Team Dipole Moment

Barry Herndon
Corey Parker
Leo Pike
Luis Whitworth
• Produced as a LCP using sulfuric
acid as the solvent.
– Forms a solid that is often woven
into fabrics and other materials to
reinforce them.
• Hydrogen bonding, aromatic
stacking, and covalent bonds
are main factors in high
strength.
– Two rings and multiple sights
for hydrogen bonding allow for
this.
– Causes cross chain linkages and
interactions.
– Higher temperatures reduce
this strength.
• Ultimate Tensile Strength: • Caused by alignment of
2500 MPa
individual polymers
– Tensile Strength: 90 MPa
– Melting Point: 500 ⁰C • Increased strength due
– Density: about 1.4 g/cm3 to hydrogen bonding
• Highly crystalline
• Viscoelasticity improver
– is added to the spinning dope to improve the viscoelasticity of the spinning
dope. This allows highly oriented fiber bundles.

• Hydrazine
– stabilizer; purifying of aromatic diamine by removal of impurities for
production of aramid fiber with improved discoloration resistance Modifier or
additive use
• Aluminum Zirconium Trichlorohydrex glycol 20% (anhydrous)
– Primary antiperspitant
– Classified as a moderate hazard, shows strong evidence of being a neurotoxin, moderate evidence of being a human nervous
system toxin, limited evidence of organ system toxicity
• Cyclopentasiloxane
– Skin conditioner, solvent
– At moderate doses serves as a threat for organ system toxicity, endocrine disruption, neurotoxicity, and cancer. Has also been
suspected to bioaccumulate in the environment and body
• Dimethicone
– Skin conditioner/protectant
– Only expected to be harmful or toxic to organ systems and as an environmental toxin.
• Tribehenin
– Skin conditioner/penetration enchancer
– Non-toxic
• Petrolatum
– Emollient, moisturizer, UV Absorber
– Only suspected risk is as an organ system toxin
• Cyclodextrin
– Absorbent
– Not much research has been done, but used in a wide range of products without much research.
• c18-36 Acid Triglyceride
– Emollient, skin conditioning
– Not suspected to be toxic, though more research needs to be done
• ppg-14 Butyl Ether
– Skin conditioner
– Classified as safe in use for cosmetics
Source Quality Information Lack of Information
SciFinder Patents, Physical Properties Definition of Liquid Crystal
Internet- Google Structures, Morphology Hard to trust
Internet- Dupont UV Degradation Very vague
Perry’s Chemical Definition of Liquid Crystal Nothing on Kevlar.
Engineering Handbook and
other Encycolpedias
• http://www2.dupont.com/Kevlar/en_US/index.html

• https://scifinder.cas.org/scifinder/view/scifinder/scifinderExplore.jsf

• https://scifinder.cas.org/scifinder/view/scifinder/scifinderExplore.jsf

• Perry’s Chemical Engineering Handbook 7th ed.

• Ollmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry 6th ed.

• Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology 10th vol.