Polymer bead foaming technology has expanded the market for plastic foams by broadening
their applications because of the breakthrough in the production of low-density foamed …

Healing-on-demand materials exhibit the capability to close cracks and heal the
closed/narrowed cracks when needed and to recover functionality using intrinsic or extrinsic …

Recent advances in the field of additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing, have garnered
serious interest for its potential to substitute time-consuming and costly subtractive and …

Material extrusion (ME) is a layer-by-layer additive manufacturing process that is now used
in personal and commercial production where prototy** and customization are required …

This study aims to establish the relationships between the process parameters,
mesostructural features (interlayer neck and void sizes), and the fracture resistance of 3D …

Fabrication of layered thermoplastic polymer products involves applying heat and pressure
to contacting thermoplastic surfaces and consolidating the interface. Polymer healing …

Ultrahigh-molecular-weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) has been processed by means of
sintering of a nascent powder. Particular attention was paid to the precompaction of the …

Nascent powders of ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) with different
molecular weights in the range 0.6< M v< 10.5 million g/mol have been processed by means …

The global market of multilayer polymer (MLP) films accounted for $5.50 billion in 2017 and
is expected to reach $9.58 billion by 2026. In this paper, a comprehensive review on …

The review is devoted to the fundamental aspects of the reactive processing of thermoplastic
polymers. First of all, some reactive processing examples, including polymer grafting (vinyl …