Bio-Plastics
Bio-Plastics - An Alternative to Petroleum Based Plastics Abstract: The environmental crises arising from the use of petroleum based non-degradable plastics led the globe to find alternatives. Biomaterial based plastic…
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 more eco-friendly ways of packaging goods. Their current ongoing project…
Vinyl
Many of you may have come across the terms vinyl siding, vinyl records, vinyl flooring, vinyl gloves etc, but may not know what exactly vinyl is. Vinyl is not a…
Acrylic
Strong, stiff, clear plastic available in a variety of brilliant colors Acrylic is a transparent plastic material with outstanding strength, stiffness, and optical clarity. Acrylic sheet is easy to fabricate, bonds…
Polyethylene
Polyethylene is probably the polymer you see most in daily life. It is one of the polymers called polyolefins, which is an odd name. Many names from the past have nothing…
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 study of materials comparable with NR started at the beginning…
Nylon
Nylon is a man-made synthetic fiber that is strong while very light in weight, properties that lead to a wide variety of uses, such as fabric, rope and luggage.This fiber…
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 the smallest tubing, plastics have made health care simpler and…
Condensation Polymers
A large number of important and useful polymeric materials are not formed by chain-growth processes involving reactive species such as radicals, but proceed instead by conventional functional group transformations of polyfunctional…
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 chains. A polymer is analogous to a necklace made from…
