Despite the high prices compared to other engineering polymers, high temperature polymers still stand as one of the fastest growing segments of the plastics industry.
These polymers are employed in mass production markets to offer an increasing balance of thermal, mechanical, electrical and other properties for emerging high performance applications.
Due to the high temperature performance that is required from these materials, they present certain processing challenges such as chemical degradation as well as crosslinking reactions... This article will discuss some of the solutions to address these concerns. Also, unmet challenges during their processing have been highlighted and areas that require additional work have been discussed.
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