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AGAR PLASTICITY
New Japanese design studio AMAM (Kosuke Araki, Noriaki Maetani and Akira Muraoka) work with agar, a seaweed-based material to develop new and…
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Vinyl
Many of you may have come across the terms vinyl siding, vinyl records, vinyl flooring, vinyl gloves etc, but may…
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Acrylic
Strong, stiff, clear plastic available in a variety of brilliant colors Acrylic is a transparent plastic material with outstanding strength, stiffness,…
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Polyethylene
Polyethylene is probably the polymer you see most in daily life. It is one of the polymers called polyolefins, which is…
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Isoprene Rubber, Polyisoprene (IR)
Polyisoprene rubber has the same basic chemical formula as natural rubber (NR) and thus it is a synthetic version of NR. The…
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Nylon
Nylon is a man-made synthetic fiber that is strong while very light in weight, properties that lead to a wide…
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plastic materials in medicine
Modern healthcare would not be possible without the use of plastic materials. From the casing of an open MRI machine to…
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Condensation Polymers
A large number of important and useful polymeric materials are not formed by chain-growth processes involving reactive species such as…
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Addition Polymers
Introduction:Polymers are long chain giant organic molecules are assembled from many smaller molecules called monomers. Polymers consist of many repeating monomer units in long…
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Thermosetting Plastics
Definition – What does Thermosetting Plastics mean? Thermosetting Plastics, also known as thermosetting resins, are rigid polymeric materials that are resistant to…
