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

This review presents fundamental knowledge and recent advances pertaining to research
on the role of rheology in polymer processing, highlights the knowledge gap between the …

The unique geometry of screw extruders allows handling very viscous media; thus, they can
be used as continuous reactors to conduct polymerization reactions without using any …

The development of flame retardant polymer materials has two roots, one in materials
design, and the other in materials processing. Over recent decades, different types and …

Double-percolated thermally conductive polymer composites comprising of polypropylene
(PP), poly (methyl methacrylate)(PMMA), and boron nitride (BN) were successfully produced …

In Part 1 of this work, the possibility of improving single‐screw extruders (SSE) better
dispersive mixer was explored by harnessing extensional flows provided by the hyperbolic …

This work aims to experimentally investigate the influence of screw elements on the
dispersion of Cloisite-15A in vinyl ester based on the design of experiments using MINITAB …

The aim of this work was to study the relationship between hydrodynamic resistance and
flow instability of shear-thinning fluids in channels with sudden contraction and expansion …

Boron nitride nanoplatelets (BNNPs) are emerging as a potential candidate for developing
polymer‐based thermally conducting nanocomposites that have electrically insulating …

Controlling the filler selective distribution at the interface of co-continuous polymer blend is
an effective way to fabricate high performance composites. In this work, the graphene …