Design on Mechanical Reinforcement of POSS Reinforced Polymer Composites

Abstract

POSS as a new kind of nanofiller which is organic-inorganic composite with nano-size and cage-like structure was added into polymer could to some extent improve materials’ anti-high-temperature, anti-corrosion, surface hardness and other mechanical properties, had aroused great attentions of scientists workers. Reviews on the investigations that had been made on mechanism for mechanical reinforcement of Polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS) reinforced polymer composites were presented. Several methods publicly published for predicted modulus of composites reinforced POSS up to now were also analyzed. Finally, the future research trends were outlined.