This book deals with the most important substances used as additives in the plastics industry to improve the properties of polymer-based materials. Each chapter

Both technically and economically, additives form a large and increasingly significant part of the polymer industry, both plastics and elastomers. Since the fir

A must for experts in industry, this book describes the application of vibrational (FTIR, UV, Raman) and mass spectrometries and other instrumental techniques f

Although plastics are extremely successful commercially, they would never reach acceptable performance standards either in properties or processing without the

This book focuses on the polyolefin additives that are currently important in the plastics industry, alongside new additives of increasing interest, such as nan