Today obtaining environmentally friendly wood composite materials is one of the main tasks. The urea-, phenol-, and melamine-formaldehyde resins used today are harmful to the human body and have a long-lasting effect. Therefore, replacing these and other resins with safe binders is one of the major problems.
Polymeric composites (PC) of tribological applications with a high level of physical, mechanical and thermal properties based on aromatic polyamide and silica gel have been developed. Regularities have been obtained that describe the effect of the filler content in PC on the friction coefficient, temperature on the friction surface and the intensity of linear wear rate of the studied PC-steel friction pair. It was found that the optimal silica gel content in the polymer matrix is 10 wt %.
In this work polymer nonlinear optical (NLO) materials in the form of thin films based on 3,7,3’,4’-tetrahydroxyflavone and diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A were obtained and investigated. It was found that the influence of the chromophore concentration on values of the macroscopic NLO susceptibilities (χ(2) of doped polymer films has extreme character. The maximum value of χ(2) is 6.11 pm/V at the concentration of dopant 20 wt %.