Texturing is an engineering technology that can be used to enable surface functionalization
in the plastics injection molding industry. A texture is defined as the geometrical modification …

Injection molding is a widely favored method for accurately fabricating objects with intricate
geometries. However, the machine, melt, and product fluctuate from shot to shot due to …

During the micro-injection molding process, the lifetime of mold inserts is severely limited by
high-pressure impact conditions and demolding friction. To investigate the tribological …

In this article, a CrCoNbB thin film metallic glass (TFMG) is fabricated by DC power
magnetron sputtering. Its microstructure, surface properties, mechanical properties and …

The research consists of the design and automation of a pneumatic injector, applying
LabVIEW software through an integrated Arduino hardware module, programming through …

The demolding of plastic parts remains a challenging aspect of injection molding. Despite
various experimental studies and known solutions to reduce demolding forces, there is still …

The ejection phase influences the quality and integrity of micro injection molded parts. The
successful design of robust micro mold ejection systems requires studying the tribological …

Demolding is the key step of micro‐injection molding (μIM), which influences the molding
quality of polymer parts to a great extent. The essence of demolding is to overcome interface …

Hard coatings can be applied onto microstructured molds to influence wear, form filling and
demolding behaviors in microinjection molding. As an alternative to this conventional …

To improve the anti-sticking performance of tire molds, six types of coatings (ie, nano-
ceramic coating, bilayer waterborne polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) coating, fluorinated …