Polymer Bulletin, Vol.45, No.6, 509-516, 2001
Electrical and thermal properties of recycled polypropylene-carbon black composites
In the last decade the recycling of different types of waste has become a worldwide necessity. A large amount of polymeric material is generated in the health care sector and nowadays, due to a lack of technology and stiff government regulations, most of this material is incinerated thereby causing other type of problems. In this paper, a study of the degradation and possible reutilization of the polypropylene used in the fabrication of disposable syringes is done. The main idea is to use this polymer as the matrix and carbon black as the filler in an electrically conductor composite with proper a thermal properties for applications such as a heating material.