Discover how polymer upcycling combines reactive extrusion and FTIR analysis to create high-performance recycled plastics.

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 ...

The equal channel angular extrusion (ECAE) process has emerged as a versatile technique to enhance the microstructure and mechanical properties of polymers. Through severe plastic deformation, ECAE ...

Medical tubing extrusion requires rigorous attention to a number of material and process characteristics. Understanding the importance of these parameters is key to ensuring product quality. Sedigheh ...

Novel and scalable continuous fabrication process combining Couette flow extrusion and macroscopic plastic deformation results in ability to increase mechanical, thermal, and crystalline properties in ...

Hot melt extrusion (HME) formulation development depends heavily on choosing the appropriate polymers. This article reviews HME process parameters and highlights three polymers in HME: polyethylene ...

Drawn fiber is used in a wide range of applications including over-braiding for hoses, medical braiding, weaves as mist eliminators, strengthening for industrial belting applications, instrument and ...

Pexco LLC has made its eighth acquisition since 2018, this time growing in the fluoropolymer market by purchasing Altaflo LLC of Sparta, N.J. In a March 1 news release, officials with Pexco in Johns ...

Producing balloons used for angioplasty catheters calls for tubing that has more stringent requirements than that used for other uses, such as catheter body or strain relief. To ensure that the proper ...