High demand for plastic worldwide has resulted in increasing environmental pollution. To make the manufacturing process more environmentally friendly, recycling of waste must be considered. In view this a social enterprise called Me.reka Makerspace aims to use produce recycled products using injection molding. However, molding is complex process. past experienced numerous failures resulting def...

Determining optimal process parameter settings critically influences productivity, quality, and cost of production in the plastic injection molding (PIM) industry. Previously, production engineers used either trial-and-error method or Taguchi’s parameter design method to determine optimal process parameter settings for PIM. However, these methods are unsuitable in present PIM because the increa...

The development of many photonic devices, such as photonic integrated circuit, optical sensors, and photovoltaic devices, demands low-cost and reliable fabrication technologies to fabricate sub-wavelength features. Here, we report a programmable nanoreplica molding process, which is capable of producing photonic devices with a variety of submicrometer patterns. The process utilizes a stretchabl...

We demonstrate a simple process for the fabrication of rigid plastic master molds for soft lithography directly from (poly)dimethysiloxane devices. Plastics masters (PMs) provide a cost-effective alternative to silicon-based masters and can be easily replicated without the need for cleanroom facilities. We have successfully demonstrated the use of plastics micromolding to generate both single a...

Product quality for plastic injection molding process is highly related with the settings for its process parameters. Additionally, the product quality is not simply based on a single quality index, but multiple interrelated quality indices. To find the settings for the process parameters such that the multiple quality indices can be simultaneously optimized is becoming a research issue and ...

Today, hot embossing and injection molding belong to the established plastic molding processes in microengineering. Based on experimental findings, a variety of microstructures have been replicated so far using the processes. However, with increasing requirements regarding the embossing surface and the simultaneous decrease of the structure size down into the nanorange, increasing know-how is n...

Polymeric microneedles fabricated by microinjection molding techniques have been demonstrated using Topas COC as the molding plastic material. Open-channel microneedles with cross-sectional area of 100 lm · 100 lm were designed and fabricated on top of a shank of 4.7 mm in length, 0.6 mm in width, and 0.5 mm in depth. The tip of the microneedle has a round shape with a radius of 125 lm as limit...

the variations in plastic injection molding process may lead to the inconsistency of molded parts' dimensions. furthermore, due to the speed of production as well as post-shrinkage of molded parts make the control of process difficult and give inaccurate molded parts. the objective of this research is to predict the dimensions of injection molded parts on the basis of cavity pressure durin...

Injection molding is classified as one of the most flexible and economical manufacturing processes with high volume of plastic molded parts. Causes of variations in the process are related to the vast number of factors acting during a regular production run, which directly impacts the quality of final products. A common quality trouble in finished products is the presence of warpage. Thus, this...

The two objectives of this research are to produce plastic that is environmental friendly whereby the plastic produced can be at least slightly decomposed to smaller substances by the living organisms from marine algae and also to characterize the plastic that have been produced from the marine algae via mechanical and physical testing. In this study, algae which are Red Eucheuma cottonii are t...