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Polymeric Materials: Commodity Plastics, Engineering Resins and Specialty Polymers – UMass Lowell Plastics Seminars
June 17 @ 8:00 am - June 20 @ 5:00 pm
Monday, June 17, 2024 8:30 AM (EST) – Thursday, June 20, 2024 5:00 PM (EST)
UMass Lowell, 185 Riverside St., Lowell, MA
This program provides an overview of the many different families of commercially available polymeric materials. It also examines the basic concepts of polymerization through structure/property relationships and post-reactor modification, value-added compounding, important thermomechanical properties, design considerations, fundamentals of the various processing schemes, and material selection criteria for commercial end-uses.
