Rubber Toughened Engineering Plastics

The rubber toughening of polymers such as polystyrene has been successfully carried out for many years and has led to many diverse engineering materials, such as high impact polystyrene (HIPS), acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) and styrene-butadiene-styreme copolymers (SBS). Whereas the synthetic routes to manufacture are well understood and most are adequately documented, this is certainly not the case for high temperature engineering plastics and speciality plastics. "Rubber Toughened Engineering Plastics" covers the main physical principals involved in optimum toughening, and describes the synthetic strategies used to obtain satisfactorily toughened grades in these materials by control of microstructure. This book should act as a focus for current thought on rubber toughening principles and the actual methods employed for the rubber toughening of major engineering and speciality plastics. It should appeal to those working in research and development in universities and industry with an interest in polymeric materials and polymer chemistry, as well as graduate students in chemistry, physics, materials science and engineering who are working in this area.This book should be of interest to material scientists and engineering senior undergraduates and graduates; all those involved with rubbers in rubber and polymer industries.