AB型聚酰亚胺单体的合成及气相沉积聚合研究

合成了三种AB型聚酰亚胺单体:4-(4-氨基苯氧基)邻苯二甲酸(单体4),4-(3-氨基苯氧基)邻苯二甲酸(单体7)和对(间)乙基4-(3-氨基苯氧基)邻苯二甲酸酯(单体8或9)。利用热失重分析(TGA)对比研究了这三种AB型聚酰亚胺单体的热行为。结果表明,单体4、单体7和单体8(9)在升温的过程中能发生热聚合生成聚酰亚胺。将单体4用于气相沉积聚合设备,得到了均匀透明的聚酰亚胺薄膜。对分子结构的修饰使单体8(9)较之单体7有更好的挥发性。     

Cyclicality or volatility? The satellite insurance market

The history of the satellite insurance market indicates that this market experiences crises and booms in profitability and prices that repeat in a manner suggestive of cycles. The purpose of this article is to rigorously investigate cyclicality of these and other features of the satellite insurance market and assess their volatility formally. Using data from 1968 to 2008, volatility and cyclicality are analyzed for satellite insurance market capacity, rates, and underwriting results, among other measures. The coefficient of variation for the various satellite insurance market metrics is used to assess volatility. Standard underwriting analysis is used to determine whether a cycle exists for various insurance metrics. The results indicate that some aspects of the satellite insurance market are volatile (e.g. claims) or cyclical (e.g. rates), while capacity is both volatile and cyclical.