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Final Jeopardy!!! Category: Fracture Behavior

Final Jeopardy A plot of compliance to this power versus crack length will result in a straight line for a double cantilever beam specimen. What is...

Final Jeopardy 1/3 power

Polymers that are covalently linked end to end. What are... Definitions For $100

Block co- Polymers Back to Game

A material having two or more distinct constituent materials or phases with properties that are noticeably different from the constituent properties What is... Definitions For $200

A composite material Back to Game

List three types of composites based on form of the reinforcement What are... Definitions For $300

Continuous Fiber Short fibers or whiskers Particulates Flakes Nanocomposites Back to Game

A technique that measures the difference in heat flow to a sample and to a reference sample as a direct function of time or temperature under heating cooling or isothermal conditions. What is... Definitions For $400

Differential Scanning Calorimetry Back to Game

In polymer blends, the shape and arrangement of the phases What is... Definitions For $500

Morphology Back to Game

This staining agent for TEM is often used to improve contrast between the polymer phases What is... Multicomponent Polymer Materials For $100

Osmium Tetroxide (OsO 4 ) Back to Game

This scattering technique is useful for studying domain sizes in block copolymers, blends, and nanocomposites from nm What is... Multicomponent Polymer Materials For $200

Small-angle X- Ray Scattering Back to Game

The main assumption in the rule of mixtures for modulus and The main assumption in the inverse rule of mixtures What are... Multicomponent Polymer Materials For $300

For rule of mixtures: Iso-strain assumption (longitudinal load produces equal strain in both fiber and matrix) For inverse rule of mixtures: Iso-stress assumption (stress is the same in each component) Back to Game

In the following Takayanagi Model, this is the volume fraction of phase A What is... Multicomponent Polymer Materials For $400

Back to Game Volume Fraction of Phase A =

This equation defines a reinforcement efficiency to obtain a better estimate than the inverse rule of mixtures. What is... Multicomponent Polymer Materials For $500

Halpin-Tsai Equation Back to Game

These are the two types of DSCs What are... Polymer Transitions For $100

Power compensated and Heat Flux Back to Game

Names of the five regions of viscoelastic behavior illustrated below What are... Polymer Transitions For $200

(1) Glassy state (2) Glass transition (3) Rubbery Plateau (4) Rubbery Flow (5) Liquid Flow Back to Game

Number of material constants to define elastic behavior for an isotropic material What is... Polymer Transitions For $300

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If two polymers are mixed forming one phase, then one sharp glass transition will be observed at a temperature governed by this equation. What is... Polymer Transitions For $400

Fox’s Equation Back to Game

In dynamic mechanical analysis, tan δ, is defined by this ratio. What is... Polymer Transitions For $500

Back to Game Out of phase modulus (loss modulus) In phase modulus (storage modulus)

Some of the common morphologies in immiscible polymer blends and block copolymers. What are... Phase Continuity and Diagrams For $100

Spheres of Phase I in Phase II Cylinders of Phase I in Phase II Dual Phase Continuity Alternating Lamella Phase within a phase within a phase Back to Game

The relationship between viscosity and concentration for phase continuity? What is... Phase Continuity and Diagrams For $200

Decreasing viscosity and increasing concentration of phase 1 relative to phase 2 favors phase I being the continuous phase: Back to Game where if X>1, phase 1 is continuous X~1, dual phase continuity or phase inversion X<1, phase 2 is continuous

This type of phase behavior is most common for polymer blends What is... Phase Continuity and Diagrams For $300

Lower Critical Solution Temperature Back to Game

The microstructure of blends in this region of the phase diagram will evolve following nucleation and growth kinetics What is... Phase Continuity and Diagrams For $400

Area between spinodal and binodal curves Back to Game Spinodal (represents stability) Binodal (represents equilibrium) Blend will evolve following nucleation and growth kinetics Blend will evolve following spinodal decomposition kinetics.

What is... Phase Continuity and Diagrams For $500 Consider the phase diagram below. This is the relationship between V I, V II, x I, x II, x

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Polymerization of monomer II in presence of monomer I What is... Polymer Solubility and Thermo For $100

Reaction Induced Phase Separation (RIPS) Back to Game

Represented by the circled terms in the Flory-Huggins Equation Below What is... Polymer Solubility and Thermo For $200

Entropy of Mixing ΔS m Back to Game

Given two polymers (and their solubility parameters), their molecular weights, their composition in a blend, and the temperature of mixing; these equations would be used to estimate miscibility. What are... Polymer Solubility and Thermo For $300

Back to Game Molar volume

This technique can be used to estimate the solubility parameter of a polymer based on the molecular formula of the polymer repeat unit What is... Polymer Solubility and Thermo For $400

Small’s Method Back to Game

In a block co-polymer system, this is the effect of varying composition What is... Polymer Solubility and Thermo For $500

Shape and packing of the microstructure (see below) Back to Game