GOALI: Manufacturing USA: Energy Efficient Processing of Thermosetting Polymers and Composites

目标：美国制造：热固性聚合物和复合材料的节能加工

基本信息

批准号：
1933932
负责人：
Nancy Sottos
金额：
$ 199.9万
依托单位：
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2019-08-01 至 2024-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1933932&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
GOALI Manufacturing USA Energy Efficient

项目摘要

This Grant Opportunity for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) project will research a new method for the manufacture of plastics and fiber reinforced composite materials, which are critical elements in structures like aircraft, automobiles and wind turbine blades, where light weight and high strength are required. Current methods for manufacturing these materials are costly and energy intensive, due to the high temperatures and long times required for processing. Drawing inspiration from how living system develop, this multidisciplinary research project will result in new plastic materials that require only small initial energy input to rapidly trigger the entire manufacturing process and dramatically reduce environmental impact. This new, more efficient method has significant potential to improve U.S. economic competitiveness in the critical area of composites manufacturing. The energy efficient concepts under development also provide an ideal platform to motivate and educate the next generation of students, postdoctoral researchers, entrepreneurs, industry and the general public on the importance of sustainable manufacturing. A new manufacturing method for thermosetting polymers, coatings and composites will be developed based on an autocatalytic (self-propagating) polymerization reaction occurring in a system undergoing reaction and diffusion of its components. The system uses the exothermic release of energy to provide a positive feedback to the reaction. In turn, this stimulates further exothermic energy release and a self-propagating reaction front that rapidly moves through the material; a process called frontal polymerization. Once triggered, the reaction progresses with zero energy input. The self-sustained propagation of a reaction wave through the material gives rise to entirely new ways of rapidly manufacturing high performance polymers and composites, without the use of conventional autoclaves or ovens. The planned research will lead to scientific advances in the organic chemistry of self-propagating reactions, machine learning driven design and synthesis of new monomers for frontal polymerization, multiscale characterization and modeling of front instabilities, and control of frontal polymerization for manufacturing. The research objectives are designed to improve fundamental understanding of frontal polymerization and to apply this knowledge to the rapid out-of-autoclave production of thermosetting coatings, fiber-reinforced composites and 3D printed architecturally complex, reinforced polymers.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个学术与工业联络的资助机会（GOALI）项目将研究一种制造塑料和纤维增强复合材料的新方法，这些材料是飞机、汽车和风力涡轮机叶片等结构的关键元件，这些结构要求轻质和高强度。必需的。由于加工需要高温和长时间，目前制造这些材料的方法成本高昂且能源密集。这个多学科研究项目从生命系统的发展中汲取灵感，将开发出新的塑料材料，只需少量的初始能量输入即可快速触发整个制造过程，并大大减少对环境的影响。这种更有效的新方法具有提高美国在复合材料制造关键领域的经济竞争力的巨大潜力。正在开发的节能概念还提供了一个理想的平台，以激励和教育下一代学生、博士后研究人员、企业家、行业和公众了解可持续制造的重要性。一种用于热固性聚合物、涂料和复合材料的新制造方法将基于在其组分发生反应和扩散的系统中发生的自催化（自传播）聚合反应而开发。该系统利用放热释放的能量为反应提供正反馈。反过来，这会刺激进一步的放热能量释放和快速穿过材料的自传播反应前沿；称为正面聚合的过程。一旦触发，反应就会以零能量输入进行。反应波通过材料的自我持续传播带来了快速制造高性能聚合物和复合材料的全新方法，而无需使用传统的高压釜或烤箱。计划中的研究将推动自蔓延反应的有机化学、机器学习驱动的正面聚合新单体的设计和合成、正面不稳定性的多尺度表征和建模以及制造过程中正面聚合的控制等方面的科学进步。研究目标旨在提高对正面聚合的基本理解，并将这些知识应用于热固性涂料、纤维增强复合材料和 3D 打印结构复杂的增强聚合物的快速非高压釜生产。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命和通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，该项目被认为值得支持。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（20）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

Frontal vs. bulk polymerization of fiber-reinforced polymer-matrix composites

DOI：
10.1016/j.compscitech.2020.108303
发表时间：
2020-09
期刊：
Composites Science and Technology
影响因子：
9.1
作者：
S. Vyas;Xiang Zhang;E. Goli;P. Geubelle
通讯作者：
S. Vyas;Xiang Zhang;E. Goli;P. Geubelle

Anisotropic Foams via Frontal Polymerization

DOI：
10.1002/adma.202105821
发表时间：
2022-01-15
期刊：
ADVANCED MATERIALS
影响因子：
29.4
作者：
Alzate-Sanchez, Diego M.;Cencer, Morgan M.;Moore, Jeffrey S.
通讯作者：
Moore, Jeffrey S.

Frontal Polymerization of Thin Layers on a Thermally Insulating Substrate

DOI：
10.1021/acsapm.2c00497
发表时间：
2022-06-10
期刊：
ACS APPLIED POLYMER MATERIALS
影响因子：
5
作者：
Gao, Yuan;Koett, Luis E. Rodriguez;Geubelle, Philippe H.
通讯作者：
Geubelle, Philippe H.

Storable, Dual-Component Systems for Frontal Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization

DOI：
10.1021/acs.macromol.2c00775
发表时间：
2022-06
期刊：
Macromolecules
影响因子：
5.5
作者：
Benjamin A. Suslick;Aliza N. Yazdani;M. Cencer;J. E. Paul;Nil A. Parikh;Katherine J. Stawiasz;Isabel P.
通讯作者：
Benjamin A. Suslick;Aliza N. Yazdani;M. Cencer;J. E. Paul;Nil A. Parikh;Katherine J. Stawiasz;Isabel P.

Buoyancy-Induced Convection Driven by Frontal Polymerization