The Natural Materials and Polymer Processing Group, is headed by Margaret C. Burns Chair in Engineering and Professor in Materials Science and Engineering Caroline Schauer. The NMPP group works ...

Polymer bearings incorporating a PTFE-based running surface were viewed as a step forward in scroll compressor performance when they were initially introduced around three decades ago. These polymer ...

Currently, polymer composites are widely used in the manufacture of elements of gas turbine engines, unmanned aerial vehicles and shell pipes. Traditional blade processing of such materials does not ...