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Essemplex Selected by Material ConneXion
 CRG's thermosplastic shape memory polymer, Essemplex™, was accepted into Material ConneXion's library of innovative materials. It was assessed by a jury panel of creative professionals with materials experience and voted in by a majority. Essemplex will now be displayed in four of Material ConneXion's locations: New York, Bangkok, Cologne and Milan, with a corresponding entry in their on-line database.
A thermoplastic shape memory polymer, Essemplex comes in pelleted form and is useful in applications using extrusion or injection molding to form the memorized shape. The final product can then be heated and reshaped multiple times and will return to its memorized shape if left unrestrained.
Material ConneXion is the world's largest innovative materials library, used by Fortune 500 companies, architects, designers and more. CRG already has Veriflex® thermoset shape memory polymer, Veritex™ shape memory composite, and Advantic™ syntactic featured in this library. (7-21-10)
CRG's Shape Memory Polymer Now Part of Chicago Museum of Science and Industry Exhibit
CRG's Veriflex shape memory polymer is now part of an innovative
materials section in the new permanent Science Storms exhibit,
which opened March 18, 2010 at the Museum of Science and Industry
(MSI), Chicago. CRG contributed two shape memory polymer samples:
one in its original shape and one that is molded to show its shape-changing
abilities. CRG’s shape memory polymer shares the display
with other substances, such as shape memory alloy, ferrofluid,
and aluminum foam.
The Science Storms exhibit reveals the extraordinary science behind some of nature’s most powerful and compelling phenomena—tornados, lightning, fire, tsunamis, sunlight, avalanches and atoms in motion. Inside the 26,000-square-foot exhibit, guests can investigate the basic scientific principles behind nature’s most awe-inspiring events while getting a hands-on, up-close look at these phenomena themselves. For more information about MSI or Science Storms, visit msichicago.org. (5-17-10)
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