Current and Future Insights in Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials.

The text below outlines some current and future possibilities for organic-inorganic hybrid materials [...

Mechanical Behavior of Polymeric Materials: Recent Studies.

This Special Issue is devoted to one of the most exciting fields in polymer science and technology: the many factors that influence the properties of polymer-based materials [...

A Dynamic Mechanical Analysis on the Compatibilization Effect of Two Different Polymer Waste-Based Compatibilizers in the Fifty/Fifty Polypropylene/Polyamide 6 Blend.

This study aims to examine the 50/50 polypropylene/polyamide 6 (iPP/PA6) system molded under confined flow conditions, both in its original state and after being modified by two different interfacial agents. This study provides two main insights. Firstly, it focuses on a polymer blend close to phase inversion.

Polymers and the Environment: Some Current Feature Trends.

In the early 1980s, the first global environmental crisis occurred with an emphasis on the role of plastics in big cities' massive solid waste streams [...

Polymer Waste-Based Highly Efficient Maleated Interfacial Modifier in iPP/SCF Composites-Some Notes on the Role of Processing in Their Thermal and Dynamic Mechanical Properties.

This work has a two-fold objective. First, it attempts to present the excellent efficiency of a maleated interfacial agent (obtained by the authors by using atactic polypropylene industrial waste) when used as interfacial additive in polypropylene/short carbon fiber composites (iPP/SCF). Second, in this paper, we pay attention to the role played by processing in the final properties of the composite.

Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials II: Some Additional Contributions to the Topic.

By following the successful editorial pathway of the recently published former Special Issue dedicated to Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials [...

Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials.

According to the IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry), a hybrid material is that composed of an intimate mixture of inorganic components, organic components, or both types of components which usually interpenetrate on scales of less than 1 μm [...

On the Combined Effect of Both the Reinforcement and a Waste Based Interfacial Modifier on the Matrix Glass Transition in iPP/a-PP-PBMA/Mica Composites.

This work deals with the changes of the glass transition temperature (T) of the polymer in polypropylene/mica composites due to the combined and synergistic effect of the reinforcement and the interfacial modifier. In our case, we studied the effect on T of platy mica and an interfacial modifier with -phenylen-bis-maleamic acid (PBMA) grafted groups onto atactic polypropylene (aPP-PBMA). This one contains 5.

The Role of a Succinyl Fluorescein-Succinic Anhydride Grafted Atactic Polypropylene on the Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Polypropylene/Polyamide-6 Blends at the Polypropylene Glass Transition.

The present article adequately supports a twofold objective. On one hand, the study of the dynamic mechanical behavior of polypropylene/polyamide-6 blends modified by a novel compatibilizer was the objective. This was previously obtained by chemical modification of an atactic polypropylene polymerization waste.