Within the chemical industry, the manufacturing of polymers is one of the largest sectors - the volumes of polystyrene alone produced annually worldwide reaching billions of kilograms. 1 ...
Some nanofillers, including clays, 1, 2 nanoparticles, 3, 4 carbon nanotubes 5, 6, 7 and polyhedral silsesquioxane, 8, 9 are currently being studied as flame retardants. Clays are environmentally ...
Polystyrene homopolymer, known as “crystal" polystyrene in the trade, is an amorphous, colorless, and transparent commodity thermoplastic. It is rigid, brittle, relatively hard and has excellent gamma ...
Polystyrene has a glass transition temperature of about 100 C -- at room temperature it behaves like a solid material. But as its temperature approaches the glass transition temperature, polystyrene’s ...