Articles tagged: transparency

History Polycarbonates were discovered by German scientist Alfred Einhorn in the late 1890s. However, despite more than 30 years of research into this class of polymers, the project was abandoned, as … Read more

History Polyetherimide (PEI) is a high-performance thermoplastic polymer developed in the early 1980s by General Electric Plastics (now part of SABIC) and introduced to the market under the tradename … Read more

History The development of acrylic started with the discovery of methyl methacrylate (MMA) in the 1870s by Henri Moreau, a French chemist. It was only four decades later that British scientists at Im … Read more