Effect of Contamination on Characteristics of Plastic and Polymeric Materials

The contribution of polymers or plastics in our day-to-day life are limitless. Be it medical field, domestic life, corporate world or in living organism, everywhere the polymers have enormous applications. So, the properties of these polymers have been a major concern. The roles of contaminants and additives present in the polymers with changing the polymeric structures and their properties need to be study briefly. The present study represents how polymers are used in every material of our daily life and how the presence of contaminants in polymers affects the human life. Detrimental and beneficial effects of various contaminants on different polymeric structures have been a major concerned. The surface area of polymeric material plays an important role in contamination study. The factors which control the rate of absorption of contaminants in polymeric materials have been discussed here briefly. Various kinds of additives in different polymeric structures have significant roles in controlling the attachment of contaminants. So, the factors which control the absorption of contaminants in polymers and affecting their properties have been discussed briefly.