Functional fillers for plastics / edited by Marino Xanthos
Imprint
Weinheim : Wiley-VCH , c2010
Edition
2nd updated and enl. ed
Descript
xxviii, 507 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
CONTENT
Polymers and polymer composites / Marino Xanthos -- Modification of polymer properties with functional fillers / Marino Xanthos -- Mixing of fillers with plastics / David B. Todd -- Silane coupling agents / Bjorn Borup and Kerstin Weissenbach -- Titanate coupling agents / Salvatore J. Monte -- Functional polymers and other modifiers / Roger N. Rothon -- Glass fibers / Subir K. Dey and Marino Xanthos -- Mica flakes / Marino Xanthos -- Nanoclays and their emerging markets / Karl Kamena -- Carbon nanotubes/nanofibers and carbon fibers / Zafar Iqbal and Amit Goyal -- Natural fibers / Craig M. Clemons -- Talc / Vicki Flaris -- Kaolin / Joseph Duca -- Wollastonite / Sara M. Robinson and Marino Xanthos -- Wood flour / Craig M. Clemons -- Calcium carbonate / Yash P. Khanna and Marino Xanthos -- Fire retardants / Henry C. Ashton -- Conductive and magnetic fillers / Theodore Davidson -- Surface property modifiers / Subhash H. Patel -- Processing aids / Subhash H. Patel -- Spherical fillers / Anna Kron and Marino Xanthos -- Bioactive fillers / Georgia Chouzouri and Marino Xanthos -- Polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes / Chris DeArmitt -- In situ- generated fillers : bicontinuous phase nanocomposites / Leno Mascia