Thermosetting plastics set hard when heated and cannot be remelted. They are durable, heat-resistant, and maintain their shape at high temperatures. Once set, they are rigid and strong. Thermoplastics ...

While the use of carbon-fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) has become a mainstay in aircraft production, many are unaware there is more than one type available. Airbus, Toulouse, France, is working to ...

Plastics are synthetic or semi-synthetic materials made from polymers, which are long chains of molecules typically derived from petroleum, natural gas, or other organic sources. Plastics are ...

Whilst many have been discussing and championing the benefits of thermoplastic composites (TPCs) as the next breakthrough, high-volume, lightweighting technology for more than a decade, their market ...

AZoM talks to Tom Smith and James Mondo from TenCate about the unique properties and applications of thermoplastics, especially with regards to the aerospace industry. Thermoplastic polymers are ...

Qipeng Guo receives funding from the Australian Research Council through its Discovery Projects and from The Advanced Manufacturing CRC in partnership with The Victorian Centre for Advanced Materials ...

Starting with billions of molecules of monomer in a reactor, heat and pressure are applied in the presence of catalysts, causing one of the monomer double bonds to rearrange into two "half-bonds," one ...