlesbrough
United Kingdom
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