Filling modification fillers

Filling modification of polymer is the addition of solid additives with different composition and structure to the polymer matrix material to reduce costs or obviously change the performance of polymer products, which will improve the desired performance at the expense of other kinds of performance at the same time. Such an additive is known as a filler. Because these fillers are mostly inorganic powder, filling modification relates to performance difference and complementation of organic polymer and inorganic matter. This provides diverse areas of research and broad fields of application for filling modification. 

With the development of filling modification technology and a deepening understanding of fillers, reasons for using them, especially the functional fillers, have expanded from pure cost reduction to a provision of some performance characteristics to products, such as electrical property, magnetism, electric wave absorbency, ultraviolet resistance, antibiosis, and other special... 

The properties of fillers such as geometric shape, particle size and distribution, physical and chemical properties, and so on will directly affect the material performances of the filling modification system. Fillers are classified mainly into the following kinds. 

The surface modification technique of inorganic fillers directly affects the filling modification. The common surface modification methods can be classified into three types inorganic filler pretreatment, blending, and masterbatch methods. 

However, the chief purpose of introduction of fillers into PCM is to make possible the modification of polymers and thereby create materials with a prescribed set of physico-mechanical properties, and, obviously, the properties of filled materials may be controlled by, for example, varying the type of the base polymer (the matrix ) and filler, its particle size distribution and shape. It may not require a large quantity of filler [7]. Thanks to considerable advances in PCM research, their use in a broad range of industries — machine building, construction, aerospace technology, etc. — has become extensive [8 — 11]. 

Earlier we have said that the flow of filled materials can be raised by modification. One of the modification alternatives consists in using a combination ( flexible ) filler. As shown in [366], addition of a small quantity of glass balls to composites filled with chalk caused a sudden increase of the flow of the system, provided the filler concentration is below critical. Similar behavior was also observed in fiber-filled systems when a small quantity of dispersed particles were added [33],... 

This chapter focuses its attention on the discussion of the most relevant questions of interfacial adhesion and its modification in particulate filled polymers. However, because of the reasons mentioned in the previous paragraph, the four factors determining the properties of particulate filled polymers will be discussed in the first section. Interactions can be divided into two groups, parti-cle/particle and matrix/filler interactions. The first is often neglected although it may determine the properties of the composite and often the only reason for surface modification is to hinder its occurrence. Similarly important, but a very contradictory question is the formation and properties of the interphase a separate section will address this question. The importance of interfacial adhesion... 

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