The Department of Plastics Engineering provides instruction about and performs research on thermoplastic and thermoset elastomers. Since thermoset elastomers, including thermoset rubber, require ...

The class Introduction to Plastics provides an overview of plastic and its properties. This course introduces users to thermoplastics and thermosets, physical and mechanical properties, polymer ...

When the part is solid, it is removed from the mold and the next cycle begins. The Department of Plastics Engineering has laboratories containing nine machines for thermoplastics and two machines ...

A one-pot method for producing a range of degradable, partially recyclable thermosetting plastics by polymerising the same ...

Thermoplastic Elastomers are the fastest growing type in the medical elastomer market during the forecast period, in terms of value. Catheters accounts second largest market share of medical ...

Thermoplastics are ... and can be remelted. Elastomers, meanwhile, can be stretched to a great extent and then regain their original form. And thermosets are resins that become irreversibly ...