Dec 5, 2007 | Article
By Donald Rosato
Colorants, in the form of polymer additive pigments (inorganic and organic) and dyes, change the look of a given plastic to the human eye. Aided by light the colored plastic now appears green, blue...
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Sep 12, 2007 | Article
By Michel Biron
Despite of a severe selection of polymers and additives and of a careful processing, compounds of plastics or rubbers, can be not enough white.(To know the basics, see the first part: Appealing...
Sep 5, 2007 | Article
Beside the mass-production goods based on superabsorbent polymers (see our previous paper, Hydrogels and superabsorbent polymers I - Overwiew & Hydrogels II - Superabsorbent materials for mass...
Aug 10, 2007 | Article
Polymers are naturally colored, greyish or yellowish and so on, and are somewhat unappealing. The situation is even more disastrous with compounds incorporating additives leading to other undesired...
Jul 31, 2007 | Article
Originally, rubbers are independent macromolecular chains with poor characteristics and it's essential to incorporate numerous additives into them, currently 10 up to 15, during a mixing process to...
Jul 18, 2007 | Article
Versatile hydrogels thanks to their large spectra of chemical structures allowing to obtain outstanding absorption rates and capacities are predominantly used in superabsorbent materials for mass...
Jul 6, 2007 | Article
Hydrogels are versatile materials involving a large spectrum of chemical structures to obtain a broad range of applications emerging from sectors as various as diapers, hydroswelling seals for...
Jul 4, 2007 | Article
Changing attitudes on how best to employ nanofillers in plastics material systems is taking shape. Very current thinking is emphasizing a shift away from viewing the nanofiller or nanoadditive as...
Jun 20, 2007 | Article
Against the background of the recent Polymer Nanocomposites Meeting at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA, the 2007 Nanocomposites Conference in Brussels, Belgium, and Nanopolymers 2007...
Jun 18, 2007 | Article
The deepest dream of any designer is to manufacture his new device in an only one continuous process leading directly from the raw materials up to a packaged device. With the inescapable evolution...