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May 6–11, 2007 Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Volume 1 of 5

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

VOLUME 1

MODELING OF A THIN-WALLED FILAMENT WOUND TUBING...................................................... 1Coffey, Austin; Óbrádaigh, C. M.; Gately, Alan

DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPOSITE THERMAL BARRIER COATING ............................................ 7Lynch, Jennifer; Nosker, Thomas; Ondre, David; Mazar, Mark; Nosker, Patrick

MICROMECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF INTERFACIAL SHEAR STRENGTH OF ARAMID FIBRE REINFORCED THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS............................................... 12

Coffey, Austin

POLYURETHANE-CARBON NANOFIBER COMPOSITES FOR SHAPE MEMORY EFFECTS ............................................................................................................................................ 18

Jimenez, Guillermo; Jana, Sadhan

EFFECT OF THERMAL CONDUCTIVE FILLERS AND HARDNESS THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SILICONE ELASTOMERS ............................................................................... 23

Severance, Chris

INTERFACIAL ADHESION BETWEEN HYDROXYAPATITE AND POLY(E-CAPROLACTONE) AND THEIR ELECTROSPUN COMPOSITE TOUGHNESS............................. 27

Wong, Shing-Chung; Baji, Avinash

EFFICIENCY OF GRAPHITE ADDITIVES ON FRICTION AND WEAR PROPERTIES OF SINTERED POLYIMIDE ............................................................................................................... 32

Samyn, Pieter; Quintelier, Jan; Schoukens, Gustaaf

MELT BLENDING GRAPHITE INTO POLY(ETHYLENE-2,6-NAPHTHALATE) .............................. 37Kim, Hyunwoo; Macosko, Christopher

EFFECT OF TWO COMPATIBILIZERS HAVING COMONOMER IN POLYPROPYLENE/CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES ............................................................................ 40

Nam, Byeong Uk; Kim, Dong-Won; Kim, Baek-Jin

SCREW ELEMENT CHARACTERIZATION IN AN IN-LINE LFT-D PROCESS ............................... 44Englich, Sascha; Chandrashekara, Shanthakumar; Padmanabhan, Babu

THERMAL STABILITY AND RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF MULTIWALL CARBON NANOTUBE REINFORCED THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALLINE POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES....................................................................................................... 49

Park, Sang Ki; Kim, Seong Hun; Hwang, Jin Taek

REINFORCING VIRGIN, REPROCESSED OR RECYCLED POLYPROPYLENE WITH AGAVE FIBER AND A POLYMERIC COUPLING AGENT............................................................... 54

Jasso-Gastinel, Carlos; Sanjuan-Raygoza, Reyes

SHEAR RHEOLOGY OF HIGHLY FILLED POLYMERIC SUSPENSION ........................................ 58Ahn, Youngjoon; Kwon, Hyukrok; Koo, Kee-Kahb; Kim, Hyounsoo; Lee, Jae Wook

NONWETTING LOW FRICTION NYLON 6/ POLYHEDRAL OLIGOMERIC SILSESQUIOXANE (POSS®) HYBRID NANOCOMPOSITES ......................................................... 62

Misra, Rahul; Morgan, Sarah; Fu, Bruce

MULTILAYER COEXTRUSION OF POLYPROPYLENE NANOCOMPOSITE MATERIALS ....................................................................................................................................... 67

Dolgovskij, Michail; Fasulo, Paula D.; Lee, Patrick; Macosko, Christopher W.; Rodgers, William R.

SUPER-CRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDE ASSISTED MELT INTERCALATION OF POLYMER LAYERED SILICATE NANOCOMPOSITES ................................................................... 72

Litchfield, David; Nguyen, Quang; Baird, Donald

NANOCOMPOSITES BASED ON IONIC LIQUID MODIFIED CLAYS ............................................. 76Xanthos, Marino

MELT INTERCALATION/EXFOLIATION OF POLYSTYRENE--SODIUM-MONTMORILLONITE NANOCOMPOSITES USING SULFONATED POLYSTYRENE IONOMERS COMPATIBILIZERS ...................................................................................................... 81

Weiss, Robert; Bhiwankar, Nikhil

INFLUENCE OF SURFACE ENERGY ON DISPERSION AND FLEXURAL PROPERTIES OF PS/PHOSPHONIUM ORGANOLCAY NANOCOMPOSITES.............................. 85

Kamal, Musa; Uribe Calderon, Jorge

NEW COATING EQUIPMENT TO PRODUCE LONG FIBRE THERMOPLASTIC MATRIX TOWPREGS AT INDUSTRIAL SCALE .............................................................................. 90

Silva, Joao Francisco

ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF NANOPARTICLES ON THE MOLD FILLING IN A VACUUM ASSISTED RESIN TRANSFER MOLDING SYSTEM....................................................... 94

Zhou, Gang; Movva, Siva; Guerra, Dante; Lee, Ly

DESIGN OF THERMOPLASTIC MATRIX HYBRID COMPOSITE GAS CYLINDERS FOR DOMESTIC APPLICATIONS..................................................................................................... 99

Nunes, Joao Pedro

EFFECTS OF RESIDUAL FIBER LENGTH ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF LONG FIBER REINFORCED POLYPROPYLENE FROM VARIOUS PROCESSES ..................... 104

Short, William; Wenzel, Edward

FIBER JAMMING AND FIBER MATRIX SEPARATION DURING PROCESSING OF FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITES. ............................................................................................ 109

Londono-Hurtado, Alejandro; Osswald, Tim

EFFECTS OF MOLDING PROCESS ON RESIDUAL FIBER LENGTH OF LONG FIBER POLYPROPYLENE COMPOSITES ..................................................................................... 114

Short, William; Wenzel, Edward

FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURE-PROPERTY RELATIONSHIP OF POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES........................................................................................................................ 119

Boo, Woong-Jae; Sun, Luyi; Lee, Seung-Min; Moghbelli, Ehsan; Warren, Graham; Clearfield, Abraham; Sue, Hung-Jue

PROPERTIES OF POLYETHYLENE NANOCOMPOSITES BASED ON HIGH THERMAL STABILITY ORGANOCLAYS ....................................................................................... 123

Stoeffler, Karen; Lafleur, Pierre; Denault, Johanne

STRESS-STRAIN BEHAVIOR AND CRYSTALLIZATION DURING UNIAXIAL DRAWN PET/MMT NANOCOMPOSITES ABOVE GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE............................................................................................................................... 128

Zhan-Song, Yin; Huang, Han-Xiong

POLYMER CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES WITH IMPROVED MELT STRENGTH ........................... 133Jayaraman, Krishnamurthy

NANOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF ULTRATHIN POLYMERS .............................................. 138Xu, Shanhong; O'Connell, Paul; McKenna, Gregory

EFFECT OF MOISTURE ABSORPTION ON THE PROPERTIES OF CLAY-PP NANOCOMPOSITES........................................................................................................................ 143

Denault, Johanne

UV CURABLE INKJET FORMULATIONS FOR THE EVER EXPANDING REALM OF INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS ........................................................................................................ 148

Edison, Sara

DEVELOPMENTS IN INKJET TECHNOLOGY FOR THE DECORATION AND COATING OF POLYMERIC MATERIALS ....................................................................................... 153

Hudd, Alan

OPTIMIZING PAD PRINTING EFFICIENCY WITH STEPPER MOTOR TECHNOLOGY............... 159Kaverman, John

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES FOR LASER MARKING OF PLASTICS....................................... 164Sabreen, Scott

ADVANCES IN ADHESION WITH CO2-BASED ATMOSPHERIC PLASMA SURFACE MODIFICATION................................................................................................................................ 169

Wolf, Rory

ROBOTIC UV CURING: A COST EFFECTIVE MEANS OF CURING LARGE, 3-D PLASTIC PARTS.............................................................................................................................. 174

Mills, Paul

ADHESION PROMOTION USING FLAME PLASMA SURFACE TREATMENT........................... 184Digiacomo, Joe

PROCESS CONSIDERATIONS FOR UV CURING OF 3D DECORATED PLASTIC PARTS .............................................................................................................................................. 212

Joesel, Kevin

TECHNIQUES TO DETERMINE RESISTANCE TO SURFACE DAMAGE ON DECORATED PLASTICS................................................................................................................. 217

Jaenecke, Alan

DEVELOPMENT OF A PROCESS FOR PRODUCING DURABLE, BRIGHT METAL APPEARANCE PLASTIC PARTS ................................................................................................... 223

Mills, Paul

THERMAL AND ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY OF CARBON/LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMER COMPOSITES FOR FUEL CELL BIPOLAR PLATES ................................................. 230

Hauser, Rebecca; King, Julia; Keith, Jason; Barton, Rodwick; Miller, Michael

HIGHLY CONDUCTIVE EPOXY COMPOSITES FOR APPLICATION AS BIPOLAR PLATES IN PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFCS) ................................. 235

Du, Ling; Jana, Sadhan

DEVELOPMENT OF SEMI-INTERPENETRATING POLYMER NETWORK ELECTROLYTES OF POLYURETHANE AND POLYSILOXANE .................................................. 240

Wang, Shanshan; Min, Kyonsuku

PATTERNING OF CONDUCTING POLYMERS ON FLEXIBLE AND INSULATING POLYMERIC SUBSTRATES ........................................................................................................... 245

Wei, Ming; Jia, Shen; Somu, Sivasubramanian; Xiong, Xugang; Barry, Carol; Busnaina, Ahmed; Mead, Joey

SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION AND INDUSTRIAL INTEREST OF LASER SURFACE TREATMENT OF HIGH TEMPERATURE THERMOPLASTIC POLYMERS.................................. 250

Ricbourg, Maxime; Habas, Jean-Pierre; Pignolet, Pascal

MAR BEHAVIOR OF THERMOPLASTIC OLEFINS ....................................................................... 255Browning, Robert; Jiang, Han; Moyse, Allan; Sue, Hung-Jue; Lau, Edmund

REACTOR TPO: INNOVATIONS IN LOW TEMPERATURE DUCTILITY AND AT-PRESS DIMENSIONAL CONTROL................................................................................................. 260

Krabbenborg, Frank; Walia, Parvinder; Traugott, Tom

THE YIELDING OF PROPYLENE POLYMERS .............................................................................. 264Frontini, Patricia; Fasce, Laura; Pettarín, Valeria; Marano, Claudia; Rink, Marta

INVESTIGATION OF FRACTURE MECHANISM OF HDPE SUBJECTED TO ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS CRACKING....................................................................................... 269

Choi, Byoung-Ho

CRASH-SIMULATION FOR SHORT-FIBER REINFORCED THERMOPLASTIC PARTS .............................................................................................................................................. 274

Michaeli, Walter; Brinkmann, Markus

A NEW PROCEDURE FOR DIMENSIONING PLASTICS PARTS WITH SIMILAR CONSIDERATION OF TENSILE AND COMPRESSION VALUES ................................................. 279

Michaeli, Walter; Krumpholz, Thorsten; Arping, Tim

THE INFLUENCE OF FIBER-ORIENTATION AND STRESS RATIO ON THE FATIGUE BEHAVIOUR OF SHORT-GLASFIBER-REINFORCED POLYMERS ........................... 284

Guster, Christoph; Pinter, Gerald; Eichlseder, Wilfried; Lang, Reinhold

ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS CRACKING IN POLYCARBONATE - PREDICTION OF THE LONG TERM BEHAVIOR BY THE USE OF SHORT TIME TESTS ....................................... 289

Michaeli, Walter; Henseler, Jan

THE EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE ON THE MODULUS OF ELASTICITY OF NONLINEAR VISCOELASTIC MATERIALS ................................................................................... 294

Schmachtenberg, Ernst; Dallner, Claus

EFFECT OF SECONDARY PROCESSING CONDITIONS ON MORPHOLOGY OF THERMOPLASTIC OLEFIN BLENDS ............................................................................................. 299

Drewniak, Marta; Flora, Shannon; Thomasson, Tara

THE EFFECT OF INTERFACIAL STRENGTH ON THE LIGHT REFRACTION IN MULTI-STEP PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBER ....................................................................................... 304

Kang, Ho-Jong; Kim, Hyogap

THE EFFECT OF NUCLEATION SPECIFICITY ON THERMAL BEHAVIOUR OF PHOTODEGRADED POLYPROPYLENE........................................................................................ 308

Vychopnova, Jana; Cermák, Roman; Obadal, Martin; Verney, Vincent; Commereu, Sophie

STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF ß-POLYPROPYLENE CAST FILMS ................................. 313Hnidakova, Dana; Cermak, Roman; Chvatalova, Lenka; Vychopnova, Jana; Obadal, Martin

STRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT AND MECHANICAL PROPERTY CHANGES OF STRETCHED SYNDIOTACTIC POLYSTYRENE FILM................................................................... 318

Hong, Myeong-Ho; White, James

PHASE MORPHOLOGY AND ORIENTATION DEVELOPMENT OF PP/ETHYLENE BUTENE COPOLYMER BLENDS IN MELT PROCESSING........................................................... 323

Yang, Jinhai; White, James

CONTROLLING MORPHOLOGY IN COCONTINUOUS POLYMER BLENDS .............................. 328Bell, Joel; Lopez-Barron, Carlos; Macosko, Christopher

IN-SITU FORMATION OF MICROFIBRILLAR MORPHOLOGY IN POLYMER BLENDS ........................................................................................................................................... 332

Cermak, Roman; Polaskova, Martina; Kalus, Jakub; Vychopnova, Jana; Obadal, Martin

EFFECT OF SCREW TYPE ON DEVELOPMENT OF POLYMER BLEND MORPHOLOGY ALONG AN EXTRUDER DURING COMPOUNDING .......................................... 337

Huang, Han-Xiong; Li, Xiao-Jing

PHASE SEPARATION IN THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALLINE POLYMER/POLYCARBONATE BLENDS UNDER SHEAR ........................................................... 342

Lee, Kam-Wa; Kamal, Musa; Chan, Philip

NOVEL SELF-ASSEMBLING MORPHOLOGIES IN MULTICOMPONENT POLYMER BLENDS ........................................................................................................................................... 347

Virgilio, Nick; Marc-Aurèle, Carl; Favis, Basil

MODELING AND SIMULATION OF THE COMPLEX FLOWS IN THE EXTRUSION PROCESS OF PLASTIC PROFILE WITH METAL INSERT ........................................................... 352

Mu, Yue; Guoqun, Zhao

A NON-NEWTONIAN MODEL OF FLOW IN A SPECIAL MIXING ELEMENT REGION OF A MODULAR INTERMESHING COROTATING TWIN SCREW EXTRUDER .......................... 359

Ban, Kyunha; Kim, Eungkyu; White, James

INFLUENCE OF SCREW ELEMENTS ON THE PROCESSING OF PREPARING LDPE-G-MAH BY REACTIVE EXTRUSION.................................................................................... 364

Cao, Bin; Ma, Xiuqing; Fang, Hui; Zhou, Xinhui; Zhu, Linjie

INFLUENCE OF STAGGERING ANGLE OF KNEADING BLOCK ON PHASE MORPHOLOGY OF IMMISCIBLE POLYMER BLENDS IN CO-ROTATING EXTRUDER ...................................................................................................................................... 369

Zhou, Xinhui; Ma, Xiuqing; Cao, Bin; Zhu, Linjie

HYBRID FEM/FDM APPROXIMATION FOR SINGLE SCREW EXTRUSION................................ 374Chen, Chia-Hsun; Lin, Kun-Chang; Kuan, Chen-Feng; Kuan, Hsu-Chiang

STUDY ON THE MIXING ABILITY OF DIFFERENT MIXING ELEMENTS IN CO-ROTATING TWIN SCREW EXTRUDER.......................................................................................... 379

Long, Zhibin; Bing, Luo; Shiqiang, Sun

NUMERICAL SIMULATION ON INTERMESHING COUNTER-ROTATING TWIN SCREW EXTRUDER WITH PIN-BARREL ...................................................................................... 384

He, Min; Bing, Luo

AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION INTO SOLIDS FEEDING CHARACTERISTICS OF A SINGLE PIECE BARREL WITH INTEGRAL FEEDPORT DESIGN VS A STANDARD TWO PIECE WATER COOLED FEEDBLOCK AND BARREL CONFIGURATION............................................................................................................ 389

Smith, Walter; Miller, Luke; Sickles, Robert; Womer, Timothy

AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON SHEAR STRESS CHARACTERISTICS OF POLYMERS IN SINGLE-SCREW EXTRUDERS ............................................................................. 394

Altinkaynak, Atakan; Gupta, Mahesh; Spalding, Mark; Crabtree, Sam

EVALUATION OF THE MELTING CAPACITY OF THREE SINGLE SCREWS ............................. 399Mount, Eldridge

HELIBAR ® - A POWERFUL SINGLE SCREW PLASTICATING SYSTEM .................................. 404Gruenschloss, Eberhard

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF POLYPROPYLENE EXTRUSION INSTABILITY......................... 410Doufas, Antonios; Slusarz, Kevin; Beck, Jonathan; Catalina, Edward; Rhee, Sheung; Avolio, John

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS ON THE PLASTICATING PROCESS OF POLYMERS IN A SHORT SINGLE SCREW EXTRUDER AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF THE PROCESS .......................................................................................................................... 420

Potente, Helmut; Heim, Hans-Peter; Kleineheismann, Sebastian

SOLIDS COMPACTION AND CONVEYING IN A SINGLE-SCREW EXTRUDER BY DISCRETE PARTICLE MODELING ................................................................................................ 424

Thompson, Michael; Moysey, Paul

NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF SCREW TEMPERATURE ON THE MELTING PROFILE IN A SINGLE-SCREW EXTRUDER....................................................... 429

Altinkaynak, Atakan; Gupta, Mahesh; Spalding, Mark; Crabtree, Sam

FREEZEOUT IN SINGLE SCREW EXTRUDERS ........................................................................... 434Derezinski, Stephen

ANALYSIS OF THE STABILITY OF A SINGLE-SCREW EXTRUSION PROCESS USING GRAPHICAL ANALYSIS ..................................................................................................... 438

Wagner, John; Spalding, Mark; Crabtree, Sam

ULTRASOUND ASSISTED SINGLE SCREW EXTRUSION PROCESS FOR DISPERSION OF CARBON NANOFIBERS IN POLYMERS .......................................................... 448

Isayev, Avraam; Jung, Changdo; Gunes, Kaan

MATHEMATICAL MODEL AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF POLYMER MELT FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER IN A COOLING EXTRUDER ........................................................ 453

Wang, Cuiling; Bussmann, Markus; Park, Chul

SUMMARY RESULTS OF NOVEL SINGLE SCREW COMPOUNDER.......................................... 458Luker, Keith

REACTIVE EXTRUSION PROCESS CHARACTERIZATION: Q/N MAPPING METHOD........................................................................................................................................... 463

Wetzel, Mark; Avgousti, Marios; Denelsbeck, Donald; Latimer, Susan; Shih, Chi-Kai

INFLUENCE OF PARTICLE SIZE ON MELTING AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION DURING COMPOUNDING: DOES THE EFFECT HOLD AT SCALED-UP CONDITIONS? ................................................................................................................................. 469

Esseghir, Mohamed; Neubauer, Anthony

OPTIMIZATION OF QUALITY AND THROUGHPUT AT LOW REVOLUTION SPEEDS IN AN ADVANCED TWO STAGE COMPOUNDING SYSTEM ....................................................... 480

Kuehn, Ralf; Heidemeyer, Peter; Burkhardt, Ulrich

STRESS INDUCED MIXING IN ROTOR ELEMENTS OF A COUNTER-ROTATING CONTINUOUS MIXER...................................................................................................................... 485

Ishikawa, Takeshi; Nagano, Fumisato; Kajiwara, Toshihisa

A COMPOSITE MODEL FOR SOLID CONVEYING, MELTING, PRESSURE, TEMPERATURES AND FILL FACTOR IN A METERED FED CLOSELY INTERMESHING COUNTER-ROTATING TWIN SCREW EXTRUDER .......................................... 490

Jiang, Qibo; Wilczynski, Krzysztof; White, James

EXTRUSION COMPOUNDING FUNDAMENTALS: AN INDUSTRIAL PERSPECTIVE ON MELTING AND MIXING OF POLYMER BLENDS .................................................................... 496

Shih, Chi-Kai; Wetzel, Mark

AXIAL TRANSPORT IN KNEADER REACTORS ........................................................................... 502Witte, Daniel

PREDICTION OF CONTINUOUS KNEADER REACTOR PROCESSES FROM BATCH DATA ................................................................................................................................................ 509

Safrit, Boyd

PROCESSING OF NANOCOMPOSITES WITH GRADIENT ARCHITECTURES IN TWIN SCREW EXTRUSION FOR A NOVEL COMBINATORIAL APPROACH ............................. 515

Kota, Arun; Strohmer, Timo; Bigio, David; Bruck, Hugh; Powell, Dan

EXTRUSION AND SPINNING OF NYLON-6,6 / SUPERCRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDE MIXTURES........................................................................................................................................ 520

Tzoganakis, Costas; Li, Ziqiang

UNDERSTANDING WHY ADHESION IN EXTRUSION COATING DECREASES WITH DIMINISHING COATING THICKNESS, PART III: ANALYSIS OF PEEL TEST............................. 525

Morris, Barry

ISOTHERMAL THERMAL GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE OXIDATION OF POLYPROPYLENE .......................................................................................................................... 530

Calhoun, Allison

CHARACTERIZATION OF CROSSLINKED HEAT-SHRINKABLE PACKAGING FILMS................................................................................................................................................ 536

Zhang, Wei; Yang, Hailing; Moffitt, Ronald; Tung, Jimmy

HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT (MW) NANO SIZED POLYETHYLENE (PE): EFFECT OF PARTICLE SIZE, MACRO-MICRO-NANO ................................................................................ 542

Paik, Pradip; Kar, Kamal

NOVEL METAL/POLYMER BLENDS FOR HIGHLY CONDUCTIVE APPLICATIONS ................. 547Michaeli, Walter; Pfefferkorn, Tobias

EFFECT OF HIGH MOLD TEMPERATURE AND LAYOUT OF GATE POSITION ON CONDUCTIVITY OF COMPOSITE POLYMER BIPOLAR PLATE. ................................................ 552

Shia Chung, Chen; Ming Yi, Shih; Yi Chang, Lin

THERMAL PROPERTIES AND STRUCTURE OF INJECTION MOLDED THIN-WALL PRODUCTS OF POLYPROPYLENE/BORON-NITRIDE COMPOSITES ....................................... 556

Ito, Hiroshi; Kazama, Kunihiko; Kikutani, Takeshi

IN-MOLD PART SHRINKAGE RATE MEASUREMENT ................................................................. 561Koppi, Kurt; Barger, Mark; Chang, Dane; Shields, Chad

MOLD THERMAL DESIGN: A SIMPLIFIED APPROACH TO PREDICT PART TEMPERATURE AND MINIMUM "SAFE" CYCLE TIME................................................................ 566

Hioe, Yunior; Chang, Keh-Chyou; Bhagavatula, Narayan; Castro, Jose

EFFECTS OF MELT ROTATION ON WARPAGE PHENOMENA IN INJECTION MOLDING ......................................................................................................................................... 571

Chien, Ching-Chang

PREDICTION OF THE WELD-LINE-INDUCED STRENGTH REDUCTION FOR NYLON6 AND ITS NANOCOMPOSITES ........................................................................................ 576

Li, Haimei; Shen, Changyu; Chen, Shiachung; Zhang, Xueling

THE SIMULATION OF RESIDUAL STRESSES OF INJECTION MOLDED CRYSTALLINE POLYMERS............................................................................................................ 580

Wu, Haihong; Zhao, Zhenfeng; Shen, Changyu

COMPARISON OF CRYSTALLIZATION BETWEEN WATER-ASSISTED AND GAS-ASSISTED INJECTION MOLDING PART OF SEMI- CRYSTALLINE POLYMER BASED ON NUMERICAL SIMULATION ......................................................................................... 584

Shen, Chang-Yu; Zhou, Ying-Guo; Chen, Jing-Bo

EFFECTS OF PROCESSING PARAMETERS ON OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF INJECTION MOLDED POLYSTYRENE PARTS ............................................................................. 589

Li, Haimei; Jiang, Kung; Xu, Wenli; Shen, Changyu

INFLUENCE OF THE THICKNESS OF INJECTED PLASTIC PIECES ON THE BEHAVIOR OF THE CAVITY PRESSURE CURVE ........................................................................ 594

Morales Nieves, Rosa; Candal Pazos, Maria

EVALUATION OF MOLECULAR ORIENTATION OF WELDLINE REGION IN INJECTION MOLDED POLYCARBONATE BY POLARIZED LASER-RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY ............................................................................................................................ 599

Yamada, Koji; Tomari, Kiyotaka

EFFECTS OF PROCESS CONDITIONS AND GLASS FIBER CONTENT ON PART QUALITY OF GLASS FIBER-REINFORCED PP PART ................................................................. 604

Lixia, Wang; Weiguo, Zhuang; Qian, Li; Changyu, Shen

NUMERCIAL SIMULATIONS OF RESIDUAL STRESSES IN POLYCARBONATE INJECTION MOLD PARTS .............................................................................................................. 609

Li, Haimei; Shen, Changyu; Jiang, Yan; Wang, Xin; Cao, Wei

INFLUENCE OF A STRESS CONCENTRATOR ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF PLASTIC PARTS ............................................................................................... 614

Candal Pazos, Maria; Rojas, Hector; Jimenez, Joyce

EFFECT OF THE PROCESS CONDITIONS OVER THE ADHESION BETWEEN TWO OVERMOLDED POLYMERS ........................................................................................................... 619

Candal Pazos, Maria; Gordillo, Antonio; Terife, Graciela; Santana, Orlando

INFLUENCE OF PROCESSING PARAMETERS ON SHINKAGE OF LDPE PART IN GAS-ASSISTED INJECTION MOLDING......................................................................................... 624

Li, Qian; Wang, Xiaofeng; Shen, Changyu; Jiang, Jing; Hou, Shusen

STUDY ON MICROCELLULAR INJECTION MOLDED OF PP/POE AND HDPE/POE COMPOSITES .................................................................................................................................. 629

Hsu, Peming

THE EFFECT OF THE INJECTION POINT LOCATION OVER THE FIBER GLASS LENGTH ........................................................................................................................................... 633

Villarroel, Sobeida; Morales, Rosa; Candal, Maria; Gordillo, Antonio

VOLUME 2 AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON MICRO INJECTION PARAMATERS. ....................................... 638

Jung, Woo-Chul; Heo, Young-Moo; Shin, Kwang-Ho; Yoon, Gil-Sang; Chang, Sung-Ho

INFLUENCE OF TEMPERATURE ON MICRO-FEATURE REPLICATION AT AMBIENT PRESSURE IN MICRO MOLDING ................................................................................. 643

Thakur, Varun; Angstadt, David

DETERMINATION OF GATE LOCATIONS IN COMPUTER-AIDED INJECTION MOLDING ANALYSIS. ..................................................................................................................... 648

Ryim, Won-Gil; Yun, Sang Mun

AN OPTIMIZATION OF NATURAL RUBBER INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS USING CAD/CAE: A CASE STUDY ON THE MOTORCYCLE RUBBER STEP............................ 652

Rodkwan, Supasit; Winyangkul, Seksan; Unnanon, Kittinan; Raksiri, Chana; Eiamsa-Ard, Kunnayut

BIREFRINGENCE DISTRIBUTION IN INJECTION MOLDED PARTS WITH WELD LINES................................................................................................................................................ 656

Jian, Han; Chenguang, Yan; Changyu, Shen; Chuntai, Liu

FILLING BALANCE OPTIMIZATION BY BEST GATE LOCATION ............................................... 661Baesso, Ruggero; Lucchetta, Giovanni

MANUFACTURING OF PLASTIC LENS MOLD CONFORMAL COOLING CHANNEL USING DIRECT METAL LASER SINTERING AND SPRAY-FORMED TOOLING PROCESS......................................................................................................................................... 666

Cha, Baeg-Soon; Park, Hyung-Pil; Rhee, Byung-Ohk

FOUNTAIN FLOW IN WATER-ASSISTED MELT FILLING............................................................ 671Liu, Xu-Hui; Huang, Han-Xiong

PREDICTING PROCESSING PARAMETERS FOR WATER-ASSISTED INJECTION MOLDING BASED ON INVERSE GA-LMBP NEURAL NETWORK .............................................. 675

He, Jianmin; Huang, Han-Xiong

DEVELOPMENT OF AN EXTENDED PREDICTIVE CONTROLLER FOR INJECTION SPEED .............................................................................................................................................. 679

Abu-Ayyad, Ma'Moun; Dubay, Rickey

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SHEAR IMBALANCE AND THICKNESS................................. 684Baluh, Eric; Wager, Mikael S.

STUDY ON CRYSTAL STRUCTURES OF ISOTACTIC POLYPROPYLENE PROCESSED BY INJECTION MOLDING ....................................................................................... 689

Binbin, Dong; Junyi, Liu; Changyu, Shen; Jingbo, Cheng; Chuntai, Liu

STUDY ON THE OPTICAL PERFORMANCE OF LIGHT GUIDE PLATE WITH DOUBLE-SIDE MICRO FEATURE DESIGN ................................................................................... 693

Shia Chung, Chen; Ching-Hsin, Hu; Ming, Chang; Wei-Yao, Hsu; Ying-Chieh, Wang

STUDY OF PRESSURE CONTROL DEVICE TO IMPROVE FOAMING UNIFORMITY FOR THE INJECTION MOLDING MICROCELLULAR FOAMING PROCESS............................... 698

Shia Chung, Chen; Jui-Pin, Yang; Yu-Wan, Lin; Pin-Shun, Syu; Shih-Sin, Hwang

REMOVAL OF OXYGEN DISSOLVED IN THERMOPLASTIC RESIN FOR GENTLE PROCESSING .................................................................................................................................. 703

Schmiederer, Dirk; Kühnert, Ines; Schmachtenberg, Ernst

EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT INJECTION MOLDING SCREW DESIGNS FOR BETTER COLOR MIXING ................................................................................................................ 708

Sickles, Robert; Miller, Luke; Smith, Walter; Womer, Timothy

DYNAMICS OF HOT RUNNER PURGING ...................................................................................... 712Sriseubsai, Wipoo; Schott, Nick

AN INVESTIGATION ON THE TEMPERATURE BEHAVIOR IN MOLD EMBEDDED WITH HEATER ................................................................................................................................. 717

Chen, Shia-Chung; Wang, I-Chao; Chiou, Yan-Chen; Chou, Ya-Yuen; Yang, Wen-Hsien

EVALUATING THERMAL UNIFORMITY WITH PULSE COOLING ............................................... 722Byrne, Sean; Kremm, John

THE INFLUENCE OF PROCESSING VARIABLES AND TWO-WAY INTERACTIONS ON THE WELDLINE STRENGTH OF INJECTION MOLDED PARTS ........................................... 727

Changyu, Shen; Lixia, Wang; Qian, Li; Shufen, Lu

THE IMPACT OF SHEAR RATE ON WARPAGE WITH A FOCUS ON SHEAR IMBALANCES IN NEAT AND FILLED MATERIALS ...................................................................... 732

Baluh, Eric; Wagner, Michael S.

SHRINKAGE STUDY OF TEXTILE ROLLER MOLDED BY THE MICROCELLULAR INJECTION PROCESS. ................................................................................................................... 737

Hsu, Peming; Chiang, C.-W

USE OF INJECTION SPEED PROFILE TO ACHIEVE A UNIFORM VOID FRACTION DISTRIBUTION IN INJECTION MOLDED STRUCTURAL FOAMS ............................................... 742

Lee, John; Wang, Jing; Park, Chul; Tao, Guoliang

SANDWICH INJECTION MOLDING OF POLYPROPYLENE AND BIODEGRADABLE POLYMER ........................................................................................................................................ 747

Fujita, Yuji; Yoshida, Toshihiro; Sano, Hironari; Kotaki, Masaya; Hamada, Hiroyuki

DISTRIBUTION OF MINOR PHASE COMPONENTS AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE FILM-SUBSTRATE INTERFACE IN FILM INSERT MOLDINGS .................................................... 751

Leong, Yew Wei; Hamada, Hiroyuki

IN-MOLD-FABRIC DECORATED PARTS WITH A PLASTIC TRIMMED EDGE ........................... 756Spalding, Mark; Salamon, Brent; Hus, Mike

INVESTIGATION ON WARPAGE AND ITS BEHAVIOR IN SEQUENTIAL OVERMOLDING. .............................................................................................................................. 760

Huang, Chao-Tsai; Chen, Meng-Chih; Yang, Wen-Li; Chang, Kai-Jie; Tseng, Shi-Chang

PLASTICS INDUSTRY: THE ABILITY AGE.................................................................................... 765Yu, Harrison

BIOPHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURING - AN UNSEEN PLASTICS MARKET..................... 769Wells, Robert

DESIGNING PLASTIC MEDICAL PARTS FOR ASSEMBLY ......................................................... 774Summo, Arthur

A PARAMETRIC STUDY ON THE PROCESSING AND PHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF PLGA 50/50 BIOSCAFFOLDS ............................................................ 778

Leung, Linus; Chan, Christine; Song, Janice; Tam, Billy; Naguib, Hani

EFFECT OF POLARITY ON ELECTROSPINNING POLYCAPROLACTONE TISSUE ENGINEERING SCAFFOLDS .......................................................................................................... 783

Lippincott, Hugh

EFFECTS OF MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION ON THE FIBER FORMATION OF ELECTROSPUN POLYSTYRENE ............................................................................................. 793

Dai, Xiaoshu

NOVEL POLYCARBONATE BLENDS WITH IMPROVED ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS CRACKING RESISTANCE (ESCR) TO HOSPITAL CLEANERS AND HOUSEHOLD DISINFECTANTS ..................................................................................................... 799

Siripurapu, Srinivas; Chakravorty, Asima; Singh, Naveen

THE PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYESTER THERMOSET XEROGELS FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING SCAFFOLDS .............................................................. 804

Borgaonkar, Poonam; Sharma, Sachin; Chen, Ming; Bhowmick, Sankha; Schmidt, Daniel

POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES CONTAINING CARBON NANOTUBES: FLAMMABILITY, ELECTRICAL, AND THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY ............................................. 809

Moniruzzaman, Mohammad; Winey, Karen

EFFECT OF CRYSTALLIZATION RATE OF SOFT SEGMENT ON SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT IN SHAPE MEMORY POLYURETHANE IONOMER........................................................ 810

Zhu, Yong; Hu, Jinlian; Choi, Ka-Fai; Yeung, Kwok-Wing

POLYMER AND AZOBENZENE LIQUID CRYSTAL MIXTURES: NEW PHOTORESPONSIVE MATERIALS................................................................................................ 825

Tabiryan, Nelson; Serak, Svetlana; Hrozhyk, Uladimir; Dai, Xiao-Man; Bunning, Timothy

FUNCTIONALLY-GRADED SHAPE MEMORY POLYMERS ......................................................... 826Lee, Kyung-Min; Mather, Patrick

ACTIVE NANOCOMPOSITES: ENHANCING SHAPE MEMORY AND ACTUATION ................... 830Vaia, Richard

THE MORPHOLOGY-ACTUATION RELATIONSHIPS IN IONIC POLYMER-METAL COMPOSITE (IPMC) MEMBRANES CAST WITH AN IONIC LIQUID............................................ 831

Viggiano, Rocco

CRYSTALLIZATION OF SHAPE MEMORY POLYMER BLENDS ................................................. 839Arnoult, Olivier; Mather, Patrick

A STUDY OF FOAMING AGENT IN BIO-BASED POLYMER FOAMS.......................................... 845Wu, Yi-Fan

EFFECT OF HYPERDISPERSANTS IN POLYETHYLENE MASTERBATCH AND RIGID POLYVINYL CHLORIDE COMPOUND ................................................................................ 848

Panchal, Jatin

COMPRESSED VISCOSE SPONGES AS ACTUATORS............................................................... 853Spoormaker, Jan; Heidweiller, Anton

DESIGNING INJECTION MOLDED BIOPLASTICS PRODUCTS .................................................. 857Koster, Rolf; Dijken, Bregtje Van; Erve, Lobke Van

PRODUCT DESIGN SUPPORT FOR NANOCOMPOSITE MATERIALS APPLICATION .................................................................................................................................. 862

Koster, Rolf; Tufekcioglu, Emre; Vlasveld, Daniël

OPTIMIZATION OF GASKET MATERIALS FOR PLASTIC CONTAINERS FOR AMMUNITION ................................................................................................................................... 866

Sinha, Yash

USE OF DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS IN ANALYZING INJECTION MOLDING AND EXTRUSION PROCESSES.............................................................................................................. 885

Rao, Natti; Shastri, Ranganath

USE AND DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS FOR USING AN INDUSTRIAL CO2 LASER FOR TRIMMING THERMOFORMED PARTS.................................................................................. 890

Marroquin, Nathaniel; Leal, Aristeo

HOW TPV OUT-PERFORMS EPDM IN ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES FOR AUTOMOTIVE SEALING ................................................................................................................. 896

Browell, James

WHAT EVERY PLASTICS PROFESSIONAL SHOULD KNOW ABOUT PATENTS AND PATENTING - PART 3: LAWFUL DESIGNING AROUND VALID U.S. PATENTS ............... 903

Tayebi, Amad

DURABILITY AND ADHESION TEST FOR FABRIC COVERED PLASTIC PARTS ..................... 905Hermel-Davidock, Theresa; Spalding, Mark; Hus, Mike; Buck, John; Reuschle, David

DESIGNING SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTS USING BIO-BASED NANOCOMPOSITES ................ 910Tufekcioglu, Emre; Koster, Rolf; Vlasveld, Daniël; Jongboom, Remy

PROCESS TIME REDUCTION IN BLOW MOULDING PROCESS WITH CONFORMAL COOLING ................................................................................................................. 914

Masood, Syed; Jeyasingh, Vijay

INFLUENCE OF INJECTION MOLDING PARAMETERS ON ONE-STAGE INJECTION STRETCH BLOW MOLDING....................................................................................... 919

Chen, Meng-Chih; Hsu, Chih-Lin; Huang, Chao-Tsai; Yang, Wen-Hsien; Chen, Chia-Hsun; Lin, Kun-Chang

FIELD FAILURE ANALYSIS: PINPOINT MODE OF FAILURE OF POLYOLEFIN PIPES................................................................................................................................................ 924

Zhou, Zhenwen

EFFECTS OF STRUCTURAL CONSTRAINT AND IMPULSE ENERGY ON FRACTURE BEHAVIOR OF A FLEXIBLE COMPOSITE TUBING ................................................ 929

Guo, Xiaoping

FAILURE MECHANISM OF PANEL LEAK FORMATION IN SOLUTION CONTAINERS .................................................................................................................................. 934

Blom, Henk

FAILURE ANALYSIS OF GASOLINE STORAGE ASSEMBLIES .................................................. 939Jansen, Jeffrey

FAILURE ANALYSIS OF POLYPROPYLENE USED IN A HOT WATER ENVIRONMENT - EFFECT OF DIFFERENT STABILIZER SYSTEMS .......................................... 944

Edwards, Dale; Kasner, Alan; Broutman, Lawrence

POLYMAG PROCESS; SEPARATE & RECOVER CO-MOLDED RESINS ................................... 949Collins, John

CYCLIC DATA LEADS TO MORE ACCURATE FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS ........................... 954Narhi, Ward

OIL EXTENSION OF OLEFIN BLOCK COPOLYMERS ................................................................. 959Ansems, Patricia; Soediono, Mahalia; Taha, Angela

MELTING BEHAVIOR OF A POLY(ETHER-BLOCK-AMIDE) COPOLYMER MELT-CRYSTALLIZED UNDER ISOTHERMAL, QUIESCENT CONDITION ........................................... 964

Guo, Xiaoping

THE EFFECTS OF SHEAR IMBALANCES ON INTRA-CAVITY MELT FLOW USING VARYING MELT FLOW RATES IN THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS AND VULCANIZATES .............................................................................................................................. 969

Baluh, Eric; Wagner, Michael S.

INVESTIGATION AND MODIFICATION OF THE MELT RHEOLOGY OF OLEFIN BLOCK COPOLYMERS................................................................................................................... 973

Gupta, Pankaj; Costeux, Stephane; Oswald, Tom; Cheung, Wilson; Weaver, Laura; Karande, Seema; Chum, Stephen

IMPROVEMENT OF TRANSPARENCY AND PROCESSING PROPERTIES OF HARD TPU MATERIALS ............................................................................................................................. 978

Henze, Oliver; Krech, Rüdiger; Waßner, Erik

PROPERTIES OF THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANES DERIVED FROM H12MDI ................ 983Parnell, Shane

SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SOME NOVEL POLYURETHANES BASED ON RIGID OR FLEXIBLE AROMATIC DIISOCYANATES AND MIXTURES OF THEM .......................................................................................................................................... 988

Prisacariu, Cristina; Buckley, C.

PREPARATION AND MELT VISCOELASTIC STUDY ON TPV NANOCOMPOSITE USING PEROXIDE CROSSLINKING SYSTEM .............................................................................. 992

Goharpey, Fatemeh; Jalali, Amirjalal; Nazockdast, Hossein; Katbab, Ali Asghar

INSERT COATING AS A PRE-PROCESSING APPROACH FOR IMPROVEMENT OF ADHESIVE BONDING IN PLASTIC-METAL HYBRID STRUCTURES .......................................... 996

Al-Sheyyab, Ahmad; Kuehnert, Ines; Schmachtenberg, Ernst

ADHESIVELY BONDED SMART COMPOSITE JOINTS: AN OVERVIEW.................................. 1001Cheng, Jinquan; Li, Guoqiang; Pang, Su-Seng

EVALUATION OF ORIENTED POLYPROPYLENE/CAST POLYPROPYLENE FILM AT THE HEAT SEALING PART AND THE EDGE ........................................................................ 1006

Hashimoto, Yumi; Hashimoto, Yasuo; Leong, Yew; Yamada, Kazushi; Hamada, Hiroyuki

APPLICATION OF POLYMER WELDING THEORY TO INDUSTRIAL PROCESS DESIGN .......................................................................................................................................... 1010

Moffitt, Ronald; Zhang, Wei; Donohue, William; Zbell, Thomas; Mattox, W. Charles; Queen, Wesley

INTERFACIAL INTERPRETATION OF AUTOHESION OF ETHYLENE/1-OCTENE COPOLYMERS BY ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY .................................................................. 1015

Yang, Hailing; Zhang, Wei; Moffitt, Ronald; Ward, Thomas

IMPACT PERFORMANCE OF PE BUTT FUSION WELDED JOINTS ......................................... 1021Frontini, Patricia; Acha, Betiana; Fasce, Laura; Pettarín, Valeria

VIBRATION WELDING OF HARD TPO TO SOFT TPO ............................................................... 1027Wu, Chung-Yuan; Wichterman, Beth

COMPARISON OF SHEAR AND BUTT JOINT DESIGNS FOR VIBRATION WELDING OF POLYPROPYLENE-BASED NANOCLAY COMPOSITES ................................... 1032

Mokhtarzadeh, Abbass; Benatar, Avraham

MICROFABRICATION ON POLYMER SUBSTRATES FOR LAB-ON-A-CD APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................. 1037

Grewell, David; Vengasandra, Srikanth

ULTRASONICALLY ASSISTED HOT PLATE WELDING OF GLASS FILLED POLYPROPYLENE ........................................................................................................................ 1042

St. John, Marc; Flowers, Sean

ELIMINATATION OF FLASH A NOVAL MICRO-EMBOSSING TECHNIQUE............................. 1047Grewell, David; Harmon, Greg

EXPERIMENTS WITH COMBINED ULTRASONIC AND LASER EMBOSSING OF MICROCHANNELS IN PMMA ....................................................................................................... 1052

Marcus, Miranda; Benatar, Avraham

POTENTIAL ULTRASONIC COMPACTION OF ZEIN AND DISTILLERS DRY GRAIN (DGG).............................................................................................................................................. 1057

Grewell, David; Vogel, Julius; Montalbo, Melissa; Srinivasan, Gowrishankar

ASPECTS OF ELECTROSPINNING PROCESS CONTROL FROM FUNDAMENTAL MECHANISMS................................................................................................................................ 1063

Stanger, Jonathan; Tucker, Nick; Staiger, Mark; Reeves, Roger; Larsen, Nigel

AN IN-PROCESS ULTRASONIC APPROACH TO INVESTIGATING THE RELAXATION OF ORIENTATION AND DISORIENTATION OF POLYMER MELTS.................. 1068

Li, Jiang; Sun, Zhigang; Tatibouët, Jacques; Jen, Cheng-Kuei

CAUSES OF MELT TEMPERATURE VARIATIONS OBSERVED IN THE NOZZLE DURING INJECTION MOLDING.................................................................................................... 1073

Johnston, Stephen; Kazmer, David; Fan, Zhaoyan; Gao, Robert

DEVELOPMENT OF RUBBER MOULD INLINE PROCESS AND OFFLINE PROCESS INSPECTION BY TOUCH PROBE.............................................................................. 1078

Rodkwan, Supasit; Rianmora, Suchada; Raksiri, Chana; Eiamsa-Ard, Kunnayut

INTELLIGENT QUALITY PREDICTION IN INJECTION MOLDING ............................................. 1083Hsu, Chia-Hsiang; Chang, Chuan-Wei; Jwo, Jyh-Jer

MULTIVARIATE PROCESS ANALYSIS FOR THE PREDICTION OF INJECTION MOLDED PART QUALITY ............................................................................................................. 1088

Hazen, Daniel; Kazmer, David

DIRECT VISUALIZATION OF CONVENTIONAL INJECTION MOULDING ................................. 1093Yanev, Angel; Dias, Gustavo; Cunha, Antonio

ESTIMATION OF BULK MELT TEMPERATURE FROM IN-MOLD SENSORS: PART 2 - CONVECTION ........................................................................................................................... 1098

Johnston, Stephen; Kazmer, David; Fan, Zhaoyan; Gao, Robert

PROCESSING CONDITIONS AND THERMAL PROPERTIES OF POLY(LACTIC ACID) .............................................................................................................................................. 1103

Niu, Langang; Schott, Nick R

INVESTIGATION OF REVERSED SHEAR INDUCED MELT IMBALANCES IN INJECTION MOLDS ....................................................................................................................... 1108

Beaumont, Alex I.

EFFECTS OF PINCH-OFF GEOMETRY ON BLOW-MOLD WELD LINE STRENGTH ............... 1113Vandeveer, Michael; Badowski, Clint; Loeffler, Matthew

DIFFERENCE IN THERMOFORMING PROCESSABILITY OBSERVED FOR THREE HIGH IMPACT POLYSTYRENES .................................................................................................. 1118

Woelfle, Caroline; Koppi, Kurt; Costeux, Stephane; Hogan, Todd; Dooley, Joe

CHANGING THE GAME IN THERMOPLASTIC POLYOLEFINS (TPO) FOR CUT SHEET THERMOFORMING .......................................................................................................... 1123

Hogan, Todd; Hoenig, Stephen; Walther, Brian; Walton, Kim; Finlayson, Malcolm; Costeux, Stephane

HIGH MELT STRENGTH POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE FOR THERMOFORMING APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................. 1129

Mekhilef, Nafaa; Hedhli, Lotfi; Reynaud, Sara; Pasquariello, Gilberto O.

IN-MOLD-GRAINING IN THERMOFORMING ............................................................................... 1135Haberstroh, Edmund; Ederleh, Lennart

MIGRATION OF SURFACE DEFECTS THRU THICKNESS OF A POLYMER FILM DURING THERMOFORMING ........................................................................................................ 1140

Gupta, Venkateswara; Asthana, Himanshu; Dias, Ashwit

IMPROVED PROPERTIES AND COST EFFICIENCIES OF CYCLIC OLEFIN COPOLYMER ENHANCED FORMING FILMS ............................................................................. 1145

Tatarka, Paul

NEW HIGH HEAT POLYCARBONATE COPOLYMERS .............................................................. 1150Zerda, Adam; Smith, Gary

HEAT-AGING PERFORMANCE OF METALLIZED THERMOPLASTICS FOR AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING .............................................................................................................. 1156

Zerda, Adam; Guggenheim, Kathryn; Grau, Beatrice; Hoeks, Theo

LEXAN* DMX GRADE RESINS - SCRATCH RESISTANT, BARRIER POLYCARBONATES ..................................................................................................................... 1161

Pai-Paranjape, Vandita; Lens, Jan-Pleun

DEVELOPMENT OF POLYCARBONATE DIFFUSER FILMS FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS ...................................................................................................................................... 1167

Gurel, Elif; Peters, Phil; Graf, John

PROCESSING FINE-CELLED RECYCLABLE CBA-BASED POLYOLEFIN FOAMS IN COMPRESSION FOAM MOLDING ............................................................................................... 1172

Pop-Iliev, Remon

ORIENTATION STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF A PROPYLENE-BASED ELASTOMER.................................................................................................................................. 1177

Dias, Peter; Kasmierczak, Tomasz; Ansems, Patricia; Chum, Stephen; Hiltner, Anne; Baer, Eric

COMPARISON OF BLOCK AND RANDOM ETHYLENE-OCTENE COPOLYMERS BASED ON THE STRUCTURE AND ELASTOMERIC PROPERTIES ......................................... 1181

Wang, Haopeng; Taha, Angela; Chum, Stephen; Hiltner, Anne; Baer, Eric

MISCIBILITY OF NOVEL BLOCK COPOLYMERS....................................................................... 1186Kamdar, Akshay; Wang, Haopeng; Khariwala, Devang; Hiltner, Anne; Baer, Eric; Chum, Stephen; Chen, Hongyu

CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS OF OLEFINIC BLOCK COPOLYMERS .................................... 1191Khariwala, Devang; Taha, Angela; Chum, Steve; Hiltner, Anne; Baer, Eric

OLEFIN BLOCK COPOLYMERS AS POLYOLEFIN BLEND COMPATIBILIZER ....................... 1196Chen, Hongyu; Poon, Ben; Chum, Stephen; Dias, Peter; Hiltner, Anne; Baer, Eric

EFFECT OF THERMAL HISTORY ON THE SURFACE ROUGHNESS AND LIGHT TRANSMISSION OF BIAXIALLY-ORIENTED POLYPROPYLENE FILMS ................................. 1201

Lin, Yijian; Dias, Peter; Van Dun, Jozef; Chum, Stephen; Hiltner, Anne; Baer, Eric

MECHANISM OF ACTION OF ESTER THIOLS AS STABILIZERS FOR PVC............................ 1206Ge, Xianlong; Culyba, Elizabeth; Starnes, William

PLASTISOL FORMULATION STUDIES WITH BENZOATE ESTERS ......................................... 1211Strepka, Arron; Arendt, William; Joshi, Makarand

IMPACT OF DIDP ON OUTDOOR WEATHERABILITY OF FLEXIBLE PVC .............................. 1216Daniels, Paul

POLYMERIC PLASTICIZER DEVELOPMENTS ........................................................................... 1222Arendt, William; Walker, Yvonne; Joshi, Makarand

PVC NANOCOMPOSITES - METHODS OF PROMOTING FILLER DISPERSION ..................... 1228Gilbert, Marianne; Thomas, Noreen; Zheng, Xiaoran; Georgiadou, Styliani; Brooks, Brian

PVC / LAYERED SILICATE NANOCOMPOSITES: PREPARATION, CHARACTERIZATION, AND PROPERTIES................................................................................. 1233

Francis, Noble; Schmidt, Daniel

RIGID PVC-BASED NANOCOMPOSITES PRODUCED THROUGH A NOVEL MELT-BLENDING APPROACH................................................................................................................ 1238

Matuana, Laurent

HYBRID NANOCLAY-RIGID PVC-WOOD-FLOUR COMPOSITES.............................................. 1243Matuana, Laurent

RECYCLED VINYL WALLPAPER-A NEW COMPOSITE............................................................. 1248Tarverdi, Karnik

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SURFACE MICROSTRUCTURE AND IMPROVED SCRATCH WHITENING RESISTANCE OF THERMOPLASTIC POLYOLEFINS FOR AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS .................................................................................................... 1253

Hermel-Davidock, Theresa; Seliskar, James; Oelberg, James

ADVANCEMENTS IN SUPER LOW GLOSS ABS ........................................................................ 1257Calhoun, Marisa; Van Riel, Norwin; Shields, Nigel; Rogers, Steve

DEVELOPMENT OF NEW PC/ABS PRODUCTS FOR CHROME PLATING APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................. 1262

Agarwal, Naveen; Volkers, Andre

A NEW APPROACH TO SEATBACK DESIGN - BLOW MOLDED SEATBACKS ...................... 1267Kauffmann, Keith; Kotnis, Ashish; Ahmed, Mustafa; Naughton, Padraig

VOLUME 3 FLEXURAL CREEP TESTING OF THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITES ....................................... 1273

Chevali, Venkata; Janowski, Gregg

ADVANCEMENTS IN LASER MARKING AND ENGRAVING USING INTEGRATED, THROUGH-THE-LENS VISION ..................................................................................................... 1278

Benayad-Cherif, Faycal; McIntosh, Linda

ADVANCES IN VIBRATION WELDING TECHNIQUES ALLOW WELDING MULTI-PIECE CONSOLE ASSEMBLY ..................................................................................................... 1284

Heatherwick, William

UNCERTAINTY IN COLOR MEASUREMENT .............................................................................. 1287Ladson, Jack; Fairman, Hugh

THE INFLUENCE OF COLOR ....................................................................................................... 1291Belcher, Teri; Harvey, Kevin

STRATEGY FOR A SELECTABLE PERFORMANCE COLORED CAPSTOCK OFFERING SCHEME WITH REGARDS TO WEATHERABILITY AND COST ............................ 1302

Richards, Christopher

FUNDAMENTALS OF WEATHERING .......................................................................................... 1306Roberts, Ron; Simmons, Carlene; Novak, Stephen

WEATHERING AND LIGHT STABILITY OF SELECT PLASTIC MATERIALS ........................... 1318Solera, Peter

ENHANCING THE PERFORMANCE OF POLYMERIC DYES IN POLYPROPYLENE................ 1323Waters, John; Dipietro, Thomas

SELECTION OF COLORANTS AND OTHER ADDITIVES FOR DURABLE PRODUCTS .................................................................................................................................... 1328

Bal, James

EFFECT OF ADDITIVES ON THE COLOR & APPEARANCE OF PLASTICS. ........................... 1334Mulholland, Bruce

INTERACTION OF HALS AND COLORANTS .............................................................................. 1341Goldstein, Steve

THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN TIO2 SURFACE AND POLYMER ADDITIVES ...................... 1346Niedenzu, Philipp

EXCIMER LASER ABLATION OF POLYSTYRENE-CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES ...................... 1351Chang, I-Ta; Sancaktar, Erol

EVALUATION OF NANOPARTICULATE FILLERS FOR SHAPE MEMORY POLYURETHANE NANOCOMPOSITES....................................................................................... 1356

Gunes, I. Sedat; Cao, Feina; Jimenez, Guillermo; Jana, Sadhan

SHAPE MEMORY POLYURETHANE-CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES............................................. 1361Cao, Feina; Jana, Sadhan

FUNCTIONALLY GRADED POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES (FGPNC) FILLED WITH NANO SIZED FILLER .................................................................................................................... 1366

Ahankari, Sandeep; Kamal, Kar

PRODUCTION OF A TRACTOR CAB ROOF MODULE USING DIRECT IN-LINE COMPOUNDING OF LONG GLASS FIBER THERMOPLASTICS ............................................... 1371

Ledebuhr, Scott; Grinsteinner, Darin; Snowberger, Scott

COMPOSITES IN THE TRUCK INDUSTRY .................................................................................. 1377Zenk, Edward

PREPARATION AND PROPERTIES OF NANOPARTICLE AND LONG FIBER REINFORCED THERMOSET COMPOSITES................................................................................ 1383

Zhou, Gang; Guerra, Dante; Movva, Siva; Lee, L.

EFFECT OF STRAIN RATE ON TENSILE PROPERTIES OF CARBON NANOFIBER-REINFORCED SC-15 EPOXY........................................................................................................ 1388

Zhou, Yuanxin

EVALUATION OF NANOCLAY EXFOLIATION STRATEGIES FOR THERMOSET POLYIMIDE NANOCOMPOSITE SYSTEMS................................................................................. 1393

Gintert, Michael; Jana, Sadhan; Miller, Sandi

APPLICATION OF COMPOSITES IN THE SULPHUR ACID PRODUCTION .............................. 1398Makarov, Valery

EFFECT OF THE CLAY TREATMENT ON CURE AND MORPHOLOGY OF EPOXY-POLYSULFONE-MONTMORILLONITE HYBRID NANOCOMPOSITES...................................... 1401

Arellano, Martin

STUDIES ON THERMOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF NICKEL-PHOSPHOROUS COATED CARBON FIBER FABRIC/POLYESTER LAMINATES ................................................ 1406

Patra, Niranjan; Sarkar, Soumya; Kar, Kamal

CONDUCTIVITY OF INHERENTLY CONDUCTIVE POLYMER AND CONDUCTIVE PARTICLE COMPOSITES ............................................................................................................. 1411

Severance, Chris

GENERIC CIRCUITS BY CONDUCTIVE EPOXY/NI ADHESIVES: GEOMETRIC EFFECTS ........................................................................................................................................ 1422

Zhou, Jianguo

IMPACT OF FOAMING ON ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY AND FIBER ORIENTATION OF COC/CARBON FIBER COMPOSITES IN INJECTION MOLDING ............... 1427

Hashemi-Motlagh, Ghodratollah; Hrymak, Andrew; Thompson, Michael

THE INFLUENCE OF DIFFERENT SURFACE ROUGHNESS ON MICROFLUIDIC FLOW TIME .................................................................................................................................... 1432

Jong, Wen-Ren; Kuo, T. H.; Peng, S. H.; Chiu, H. H.

THE COMPARISONS OF IC PACKAGES WITH-WITHOUT UNDERFILL ON THE THERMO-MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS............................................................................ 1437

Tsai, H. C.; Jong, W. R.; Peng, S. H.

NONISOTHERMAL CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS OF POLYPROPYLENE - THE USE OF A MODIFIED KISSINGER METHOD ............................................................................... 1442

Chau, Cc; Patchen, W.

CRYSTALLIZATION OF UV-IRRADIATED -NUCLEATED POLYPROPYLENE ......................... 1447Vychopnova, Jana

CRYSTALLINITY DEVELOPMENT DURING SPINNING OF POLYPROPYLENE PART I: ON-LINE MEASUREMENTS USING RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY ................................. 1452

Paradkar, Rajesh; Patel, Rajen; Doufas, Antonios; Knickerbocker, Ed

CRYSTALLINITY DEVELOPMENT DURING SPINNING OF POLYPROPYLENE PART II: FIBER SPINNING MODEL VALIDATION...................................................................... 1457

Patel, Rajen; Doufas, Antonios; Paradkar, Rajesh; Knickerbocker, Ed

TOWARDS LOWER CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURES IN POLYETHYLENE................... 1462Patki, Rahul; Phillips, Paul

RHEOLOGICAL AND CRYSTALLIZATION BEHAVIOR OF LINEAR AND BRANCHED PBT ........................................................................................................................... 1467

Jeong, Byeong Joon; Xanthos, Marino; Hyun, Kun Sup

SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYACRYLAMIDE- CHITOSAN HYDROGELS ................................................................................................................................. 1472

Ortega-Gudiño, Pedro; Sánchez-Díaz, Juan; Becerra-Bracamontes, Fausto; Martínez-Ruvalcaba, Agustín; González-álvarez, Alejandro

EFFECT OF CELL SHAPE ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYURETHANE FOAMS MOLDED UNDER SEVERAL CONDITIONS................................................................... 1476

Yamaguchi, Kazumi; Goto, Akihiko; Nakai, Asami; Hamada, Hiroyuki

VISCO-ELASTIC POLYURETHANE FOAMS CREEP BEHAVIOR AND RECOVERABILITY ANALYSIS ..................................................................................................... 1481

Wu, Shaofu; Obi, Bernard; Wilchester, Jim; Juarez, Victor

LONG-TERM THERMAL INSULATION PERFORMANCE OF POLYSTYRENE FOAM BOARDS WITH DECAY OF BLOWING AGENTS ........................................................................ 1486

Zhu, Zhenjin

PRODUCTION OF NOVEL SOUND ABSORPTION MICROCELLULAR FOAMS USING HIGH INTERNAL PHASE EMULSION POLYMERIZATION ............................................ 1491

Ahmed, M. Y. Serry; Kim, S.; Atalla, Noureddine; Park, Chul; Lee, Seong

EFFECTS OF SURFACE TEXTURE AND SURFACE ROUGHNESS ON POLYMER SCRATCH BEHAVIOR................................................................................................................... 1503

Jiang, Han; Browning, Robert; Moyse, Allan; Sue, Hung-Jue

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY IN FILMS RESEARCH ..................................................................... 1508Bobovitch, Arthur

NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR COATING OF A POLYMERIC CATALYST ONTO A METALLIC SUBSTRATE ............................................................................................................... 1513

Hosseini, Hossein

SOLID-STATE SHEAR PULVERIZATION AS A REAL-WORLD PROCESS FOR POLYMER BLENDS AND NANOCOMPOSITES .......................................................................... 1520

Wakabayashi, Katsuyuki; Tao, Ying; Lebovitz, Andrew; Torkelson, John

CONTINUOUS ULTRASONIC PROCESS FOR PREPARATION OF PET/LCP BLENDS ......................................................................................................................................... 1525

Gunes, Kaan; Isayev, Avraam

APPLICATION OF TAPPING MODE ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY FOR MEASURING RELATIVE INTERFACE THICKNESS IN MULTILAYER POLYOLEFIN FILMS.............................................................................................................................................. 1530

Paradkar, Rajesh; Li, Jing; Bar, Georg; Pham, Hoang; Bosnyak, Clive

IMPACT FRACTURE BEHAVIOR OF PP/EPR BLENDS ............................................................. 1535Liu, Jia (Daniel)

NANOMECHANICAL AND NANOTACK PROPERTIES OF POLYMER COMPOSITES ............ 1539Morgan, Sarah; Jones, Paul; Tucker, Samuel; Wiggins, Jeffrey

NEW MATERIALS FROM POLYLACTIDE BIOPLASTICS .......................................................... 1543Bhardwaj, Rahul; Mohanty, Amar

THE REINFORCEMENT OF POLY(LACTIC ACID) USING HIGH ASPECT RATIO CALCIUM CARBONATE BASED MINERAL ADDITIVE .............................................................. 1549

Xia, Zhiyong; Wernett, Patrick; Prendes, Dennis; Bopp, Richard

DEVELOPMENT OF RENEWABLE POLYMERS FROM 1,3-PROPANE DIOL AND MALONIC ACID.............................................................................................................................. 1554

Rowe, Mathew; Smith, Erin; Walters, Keisha

IMPROVING THE TOUGHNESS OF POLY(LACTIC ACID)(PLA) THROUGH CO-CONTINUOUS, IMMISCIBLE, BIODEGRADABLE BLENDS WITH PHA .................................... 1561

Lee, Jinkoo; McCarthy, Stephen

INVESTIGATION OF FILM BLOWING PROCESS STABILITY FOR METALLOCENE BASED LLDPE WITH DIFFERENT LEVEL OF LONG CHAIN BRANCHING ............................. 1565

Zatloukal, Martin; Kolarik, Roman; Martyn, Mike; Coates, Phil

MODELING OF NON-ISOTHERMAL HIGH STALK FILM BLOWING PROCESS BY USING VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLES FOR NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS ..................................... 1571

Zatloukal, Martin; Mavridis, Harry; Vlcek, Jiri; Saha, Petr

POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE CONTAINING LONG CHAIN BRANCHING FOR BLOWN FILM APPLICATIONS ..................................................................................................... 1576

Mekhilef, Nafaa; Hedhli, Lotfi; Reynaud, Sara; Pasquariello, Gilberto O.

EFFECT OF MATERIAL PROPERTIES AND PROCESSING CONDITIONS ON PP FILM CASTING............................................................................................................................... 1582

Aniunoh, Kenneth; Harrison, Graham

A FINITE ELEMENT MODEL FOR NON-ISOTHERMAL VISCOELASTIC FLOW IN THE CAST FILM PROCESS .......................................................................................................... 1587

Cox, Christopher; Von Oehsen, James

ONLINE ORIENTATION DURING POLYETHYLENE BLOWN FILM EXTRUSION USING POLARIZED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY ......................................................................... 1592

Gururajan, Giriprasath; Ogale, Amod

NEW TRANSPARENT COPOLYCARBONATE COMPOSITIONS WITH LOW OSU HEAT RELEASE VALUES............................................................................................................. 1597

Di, Jianbo; Davis, Gary; Jackson, Katherine; Kassmi, Ahmed El; Mullen, Brian; Schultz, Laura; Sinha, Moitreyee; Sybert, Paul D.; Zhang, Jenny

VISCOELASTIC FLOW IN MICRO-INJECTION MOLDING.......................................................... 1603Hu, Xin; Liu, Chuntai; Xu, Guojun; Lee, Ly

A NOVEL APPROACH FOR MEASURING THE SPECIFIC VOLUME OF (SEMI-CRYSTALLINE) POLYMERS AT ELEVATED COOLING RATES USING X-RAYS .................... 1608

Michaeli, Walter; Hentschel, Manfred; Lingk, Oliver

ANALYSIS OF VISCOUS HEATING EFFECTS IN A PRESSURE SLIT RHEOMETER USING RADIAL FUNCTIONS METHOD ....................................................................................... 1613

Lopez, Ivan; Klaiber, Fritz; Osswald, Tim

EVALUATION OF ALTERNATIVE INJECTION LOCATIONS WITH VARIABILITY CONSIDERATION IN AN AUTOMOTIVE PART ........................................................................... 1618

Gaido, Thania; Bhagavatula, Narayan; Castro, Jose

PROCESS OPTIMIZATION OF INJECTION MOLDING BY INTEGRATING NUMERICAL SIMULATION WITH SURROGATE MODELING APPROACHES.......................... 1622

Zhou, Jian; Turng, Lih-Sheng

DYNAMIC MOLD SURFACE TEMPERATURE CONTROL FOR ASSISTING INJECTION MOLDING OF LIGHT-GUIDE PLATE AND IMPROVING OPTICAL PERFORMANCE. ........................................................................................................................... 1627

Shia Chung, Chen; Jen An, Chang; Jin Chuan, Cin; Chun Feng, Yeh

WHAT EVERY PLASTICS PROFESSIONAL SHOULD KNOW ABOUT PRODUCT LIABILITY - PART I: SOURCES OF PRODUCT LIABILITY CLAIMS......................................... 1632

Tayebi, Amad

TRACKING THE COMMERCIALIZATION PROCESS .................................................................. 1634Baumann, Margaret

CLUSTER PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT: A CASE-STUDY OF PLASTIC CLUSTERS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC ....................................................................................... 1638

Knapkova, Adriana; Dehning, Bruce; Remes, Daniel; Drobny, Jiri

CLUSTERS AS A TOOL FOR COMPANIES' PERFORMANCE INCREASING: A COMPARISON OF CONDITIONS FOR ESTABLISHMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CLUSTERS IN THE U.S.A, AUSTRIA, AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC ........................................ 1643

Pavelkova, Drahomira; Jones, Roger; Jircikova, Eva

THE EFFECT OF E-BEAM STERILIZATION ON THE OPTICAL AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF MEDICAL PLASTICS....................................................................................... 1648

Gill, Roberta; Stack, Gary; Breeding, Ken

USING STERILIZING DOSES FROM THREE DIFFERENT SOURCES OF IONIZING RADIATION .................................................................................................................................... 1653

Portnoy, Robert; Berejka, Anthony; Cleland, Marshall; Galloway, Richard

MICROPATTERNING POLY(ACRYLAMIDE) ON PLA FILMS USING PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY ................................................................................................................. 1661

Rasal, Rahul; Hirt, Douglas

NOVEL MATERIAL PROPERTIES FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS VIA IONIZING RADIATION .................................................................................................................................... 1666

Woo, Lecon; Yang, Tahua; Shang, Sherwin

A STUDY ON THE PREPARATION OF IRRADIATION CROSSLINKED SILICONE RUBBER FOAM AND ITS MECHANICAL PROPERTIES ............................................................ 1670

Liu, Pengbo; Liu, Dalong; Xu, Wen

BULK AND NANO MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SURFACE MODIFIED POLYPROPYLENE FILMS WITH ACRYLIC ACID AS GRAFTING AGENT ............................... 1675

Frontini, Patricia; Fasce, Laura; Suarez, María; Pettarín, Valeria; Costamagna, Vanina; Strumia, Miriam

RADIATION CROSS-LINKING OF ENGINEERING THERMOPLASTICS FOR TRIBOLOGY APPLICATIONS ....................................................................................................... 1680

Brocka, Zaneta; Schmachtenberg, Ernst; Ehrenstein, Gottfried

EFFECT OF ELECTRON BEAM RADIATION ON THE MELT RHEOLOGY OF POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE AND ITS COPOLYMERS ........................................................... 1685

Mekhilef, Nafaa

HIGH-ENERGY ELECTRON BEAM PROCESSING OF WOOD COMPOSITES ......................... 1691Griffith, William; Labbe, Nicole

CASE STUDIES: INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS AND IMPROVED POLYMER MATERIALS CREATED VIA ELECTRON BEAM IRRADIATION ................................................ 1695

Gomolka, David; Minbiole, Paul; Yasenchak, Daniel

MATERIALS CHEMISTRY FOR PRINTED ELECTRONICS APPLICATIONS ............................ 1700Reichmanis, Elsa

FUNCTIONAL FILMS FOR INTELLIGENT PACKAGING ............................................................ 1701Pisipati, Ramesh

GETTER MATERIALS FOR QUASI-HERMETIC ELECTRONIC PACKAGING APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................. 1702

Kim, Gene

A TECHNOLOGY LOOK INTO THE FUTURE (RFID, SRA, MOBILE COMPUTING, CRISIS MANAGEMENT)................................................................................................................ 1703

Smouse, Wayne

CASTING OF SOY AND ZEIN PROTEIN POLYMERS................................................................. 1704Grewell, David; Srinivasan, Gowrishankar; Kessler, Michael

IMPROVEMENT OF THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SOY-BASED PLASTICS .............. 1708Vlad, Maria; Srinivasan, Gowrishankar; Grewell, David

SYNERGISTIC BIODEGRADABLE AND BIO-BASED BLENDS AND NANOCOMPOSITES CREATED USING PULVERIZATION ........................................................ 1712

Walker, Amanda; Tao, Ying; Torkelson, John

PURIFICATION PROCEDURES TO OBTAIN CHITIN WHISKERS FROM SHRIMP SHELLS .......................................................................................................................................... 1717

Arnal, Maria; Marquez, Marianella; Matos, Mireya; Lopez-Carrasquero, Francisco; Rosales, Carmen; Muller, Alejandro

DEVELOPMENT OF CONDUCTING POLYMER USING STABILIZED GOLD NANOPARTICLES FOR CHEMICAL SENSOR ............................................................................ 1722

Vedaiyan, Ramya; Harinath, Arvind Vyas; Lou, Jianzhong; Banerjee, Chandra; Sankar, Jag

THICKNESS CHARACTERIZATION OF THIN POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE OXYGEN BARRIER ....................................................................................................................... 1728

Jang, Woo-Sik; Grunlan, Jaime

CREATING GRADIENT REFRACTIVE INDEX (GRIN) LENSES BY NANOLAYERED POLYMER ASSEMBLY ................................................................................................................. 1733

Kamdar, Akshay; Jin, Yi; Yang, Yankai; Ponting, Michael; Kazmierczak, Tomasz; Hiltner, Anne; Baer, Eric; Beadie, Guy; Lane, Paul; Shirk, James

FORCED ASSEMBLY OF LAYERED POLYMERS ...................................................................... 1738Baer, Eric; Hiltner, Anne

STRUCTURE-PROPERTY INVESTIGATION OF NOVEL MULTI-LAYER NANOCLAY COMPOSITES FORMED CONTROLLABLY WITH A CONTINUOUS CHAOTIC BLENDER ....................................................................................................................................... 1739

Zumbrunnen, David; Mahesha, Chaitra; Perahia, Dvora; Ratnaweera, Dilru; Kampf, Mark

NANOSTRUCTURAL AND LAMELLAR ORIENTATION IN CAST AND BLOWN NANOCOMPOSITE POLYETHYLENE FILMS. ............................................................................. 1744

Beaucage, Gregory; Bafna, Ayush; Breese, Ryan

FRACTIONATED CRYSTALLIZATION OF ß-NUCLEATED POLYPROPYLENE MICRODROPLETS PRODUCED FROM NANOLAYERS............................................................. 1745

Langhe, Deepak; Jin, Yi; Hiltner, Anne; Baer, Eric

CURING OF BISPHENOL M DICYANATE ESTER UNDER NANOSCALE CONSTRAINT................................................................................................................................. 1750

Simon, Sindee; Li, Qingxiu

ISOCONVERSION ANALYSIS OF THE GLASS TRANSITION.................................................... 1756Simon, Sindee; Badrinarayanan, Prashanth; Zheng, Wei

MECHANICAL HOLE BURNING SPECTROSCOPY IN THE VICINITY OF THE ODT FOR AN SIS BLOCK COPOLYMER ............................................................................................. 1761

Qin, Qian; McKenna, Gregory; Shi, Xiangfu

EFFECT OF CARBON NANOTUBES ON THE CRYSTALLIZATION BEHAVIOR POLYETHYLENE OXIDE ............................................................................................................... 1766

Narh, Kwabena; Khanolkar, Mahesh; Umbrajkar, Swati; Dreizin, Edward

MOLE FRACTION BRANCHES USING SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING: A NEW APPROACH USING FRACTAL GEOMETRY. .............................................................................. 1771

Beaucage, Gregory; Kulkarni, Amit

EFFECT OF PROCESS CONDITIONS ON THE MICRO-DOMAIN STRUCTURE AND MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF CYLINDRICAL BLOCK COPOLYMER SYSTEMS.................... 1772

Mamodia, Mohit; Lesser, Alan

DETERMINATION OF VALID MINIMUM DIMENSIONS OF DDENT SPECIMENS TO EVALUATE THE ESSENTIAL WORK OF FRACTURE (EWF) OF POLYETHYLENES.............. 1777

Sanchez, Johan

ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF FIBRE SURFACE MODIFICATION OF ARAMID FIBRES IN A THERMOPLASTIC MATRIX.................................................................................... 1782

Coffey, Austin

TG IN POLYMER/OLIGOMER ATHERMAL BLENDS .................................................................. 1788Simon, Sindee; Zheng, Wei

SURFACE AND INTERFACIAL STUDIES OF PLANT BIOPOLYMERS ..................................... 1793Batteas, James

THE NANOPOROUS MORPHOLOGY OF PHOTOPOLYMERIZED CROSSLINKED POLYACRYLAMIDE HYDROGELS FOR DNA ELECTROPHORESIS ........................................ 1794

Wang, Jian; Ugaz, Victor

FRACTURE BEHAVIOR OF MEDIUM DENSITY POLYETHYLENES BY ESSENTIAL WORK OF FRACTURE (EWF) ...................................................................................................... 1808

Sanchez, Johan; Navarro, Maria; Muller, Alejandro; Santana, Orlando

EVALUATION OF SCRATCH BEHAVIOR OF PLASTIC MOULDINGS ...................................... 1813Kita, Hiromi; Mizoguchi, Machiko; Kuriyama, Takashi

EFFECT OF INCLUSION SIZE AND LOCATION ON PE PIPE LIFETIME .................................. 1818Zhou, Zhenwen; Choi, Byoung-Ho; Chudnovsky, Alexander; Sehanobish, Kalyan

STUDY OF DAMAGE IN FILAMENT WOUND THERMOPLASTIC MATRIX COMPOSITE PIPES ....................................................................................................................... 1823

Silva, Joao Francisco

MULTIPHYSICS BASED PROGRESSIVE FAILURE ANALYSIS FOR CRYOGENIC COMPOSITE FUEL TANK DESIGN .............................................................................................. 1828

Ju, Jaehyung; Morgan, Roger; Reddy, J

EVALUATION OF FRACTURE TOUGHNESS FOR THIN-WALL INJECTION MOULDED PLASTICS ................................................................................................................... 1835

Kita, Hiromi; Mizoguchi, Machiko; Kuriyama, Takashi

A CONSTITUTIVE MODEL FOR CREEP LIFETIME OF PBO BRAIDED CORD ........................ 1839Sterling, Jerry

IMPACT RESISTANCE OF SELECTED IMMISCIBLE POLYMER BLENDS............................... 1843Viratyaporn, Wantinee; Lehman, Richard; Joshi, Jayant

POLYCARBONATE COPOLYMERS WITH IMPROVED HEAT AND HYDROLYTIC RESISTANCE ................................................................................................................................. 1848

Maruvada, Krishna; Rosenquist, Niles; Dhara, Dibakar; Purushotham, A

POLYPROPYLENE/POLYSULFONE MEMBRANES ................................................................... 1853Flaris, Vicki; Lawal, Sikiru

COMPATIBILIZATION EFFICIENCY OF MALEIC ANHYDRIDE GRAFTED HIGH-DENSITY POLYETHYLENE WITH AND WITHOUT ZINC NEUTRALIZATION FOR HIGH-DENSITY POLYETHYLENE/POLYAMIDE 6 BLENDS....................................................... 1856

Grady, Brian; Nithitanakul, Manit; Chatreenuwat, Benjamaad

POLYBUTENE-1: DISCUSSION OF AN OLD POLYMER PRODUCED WITH A NEW TECHNOLGY AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN FLEXIBLE PACKAGING ........................................ 1861

Boutni, Omar

EFFECT OF FILLER ADDITION ON FLAMMABILITY OF FLAME-RETARDANT PP ................ 1865Seino, Makoto; Kotaki, Masaya

HIGH HEAT-DUCTILE (HHD) COPOLYMERS BY REACTIVE EXTRUSION .............................. 1869Mullen, Brian

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN INFRARED WELD TECHNOLOGY ............................................ 1873Cunningham, Robert; Sanborn, Ken

BROADBAND INFRARED WELD STRENGTH AS COMPARED TO OTHER MAINSTREAM PLASTIC WELDING TECHNIQUES. ................................................................... 1878

Hershey, Daniel; Caldwell, Scott; Nelson, Ken; Rooney, Paul

ENGINEERING PLASTICS FOR LASER WELDING .................................................................... 1882Van Gurp, Marnix; Van Der Vegte, Eric

EVALUATION OF LASER ENERGY TRANSMISSION (LET) MEASUREMENT METHODS OF 30% GLASS REINFORCE NYLON 6 MATERIAL................................................ 1888

Lee, Chul; Ballou, Ray

LASER WELDING OF PLASTICS: PROCESS AND PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY ............... 1893Hänsch, Dirk

ABSORBANCE CONTROL WELDING BY LASER ...................................................................... 1897Hatase, Yoshiteru; Kihara, Tetsuji; Yamamoto, Satoshi; Yushina, Heihachi

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENT TO OPTIMIZE ABSORBER IN RESIN WELDING PARAMETERS ............................................................................................................................... 1901

Burrell, Michelle; Cawley, William; Verespy, Joseph

VOLUME 4 WELDABILITY EVALUATION ON EFFECTS OF FILLER CONTENT OF POLYPYLENE COPOLYMERS FOR THE ELECTROMAGNETIC WELDING PROCESS....................................................................................................................................... 1906

Park, Joon; Lewis, Duane; Yoon, C. K.; Esposito, Jon; Au, Brendon

RHEOMETER COMPLIANCE EFFECTS: VISCOELASTIC MEASUREMENTS ON SMALL MOLECULE GLASS FORMERS AND A PDMS RUBBER ............................................. 1911

Hutcheson, Stephen; McKenna, Gregory

PREDICTION OF POLYETHYLENE MELT INDEX AND MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION USING A CAPILLARY RHEOMETER................................................................. 1916

Todd, William; Olenius, Victor L.; Mack, Jean M.

ESTIMATION OF POLYMER MELT INDEX WITH A CONTROLLED RATE CAPILLARY RHEOMETER AND A PARALLEL PLATE DMA..................................................... 1922

Pawlowski, Henry

DETERMINATION OF SHEAR VISCOSITY AND SHEAR RATE FROM PRESSURE DROP AND FLOW RATE RELATIONSHIP IN A RECTANGULAR CHANNEL........................... 1928

Son, Younggon; Kim, Dong

APPLICABILITY OF ADVANCED CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS FOR COEXTRUSION FLOWS OF POLYOLEFIN MELTS .................................................................... 1933

Zatloukal, Martin; Pivokonsky, Radek; Martyn, Mike; Filip, Petr

EFFECT OF DIE GEOMETRY AND EXTENSIONAL RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES ON VORTEX DEVELOPMENT IN RECTANGULAR DIES ........................................................... 1938

Zatloukal, Martin; Chaloupkova, Katerina; Hertel, Daniela; Münstedt, Helmut

DETERMINATION OF UNIAXIAL EXTENSIONAL VISCOSITY FOR POLYOLEFINS BY IMPROVED ENTRANCE PRESSURE DROP MEASUREMENTS.......................................... 1943

Zatloukal, Martin; Musil, Jan

PRESSURE PROFILES IN EXTRUSION DIES WITH CONSIDERATION OF PREMATURE CELL GROWTH C PART I EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATIONS.......................... 1948

Wang, Jing; Park, Chul; James, David

FAST ACQUISITION MELT PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS TO DETECT FLOW INSTABILITIES A NEW OPTION FOR CAPILLARY RHEOMETERS........................................ 1953

Sunder, Joachim; Goettfert, Axel

MEASUREMENT OF THE HIGH FREQUENCY VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES OF POLYPROPYLENE USING A SLIDING PLATE RHEOMETER ................................................... 1958

Braybrook, Chelsea; Lee, Jennifer; Bates, Philip; Kontopoulou, Marianna

THE EFFECT OF LONG-CHAIN BRANCHING ON EXTENSIONAL RHEOELOGY AND ITS CORRELATION AS A PREDICTOR FOR MOLECULAR ARCHITECTURE ................ 1963

McGrady, Christopher; Baird, Donald

COMPARISON BETWEEN AMORPHOUS METALLIC ALLOY AND SILICON AS MOLDING INSERT FOR MICRO INJECTION MOLDING OF POLYMERS ................................. 1968

Loke, Yew Weng

MICROSTRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MICRO-INJECTION MOLDED THERMOPLASTICS....................................................................................................................... 1973

Chu, Jingsong; Hrymak, Andy; Kamal, Musa

EFFECTS OF TOOLING AND INJECTION MOLDING CONDITIONS ON NANOSCALE REPLICATION OF THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS ....................................... 1978

Alabran, Michael

MICRO-INJECTION MOLDING OF HIGH ASPECT RATIO FEATURES WITH THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANES........................................................................................ 1983

Yoon, Sung-Hwan; Alabran, Michael; Lee, Jun; Mead, Joey; Carter, David; Barry, Carol

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND MORPHOLOGY OF PMMA-GRAFTED-SILICA/PMMA INJECTION MOLDED COMPOSITES .................................................................. 1988

Kobayashi, Yuka; Yamada, Kazushi; Leong, Yew; Sarata, Makoto; Hamada, Hiroyuki; Kotaki, Masaya; Yoshinaga, Kohji; Karakawa, Hiroyuki; Ito, Hiroshi; Kazama, Kunihiko

A STUDY OF INTEGRATION OF LIGA AND MEDM TECHNOLOGY ON THE MICRO INJECTION MOLDING OF INK JET PRINTERS' NOZZLE PLATES ........................................... 1993

Tseng, Shi-Chang; Shew, B. Y.; Chen, Y. C.

PROCESS SELECTION FOR MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE MANUFACTURING ............................. 1997Mazzeo, Aaron; Dirckx, Matthew; Hardt, David E.

INFLUENCE OF PROCESS PARAMETERS ON THE WELD LINES OF A MICRO INJECTION MOLDED COMPONENT............................................................................................ 2002

Tosello, Guido; Gava, Alberto; Hansen, Hans; Lucchetta, Giovanni

IN-SITU CAVITY PRESSURE MONITORING IN MICRO-INJECTION MOLDING ....................... 2007Kuek, Soon-Chun; Angstadt, David

SURFACE REPLICATION PROPERTY AND HIGHER-ORDER STRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT OF MOLDED PARTS WITH ULTRASTRUCTURAL PATTERNS PREPARED BY MICRO/NANOMOLDING .................................................................................... 2013

Ito, Hiroshi; Kazama, Kunihiko; Kikutani, Takeshi; Takaoka, Toshimitsu; Kawai, Shinsuke

ANALYSIS OF INJECTION MOLDING TO FABRICATE PATTERNED MEDIA WITH NANO PILLARS ............................................................................................................................. 2018

Choi, Minseok; Lee, Namseok; Han, Jeongwon; Hong, Jongill; Kang, Shinill

STUDY ON HOT EMBOSSING MOLDING PROCESS AND REPLICATION EFFECTS WITH DIFFERENT ASPECT-RATIO MICRO CHANNELS ........................................................... 2023

Shia Chung, Chen; Ying, Chang; Ying-Chieh, Wang

REPLICATION AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF INJECTION MOLDINGS WITH MICROSTRUCTURES.................................................................................................................... 2028

Murakami, Osamu; Yamada, Kazushi; Kotaki, Masaya

NUMERICAL SIMULATION AND MOLDABILITY INVESTIGATION OF MICRO-FEATURES ..................................................................................................................................... 2033

Chang, Cheng-Yi; Hsu, Shirley

COMPRESSIBILITY OF RESIN, A NEW LOOK AT BULK DENSITY .......................................... 2038Miloser, Adam

INJECTION-MOLDING DEGRADATION OF BIODEGRADABLE POLYLACTIDE ..................... 2043Haibach, Richard

LASER WRITABLE POLYMERS: MARKABILITY AND DURABILITY CHARACTERISTICS...................................................................................................................... 2048

Meruva, Satya; Barker, Micheal

THE EFFECT OF OVERFLOW TABS ON AFFECTED AREA ..................................................... 2053Haibach, Jeremy; Glessner, Josh; Thorwart, Trevor

PREDICTING SHELF LIFE OF MEDICAL GRADE POLYMERS USING ACCELERATED HEAT AGING ..................................................................................................... 2058

Nachreiner, Eric; Miloser, Adam

ENHANCING PRODUCTIVITY OF SOLID-STATE MICROCELLULAR ABS PANEL PRODUCTION BY PARTIAL GAS SATURATION IN THE RETROGRADE REGION................. 2062

Nadella, Krishna; Kumar, Vipin

EFFECTS OF PROCESSING PARAMETERS ON THE CELLULAR MORPHOLOGY AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF MINERAL-FILLED THERMOPLASTIC POLYOLEFIN MICROCELLULAR FOAMS................................................................................... 2067

Wong, Steven; Naguib, Hani; Park, Chul

MICROCELLULAR INJECTION MOLDING OF PP AND PC/ABS WITH PRECISION MOLD OPENING AND GAS COUNTERPRESSURE ................................................................... 2072

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METHODS TO THE SMOOTH SURFACE OF MICROCELLULAR FOAM IN INJECTION MOLDING ................................................................................................................... 2077

Xu, Jingyi

EFFECTS OF PROCESSING CONDITIONS ON THE FOAMING PERFORMANCES IN THE POLYOLEFIN INSULATED COAXIAL CABLE EXTRUSION.......................................... 2082

Nam, Gi Joon; Park, Chan Yong; Lee, Gun Joo

STRATEGIES FOR ENHANCING CELL NUCLEATION OF THERMOPLASTIC POLYOLEFIN (TPO) FOAM........................................................................................................... 2087

Kim, Seonggi; Lee, John; Park, Chul; Sain, Mohini

MEASUREMENT OF PP MELT SWELLING DUE TO CO2 DISSOLUTION ................................ 2093Li, Yao Gai Gary; Wang, Jin; Park, C. B.

UNDERSTANDING MELT RHEOLOGY & FOAMABILITY OF PP-BASED TPO BLENDS ......................................................................................................................................... 2098

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EFFECT OF DIE GEOMETRY ON FOAMING BEHAVIORS OF HIGH-MELT-STRENGTH POLYPROPYLENE WITH CO2 ................................................................................. 2103

Lee, Patrick C.; Kaewmesri, Wanrudee; Wang, Jing; Park, Chul; Pumchusak, Jantrawan; Foland, Rick; Praller, Andreas

THE EFFECT OF MOLD TEMPERATURE ON MORPHOLOGY AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF INJECTION MOLDED HDPE STRUCTURAL FOAMS ................................... 2108

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POLYPHENYLENE ETHER MACROMONOMERS. I. PROPERTY ENHANCEMENTS IN THERMOSET RESINS VIA NOVEL TELECHELIC OLIGOMERS ........................................... 2113

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MONITORING CURING REACTIONS OF THERMOSETS UNDER HIGH PRESSURE BY USE OF RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY ....................................................................................... 2117

Cruz, Javier; Osswald, Tim; Kemper, Mark

ROTATIONAL MOLDING OPTIMIZATION.................................................................................... 2122Hoekstra, Nicole; Slesinger, Nathan; Murphy, Luke; Kieser, Jordan

ON FORMULATION AND PROCESSING OF RIGID POLYURETHANES VIA CONTROLLED CURE .................................................................................................................... 2127

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THE ROLE OF CHAIN BRANCHING IN EXTRUSION BLOW MOLDING OF POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE ..................................................................................................... 2132

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REDUCTION OF THE COOLING TIME OF BLOW-MOLDED PARTS BY USING WATER SPRAY.............................................................................................................................. 2137

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NUMERICAL SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON PARISON FORMATION FROM A VARYING DIE GAP IN EXTRUSION BLOW MOLDING......................... 2142

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PETALOID BASES OF PET BOTTLES: DESIGN AND PROCESS OPTIMIZATION AGAINST STRESS CRACKING .................................................................................................... 2146

Demirel, Bilal; Daver, Fugen; Kosior, Edward

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SIMULATION SOFTWARE FOR STRETCH BLOW MOULDING..................................................................................................................................... 2152

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RECYCLED POLY (ETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE) BLENDS FOR HOT-FILL BOTTLES ....................................................................................................................................... 2156

Patuto, Joseph; Daver, Fugen; Kosior, Edward

COMPOSITES OF SINGLE-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES AND STYRENE-ISOPRENE COPOLYMERS ........................................................................................................... 2161

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MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION OF DEFORMATION BEHAVIOR OF CARBON NANOTUBES UNDER GENERIC MODES OF LOADING ........................................... 2166

Kar, Kamal; Agnihotri, Prabhat; Basu, Sumit

EFFECT OF INJECTION MOLDING PARAMETERS ON THE ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITIY OF POLYCARBONATE/CARBON NANOTUBE NANOCOMPOSITE ............ 2171

Chandra, Alexander; Kramschuster, Adam; Hu, Xiaodong; Turng, Lih-Sheng

ELECTRIC FIELD TAILORING OF SINGLE WALL CARBON NANOTUBE POLYMER COMPOSITES ................................................................................................................................ 2176

Banda, Sumanth; Ounaies, Zoubeida

A METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING RELATIVE INTERFACIAL SHEAR STRESS IN MWNT/POLYMER COMPOSITES ................................................................................................. 2181

Duncan, Renee; Schadler, Linda; Andrews, Rodney; Brinson, L; Chen, X; Beyerlein, Irene

IMPROVING THE DISPERSION OF THE CARBON NANOTUBES IN POLYMER BASED NANOCOMPOSITES BY DRY COATING ....................................................................... 2186

Narh, Kwabena; Jallo, Laila; Dave, Rajesh

HYBRID NANOCOMPOSITES OF CARBON NANOTUBES (CNTS) GROWN ON CARBON FIBER IN POLYESTER MATRIX WITH IMPROVED THERMOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES ........................................................................................ 2191

Agnihotri, Prabhat; Kar, Kamal

CONTINUOUS DISPERSION OF CARBON NANOTUBES IN POLYMERS USING ULTRASOUND ASSISTED EXTRUSION PROCESS ................................................................... 2196

Kumar, Rishi; Lewis, Todd; Isayev, Avraam

FOAMING BEHAVIOUR OF CELLULOSE FIBRE REINFORCED HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE COMPOSITES .................................................................................................. 2201

Kuboki, Takashi; Lee, Yoon; Park, Chul; Sain, Mohini

COMPARISON OF N2 AND CO2 IN EXTRUSION FOAMING OF WOOD-FIBER COMPOSITES ................................................................................................................................ 2206

Guo, George; Rizvi, Ghaus; Park, Chul

EFFECT OF NANO-CLAY ON FOAMING OF WF/HDPE COMPOSITES ................................... 2211Lee, Yoon Hwan

THE INFLUENCE OF FIBRE LENGTH AND CONCENTRATION ON THE PROPERTIES OF SISAL FIBRE REINFORCED POLYPROPYLENE COMPOSITES ................ 2217

Burgstaller, Christoph; Stadlbauer, Wolfgang

SYNERGISTIC EFFECT OF PP-G-MA AND SEBS-G-MA ON POLYPROPYLENE-BASED WOOD-PLASTIC COMPOSITES REINFORCED WITH NANOCLAY ............................ 2222

Yeh, Shu-Kai; Kim, Kwang-Jea; Gupta, Rakesh K.

WOOD FIBER REINFORCED POLYAMIDES ............................................................................... 2227Muzzy, John; Xu, Xiaolin; Ragauskas, Art

STRUCTURAL, THERMAL, AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF MISCANTHUS-DERIVED BIOCOMPOSITES......................................................................................................... 2232

Markevicius, Gediminas; Jones, Sean; Malhotra, Vivak

MECHANICAL, ELECTRICAL AND THERMAL PROPERTIES OF MWCNT/POLY (LACTIC ACID) COMPOSITES...................................................................................................... 2237

Kuan, Chen-Feng; Chen, Chia-Hsun; Kuan, Hsu-Chiang; Lin, Kun-Chang

MANUFACTURE AND MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF A COMPOSITE MATERIAL MADE OF WASTED TIRES AND RECYCLED POLYETHYLENETHEREPHTALATE (PET) ................................................................................. 2242

Rios-Soberanis, Carlos; Mis-Fernandez, Ricardo; Azamar-Barrios, Jose; Rodriguez-Laviada, Jose

BAMBOO FIBER REINFORCED ECO-COMPOSITES BY WETLAY PROCESSING ................. 2247Zhang, Wei; Yang, Hailing; Moffitt, Ronald

CHEMICAL RECYCLING OF PET WITH SOLID STATE SHEAR PULVERIZATION TECHNOLOGY............................................................................................................................... 2253

Hosseini, Hossein; Hadavand, Behzad

EFFECT OF MOLDING CONDITIONS ON MORPHOLOGY AND STRUCTURE OF RECYCLED-PET ............................................................................................................................ 2259

Leong, Yew Wei; Ohta, Tomoko; Yamada, Kazushi; Hamada, Hiroyuki

SMARTER MATERIALS SYSTEMS DESIGNS FOR THE FUTURE ............................................ 2263Bosnyak, Clive; Chudnovsky, Alexander; Pham, Hoang; Wu, Shaofu

POLYURETHANES FROM SOYBEAN OIL-BASED POLYOLS WITH MIXED PRIMARY AND SECONDARY HYDROXYLS ............................................................................... 2267

Petrovic, Zoran; Guo, Andrew; Javni, Ivan; Cvetkovic, Ivana; Hong, Doo Pyo

OPTICAL AND MECHANICAL DURABILITY OF POLYMERIC MATERIALS FOR SOLAR COLLECTORS.................................................................................................................. 2270

Jorgensen, Gary

SYNTHESIS AND PROPERTIES OF TELECHELIC POLY(LACTIC ACID) IONOMERS..................................................................................................................................... 2275

Ro, Andrew; Weiss, Robert; Huang, Samuel

CONTINUOUS FILM CASTING AND EVALUATION OF NOVEL POLYMER MEMBRANES FOR FUEL CELLS................................................................................................. 2279

Huang, Jianhua; Baird, Donald; McGrath, James

THE MARRIAGE OF PACKAGING AND BIOMATERIALS: PRESENT AND FUTURE .............. 2284Auras, Rafael

PHOTOINITIATED GRAFTING OF N-VINYLPYRROLIDONE ONTO (POLYLACTIC ACID) FILM .................................................................................................................................... 2289

Gutierrez-Villarreal, Mario; Ulloa, Mayra; Gaona, Gerardo

BIAXIAL CONSTITUTIVE RESPONSE OF PET DURING HOT DRAWING: EXPERIMENTAL STUDY AND NEW IMPLICATIONS FOR CONSTITUTIVE MODELLING................................................................................................................................... 2294

Lew, Chun; Buckley, Paul

APPLICATIONS OF HEAT SEALING MODELING ....................................................................... 2299Moffitt, Ronald

ENHANCED BARRIER IMPROVEMENT FOR PET-BOTTLES BY COMBINATION OF INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR PLASMA ASSISTED COATING...................................................... 2305

Michaeli, Walter; Binkowski, Dirk; Hegenbart, Andreas

DEVELOPMENT OF NEW IONOMERS WITH NOVEL GAS PERMEATION PROPERTIES ................................................................................................................................. 2310

Chen, John

IMPACT OF METALLIZER PROCESS CONTROLS ON OPTICAL AND GAS BARRIER UNIFORMITY ................................................................................................................ 2315

Mount, Eldridge

NOVEL PET NANOCOMPOSITES WITH ENHANCED BARRIER FOR PACKAGING APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................. 2319

Lagaron, Jose

MULTILAYER FILMS OF ETHYLENE CO-VINYL ALCOHOL (EVOH) NANOCOMPOSITES AND POLYPROPYLENE (PP) FOR FOOD PACKAGING APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................. 2324

Schirmer, Sarah; Froio, Danielle; Thellen, Christopher; Mannarino, Matthew; Lucciarini, Jeanne; Ratto, Jo Ann

CLEAR BARRIER AT ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE - THE SECOND PHASE ........................... 2329Wolf, Rory

PERMEABILITY OF FLAKE-FILLED BARRIER MEMBRANES: A NUMERICAL EVALUATION ................................................................................................................................. 2335

Chen, Xiaoming; Papathanasiou, Thanasis

CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYCARBONATE/POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE BLENDS UNDERGOING TRANSESTERIFICATION .................................................................... 2341

Yan, Linglong; Hufen, Ralf; Moulinie, Pierre; Karbach, Alexander; Konrad, Stephan; Schultz, Claus

SURFACE MODIFICATION OF PLA-PHA BLEND FILMS........................................................... 2346Rasal, Rahul; Bohannon, Bradley; Hirt, Douglas

VISUALIZATION AND MODELING OF VISCOELASTIC DROP DEFORMATION AND BREAKUP IN SIMPLE SHEAR FLOW .......................................................................................... 2351

Li, Huaping; Sundararaj, Uttandaraman

HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE DEVELOPED IN PC/ABS CLOSED SPIRAL FLOW INJECTION MOLDING ................................................................................................................... 2356

O-Charoen, Narongchai; Leong, Yew Wei; Hamada, Hiroyuki; Kotaki, Masaya

DYNAMIC MECHANICAL, THERMAL AND FRACTURE TOUGHNESS PROPERTIES OF PC/ABS BLEND SYSTEM WITH INCORPORATION OF PC-OLIGOMER ............................ 2361

Umemura, Toshikazu; Kim, Sungeon; Leong, Yew Wei; Ogazi, Onyaemachi; Yamada, Kazushi; Hamada, Hiroyuki

MINI MIXING DEVICES FOR SPECIALTY NANO-STRUCURED BLENDS AND COMPOSITES: EVALUATION OF FLOW, MIXING AND MORPHOLOGY ................................. 2364

Sundararaj, Uttandaraman; Breuer, Orna

DETERMINING THE PROCESSABILITY OF MULTILAYER COEXTRUDED STRUCTURES................................................................................................................................ 2369

Dooley, Joseph

SCALE UP RULES FOR PROFILE GEOMETRIES IN EXTRUSION DIES AND OPTIONS TO ADJUST SURROUNDING FLOW CHANNELS TO AVOID TRANSVERSE FLOW .................................................................................................................... 2374

Potente, Helmut; Heim, Hans Peter; Schlottmann, Ralf

EFFECT OF DIE DESIGN AND WALL SLIP ON DIE DROOL PHENOMENON FOR METALLOCENE BASED LLDPE: THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ............................................................................................................................ 2379

Zatloukal, Martin; Chaloupkova, Katerina

SIMULATION OF EXTRUSION DIE SWELL BEHIND AN ORIFICE DIE ..................................... 2384Michaeli, Walter; Fink, Björn

BALANCING OF PROFILE DIE FOR GLASS RUN SEAL OF A CAR USING THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW SIMULATION............................................................................................ 2389

Zacarias, Felix; Schrader, Scott; Gupta, Mahesh

FLOW STABILITY AND THINCKNESS UNIFORMITY IN CONTINUOUS EXTRUSION ............. 2393Derezinski, Stephen

MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT ON FLAME RETARDANT POLYESTER COMPOSITIONS WITH IMPROVED FLOWABILITY .................................................................... 2399

Cantor, Kirk

NUMERICAL BALANCING OF COEXTRUSION DIES : A VALIDATION STUDY WITH A TPV-BASED HOSE ......................................................................................................... 2404

Marchal, Thierry; Burton, T; Franceschetti, G; De Rijcke, J.; Chauvin, C; Metwally, H. M.

VISCOELASTIC FLOW MODEL APPLIED TO TUBING EXTRUSION ........................................ 2410Li, Ming; Hurley, William

SHARKSKIN AND MELT FRACTURE OF SOME BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS .................. 2415Kanev, Damyan; Takacs, Elizabeth; Vlachopoulos, John

INTER-LAYER ADHESION IN CO-EXTRUDED STRUCTURES: ROLE OF MELT INTERFACIAL VISCOELASTIC STRESSES DURING FLOW THROUGH THE DIE................... 2419

Patham, Bhaskar; Agashe, Nikhil; Davda, Rupali; Asthana, Himanshu

EXTRUSION OF HIGHLY POROUS FIBERS WITH CONTINUOUS AND SIZE ADJUSTABLE POROUS STRUCTURES...................................................................................... 2424

Nagarajan, Pratapkumar; Abbott, Kathryn; Yao, Donggang

EFFICIENCY GAINS AND CONTROL IMPROVEMENTS USING DIFFERENT BARREL HEATING TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS ................ 2429

Taylor, Bruce F.

NUMERICAL SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF FIBER ORIENTATION IN INJECTION MOLDING .................................................................................... 2434

Chiu, Hsien-Sen; Chou, Ya-Yuen; Yang, Wen-Li; Hsu, Chia-Hsiang; Yamabe, Masashi

TRUE 3D SIMULATION OF FLOW-INDUCED RESIDUAL STRESS IN INJECTION MOLDING ....................................................................................................................................... 2438

Chang, Rong-Yeu; Chang, Yuan-Rong; Peng, Yi-Hui; Yang, Wen-Hsien; Hsu, Chia-Hsiang

SHRINKAGE AND COOLING SIMULATION OF INJECTION MOLDED PARTS IN MELT SOLIDIFICATION PROCESSES......................................................................................... 2442

Chau, Shiu-Wu

A COMPRESSIBLE MODEL FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL MELT FILLING AND GAS PENETRATION IN GAS-ASSISTED INJECTION MOLDING PROCESSES................................ 2446

Chau, Shiu-Wu

BIREFRINGENCE DISTRIBUTION IN GAS-ASSISTED TUBULAR INJECTION MOLDINGS: SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENT........................................................................... 2451

Carrillo, Antonio; Isayev, Avraam

VALIDATION OF INJECTION MOLDING SIMULATION TO ACTUAL MOLDED PRODUCT ...................................................................................................................................... 2456

Gelotte, Ryan; Broadbent, Matthew

FULL 3D INJECTION MOLDING ANALYSIS AND MODELING TIPS FOR COMPLEX MODELS ......................................................................................................................................... 2461

Pyo, Byunggi

MOLD COOLING ANALYSIS FOR INJECTION MOLDING USING FAST MULTIPOLE METHOD......................................................................................................................................... 2466

Choi, Kwonil; Koo, Bon-Heung

BIREFRINGENCE, ANISOTROPIC SHRINKAGE AND LUMINANCE IN LIGHT GUIDE PLATES: MODELING AND EXPERIMENT ................................................................................... 2471

Isayev, Avraam; Lin, Tsui

A NOVEL APPROACH FOR PREDICTING BIREFRINGENCE OF OPTICAL PARTS ............... 2476Chang, Yuan-Rong; Chiu, Hsien-Sen; Yang, Wen-Hsien; Chang, Rong-Yeu

STUDY OF RESIDUAL BIREFRINGENCE IN INJECTION MOLDED LENSES .......................... 2480Wang, Pei; Lai, Huai

RESOLVING STRESS CRACKS BY INJECTION MOLDING SIMULATION AND BIREFRINGENCE ANALYSIS ....................................................................................................... 2485

Ni, Shijun

THREE-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATION OF INJECTION-COMPRESSION MOLDING PROCESSES .................................................................................................................................. 2490

Chau, Shiu-Wu

INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS OPTIMIZATION USING THE PROCESS MONITORING SYSTEM ................................................................................................................. 2495

Rhee, Byung-Ohk; Kang, Joong-Keun; Cho, Young-Kee; Chang, Hyung-Keun

CAVITY TEMPERATURE CONTROL DURING THE COOLING CYCLE IN AN INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE USING A PREDICTIVE CONTROLLER ................................ 2500

Hernandez, Jose; Dubay, R; Pramujati, B.

LUMINANCE OF INJECTION MOLDED V-GROOVE LIGHT GUIDE PLATE.............................. 2505Lin, Tsui-Hsun; Mehranpour, Milad; Isayev, Avraam

A STUDY ON THE HEATING AND COOLING CYCLE SYSTEM VIA VAPOR CHAMBER IN INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS ........................................................................ 2510

Tsai, Yu Pin; Lee, Ai Tsung; Hsu, Ray Quen

INJECTION MOLDING OF THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMER ON ETCHED ALUMINUM: TAGUCHI OPTIMIZATION ....................................................................................... 2514

Fabrin, Petri; Hoikkanen, Maija; Vuorinen, Jyrki

EFFECT OF DYNAMIC MELT MANIPULATION AND FLOW INDUCED ORIENTATION ON BIAXIAL STRESS IN AN INJECTION MOLDED COUPON ......................... 2519

Layser, Gregory; Cassebeer, Aaron; Coulter, John

DEVELOPMENTS IN WATER ASSISTED INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS TECHNOLOGY AND SIMULATION. ............................................................................................. 2524

Polynkin, A.; Pittman, J. F. T.; Sienz, J.; Mulvaney-Johnson, Leigh; Brown, E.; Coates, P.

PENETRATION LENGTH, THICKNESS AND CRYSTALLIZATION BEHAVIOR OF WATER-ASSISTED INJECTION MOLDED PART ........................................................................ 2529

Huang, Han-Xiong; Deng, Zhi-Wu; Liu, Xu-Hui

THE STUDY OF PARTICLE SIZE AND SURFACE TREATMENT OF NEXT GENERATION RADIOPAQUE FILLERS USED IN BIO-MEDICAL DEVICE APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................. 2534

O'Neil, Charles; Acquarulo, Lawrence; Mirji, Sunil; Listro, Tony; Driscoll, Stephen

MICROSTRUCTURE AND BIOSTABILITY OF BIOMEDICAL POLYURETHANE BLOCK COPOLYMERS WITH DIFFERENT SOFT SEGMENT CHEMISTRIES.......................... 2539

Hernandez, Rebeca; Weksler, Jadwiga; Padsalgikar, Ajay; Runt, James

VOLUME 5 APATITE-POLY(ETHER ETHERKETONE) NANO COMPOSITES: PROSTHESIS MATERIALS:SBF-CONDITIONED STUDY ................................................................................... 2544

Pramanik, Sumit; Kar, Kamal

RHEOLOGY-BASED PORE SIZE ESTIMATION IN POLYACRYLAMIDE HYDROGELS ................................................................................................................................. 2549

Wang, Jian; Ugaz, Victor

COLLABORATIVE NAVIGATION SYSTEM FOR CONCURRENT MOLD DESIGN.................... 2553Jong, Wen-Ren; Wu, Chun Hsien; Liu, Hung Hsun; Chiang, Hwai Hai

A KNOWLEDGE-BASED NAVIGATION SYSTEM FOR AN INTEGRATED MOLD-DESIGN PROCESS........................................................................................................................ 2558

Jong, Wen-Ren; Wu, Chun Hsien; Chen, Shia-Chung; Chiang, Hwai Hai

INTEGRATED TRUE 3D SIMULATION OF RAPID HEAT CYCLE MOLDING PROCESS....................................................................................................................................... 2563

Chiou, Yan-Chen; Chou, Ya-Yuen; Chiu, Hsien-Sen; Yu, Chau-Kai; Hsu, Chia-Hsiang

ANALYSIS AND VALIDATION OF MOLD DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR COOLING TIME AND RUNNER SIZING ......................................................................................................... 2567

Zombade, Nivant; Kazmer, David

THE EFFECT OF IMPLEMENTING HYBRID MOLD TEMPERATURE DEPENDANT HEAT CHARACTERISTICS ON THE ACCURACY OF 3D INJECTION MOLDING SIMULATION .................................................................................................................................. 2572

Cardon, Ludwig; Hinse, Cristoph

A SHRINKAGE PREDICTION IN RUBBER COMPRESSION MOULDING.................................. 2577Rodkwan, Supasit; Chookaew, Watcharapong; Na Ranong, Nuchanat; Raksiri, Chana; Eiamsa-Ard, Kunnayut

AN OPTIMIZATION APPROACH FOR POLYMER SHEETING DIE DESIGN ............................. 2581Mu, Yue

MECHANICAL AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF HIGH STRENGTH, HIGH CONDUCTIVITY COPPER-NICKEL-SILICON-CHROME FOR MOLD TOOLING ....................... 2586

Shook, Tracy; Kusner, Robert; Veitch, Doug; Kuli, Jr., John

IMPROVING SURFACE FINISH QUALITY ON 3D PRINTED METAL TOOLING BY ALTERING INFILTRATION PRACTICES...................................................................................... 2591

Godbey, Brady; Angstadt, David

MANIPULATING THE ORIENTATION AT END OF FILL ............................................................. 2596Young, Brian

NUCLEATION AND CRYSTALLISATION OF PLA ...................................................................... 2600Li, Hongbo; Huneault, Michel

EXTRUDED PLA-LLDPE FILMS WITH BI-FUNCTIONAL BLEND MORPHOLOGY FORMED WITH A CONTINUOUS CHAOTIC BLENDER FOR BARRIER AND TOUGHNESS IMPROVEMENTS ................................................................................................... 2604

Zumbrunnen, David; Karmakar, Rajat

RHEOLOGICAL AND DEGRADATION PROPERTIES OF RENEWABLE RESOURCE POLYMER BLENDS....................................................................................................................... 2609

Conrad, Jason; Eickhoff, James; Harrison, Graham

DEVELOPMENT OF PLA/TPS BLENDS WITH IMPROVED DUCTILITY .................................... 2613Li, Hongbo; Chapleau, Nathalie; Huneault, Michael A.

MEASUREMENT OF THE GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE............................................. 2617Simon, Sindee

USING DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSES TO PROBE THE GLASSY STATE RESPONSE OF A SUB-TG ANNEALED MODEL EPOXY NETWORK ....................................... 2621

Holmes, Gale; Gale A. Holmes

THE GLASS TRANSITION IN FREELY-STANDING POLYMER FILMS...................................... 2629Roth, Connie; Dutcher, John

PHYSICS OF AMORPHOUS POLYMERS .................................................................................... 2631McKenna, Gregory

ION/POLYMER INTERACTIONS IN POLYELECTROLYTE GELS .............................................. 2634Horkay, Ferenc

OPENING THE PANDORA'S BOX TO FIND ELASTIC BREAKUP AS THE ORIGIN OF VARIOUS NONLINEAR FLOW BEHAVIOR OF ENTANGLED POLYMERS......................... 2639

Wang, Shi-Quing

VISCOELASTIC BEHAVIOR OF SULFONATED POLYSTYRENE IONOMERS ......................... 2642Weiss, Robert; Zhao, Hongying

INTERFACIAL INTERACTIONS IN POLYMER THIN FILMS AND POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES...................................................................................................................... 2645

Yang, Yong; Shen, Jiong; Yang, Jintao; Liu, Chuntai; Lee, L

NITROXIDE-MEDIATED CONTROLLED DEGRADATION OF POLYPROPYLENE ................... 2650Psarreas, Alexandros; McManus, Neil; Tzoganakis, Costas; Penlidis, Alexander

EFFECT ADDITIVES RESEARCH FOR POLYESTERS: UPSTREAM & DOWNSTREAM CONSIDERATIONS............................................................................................ 2655

Andrews, Stephen

IONIC LIQUIDS AS ADDITIVES FOR THERMOPLASTICS ......................................................... 2659Park, Ku-Il; Xanthos, Marino

PROCESSIBILITY AND END-USE PROPERTIES OF POLYPROPYLENE CLARIFIED BY A HIGH EFFICIENCY CLARIFIER........................................................................................... 2663

Maier, Ralph; Hild, David; Kristiansen, Magnus; Wunderlich, Wiebke

PREPARATION AND UV WEATHERING OF POLYETHYLENE NANOCOMPOSITES ............. 2668Valdes, Saul; Quintanilla, Maria Luisa; Cantu, Concepcion; Colunga, Juan Guillermo

WETTABILITY OF PHOTO GRAFTED DEEP-GROOVE POLYPROPYLENE FIBERS .............. 2672Zhu, Siqiang; Hirt, Douglas

DIFFUSIVITY MEASUREMENT OF A HYDROPHILIC MIGRATORY ADDITIVE IN IPP FILMS....................................................................................................................................... 2677

Zhu, Siqiang; Welsh, Noah; Hirt, Douglas

SURFACE PROPERTIES OF HYDROSILYLATED POLYOLEFINS ANNEALED IN SUPERCRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDE .......................................................................................... 2682

Tzoganakis, Costas; Zhu, Shuihan

EFFECT OF A POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE-MODIFIED POLYOLEFIN ADDITIVE ON THE EXTRUSION OF LLDPE ........................................................................................................ 2687

Tzoganakis, Costas; Zhu, Shuihan

PREPARATION OF GOLD NANOPARTICLES FILLED POLY DIMETHYL SILOXANE MEMBRANE FOR GAS SEPARATIONS AND ITS REVERSE SELECTIVE PHENOMENA ................................................................................................................................. 2692

Vedaiyan, Ramya; Harinath, Arvind Vyas; Lou, Jianzhong; Banerjee, Chandra; Sankar, Jag

SHAPE MEMORY ELASTOMERS PREPARED FROM IONOMER/ FATTY ACID SALT COMPOUNDS ...................................................................................................................... 2697

Kamieneski, Elise; Mandelbaum, Shlomo; Vemuri, Padma; Weiss, Robert

A COMPARISON STUDY OF INORGANIC FILLERS ON THE PERFORMANCE OF POLYPROPYLENE (PART 2) ........................................................................................................ 2701

Xia, Zhiyong; Prendes, Dennis

STUDY OF ORANGE PEEL PHENOMENA IN ROTATIONAL MOLDING................................... 2705Takacs, Elizabeth; Emami, Maryam; Vlachopoulos, John

THE CYCLE TIME AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF ROTATIONAL MOULDED POLYETHYLENE PARTS PRODUCED USING INNOVATIVE ANODISED ALUMINIUM TOOLS ...................................................................................................................... 2710

Kearns, Mark; McCourt, Mark

GENERATING ALTERNATIVE TIME AND ENERGY SAVING PROCESSING CONCEPTS FOR ROTATIONAL FOAM MOLDING ..................................................................... 2715

Pop-Iliev, Remon

ANALYSIS OF ROTATIONAL MOULDING PROCESS PARAMETERS AND WARPAGE ON CYCLE TIMES...................................................................................................... 2720

Ianakiev, Anton; Lim, K. K.

AN INVESTIGATION ON THE EFFECTS OF A FINE-PARTICULATE FILLER ON THE PROPERTIES OF A ROTOMOLDING-GRADE POLYETHYLENE ...................................... 2725

Kanokboriboon, Alongkorn

ROTOMOLDING WITH MICROPELLETS WHEN USING ALUMINUM PIGMENTS .................... 2732Schoppe, Robert

ROTATIONAL MOOLDING OF LOW VISCOSITY METALLOCENE PP RESINS ....................... 2736Takacs, Elizabeth; Tanu Halim, Silvi; Vlachopoulos, John; Fell, Rainer; Diem, Herman

PLASTIC INTEGRAL HINGES; DESIGN, PROCESSING, AND FAILURE ANALYSIS .............. 2741Elleithy, Rabeh

FAILURE ANALYSIS AND PREVENTION - A NEW EUROPEAN SIG ........................................ 2745Spoormaker, Jan; Andreassen, Erik; Heidweiller, Anton

TRIARYL PHOSPHATES AS STRESS CRACK AGENTS — CASE STUDIES IN FAILURE ANALYSIS ..................................................................................................................... 2750

Edwards, Dale; Kasner, Alan

FAILURE ANALYSIS AND PREVENTION SIG002....................................................................... 2755Chonkaew, Wunpen; Brostow, Witold; Mirshams, Reza; Srivastava, Ashish

THE ROLE OF ANALYTICAL AND PHYSICAL METHODS IN PLASTICS FAILURE ANALYSIS ...................................................................................................................................... 2760

Ezrin, Myer; Lavigne, Gary; Dudley, Mark; Pinatti, Laura; Leek, Fiona

INFLUENCE OF PART THICKNESS, GLASS FIBRE CONTENT AND LINE ENERGY ON LASER TRANSMISSION WELDING OF POLYAMIDE MXD6 ............................................... 2766

Bates, Philip; Druart, Marie-Eve; Chen, Mingliang; Zak, Gene; Billiet, Johan

GAP BRIDGING IN LASER TRANSMISSION WELDING OF PA6 .............................................. 2771Chen, Mingliang; Zak, Gene; Bates, Phil; Baylis, Bobbye

LASER TRANSMISSION WELDING OF POLYAMIDE TUBES TO PLATES .............................. 2776Baylis, Bobbye; Daly, Paul; Herfurth, Hans

SURFACE DAMAGE THRESHOLD IN LASER TRANSMISSION WELDING OF POLYCARBONATE ....................................................................................................................... 2781

Chen, Mingliang; Zak, Gene; Bates, Phil; McLeod, Martin; Rouison, David

MICROSTRUCTURE OF THERMOPLASTIC LASER WELDED JOINTS.................................... 2786Al-Wohoush, Mohammad; Sánchez García, Santiago; Kamal, Musa

ANALYSIS OF WELD SEAM QUALITY FOR LASER TRANSMISSION WELDING OF THERMOPLASTICS BASED ON FLUID DYNAMICAL PROCESSES......................................... 2791

Fargas, Mireia; Wilke, Lars; Meier, Oliver; Potente, Helmut

A 3-D THERMAL MODEL OF LASER TRANSMISSION CONTOUR WELDING FOR A LAP JOINT ..................................................................................................................................... 2796

Mayboudi, Layla; Birk, A. M.; Zak, Gene; Bates, P. J.

COMPARING LASER TRANSMISSION WELDING PRINCIPLES ............................................... 2801Wilke, Lars; Potente, Helmut

MODELING THE RHEOLOGY AND ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTION OF SHORT GLASS FIBERS SUSPENDED IN POLYMERIC FLUIDS: SIMPLE SHEAR FLOW.................... 2806

Eberle, Aaron; Baird, Donald; Wapperom, Peter

DYNAMICAL MECHANICAL AND DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF POLYPROPYLENE NANOCOMPOSITES .................................................................................... 2811

Wang, Yeh

INFLUENCE OF POLYMER MATRIX AND COUPLING AGENTS ON MELT FLOW BEHAVIOR OF WOOD FILLED POLYETHYLENE COMPOSITES.............................................. 2816

Hristov, Velichko; Ahmed, Fahim; Takacs, Elizabeth; Vlachopoulos, John

MELT RHEOLOGY OF HETEROGENEOUS POLYMER SYSTEMS ........................................... 2821Rohn, Charles; Bennett, Eric; Mazzeo, Fred

CRYSTALLINE POLYMER MICROGELS WITH SURFACE INTERACTIONS ............................ 2826Ling, Gerald; Shaw, Montgomery

RHOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF WATER MOLECULES NANO-JET PRINTING PROCESS....................................................................................................................................... 2831

Kuo, Chi-Ying; Dai, Chifu; Chang, Rong-Yeu

FAILURE ANALYSIS OF A REFRIGERATOR COMPONENT BASED ON "DOE" & OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES...................................................................................................... 2836

Ventura, Gabrial; Shastri, Ranganath; Vega, Miguel Ángel

A SIX SIGMA APPROACH FOR ASSESSMENT OF INVESTMENT PLAN IN A PLASTICS PRODUCTION PLANT ................................................................................................ 2841

Ventura, Gabrial; Ventura, Gabrial; Shastri, Ranganath; Vega, Miguel Ángel

DESIGN RULES FOR INJECTION MOLDED PRODUCTS .......................................................... 2846Spoormaker, Jan; Heidweiller, Anton

UTILIZING THE POWER OF THREE TO ENHANCE STUDENT LEARNING. ............................ 2851Finlow, David

TEACHING MULTIPLE CLASS CAPSTONE PROJECTS ........................................................... 2856Koch, Paul; Young, Brian; Johnson, Bradley; Dropik, Martin

INTERACTIONS FOR A MORE COMPLETE DESIGN EXPERIENCE......................................... 2861Meckley, Jonathan

FAILURE ANALYSIS OF POLYPROPYLENE PIPE AND FITTINGS UTILIZED IN A PURIFIED WATER SYSTEM ......................................................................................................... 2864

Duvall, Donald

AN EXAMINATION OF FIELD FAILURES OF PLASTIC PIPING SYSTEM COMPONENTS IN POTABLE WATER APPLICATIONS ............................................................. 2871

Oliphant, Ken; Chung, Sarah; Kosari, Tony; Li, Tieqi; Vibien, Patrick; Zhang, Jingguo

LIFETIME AND SAFETY ASSESSMENT OF PE PRESSURE PIPES BASED ON FRACTURE MECHANICS FATIGUE TESTS ................................................................................ 2876

Pinter, Gerald; Haager, Markus; Lang, Reinhold

PLANE STRESS RAPID FRACTURE RESISTANCE OF PIPE GRADE PE: ESTIMATION FROM TENSILE DRAWING DATA ........................................................................ 2880

Ozbek, Pemra; Leevers, Patrick

A STATISTICAL APPROACH TO PLASTIC PIPE PRODUCTION .............................................. 2885Deveci, Suleyman; Gemici, Zafer; Oner, Mualla

AN EXAMINATION OF THE RELATIVE IMPACT OF COMMON POTABLE WATER DISINFECTANTS (CHLORINE, CHLORAMINES AND CHLORINE DIOXIDE) ON PLASTIC PIPING SYSTEM COMPONENTS................................................................................. 2894

Oliphant, Ken; Chung, Sarah; Vibien, Patrick; Zhang, Jingguo

NEW FLEX RING DIES IMPROVE THE THICKNESS TOLERANCES OF PIPES AND THUS SAVE MATERIAL ................................................................................................................ 2899

Gross, Heinz

PA 12: A MANUFACTURERS PERSPECTIVE ............................................................................. 2906Egnor, Ken; Jordan, David

EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF A NUMERICAL SIMULATION FOR PHASE DECOMPOSITION OF A BINARY POLYMER THIN FILM ON A PATTERNED SUBSTRATE .................................................................................................................................. 2916

Shang, Yingrui; Wei, Ming; Kazmer, David; Mead, Joey; Barry, Carol

RUBBER-ASSISTED EMBOSSING PROCESS............................................................................ 2921Nagarajan, Pratapkumar

HIGH-TEMPERATURE DE-MOLDING FOR CYCLE TIME REDUCTION IN HOT EMBOSSING .................................................................................................................................. 2926

Dirckx, Matthew; Taylor, Hayden; Hardt, David

SINGLE-STEP THROUGH-HOLE PUNCHING AND DOUBLE-SIDED FORMING OF MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES BY HOT EMBOSSING ....................................................................... 2931

Mazzeo, Aaron; Dirckx, Matthew; Hardt, David

INFLUENCE OF TEMPERATURE ON MICRO-FEATURE REPLICATION AT AMBIENT PRESSURE IN MICRO-MOLDING. .............................................................................. 2936

Thakur, Varun; Angstadt, David

A FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR sub-100 nm POLYMER INJECTION MOLDING .......................... 2941Angelov, Aleksandar; Coulter, John

HYBRID TOOLING TECHNOLOGIES AND STANDARDIZATION FOR THE MANUFACTURING OF INSERTS FOR MICRO INJECTION MOLDING ..................................... 2946

Tosello, Guido; Fillon, Bertrand; Azcarate, Sabino; Schoth, Andreas; Mattsson, Lars; Griffiths, Christian; Staemmler, Lutz; Bolt, Pieter Jan

SHAPE CHANGING MECHANISMS IN MICROPROFILE EXTRUSION. ..................................... 2951Yao, Donggang; Fu, Zhihong

PREPARATION OF NANOBLEND POLYMER BY POLYMERIZATION IN POLYMER AND ITS NANO CELLULAR FOAMS............................................................................................ 2956

Ohshima, Masahiro; Taki, Kentaro; Otsuka, Tetsuo

EFFECT OF NANO-CLAY ON THE MICROCELLULAR STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF HIGH INTERNAL PHASE EMULSION (HIPE) FOAMS .................................. 2960

Ahmed, M. Y. Serry; Lee, Yoon Hwan; Park, Chul; Atalla, Noureddine

MODELING OF EXPANSION OF EXTRUDED FILAMENTARY FOAM ....................................... 2965Zhu, Zhenjin; Wang, Jing; Park, Chul B.

FOAMING DYNAMICS OF IMMISCIBLE POLYMER BLENDS.................................................... 2970Guo, Zhihua; Wingert, Maxwell; Shen, Jiong; Lee, L.; Tomasko, David

SOLUBILITIES OF BLOWING AGENT BLENDS ......................................................................... 2976Li, Guangming; Leung, Siu Ning (Sunny); Wang, Jin

IMPACT OF APPROXIMATING THE INITIAL BUBBLE PRESSURE ON CELL NUCLEATION IN POLYMERIC FOAMING PROCESSES............................................................ 2982

Leung, Siu Ning (Sunny); Li, Hongbo; Park, Chul B.

EFFECTS OF SURFACE GEOMETRY OF NUCLEATING AGENTS ON HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION .............................................................................................. 2987

Leung, Siu Ning (Sunny); Park, Chul B.; Wong, Anson

THE EFFECT OF DENSITY PROFILE ON THE FLEXURAL MODULUS OF POLYMER FOAMS ........................................................................................................................ 2992

Rodrigue, Denis

A NEW APPROACH FOR THE INJECTION OF PHYSICAL BLOWING AGENTS IN FOAM EXTRUSION........................................................................................................................ 2997

Michaeli, Walter; Schumacher, Holger

ANALYSIS FOR PRESSURE PROFILE BEHAVIOR OF MIXTURES OF PS WITH R22 BLOWING AGENT IN A SINGLE SCREW EXTRUDER ............................................................... 3002

Lin, Kun-Chang; Liang, Ming-Tsai; Chen, Chia-Hsun; Kuan, Chen-Feng; Kuan, Hsu-Chiang

PRESSURE DROP THRESHOLD FOR NUCLEATION OF PS/CO2 FOAMING .......................... 3006Leung, Siu Ning (Sunny); Wong, Anson; Park, Chul B.

STUDY ON SORPTION AND DESORPTION OF PENTANE IN POLYSTYRENE AND POLYPROPYLENE ........................................................................................................................ 3011

Zhang, Xinghua; Zhu, Zhenjin; Park, Chul; Lee, E. K.; Chen, Nan; Naguib, H. E.

COMPARISON OF CARBON NANOFIBERS AND ACTIVATED CARBON ON CARBON DIOXIDE FOAMING OF POLYSTYRENE .................................................................... 3016

Guo, Zhihua; Yang, Jintao; Wingert, Maxwell; Tomasko, David; Lee, L.; Lan, Jyh-Yee

EXTRUSION FOAMING BEHAVIORS OF PET WITH CO2 .......................................................... 3020Zheng, Wenge; Lee, Patrick; Park, Chul B.

ADDITIVES FOR IMPROVING PROCESSING AND PROPERTIES OF PLA .............................. 3025Cygan, Zuzanna; Singh, Mohit; Seshadri, Sri

EFFECT OF MULTIPLE SHEAR HISTORIES ON RHEOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR AND DEVOLATILIZATION OF POLY(ETHER ETHER KETONE) ........................................................ 3031

Galloway, Jeffrey; Hoffman, Richard; Bhatt, Sanjiv

OPTIMIZING THE REACTION INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS USING POLYDICYCLOPENTADIENE ....................................................................................................... 3036

Karanam, Sreepadaraj; Kim, Sung Dug; Ding, Tianhua; Juikar, Vishvajit; Fonseca, Rodney

EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURE ON SURFACE TENSION OF POLYSTYRENE IN SUPERCRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDE.......................................................... 3040

Park, Hyuk Sang; Park, C. B.; Tzoganakis, Costas.; Chen, P.

APPRAISEMENT OF THE ENGINEERING PROPERTIES OF THE CHEMICAL RESISTANT LAMINATE IN PRODUCTS ...................................................................................... 3045

Sinelnikova, Rakhil

ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS CRAZING IN POLYSTYRENE: THE ROLES OF CHAIN LENGTH AND ARCHITECTURE IN CRAZE INITIATION ............................................................. 3048

De Focatiis, Davide; Buckley, C. Paul; Hutchings, Lian

DETERMINATION OF THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF A PVC COATED WIRE WITH A NEW CLAMPING FIXTURE FOR ROTATIONAL RHEOMETERS ................................. 3053

Plog, Jan; Nijman, Jint; Oldoerp, Klaus

CARBON DIOXIDE AND WATER VAPOR PERMEABILITY OF POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE AND FOAMS ................................................................................................. 3054

Guo, Zhihua; Lee, L.; Tomasko, David

WETTING BEHAVIOR OF POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE (PDMS) IONOMER ON SILICA SURFACE .......................................................................................................................... 3060

Zhai, Xiaowen; Swier, Steven; Schmidt, R. G.; Weiss, R. A.

THE USE OF SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY FOR ANALYSIS OF SKIN THICKNESS IN POLYVINYL CHLORIDE ..................................................................................... 3064

Hoekstra, Nicole

CHEMILUMINESCENCE AND FLUORESCENCE IMAGING OF VIRGIN AND REPROCESSED GRADES OF NYLON 6,6 AND POLYCARBONATE ....................................... 3069

Hoeller, Timothy

NEW POLYURETHANIC MATERIALS DERIVED FROM DIBENZYL MONOMERS: ELASTOMERS, FILMS AND BLENDS.......................................................................................... 3076

Prisacariu, Cristina

ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIVE EFFECTS OF LOADING AGENTS AND THEIR INTERACTIONS AS A FUNCTION OF CORE RESISTIVITY IN THERMOSET POLYURETHANE FOAM PARTS ................................................................................................. 3079

Brittingham, Daniel

CHEMICAL RESISTANCE AT DIFFERENT STRESS LEVELS OF MATERIALS WITH ACTIVE PACKAGING ADDITIVES................................................................................................ 3084

Courter, Justin; Gill, Matt

CHARACTERIZATION OF MODEL URETHANES AND UREAS BASED ON HYDROGENATED METHYLENEDIPHENYLDIISOCYANATE VIA SOLUTION AND SOLID STATE NMR SPECTROSCOPY ........................................................................................ 3088

Dempsey, Daniel

SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A CATIONIC MONOMER WITH ATRP INITIATION SITES.......................................................................................................................... 3092

Slye, Kory

DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF POLYOLEFIN FIBROUS SHEET MATERIAL LAMINATES AS ANTI-BALLISTIC PROTECTIVE MATERIAL ................................ 3097

Agim, Ikenna; Tusubira, Roselyne

OPTIMIZATION OF ROTATIONAL MOLDING CYCLE THROUGH THERMAL DATA ACQUISITION................................................................................................................................. 3102

Barilla, Adam; Ranck, Zachariah

THE POSITION OF HIGH SHEARED MATERIAL AND ITS EFFECT ON THE PROGRESSIVE WELD LINE STRENGTH OF AN INJECTION MOLDED PART ........................ 3107

Welsh, Kevin; Willis, Jason

EFFECTS OF DRYING CONDITIONS ON THE MORPHOLOGY AND PERFORMANCE OF SULFONATED POLY (ARYLENE ETHER SULFONE) COPOLYMER FILMS FOR PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANES.............................................. 3112

Lee, Myoungbae; McGrath, James; Baird, Donald

BENCHMARKING THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS AGAINST TRADITIONAL RUBBERS IN AUTOMOTIVE BODY MOUNT APPLICATIONS ................................................... 3117

Loeffler, Matthew

A TEST APPARATUS FOR CHARACTERIZING HIGH STRAIN RATE PROPERTIES OF NATURAL RUBBER ................................................................................................................ 3122

Jansen, Glenn; Blake, Amy