Aug 23, 2006 | Article
The applications of a polymer can be limited by its behaviour versus some environmental parameters from chemical or friction nature for example. The improvement of properties is generally obtained...
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Improved barrier properties for plastics are desirable for a wide range of applications. Barrier materials are used in food and beverage packaging to slow the egress of carbon dioxide or the ingress...
Jun 28, 2006 | Article
Each neat rubber has its specific properties that can be enhanced by reinforcing fillers, carbon blacks and precipitated hydrated silica being the most used for performing rubber goods or composites...
May 31, 2006 | Article
Anybody knows insulating panels made of insulating foam covered on each side with a plastic skin but other sandwich composites are omnipresent albeit hidden in numerous other applications, common...
May 17, 2006 | Article
Hybrid materials are not really a clearly defined material category but result from integration of one or more polymers on the one hand and, on the other hand, one or more other materials which...
Apr 19, 2006 | Article
The set of mechanical properties of each raw polymer being generally unsuitable as it is for engineering applications, it is essential to upgrade and customize the raw materials by compounding...
Apr 5, 2006 | Article
To solve economical, technical and environmental constraints encountered every day, designers at the cutting edge of technology replace more and more often conventional materials with plastics...
Mar 20, 2006 | Article
The mechanical recycling, useful for sorted plastics, is unsuitable for the considerable stream of mixed plastics included in municipal solid wastes and shredders coming from end-of-life vehicles or...
Mar 8, 2006 | Article
The mechanical recycling, the most used way for plastic recycling is routinely applied by almost all the plastic manufacturers for processing scraps but is also used by specific processors for...
Feb 22, 2006 | Article
The plastic recycling is difficult, expensive and not very exciting from economical and technical points of view. However, the enormous weight of plastic wastes, perhaps 80 million tonnes generated...