insights from industryDr. Lucivan Barros & Ron RubinovitzSebior Application ScientistsThermo Fisher Scientific In this interview, AZoMaterials speaks with Dr. Lucivan Barros, Senior Application ...
Editor?s note: Chris Rauwendaal is a designer, consultant, and seminar instructor who has written extensively on process engineering and extrusion topics. Part 1 of this article (PM&A Nov./Dec. 2002) ...
Polymer extrusion is a cornerstone of modern manufacturing, employed to produce films, pipes, profiles and advanced composites at industrial scale. The mechanical properties of extruded ...
While countless tubes are extruded or injection molded each year, these manufacturing techniques are neither the most optimal nor the most cost-effective methods available to medical device ...
Scientists have developed a vacuum-assisted extrusion method that reduces internal porosity -- by up to 75% -- in large-scale 3D-printed polymer parts. Large-scale additive manufacturing has been ...
Changes such as the transition from crystalline to amorphous phases or shifts in vibrational modes can be used to customize the end-polymer's mechanical, thermal, and optical properties to specific ...
New fiber tech makes artificial grass denser, greener, and eco-friendly while cutting plastic use by up to 20 percent ...
Extrudate swell refers to the tendency of a polymer melt to expand in cross‐section on emerging from a die, a phenomenon driven by the recovery of elastic stresses accumulated during flow through the ...