Laura Tripaldi is a freelance writer with expertise in Materials Science and Nanotechnology. Laura's academic background is inorganic chemistry. She recently completed her industrial Ph.D. in Materials Science and Nanotechnology at the University of Milan-Bicocca, where she worked on developing and testing advanced materials for sustainable tire technology. She published several papers, supervised many undergraduate and graduate students, and taught seminars and laboratories. She was a visiting researcher at Hamburg University and has worked in R&D for Procter&Gamble and Pirelli. As a writer, Laura published the book Parallel Minds. Discovering the Intelligence of Materials (Urbanomic, 2022). She routinely holds lectures, seminars, and workshops at prestigious academic and cultural institutions worldwide. Laura is passionate about literature, philosophy, contemporary art, and the history of technology. You can get in touch with her via e-mail: tripaldilaura@gmail.com
To enhance the applicability of thermoplastics across various industries, reinforcing additives are added to improve properties such as mechanical strength, UV resistance, and conductivity, contributing to the material's overall performance.
This chapter excerpt introduced an overview of the properties of different classes of thermoplastic materials, with special attention to engineering and advanced thermoplastics.