Plastics, those ubiquitous malleable synthetic polymers so essential to the needs of virtually the entire spectrum of global business, have become the pulsing heart of the high-tech world. The universal insulator for the electrical and electronics industries, plastic materials can also be semi-insulating, semiconducting, and even fully electrically conducting. Polymers, the largest revenue segment of the chemical industry at about 33 percent of the basic chemicals dollar value, includes all categories of plastics and man-made fibers.
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Fantastic Plastic, Part 2: Electric Action
Posted by: Ned Madden February 3, 2011 05:00 AMPlastics, those ubiquitous malleable synthetic polymers so essential to the needs of virtually the entire spectrum of global business, have become the pulsing heart of the high-tech world. The universal insulator for the electrical and electronics industries, plastic materials can also be semi-insulating, semiconducting, and even fully electrically conducting. Polymers, the largest revenue segment of the chemical industry at about 33 percent of the basic chemicals dollar value, includes all categories of plastics and man-made fibers.