Babies are born with different reflexes that help them survive the first months of life. Reflexes are involuntary actions that arise in response to certain stimuli. The extrusion or tongue-thrust ...

After previously putting carbon fiber-reinforced PLA filament under the (electron) microscope, the [I built a thing] bloke is ...

Soft viscoelastic solids are flexible materials that can return to their original shape after being stretched. Due to the ...

Extrusion is a process used for creating a product (an extrudate) by forcing a material through a die or an orifice to form a shape, or alternatively an extruder is used to produce semi-finished or ...

Plus, Guill will show its range of multi-layer and multi-lumen tubing heads, its diverse offering of medical tubing and ...

Last month's Simple Science covered heat, the physics division most important to extruders. It's the countable energy that softens the material and makes it extrudable. If you haven't read it, it's ...

The manufacturing of metal components often seems like a choice between two extremes. On one side, there is the slow and ...

This month’s extrusion column is about cold, appropriate for January. Often in extrusion it’s cold and wet, which is even more appropriate this year. To get a thermoplastic to soften enough to extrude ...

T-slot extrusions used to be somewhat mysterious, but today they are quite common thanks to their use in many 3D printers. However, it is one thing to assemble a kit with some extrusions and another ...