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Article: Conducting polymers: Gearing up for a bright future
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- High Performance Plastics
- Article date:
- October 1, 1993
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The world market for conducting plastics is expected to be in the region of 300 000 tonnes, or around US$2 billion by the year 2000: a sizeable fraction of this market could be filled by intrinsically conducting polymers (ICPs). Neste is one company currently working on melt processable ICP blends, and hoping to fill this expected market niche.
Intrinsically conducting polymers have a great future ahead of them, says Jyrki Hakola, business development manager of Conductive Polymers at the Neste Oy Technology Centre in Porvoo, Finland. "Conducting polymers are the only material which combine optical properties, such as colour and transparency, and the mechanical and ...