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Versatilely functional polymers have been developed to cater the urgent demands in industrial applications. However, these techniques had a limit in possibility of combining polymers and monomers. Hence radiation processing of polymers has been paid attention to eradicate the limit of polymer modifications. The advantages of the radiation processing are led by reaction initiation induced by active radicals created by high-energy irradiation. There is no specific restriction in the available polymeric materials and the modification simultaneously induced in the whole material. This chapter elucidates three major techniques of the graft polymerization, the crosslinking, and the degradation as the radiation processing of polymer and practical applications of the modified polymers.
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What are three methods of radiation processing of polymers?
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Give examples of applications of radiation in industry.
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Describe the problems and the countermeasures to develop radiation processing techniques to polymer materials for radiation application in industrial sector.
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Tamada, M. (2018). Radiation Processing of Polymers and Its Applications. In: Kudo, H. (eds) Radiation Applications. An Advanced Course in Nuclear Engineering, vol 07. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7350-2_8
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