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

Rheology has a key position in polymer research, being an important link in the so-called
'chain of knowledge'reaching from the production of polymers to their end-use properties. A …

Polymers and rheology were both born in the twenties of the last century, fruit of the
disruptive and creative scientific atmosphere of this decade. The development of polymer …

Poly (ether ether ketone)(PEEK)/multi-wall carbon nanotube (MWNT) composites containing
up to 17wt% filler were prepared using a twin screw extruder. Transmission electron …

As researchers seek replacements for banned, ozone-depleting foaming agents, the authors
of Thermoplastic Foam Processing: Principles and Development strive to develop a better …

Polymer-processing operations with dominating elongational flow have a great relevance,
especially in several relevant industrial applications. Film blowing, fiber spinning and …

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 paper describes the preparation of High Density Polyethylene [HDPE]/Halloysite
Nanotube [HNT] nanocomposites by melt compounding HDPE with varying amounts of …

Elongational flow properties of polymer melts are very important for numerous polymer
processing technologies such as blown film extrusion or foam extrusion. Rheotens tests …

In recent years the “Rheotens” melt strength test has emerged as one of the most important
tools for comparing the drawability of polymer melts. This paper examined whether a reliable …