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Effects of Weathering and Formulation on the Properties of Vinyl Siding

September 23, 2024
Author(s)
Ronald Lankone, Mauro Zammarano, Song Jhang, Ickchan Kim, David Goodwin, Gianluca Sarti, Stefano Gardi, Camillo Cardelli, Lipiin Sung
Vinyl siding has become a popular choice for residential exteriors across the United States. In its insulated form, this siding includes a shell, capstock, and substrate, that encase a foamed material, serving as an efficient insulating material. While it

Remarkable Dielectric Breakdown Strength of Polyelectrolyte Photopolymer Complexes

September 18, 2024
Author(s)
Ethan Iverson, Hudson Legendre, Jason Killgore, Jaime Grunlan, Thomas Kolibaba
Polymer-based dielectrics are struggling to keep pace with the increasing demands of modern electronics. This lag in dielectric performance has spurred significant interest in the production of advanced dielectrics via novel chemistries and processing

The Block Copolymer Phase Behavior Database

August 10, 2024
Author(s)
Nathan Rebello, Akash Arora, Hidenobu Mochigase, Tzyy-Shyang Lin, Debra Audus, Bradley Olsen
The Block Copolymer Database (BCDB) is a platform that allows users to search, submit, visualize, benchmark, and download experimental phase measurements and their associated characterization information for di- and multiblock copolymers. To the best of

Additive Manufacturing of Highly Entangled Polymer Networks

August 1, 2024
Author(s)
Abhishek Dhand, Matthew Davidson, Hannah Zlotnick, Thomas Kolibaba, Jason Killgore, Jason Burdick
Incorporation of polymer chain entanglements within a single network can synergistically improve stiffness and toughness, yet attaining such dense entanglements through vat photopolymerization additive manufacturing (e.g., digital light processing, DLP)

Entanglement kinetics in polymer melts are chemically specific

July 3, 2024
Author(s)
Benjamin Dolata
We investigate the universality of entanglement kinetics in polymer melts. We compare predictions of a recently developed constitutive equation for disentanglement to molecular dynamics simulations of both united-atom polyethylene and Kremer-Grest models

Predicting the toughness of compatibilized polymer blends

June 19, 2024
Author(s)
Robert Ivancic, Debra Audus
Polymer blends can yield superior materials by merging the unique properties of their components. However, these mixtures often phase separate, leading to brittleness. While compatibilizers can toughen these blends, their vast design space makes

Viscoelastic Assessment Method of Polymeric Foams under Cyclic Fatigue

June 14, 2024
Author(s)
Moira M Foster, Daniel C Morrison, Alexander Landauer, Mark Herynk, Leslie Lamberson
Many energy absorption applications utilize flexible polymeric foams for their viscoelastic properties. It is desired that the material will perform consistently across repeated compression cycles. This study examines the effect of fatigue at low strain

An autonomous design algorithm to experimentally realize three-dimensionally isotropic auxetic network structures without compromising density

May 29, 2024
Author(s)
Meng Shen, Marcos Reyes-Martinez, Ami Ahure Powell, Mark Iadicola, Abhishek Sharma, Fabian Bylehn, Nidhi Pashine, Edwin P. Chan, Christopher Soles, Heinrich Jaeger, Juan de Pablo
Auxetic materials have a negative Poisson's ratio and are of significant interest in applications that include impact mitigation, membrane separations and biomedical engineering. While there are numerous examples of structured materials that exhibit

Simulating drifting fish aggregating device trajectories to identify potential interactions with endangered sea turtles

May 20, 2024
Author(s)
Lauriane Escalle, Joe Scutt Phillips, Jon Lopez, Jennifer Lynch, Hilario Murua, Sarah-Jeanne Royer, Yonat Swimmer, J Murua, Alex Sen Gupta, Victor Restrepo, Gala Moreno
Purse-seine fishers using drifting fish aggregating devices (dFADs), mainly built with bamboo, plastic buoys, and plastic netting, to aggregate and catch tropical tuna, deploy 46,000–65,000 dFADs per year in the Pacific Ocean. Some of the major concerns

Influence of Spectral Bandwidth on the Working Curve in Vat Photopolymerization

April 29, 2024
Author(s)
Benjamin Caplins, Thomas Kolibaba, Uwe Arp, C Cameron Miller, Yuqin Zong, Dianne L. Poster, Callie Higgins, Jason Killgore
In vat photopolymerization, 3-dimensional parts are fabricated by using patterned light to spatially cure a liquid resin. One of the foundational measurements for vat photopolymerization is known as the working curve whereby the depth (i.e. thickness) of

Self-Assembly of Hierarchical High-h Fluorinated Block Copolymers with an Orthogonal Smectic-within-Lamellae 3 nm Sub-Lattice and Vertical Surface Orientation

April 16, 2024
Author(s)
Bijal Patel, Hongbo Feng, Whitney Loo, Chad R. Snyder, Christopher Eom, Julia Murphy, Daniel Sunday, Paul Nealey, Dean DeLongchamp
Hierarchical structure-within-structure assemblies offer a route toward increasingly complex and multifunctional materials while pushing the limits of block copolymer self-assembly. We present a detailed study of the self-assembly of a series of

Evaluating Models That Predict Epoxy Conversion Using Rheological Properties

April 15, 2024
Author(s)
Stian Romberg, Paul Roberts, Chad R. Snyder, Anthony Kotula
Simultaneous rheology and conversion measurements of neat and composite epoxy resins reveal that conventional models neither accurately nor fully describe the relationship between rheology and conversion. We find that models predicting thermoset conversion

Results of an Interlaboratory Study on the Working Curve in Vat Photopolymerization

March 18, 2024
Author(s)
Thomas Kolibaba, Jason Killgore, Benjamin Caplins, Callie Higgins, Uwe Arp, C Cameron Miller, Yuqin Zong, Dianne L. Poster
The working curve informs resin properties and print parameters for stereolithography, digital light processing, and other photopolymer additive manufacturing (PAM) technologies. First demonstrated in 1992, the working curve measurement of cure depth vs

Temperature Dependence of Kinetic Friction: A Handle for Plastics Sorting?

February 26, 2024
Author(s)
Chad R. Snyder, Kalman Migler
Sortation is a crucial step in mechanical recycling of post-consumer plastics (PCR) whereby properties such as density or spectral signature are used to separate plastics. However it is difficult to sort polyolefin flakes at high throughput by these

Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC): An important tool for polymer identification and characterization of plastic marine debris

February 19, 2024
Author(s)
Jennifer Lynch, Raquel Corniuk, Kayla C. Brignac, Melissa Jung, Joelle Marchiani, Wanda Weatherford
Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), a routine thermoanalytical method in material science, is gaining utility in plastic pollution research to improve polymer identification. We optimized a DSC method, experimentally testing pan types, temperature

Toward pluripotent materials through tempering of dynamic covalent polymer networks

February 2, 2024
Author(s)
Anthony Kotula, Nicholas Boynton, Joseph Dennis, Neil Dolinski, Charlie Lindberg, Garrett Grocke, Stephanie Vivod, Shrayesh Patel, Stuart Rowan
Pluripotency is defined as a system not fixed as to its developmental potentialities. While stem cells and pluripotent materials have heretofore been synonymous, a synthetic analog would lead to significant advancements in materials design for resource

Connecting Molecular Exchange Dynamics to Stress Relaxation in Phase-Separated Dynamic Covalent Networks

January 22, 2024
Author(s)
Neil Dolinski, Ran Tao, Nicholas Boynton, Anthony Kotula, Charlie Lindberg, Kyle Petersen, Aaron M. Forster, Stuart Rowan
A suite of phase separated dynamic covalent networks based on highly tunable dynamic benzalcyanoacetate (BCA) thia-Michael acceptors are investigated. In situ kinetic studies on small molecule model systems are used in conjunction with macroscopic

Calculating Pairwise Similarity of Polymer Ensembles via Earth Mover's Distance

January 10, 2024
Author(s)
Jiale Shi, Dylan Walsh, Weizhong Zou, Nathan Rebello, Michael Deagen, Katharina Fransen, Xian Gao, Debra Audus, Bradley Olsen
Synthetic polymers, in contrast to small molecules and deterministic biomacromolecules, are typically ensembles composed of polymer chains with varying numbers, lengths, sequences, chemistry, and topologies. While numerous approaches exist for measuring
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