Thermosetting plastics set hard when heated and cannot be remelted. They are durable, heat-resistant, and maintain their shape at high temperatures. Once set, they are rigid and strong. Thermoplastics ...

Plastics are synthetic or semi-synthetic materials made from polymers, which are long chains of molecules typically derived from petroleum, natural gas, or other organic sources. Plastics are ...

Qipeng Guo receives funding from the Australian Research Council through its Discovery Projects and from The Advanced Manufacturing CRC in partnership with The Victorian Centre for Advanced Materials ...

In this video, we explore methods for identifying different types of plastic, focusing on elastomers, thermosetting plastics, ...

Injection molding is the biggest segment of the plastics industry, and is commonly used for both thermoplastic and thermosetting plastic materials. Material is fed into a barrel where a reciprocating ...

The use of plastics materials has increased dramatically throughout the world over the past 50 years, and now stands at roughly 100 billion pounds. Commercial plastics are known as resins in North ...

Thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) have two big advantages over the conventional thermoset (vulcanized) types -- processing ease and speed. Thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) have two big advantages over ...