Abstract | This issue of Polymer Engineering and Science (PES) contains selected papers presented during the Third International Symposium on Polymeric Nanocomposites (PNCs), held at the Industrial Materials Institute (IMI) of the National Research Council of Canada (NRCC) in Boucherville, Quebec, Canada on September 28–30, 2005. Papers from the first two Symposia were published in PES, Vol. 42, No. 9 (September 2002), and Vol. 44, Nos. 6 and 7 (June and July 2004). During the 2 years since the last symposium, PNC technology has made significant inroads into markets in a variety of applications that are indicated in the following paragraphs. |
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