For inorganic whiskers

The contact angle (0), another criterion for hydrophilicity and lipophilicity, is employed to evaluate the wettability of liquid to solid. Generally, the solid surface is considered to be wetted by liquid when 0 < 90° the solid surface is not considered to be wetted by liquid when 0 > 90° and the solid surface is wetted completely by liquid when 0 = 0°. As for inorganic whiskers, the bigger the contact angle between distilled water and whiskers, the better is the hydrophobicity of whiskers. 

A composite material is a multiphase system composed of matrix material and dispersed material. The matrix material is usually a continuous phase, which consolidates the dispersion material such as fiber or particles. The composite material is commonly categorized into the class of materials that the matrix material belongs to metal matrix composites, inorganic nonmetal matrix composites, and polymer-based composites. For example, the metal matrix composite material is a material included in the scope of metallic materials, while the polymer matrix composite material is included in the scope of the polymer material. The inorganic whiskers filled and modified... 

At present, matrfx resins used for studying filling modification with inorganic whiskers include thermoplastic and thermosetting resins. Thermoplastic resins include polyethylene. 

At present, research on polymers modified with inorganic whiskers focuses mainly on mechanical performance analysis and further theoretical analysis is relatively rare. In recent years, the finite element method has been widely used in such studies, which can provide a necessary theoretical basis for the micro-structure design of material and macro performance improvement. 

Like other inorganic whiskers, calcium carbonate whiskers have high polarity, and therefore surface modification is required for filling polymer materials. The common surface... 

Whisker, whisker-crystal A modern technical term originating in the field of solid-state physics for highly elongate crystals resembling mineral fibers that are synthesized from a variety of inorganic substances, usually at elevated temperatures or pressures. Whiskers are synthetic fibrous materials (see chapter 2). 

The most important polymeric matrices are linear and cross-linked polyesters, epoxy resins and linear and cross-linked polyimides the most important reinforcements are high-performance polymeric fibres and filaments (for polymeric composites), filaments of refractory metals and inorganic materials (E-glass, A12C>3, B, BN, SiC and Carbon) and whiskers (fibrillar single crystals of A1203, B4C, WC, SiC and C, exclusively for reinforcement of metals). 

Use Monomer for acrylic and modacrylic fibers and high-strength whiskers ABS and acrylonitrile styrene copolymers nitrile rubber cyanoethylation of cotton synthetic soil blocks (acrylonitrile polymerized in wood pulp) organic synthesis adiponitrile grain fumigant monomer for a semiconductive polymer that can be used like inorganic oxide catalysts in dehydrogenation of tert-butanol to isobutylene and water. 

Fibrous fillers for biomedical PLA-based FRPs include carbon and inorganic fibres [406], PLLA (i.e. self-reinforcement) [407,408], poly(p-dioxane) fibre [409], chitin [410], biodegradable fibre (e.g. bioactive glass, chitosan fibre, polyester amides) [411], hydroxyapatite fibre [412], hydroxyapatite whiskers [413], halloysite (Al2Si205(0H)4) nanotubes [414] and the fibre from different tissue types of Picea sitchensis [415],... 

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