Composites

BTX aromatics provide key building blocks for resins, polyesters, polyamides, and high-performance plastics.

A composite polymer coating improves bamboo flame retardancy, water resistance, char formation, and smoke suppression.

Gasification of automotive shredder plastic with biomass lowers CO₂ emissions and creates circular feedstock for chemical production.

Shape memory polymers expand massively to eliminate aneurysm recurrence. Engineers utilize entropic recovery to optimize endovascular devices.

Researchers developed a promising solution to prevent flame retardant migration in Polyamide 66 (PA66) while increasing durability.

Engineers optimize TPUs with novel antimicrobial fillers and surface methods, improving commercial medical device manufacturing and preventing material failures.

Engineers use machine learning algorithms to map polymer degradation, replacing physical trials with precise predictive models for industrial extrusion pipelines.

Recycled plastics can expand in building products only when circularity meets the same requirements that govern conventional construction materials.

Engineers leverage ultrasonic welding to assemble full-scale thermoplastic fuselages, eliminating mechanical fasteners and cutting cycle times.

Engineers benchmark flax-glass progressive folding against carbon-Kevlar foam cores to optimize kinetic energy absorption for aircraft safety.