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What is a TPE?
Whether fact or folklore, the genesis of the family of materials known as thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) is said to be a multi-disciplinary research effort, now three decades old, aimed at making a tire that could be molded more like a plastic. It didn't work.
But, what did result from that R & D effort was a new class of materials that are a mixture of rubber and plastic-TPEs.
This brief presentation is an introduction to this technology, its current applications, and its promising future.
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