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

微型双螺杆挤出机用于加工聚合物与其他聚合物或特殊纳米材料，这些材料可以在内部合成或从供应商处获得。聚合物材料在许多应用中使用，人们每天接触的材料中有超过2/3是由聚合物制成的。聚合物纳米复合材料（聚合物基体保持纳米填料）已经引起了人们的广泛关注，因为它们受益于聚合物基体和纳米填料的固有特性，并且它们被认为是未来的材料，并且可以获得以前无法用单一材料实现的特性组合。纳米复合材料目前用于高科技应用。它目前是一个价值20亿美元的行业，预计在未来三年内规模将增加两倍，但人们对制造和结构如何影响最终性能知之甚少。一个更发达的领域是聚合物共混物（两种或多种聚合物的混合物），据估计，今天销售的塑料材料中有80%以上实际上是共混物。我们的团队致力于设计含有有效分散的功能性纳米填料和聚合物相的新型聚合物共混物和纳米复合材料，用于广泛的应用，如导电性，电荷存储，阻隔性能，结构和电磁干扰屏蔽。

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.