The way to improve the properties and qualities of some polymers is the addition of certain materials that we will call additives, which give them a certain particularity according to their nature:
- Carbon Fibers: consistency and thermal resistance, the most influential additive in a polymer
- Fiberglass: termal resistance, flexibility
- Aramid fibers (Kevlar): basis of bulletproof vests, high resistance to shocks and impacts
- Ceramic: rigidity and hardness, cons it is abrasive
- Mica flakes: electrical insulating and high hardness
- Basalt: high thermal conduction, electrical insulator
- Carbon nanotubes: electrical conductivity
- Graphene: in its oxide form with antimicrobial power and also in nanotubes
- other polymers, for example ABS+PC, in specific proportions: mix their qualities
- Metal: rigidity, thermal resistance
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