But [HowToMechatronics] knew that the polystyrene foam blocks he’d be using would easily yield to a hot nichrome wire, minimizing the cutting forces and the need for a stout frame. But the ...

As a closed-cell foam, Styrofoam products are made to provide ... "Heat can generate more free chemical building blocks, and ...

“Every block of expanded polystyrene foam has a statue inside it and it is the task of the dual-arm hot wire-wielding robot to discover it.” — [Michelangelo], probably. But hot-wire cutters ...

(KATU) — A new year means new laws taking effect in Oregon. One of those new laws, the statewide ban on Styrofoam to-go containers, will come with an added cost to businesses and likely consumers.

It is fully recyclable because it can be ground and then mixed with virgin expanded polystyrene ... the same foam that is used as stucco backer board and is expanded into large blocks of a pound ...

Researchers have used machine learning to design nano-architected materials that have the strength of carbon steel but the lightness of Styrofoam. The team describes how they made nanomaterials with ...