Pure quartz glass is highly transparent and resistant to thermal, physical, and chemical impacts. These are optimum prerequisites for use in optics, data technology or medical engineering. For ...

Compositionally asymmetric diblock copolymers provide an attractive platform for understanding the emergence of tetragonally close-packed, Frank–Kasper phases in soft matter. Block-polymer phase ...

Radical polymerization in aqueous solutions represents a highly versatile and environmentally appealing method for synthesising polymers. This process employs free radicals generated in water to ...

Researchers have discovered that exposing polycarbonate polymer films to beams of iron ions can prevent biofilms of microbial cells forming on the film surfaces 1. Since polycarbonate is used in many ...

The process of drying colloidal dispersions, i.e. evaporating the liquid, to create particulate solids or continuous polymer films is common to a range of important technologies, e.g. forming polymer ...

Extensional flows dominate many polymer processes, including blow molding, film blowing, fiber spinning, thermoforming and many others. The rheology of polymeric materials under extensional flows can ...

With a nod to sustainability, Kiefel Technologies plans to preview the coming launch of equipment for producing polymer cups and fiber sip-lids. Kiefel will be running two packaging machines at ...

Williamsport, Pa. — The Society of Plastics Engineers' Thermoforming division has awarded its Bill Benjamin Memorial Scholarship to Haven Bontz, a junior at Pennsylvania College of Technology in ...