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Flammability properties 303
Electrical properties 304
Resistance to chemical environments 304
Solubility 306
Radiation resistance 306
Applications 307
Food service and food processing 307
Functional plumbing 308
Electrical and electronic applications 310
Transportation 312
Medical 313
Industrial 314
Recent trends in sulfone polymer applications and some
application-specific grades 314
Blends and Alloys 317
Overview of sulfone polymer behavior in blends 317
Commercially available blends based on sulfone polymers 318
Product Design 320
Fabrication 321
Secondary fabrication operations 324

Chapter 14. Polycarbonates J. De Rudder, N. Rosenquist,
B. Sapp, and P. Sybert 327

Introduction and Historical Background 327
Overview 327
Historical background 328
Chemistry of Polymerization 332
Reliable feedstock was key 332
Early process successes and challenges 332
Reengineering the molecule 333
Commercial production of polycarbonate 334
Polycarbonate Properties: General-Purpose and
Application-Specific Grades 337
General BPA-PC properties 337
Properties of BPA-PC blends 338
New and specialty polycarbonate resins 340
Applications Using Polycarbonates 361
Typical applications for transparent grades 364
Typical applications for opaque grades 366
Typical applications for polymer blends 369
Polycarbonate Part Design 370
Processing Polycarbonate 372
Polycarbonate processes 372
Process controls 373
Equipment and machinery designs 375
Summary 376