Super-tough PLA-based blends with excellent stiffness and greatly improved thermal resistance via interphase engineering

M Mehrabi Mazidi, H Sharifi… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Super-tough poly (lactic acid)/polycarbonate (PLA/PC)(50/50) blends with an excellent
balance of stiffness, toughness, and thermal stability were systematically designed and …

Shelf-stable Bingham plastic polyurethane thermosets for additive manufacturing

T Wang, L Shen, M Forrester, TH Lee… - ACS Materials …, 2024 - ACS Publications
This study presents an innovative three-dimensional (3D) printing method for fabricating
hybrid-hardness polyurethane (PU) thermosets via direct-ink writing (DIW). This method …

RAFT unchained—Scalable manufacturing of thiocarbonyl chain transfer agents

V Garg, A McCaslin, MJ Forrester, BW Kuehl… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Here, we report an efficient approach for the manufacturing of chain-transfer agents (CTA)
for RAFT polymerization using non-volatile organic compounds (VOC) in one pot with only …

Fully Atom-Efficient Solvent-Mediated Biopolymer Manufacturing: A Base Case Illustrated with Macromolecular Surfactants Tailored to Stable Polymer–Water …

B Kuehl, S Raman, A Becker, V Garg… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
This work introduces a novel 1-pot, 0-waste, 0-VOC methodology for synthesizing polymeric
surfactants using acrylated epoxidized soybean oil and acrylated glycerol as primary …