High Performance Paper

Abstract

The title of this review, “High Performance Paper,” was named after the High Performance Paper Society, which has been working on researches of specialities and/or characteristics of paper for twenty-five years. The ” high performance paper” may be classified among the ” special paper” in the paper industry, though the difference is not very clear at present. This review describes recent developments in the manufacturing of the high performance paper in the modern sense. The following three groups of newly developed high performance paper and their properties are discussed: 1) Paper made with inorganic, carbon and metallic fiber and with other materials. High performance of this group of paper is based on properties of raw materials. 2) Paper used for separation technology. Separation function of the paper originates in the structure of paper. 3) “Paper Ceramics.” New characteristics appear through treatments of paper. © 1987, The Society of Rheology, Japan. All rights reserved.