| POLYMERS Vol.68 No.4 |
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COVER STORY Fillers: Magical Powders and Spices |
| In your smartphone, filler materials are added to greatly improve the hardness and toughness of a polymer body and to control the electrical properties for the touch panel. If you look inside it, fillers improve the thermal conductivity of the resin materials for a high-speed CPU. Moreover, fillers are also used for ecological and economical tires as well as high-performance batteries. Recently, research on anisotropic filler and nanofiller materials, and their surface treatment and dispersion technologies have been active because of requirements of high performance electronic and optical polymer materials. As you can see, fillers are ubiquitous. This issue is featuring the latest research trends of fillers (magical powders and spices) in various fields for improving the performance of polymer materials. Editors: NAGANO, SHIKINAKA, SUGIYASU, and D. SUZUKI |
| Digest for English Readers | 152
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| Hot Topics in Polymer Science in SPSJ | 155
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| Commentary |
| To Mix Fillers into Polymers | Arimitsu USUKI | 156
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| COVER STORY: Highlight Reviews |
| Obsercation and Simulation of Fillers in Rubber for Vehicle Tires | Yuya SHINOHARA, Hiroyuki KISHIMOTO | 157 |
| Invention of Optical Hybrid Materials Having High Refractive Index and Abbe’s Number using ZrO2 Nanoparticles | Seigou KAWAGUCHI, Kazushi ENOMOTO | 160 |
| PolyMANGA | 163 |
| COVER STORY: Topics and Products |
| Development of AlN Whisker Filler for High-Thermal Conductive Resin and Start-up Company | Toru UJIHARA | 164 |
| Transparent Conductive Film using Silver Nanowires | Shigeru YAMAKI | 166 |
| Functional Filler Filling Polymer Electrolyte Membrane | Keiji SHITO, Akito MASUHARA | 168 |
| Development of Carbon Nanotube/Polyamide Nanocomposite Reverse Osmosis Membranes | Kenji TAKEUCHI, Takuya HAYASHI, Morinobu ENDO | 170 |
| Polymer Science and I: A Personal Account |
| “Egotistic” and “Theme of Beethoven’s Symphony No.5” | Kyosuke ISODA | 172
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| Messages: “Work and Life” |
| Anti-Role Model | Kayori TAKAHASHI | 173
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| Front-Line Polymer Science |
| Recent Progress in Polymer Solar Cells | Hideo OHKITA, Hyung Do KIM, Yasunari TAMAI | 174
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| Messages from SPSJ | 179 |
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