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ITO Material Solutions (Indianapolis, Ind.; www.mitomaterials. com) has developed a proprietary graphene-functionalization technique that produces unique strength-enhancing additives for a wide variety of polymers and composites. The additives significantly improve mechanical properties [including tensile strength, flexural modulus and others) of the plastics and composites, allowing manufacturers to replace metals in a range of applications requiring high strength and light weight.
The additives are a class of modifiable compounds that combine polyhedral oligomers silsesquioxane (POSS) - a silicon-oxide molecule with organic functional groups that was previously...