Acrylic is a synthetic plastic material made from a polymer called polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA). It is a lightweight, shatter-resistant and versatile material that is commonly used for a wide range ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. As the world attempts to return to a kind of normal in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, plexiglass ...

Although chemist and inventor Otto Rohm had first come up with the idea for plexiglass in 1901, it wasn’t until 1933 that the Rohm & Haas company first introduced it to the market under the trademark ...

Acrylic sheets are relatively inexpensive, pretty, and can be heat-shaped very effectively. There are blades and tools made specifically for cutting, heating, and bending acrylic but [Marija] shows ...

Architect Ichio Matsuzawa has designed the pop-up AWT Bar for the annual Art Week Tokyo, using transparent acrylic sheets ...

[Julius Curt] needed to mark acrylic panels with a bit more clarity than the usual way of rastering the surface, so they attempted to 3D print directly to an acrylic sheet, which worked perfectly. The ...

Scientists at the Mutah University in Jordan have sought the reduce the operating temperature of photovoltaic panels by placing clear acrylic sheets in various slops over the modules at a distance of ...