Mini Twin Screw Extruder for Processing of Multifunctional Polymer Blends and Nanocomposites

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A miniature twin screw extruder is required for processing of polymers with other polymers or with specialty nanomaterials which may be synthesized in-house or acquired from suppliers. Polymer materials are used in many applications and over 2/3 of materials that people touch every day is made of polymers. Polymer nanocomposites (polymer matrices holding nanofillers) have drawn much attention as they benefit from inherent properties of both polymer matrix and nanofiller, and they are considered materials of the future and can access property combinations previously unachievable with single materials. Nanocomposites are currently used in high-tech applications. It is currently a $2 Billion dollar industry, and is predicted to triple in size in the next three years, yet there is little understanding about how manufacturing and structure affects the final properties. A more developed field is polymer blends (a mixture of two or more polymers) and it is estimated that over 80% of plastic materials sold today are actually blends. Our group is dedicated to the design of novel polymer blends and nanocomposites containing effectively dispersed functional nanofillers and polymer phases, for a wide range of applications such as electrical conductivity, charge storage, barrier properties, structural and electromagnetic interference shielding.