U.S. Develops New Features of Polycarbonate Nanomaterial

Recently, Cornell Research has successfully developed a high-performance polycarbonate nanocomposite that can be used as a mobile phone housing, and has opened up new applications for polycarbonate.

The university’s researchers are also developing high-impact polycarbonate nanocomposites for mobile phones, which have solved the problem of surface treatment of nanoclays to ensure that they are more uniformly dispersed in the polycarbonate matrix resin and are relatively High processing temperature does not decompose. Compared with the nanoclay treated by the existing method, the nanoclay composite material treated by the new method does not fade or hardly fade, and the physical properties are also improved, especially the toughness is 30% higher than that of the general PC nanocomposite material.

Polycarbonate nanocomposites are not widely used in industrial applications. On the one hand, it is difficult to predict their performance, such as whether they can still maintain the original performance advantages of polymers and nanoclays; on the other hand, nanomaterials have high cost, which becomes its Industrialization barriers. It is understood that currently, PP and PA (nylon) nanocomposites have been industrialized products, but PC (polycarbonate) nanocomposites have not yet entered the market.