TITANATE AND ZIRCONATE COUPLING AGENTS

摘要

A RAPRA Addcon World paper on titanates was last offered by the author in Berlin in November 2001. Coupling agents continue to be a dynamic arena for dramatic changes often causing a new paradigm in polymer applications technology. For example, an ACS CAS search for 77 or Zr coupling agents for the 15-month period May 25, 2004 to September 2, 2005 generated two hundred and thirty nine patent and technical paper/article abstracts - seventeen of which involved nanocomposites. In addition, an ACS CAS search for Ti or Zr coupling agents for the 9-month period September 3, 2005 to May 31, 2006 generated 169 abstracts - 22 of which involved nanocomposites - 67% of these Nano abstracts were by investigators from China. An Addendum of abstracts that are relevant to the teachings of this paper is also provided for the period November 6, 2002 to May 25, 2004. Some of the significant abstracts will be used to teach the Six Functions of the Titanate Molecule.