Reporting on the work of an international team of scientists actively involved in the study of thermoplastic elastomers (TPE) based on polyesters, polyamides, and polyurethanes, Handbook of Condensation Thermoplastic Elastomers is the first to provide a detailed description of condensation TPE with close attention paid to polyamide-based systems.

Reflecting the increasing importance of TPE as engineering plastics, Handbook of Condensation Thermoplastic Elastomers discusses the widened application opportunities by preparing systems with various chemical compositions and molecular structures as (semi-) interpenetrating networks.

Handbook of Condensation Thermoplastic Elastomers covers the chemical aspects, physical structure and properties, life cycle assessment, and recycling possibilities as well as such unique "smart" properties like the shape memory effect of the three classes of thermoplastic elastomers.

Contents:

1. Creation and development of thermoplastic elastomers, and their position among organic materials
2. Polycondensation reactions in thermoplastic elastomer chemistry : state of the art, trends, and future developments
3. Polyester thermoplastic elastomers : synthesis, properties, and some applications
4. Terpoly (ester-b-ether-b-amide) thermoplastic elastomers : synthesis, structure, and properties
5. High performance thermoplastic aramid elastomers : synthesis, properties, and applications
6. Poly(ether ester) thermoplastic elatomers : phase and deformation behavior on the nano- and microlevel
7. Condensation thermoplastic elastomers under load : methodological studies of nanostructure evolution by X-ray scattering
8. Dielectric relaxation of polyester-based thermoplastic elastomers
9. Thermoplastic poly(ether-b-amide) elastomers : synthesis
10. Poly(ether-b-amide) thermoplastic elastomers : structure, properties, and applications
11. Semicrystalline segmented poly(ether-b-amide) copolymers : overview of solid-state structure-property relationships and uniaxial deformation behavior
12. Thermoplastic polyurethane elastomers in interpenetrating polymer networks
13. Polyurethane thermoplastic elastomers comprising hydrazine derivatives : chemical aspects
14. Molecular dynamics and ionic conductivity studies in polyurethane thermoplastic elastomers
15. Polymer blends containing thermoplastic elastomers of the condensation and addition types
16. "Nanoreinforcement" of thermoplastic elastomers
17. Commercial condensation and addition thermoplastic elastomers : composition, properties, and applications
18. Shape memory effects of multiblock thermoplastic elastomers
19. Condensation and addition thermoplastic elastomers : recycling aspects

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