Plastics are a group of very important materials that have a wide variety of uses. Plastics can be engineered for specific uses by matching up the properties of the plastic to the job it will ...

The properties of materials include features such as color, size, and shape; whether theyare rough or smooth, shiny or dull, hard or soft, and flexible or stiff. Another property of a material is what ...

The team’s next steps will involve investigating how combining various processing approaches may enable the development of ...

A new type of 3D-printed plastic can easily be stretched, melted, and reformed, making it a perfect material for multiple ...

Princeton engineers have developed an easily scalable 3D printing technique to manufacture soft plastics with programmed ...

Researchers utilize inexpensive materials to combine qualities that are rarely found together in manufactured products.

The SpecReK project aims combine state-of-the-art measuring techniques with AI to identify the composition of plastic scrap ...