Polymer Nanocomposites and their Applications in Electronics Industry

There is a lot of thrill in a new area of research called Nanotechnology. The term nanotechnology describes a range of the technologies performed on a nanometer scale with widespread applications. Lot of research has been going on in finding nanomaterials. An area of research under this field is Nanocomposites. They are material made by mixing of two different materials (with different properties) but one of them having the size in the range of nanoscale. Polymers Nanocomposites which are made up of polymer matrices and carbon nanotubes are a class of advanced materials with great application potential. By inserting the nanometric inorganic compounds, the properties of polymers improve and hence this has a lot of applications depending upon the inorganic material present in the polymers. They have high thermal, electrical and mechanical properties characteristic. In this paper we discuss polymer nanocomposites with carbon nanotubes as fillers and their application in electronics industry.