Crosslinker Copolymerization for Property Control in Inverse Vulcanization

Sulfur is an underused by-product of the petrochemicals industry. Recent research into inverse vulcanization has shown how this excess sulfur can be transformed into functional polymers, by stabilization with organic crosslinkers. For these interesting new materials to realize their potential for applications, more understanding and control of their physical properties is needed. Here we report four new terpolymers prepared from sulfur and two distinct alkene monomers that can be predictively tuned in glass transition, molecular weight, solubility, mechanical properties, and color.     

Hydrostannation of Methyl (Carboxysulfamoyl) Triethylammonium Hydroxide Inner Salt: A New Route to Tributyltin Isocyanate

A synthetically useful and facile method for the synthesis of tributyltin isocyanate is described.     

Einen Exhaustoexsikkator, einen neuen Apparat zum Isolieren luftempfindlicher Substanzen

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Zur Theorie des eindeutigen Entsprechens algebraischer Gebilde von beliebig vielen Dimensionen

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Comparison of shelf-life appraisal techniques for the estimation of the limiting date of stability for agrifood reference materials

Reference materials play a major role for the verification of the quality control of biological and chemical analysis. Due to the poor availability of certified reference materials, external reference materials (ERM) are intensively developing in complement and as a consequence of proficiency testing schemes (PTS). However, the use of any reference material must be time-limited, whereas the assigned reference value may change with time and it is under the responsibility of the material producer to indicate the date until this can be used for calibration purpose with some guarantee. This article compares different methods used to determine the limiting date of stability (LDS) in food and food-related reference materials, using some specific analytes (moisture, protein and oil contents) as stability-monitoring analytes. LDS is defined as the moment when the assigned values of one or several analytes can no longer be guaranteed by the producer. For most of the ERMs used as examples (i.e., rapeseed, bread wheat, durum wheat) the calculated periods of stability were longer than the present storage times used in BIPEA. However, for sunflower, the rapid degradation of the monitoring analytes indicates a shorter time than forecast.