Fillers for Polymer Applications

Professor Roger Rothon is an independent consultant and a visiting professor at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has spent over 40 years working in the fields of inorganic filler production, surface modification and filled polymer composites. The first 15 of these were spent in ICI, where he developed new types of coupling agents for silica and calcium carbonates. Later he became technical manager for Flamemag International, where he developed new processes for the manufacture of magnesium hydroxide flame retardants. He is now an independent consultant and also a director of ECOfillers, a company involved in recycling polymers and particulate materials. Professor Rothon has a number of relevant patent applications and many scientific publications, including a highly regarded book on Particulate Filled Mineral Composites. Through his professorship at Manchester Metropolitan University, he actively engages in research work on filler surface modification.

The Market for Particulate Fillers.- Particulate Fillers, Selection and Use in Polymer Composites.- Surface Modifiers for use with Particulate Fillers.- Particulate Fillers in Thermoplastics.- Compounding of Particulate Filled Thermoplastics.- Particulate Fillers in Thermosets.- Particulate Fillers in Elastomers.- Barium Sulphate.- Calcium Carbonate Fillers.- Carbon Black as a Polymer Filler.- Clays.- Feldspars and Syenites.- Glass Flakes and Spheres.- Micas.- Magnetite.- Talcs.- Wollastonites.- Bio-Fillers.- Precipitated and Fumed Silicas.- Recycled and Sustainable Fillers.- Nano-Fillers.- Antiblock Additives.- Flame Retardant Fillers.- Graphitic Carbon Powders for Polymer Applications.- Carbon Black for Electrically Conductive Polymer Applications.- Thermally Conductive Additives.