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Retrosynthetic Life Cycle Assessment

A Short Perspective on the Sustainability of Integrating Thermoplastics and Artificial Intelligence Into Composite Systems

Over the past 30 years, the polymer composite industry has flourished, producing advanced structural materials for the aviation, energy, and transportation sectors. However, the use of crosslinked thermoset matrices has been linked to significant end-of-life challenges, presentin ...
Utilization of sustainable feedstocks to fabricate renewable thermosetting epoxy resins has been of great interest recently; however, their translation into composite structures and benchmark comparisons are poorly understood. Phloroglucinol is a phenolic molecule obtained from b ...

Bio-Based Epoxies

Mechanical Properties And Free Volume Perspectives

Epoxy resins have been used as composite matrix materials for over half a century, enabling lightweight materials for a variety of applications. Their properties including high strength, chemical resistance, and ease of processing feature them as prime candidates for composite ap ...
Twin matrix composites (TMC) are novel composite architectures where reinforcing composite elements are embedded in a secondary resin to address various mechanical functions suited for diverse engineering applications such as morphing wings. Here, for the first time, a recyclable ...
The development of epoxy resin formulations from renewable feedstocks has been thoroughly explored in the chemical literature. A simple one-pot chemical reaction involving sustainable phenolic molecules and epichlorohydrin results in the production of renewable epoxy monomers. Th ...
Developing high-performance carbonaceous anode materials for sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) is still a grand quest for a more sustainable future of energy storage. Introducing sulfur within a carbon framework is one of the most promising attempts toward the development of highly eff ...
In this work, we pioneered the preparation of diamond-containing flexible electrodes using 3D printing technology. The herein developed procedure involves a unique integration of boron-doped diamond (BDD) microparticles and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) within a flexible p ...
The present study describes the development of cure kinetics and chemo-rheological models for an epoxy vitrimer based on polyimine exchange to elucidate the potential in terms of processing and accurate process selection. Reaction kinetics is investigated using differential scann ...
Metal-free graphitic carbon nitrides are on the rise as polymer photocatalysts under visible light illumination, taking shares in a range of promising photocatalytic reactions, including water splitting. Their simple synthesis and facile structural modification afford them except ...
Two-dimensional (2D) materials have great potential in macromolecular synthesis, yet there are some areas that still need to be explored, such as anionic polymerization. In this study, we present the first example of photoinduced anionic polymerization of ethyl-2-cyanoacrylate (E ...
The aerospace industry has been benefiting from the utilization of polymer materials since fiber-reinforced polymer composites (FRPC) offer high performances at low densities compared to metals. FRPC facilitated the design of lightweight materials, which is extensively used in av ...
The utilization of sunlight to conduct chemistry has been on a stark rise in the era of sustainability. A similar trend is observed in polymer science, mainly to initiate polymerization and modify polymer materials, but mostly relying on the utilization of soluble initiator/activ ...
Controlled radical polymerization corresponds to variety of synthetic strategies that aim the generation of precise macromolecular architectures. Iodine transfer polymerization (ITP) is one of the oldest methods to conduct controlled radical polymerization; however, it seems to h ...

Light-Enabled Access to Oxidative Polymerization

A Short Perspective on Bioinspired Oxidative Photopolymerization

Solar irradiation provides critical energy to conduct chemical reactions. Many light-sensitive materials, such as semiconductors, guide photoredox-induced chemical pathways to tailor favored chemical conversions. Polymer synthesis by light is popular, however mainly addressed by ...

Geared photochemistry

An interdependent heterogeneous near-infrared catalytic system using up-conversion glass and g-CN for CuAAC chemistry

From the synthesis of small biomolecules to complex macromolecular structures, click chemistry is one of the most promising and straightforward methodologies owing to its easy accessibility and high efficiency. A dual-heterogeneous photocatalyst with the capability of engendering ...
Polymerization of multifunctional thiol-ene molecules is attractive as a proof of concept in photopolymerization, yet the formation of a bead structure is highly restricted. This manuscript will show graphitic carbon nitride based liquid–liquid printing and subsequent photopolyme ...