Gums, Adhesives & Sealants Technology

Description:

Naturally occurringpolysaccharides from plant exudates have been in use from many decades inimmense quantities. Natural gums are natural polymers, which mainly consists ofcarbohydrates sometimes with small amounts of proteins and minerals. Gum andits derivatives are widely used in various industries as per its needs. Theappearance and properties of natural gums determine their commercial value andend use. Due to their extraordinary, unrivalled technological & functionalproperties gum is used in many industries. Gums not only modify viscosity andconsistency, they also often attenuate odour, taste and flavour intensity.Adhesive or sealant is a mixture in a liquid or semi-liquid state that iscapable of holding materials together by surface attachment. Adhesives andsealants are used as a raw material for the manufacturing industry or for theservice of different processing industries. Adhesives and sealants virtuallytouch every part of our lives. The adhesives and sealants are two chemicallysimilar but functionally different groups of formulated products. There is noend in sight to the new materials, new formulation, and new uses to whichadhesives and sealants will be put in the future. 
Some of the fundamentals of the book are advantages of adhesive bonding,hybrids and coupling agents, adhesive films, designing polymers for adhesives,fundamentals of adhesion, designing polymers for adhesives, thermodynamics ofadhesion, casein and mixed protein adhesives, lime-free casein adhesives, foilto paper laminating adhesives, casein and protein blend glues as woodadhesives, chemistry of protein blend glues, natural rubber adhesives,vulcanizing latex adhesives, solution adhesives from natural rubber,halogenated butyl rubber, butyl rubber and poly isobutylene lattices,polysulfide sealants and adhesives etc.
This book covers a wide range of polymeric adhesives and sealants, gums alongwith their essential formularies, distinguished by applications and based ontechnology. The main areas covered in details are the basic fundamentals,properties, uses and applications, formulations and chemistry, methods ofmanufacturing and lastly testing methods. This book will be very resourceful toits readers who are just beginners in this field and also to upcoming entrepreneurs,engineers, existing industries, technologist, technical institution etc.

Keywords: Origin, Cure; Solubility; Cross, linking, Hybrids,coupling, Agents, Adhesive, Films, High, Temperature, Resistance; Flame, Retardance, Matching, Adhesive, adherend, Critical, Surface, Tension, Solubility, Paramete, Figure, Grafting , Oligomers and Polymers, Co polymerization, Copolymers, Interpenetrating,