Abstract

There is an ever present need in the plastics marketplace for continuous improvement in the performance of a fabricated product, be it an automobile bumper or an aircraft wing. Many techniques are being practiced to achieve this end, for example through new monomers, through composites of polymers with inorganic fillers and fibres, and through toughening of polymers via rubber modification. This chapter addresses in some detail the principles involved in the last-mentioned method, with emphasis on the chemical basis.

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