A Review of Nano-fillers Effects on Industrial Polymers and Their Characteristics

This paper reviews recent advances in the field of developing industrial polymers by nanocomposites materials. The discussed materials have been attracted in both academic and industrial attention because they exhibit dramatic improvement in properties at selected low filler contents. Herein, the types and forms of industrial polymer, structure, and properties of polymer–nanocomposites are discussed. Traditionally, polymeric materials have been filled with synthetic or natural inorganic compounds in order to improve their properties, or simply to reduce cost. Also, this paper investigates various factors affecting on the electrical properties of the polymers insulating materials, and the optimum properties for the novel nanoscience materials. Finally, this paper discusses the comparison between selected nanofillers on polymers, and production procedures formatting polymer nanocomposite. Polymeric materials have become an alternative choice for electrical and electronics applications. These applications require multi-functionality in a single material which is not usually found in a typical polymer. An economical way to fabricate multi-functional materials is to mix polymer with other materials. In the nanocomposite systems where the fillers typically have nano-meter-scale dimensions, the property improvement in such systems normally comes with tradeoffs.