Polymer additives play a critical role in the processing and performance of polymer materials. These additives are substances included in the polymer matrix during manufacturing to modify the material ...

Understanding polymer degradation is critical for numerous applications—to uphold and extend polymer lifespan, deliberately design materials that degrade over time for purposes like medical implants ...

Think of a metal with paint on it, like an automobile or a pipeline carrying natural gas. The paint or polymer coating ...

Progress in Understanding Degradation Mechanisms and Improving Stability in Organic Photovoltaics, W.R. Mateker, M.D. McGehee, Advanced Materials, 1603940 (2016) Assessing the Stability of High ...

Instead, it points to a promising new strategy for engineering polymer composites with ultrahigh thermal conductivity. The study was led by UMass Amherst with collaborators from Massachusetts ...

This book is the first to deal with the important topic of the fire behaviour of fibre reinforced polymer composite materials ... on the behaviour of composites in a fire, including thermal ...

A group of researchers led by Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) in Germany and China’s Henan University investigated repeated thermal stress cycles, reflecting diurnal cycles, on the degradation of ...

Polymer degradation occurs when polymeric materials break down over time and lose their physical attributes due to environmental influences like heat, light, chemicals, or mechanical stress.