Future manufacturing of pharmaceuticals will involve innovative use of polymeric excipients.
Hot melt extrusion (HME) is an already established manufacturing technique and several …

Introduction to Polymer Chemistry provides undergraduate students with a much-needed,
well-rounded presentation of the principles and applications of natural, synthetic, inorganic …

Carraher's Polymer Chemistry, Tenth Edition integrates the core areas of polymer science.
Along with updating of each chapter, newly added content reflects the growing applications …

When certain critical conditions are exceeded, the flow of a polymer melt becomes unstable,
giving rise to particular phenomena that are the subject of this review. These instabilities are …

Surface defects in highly-filled wood polymer composites (WPCs) are mapped in single-
screw extrusion via inline optical spectral analysis for the first time. The effects of wood fiber …

In order to manage the processing of polymers one needs to understand and be able to
quantify the rheological phenomena occurring in complex flows of viscoelastic materials …

The appearance of surface distortions on polymer melt extrudates, often referred to as
sharkskin instability, is a long-standing problem. We report results of a simple physical …

The present study reports the development of a new filament for Fused Filament Fabrication
(FFF) of bonded magnets based on thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU). The performance of …

The characteristic time periodicity τ* and the spatial characteristic wavelength λ of extrusion
flow instabilities of a linear and a branched commercial polyethylene (PE) are characterized …

It is well-known that by increasing the flow rate in polymer extrusion, the flow becomes
unstable and the smooth extrudate surface becomes wavy and disordered to an increasing …