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Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) is a common, opaque engineering thermoplastic. It is a terpolymer made by polymerizing styrene and acrylonitrile in the presence of polybutadiene rubber. The … [Read More...]
First commercialized by Bayer (Germany) and General Electric (USA) in the 1950s, polycarbonate (PC) is a widely used family of thermoplastic polymers. Polycarbonate is a copolymer in that it is … [Read More...]
Many engineering materials are in truth families in their own right. Take, for example, steel - this ferrous (iron)-based material is in fact a wide-ranging class of materials, with different … [Read More...]
EconCore's proprietary ThermHex technology produces honeycombs from a single continuous thermoplastic sheet by a sequence of thermoforming, folding and bonding operations. ThermHex honeycombs have … [Read More...]