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As the result of the success of their student program partnership — which assisted over 2,000 students in their pursuit of a career in plastics since 2015 — the Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) and SPE: Inspiring Plastics Professionals today announced they will continue the partnership for an additional year through September 2019.
Since 2015, the program has provided college-level students free membership in SPE, while also enabling access to the resources and the professional network represented by PLASTICS. Participating students also have the opportunity to join PLASTICS Future Leaders in Plastic (FLiP), a group which provides young professionals in the plastics industry the exposure, education, networking contacts and resources they need to advance in their careers.
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The Fifth Estate
A recent scientific breakthrough could see self-healing polymers – which are able to “heal” like human skin – become viable for manufacture in existing factories in six to 12 months. Once viable on a commercial scale, self-healing materials could extend the lifespan of relatively inexpensive commodities, such as paints, plastics and coatings. This would ultimately reduce waste because these items wouldn’t need to be replaced or repaired as often.
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3DPrint.com
A team of researchers led by Jan Schroers, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Yale, has developed a way to 3D print objects from metallic glass. The material is stronger than metal yet has the pliability of plastic, which makes it extremely valuable. The research is published in a paper entitled “3D printing metals like thermoplastics: Fused filament fabrication of metallic glasses.“
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By Bill Becken
 The productive versatility of modern manufacturing is evolving quickly — whether it comes to new processes or innovative plastics and composite materials. Of course, modern plastics and plastic-reinforced composites go back several decades in manufacturing. But, at least compared to legacy materials such as titanium, iron, steel and aluminum, these materials are still coming of age. Design and manufacturing engineers are only just now getting to know their latest iterations’ utility and the scope of their potential and promise.
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New Electronics
The team developed the first 3D printed objects that connect to Wi-Fi without electronics. These purely plastic devices can measure if a detergent bottle is running low and then automatically order more online.
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Pravda
A team of researchers from the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra has developed a new generation of polymers (macromolecules) with antimicrobial properties. From the various experiments carried out in the laboratory, the new polymers, developed as part of a project whose final objective was the invention of an antibacterial coating (a kind of varnish) for application in health units, "showed a high activity against a wide range of strains indicative of activity against pathogenic bacteria and others, that is, the bacteria were exterminated when placed in contact with the polymers."
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News-Medical.net
Empa researchers are currently developing polymer fibers that can be equipped with drugs. The smart fibers recognize the need for therapy all by themselves and dose the active ingredients with precision and accuracy.
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3DPrint.com
From bacteria and metamaterials to shape-shifting and support-free, the innovative researchers at TU Delft have worked with a wide variety of 3D printing materials over the years. Now, their focus is shifting to polypropylene, a thermoplastic polymer used in a variety of applications, though engineering is not typically among these.
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North Carolina State University via ScienceDaily
Researchers have successfully incorporated 'photosensitizers' into a range of polymers, giving those materials the ability to render bacteria and viruses inactive using only ambient oxygen and visible-wavelength light.
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WEBINAR: Ductile to Brittle Transitions in Plastics
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Experience has shown that less than 5% of failures are associated with ductile overload. The remainder represent brittle fractures of normally ductile materials. Thus, within evaluations of plastic component failures, the focus of the investigation frequently turns to identifying the nature of the ductile to brittle transition.
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National Institute of Standards and Technology via ScienceDaily
Resins and other materials that react under light to form polymers, or long chains of molecules, are attractive for 3D printing of parts ranging from architectural models to functioning human organs. But it's been a mystery what happens to the materials' mechanical and flow properties during the curing process at the scale of a single voxel.
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Plastics News
There are no machine operators employed at Plastic Components Inc., a custom injection molder with two facilities in Germantown, Wis. Most of the time, the "parts makers" at the company's roughly 38,000-square-foot facility on Bunsen Drive don't require physical supervision and really don't seem to mind whether the lights at the factory are turned on or off. That's because these parts makers aren't human; they're machines.
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Plastics Technology
What appears to be the first TPU that is based on carbon dioxide (CO2) technology is newly available from Covestro. The company first developed and is now marketing its new cardyon polyether carbonate polyols, which are produced with the aid of CO2.
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Crain's Detroit Business
Through the decades, Plastic Molding Development President Gary Kitts has seen some major changes in the automotive tooling and molding sectors. Lately he's been seeing another change, too: a growing interest in Industry 4.0.
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Plastics Today
Two-thirds of Americans agree that “if a product is not easy/convenient for me to recycle, I probably would not recycle it.” That’s the finding of a new survey of 2,000 Americans conducted by the Harris Poll on behalf of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries. That changes the game, as traditionally the effort to increase recycling rates has focused on education and awareness.
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The Guardian
England’s highest value banknote will be printed on the same polymer as the £5 and £10 notes
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