Anybody who’s used plastic ice cubes knows there are some pluses and some minuses. The main minuses being that they consist of plastic and often taste kind of gross. Now, researchers at the University ...

Plastic processing is typically carried out at viscosities of 10^3–10^6 Pa·s and strain rates of 10^−2 to 10^1 sec^−1. In the simplest case of a Newtonian flow, viscosity, η, translates into the flow ...

Bixby International Corp. claims it has developed a moldable plastic sheet that can be formed in hot water or hot air. BixForm HiMod moldable plastics sheet is formable under 170° F tap water or by ...

BixForm(TM) HiMod Moldable Plastic Sheet is formable under 170 degree tap water or by using hot air and can be formulated to achieve up to a half million flex modulus. Click here for high-resolution ...

Founded in 2018, German startup Glassomer GmbH specializes in the manufacture of injection-moldable quartz glass and glass parts. Glassomer has developed plastic-glass blends in pelletized form that ...

Imagine a material that’s stronger than steel, but just as versatile as plastic, able to take on a seemingly endless variety of forms. For decades, materials scientists have been trying to come up ...