On Preparation of Polymer Composites With Improved Electrophysical and Physical-Mechanical Properties

Abstract

The work deals with the results of analytical review of the development and research of polymer composite materials with improved electro-physical and physical-mechanical properties. It found that the selection of special fillers, their variation by quantity and particle sizes in the polymer matrix can essentially affect the electro-conductivity of material and thereby regulate their electret properties on the whole. It revealed that the use of traditional fillers of carbon-black, graphite, minerals, metals, etc. in the composition of thermoplastics, reactoplastics and rubber makes it possible to prepare antistatic products, electromagnetic protective coatings, resistors, various types of current-conducting materials. The use of various lightweight fillers allows preparing lowdensity composites with higher physical-mechanical and electret properties. The spheroplastics based on siloxane elastomer began gaining a larger popularity. There is the data on carbon-blackfilled composite materials based on polyolefins which, at definite ratios, allow preparing the electroconductive products. A certain place in the review is given to the use of highly dispersed metal powders for the improvement of the electret characteristics of composites. Much attention is paid to the investigation of nanofilled composites with the use of large set of the dispersed minerals. The use of hybride polymer nanocomposites opens up new perspectives for their wider use in the production of current-conductive materials. The possibility of chemical binding of mineral filler particles with polymer matrix using the binders with conjugated double bonds provides innovative approaches to the creation of high-strength and heat-resistant electroconductive composites. It becomes obvious that the most perspective direction of preparation of materials with high electret properties must be based on mechanical-chemical synthesis of composite materials.

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