The paper presents the results of the investigation into the themo-mechanical, rheological and structural properties of films made from recycled polyethylenes in the "foil-to-foil" system, the comparative material were films made from primary raw materials. The films were prepared by...

The study was undertaken to investigate the effect of the type and content of blowing agents in the polymeric materials being processed on the structure and selected physical and mechanical properties of the obtained injection molded parts. In the study of the cellular injection molding process, three standard and generally available thermoplastics were used. In the experiments, the blowing agent content (0–2.0% by mass, i.e. 0, 0.4, 0.8 and 2.0% (wt)) fed into the polymer being processed was adopted as a variable factor. In the present study, the blowing agents with the endothermic decomposition characteristics and exothermic decomposition characteristics, coming in a granulated form with a diameter ranging from 1.2 to 3 mm were used.Based on the results of investigating porosity, porous structure image analysis as well as microscopic examination of the structure was shown. It has been found, that the favorable content of the blowing agent in the polymeric material should be of up to 0.8% wt.. With such content of the blowing agent in the polymeric material, favorable strength properties are retained in porous parts, the pore distribution is uniform and the pores have similar sizes.

The analysis of polymeric composites can be quite challenging because the samples are often consist of complex nature due to the presence of various groups of additives, compounding ingredients, and fillers. In this contribution, changes of hardness of Polypropylene (PP) composites during and...