Polymer Matrix Form

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Polymers are used across almost every sector, including packaging, medical, textiles, consumer products, transportation, electronics etc. Polymers are unique materials with awesome properties such as lightweight, toughness, flexibility, transparency, and they are cheap too. But their mechanical properties are not adequate for many high-end applications such as load bearing applications. For example, for making aero-plane, automotive parts. For those applications polymers alone cannot be used. If we compare polymer with metals, polymer possess low stiffness and strength. Their modulus is 100 times lower, and strength is 5 times lower than the metals, which limits their application as high strength material. It is found that if polymer matrix is filled with fibrous materials, the resulting material possess very high strength and excellent mechanical properties. These materials can be used for load bearing and other high-end applications. Such materials are known as composites. The idea o