Handbook of Curatives and Crosslinkers

Handbook of Curatives and Crosslinkers presents the mechanisms of action of these additives, methods of their use, their effects on properties of transformed products, and their applications.Both groups of additives are very important in industrial application and the book is divided into two sections: curatives, and crosslinkers:

Curatives which are in common use in many industrial products manufactured on a large scale, such as for example adhesives, sealants, coatings, inks, explosives, propellants, or foams. They are also used in some emerging products such as optoelectronics, shape-memory applications, light-emitting diodes, liquid crystal displays, self-healing materials, etc.

Crosslinkers which are also used in the typical industrial processing methods including encapsulation of solar cells, vulcanization, adhesives, foams, roofing, etc. But their strength and future are more focused on emerging applications such as drug release, artificial muscles in microdevices, autonomous shape-memory actuators, hygienic textiles, membranes, scaffolds, recycling, sensors, tissue adhesives or wound dressing.

In each section the effect of the additive is presented, including evaluation of the chemical and physical properties of curatives or crosslinkers, the mechanisms of their action, their effect on the properties of the converted polymers, and their application in different products.