Polymer Composite Materials from Current Status to Future Prospects

Abstract

A call for novel material, new ideas, applications, and techniques are still and will be challenging all the time. The increased development of science and modern technology allows one to use a high-throughput search for novel materials that could give positive feedback in different areas of life. With increasing demand for high performance materials, the focus of recent researches has been to produce products with enhanced properties at minimal changes in the equipment, process and cost of inputs. The addition of clay minerals or nano-metal oxides to the polymers is to improve the polymer properties, their wide and demand characteristics or desired potential applications by producing the polymer nanocomposites. Scanning and transmission electron microscopy have led to a deeper understanding of polymer nanocomposites, a better account surface topology, structure and morphology.