B.J. Holland

TL;DR: In this paper, the thermal degradation of poly(vinyl alcohol), both in the solid and molten state, was investigated, and it was shown that the greater flexibility of the polymer chains in the melt facilitated fragmentation of the chain and elimination of chain segments.

TL;DR: In this article, the thermal degradation of commercial poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) samples and two laboratory prepared polyesters, poly (ethylene isophthalate) and poly(diethylene glycol terenate), was studied using thermogravimetry and thermal analysis.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (TA-FTIR) to study the thermal degradation of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTI) to study the elimination process of polyvinyl acetate and found that the activation energy for the initial step was 190kJ −1, while that for the additional process was 130kJ−1.

TL;DR: In this paper, the processes of thermal degradation of nylon 6 and nylon 6,6, which lead to crosslinking and the production of involatile char, were investigated using thermogravimetric analysis (TG), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), hot-stage Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (hot-stage FTIR), and solution viscosity.