Congrats to Sarah on passing her thesis background exam! We are excited to see what you will do next 🙂
Congrats to Dr. Lee on his most recently accepted manuscript to RSC Applied Polymers!
Congrats to Dr. Lee and our former postdoc, Dr. Jianxun Cui, on their publication, “Creation of three-dimensional composite architectures via high-intensity focused ultrasound inside of foams” which has been accepted to RSC Applied Polymers!
Congrats to Dr. Gitter on earning his PhD!
Congrats to Dr. Sean Gitter on defending his PhD dissertation, “Polymer Design Enabled by Catalysis”! Dr. Gitter will be working as a postdoc with Prof. Brent Sumerlin at the University of Florida. We are very …
Congrats to Dr. Chin on earning his PhD!
Congrats to Dr. Kyle Chin on defending his PhD dissertation, “From Molecules to Models: Advances in the 3D Printing of Polymeric Materials Towards Improved Control, Sustainability, and Functionality!” Dr. Chin will be going to RockyTech …
Congrats to Jerry and Kyle on their most recent paper in Additive Manufacturing!
Congrats to Jerry and Kyle on their most recent paper in Additive Manufacturing! This work reports on the design, testing, and application of an open-source powder material extrusion 3D printer.
Design, testing, and application of an open-source powder material extrusion 3D printer
Additive Manufacturing, Volume 81, 5 February 2024, 104014
Powder material extrusion (PME) additive manufacturing (AM) is a convenient and practical method to study novel materials by circumventing the need for filamentation or compounding of materials. Avoiding additional processing steps can be an enabler for research with exploratory materials or those that otherwise display thermal instabilities. In this work, we present the design, development, and testing of an open-source PME printer. The open-source PME 3D printer achieves print quality on par with commercial material extrusion 3D printers in terms of dimensional accuracy, print quality, and mechanical performance. Additionally, we demonstrate this system to be versatile and robust through printing of recycled materials, polymer composites, polymer blends, and functional polymers with thermally sensitive moieties. The broad range of build materials illustrates the diverse capabilities accessible with this system, which enabled access to properties and functions such as phosphorescence, ferromagnetism, shape memory, and mechanochromism. By improving the accessibility of PME AM and demonstrating its versatility, we hope to enable others to explore novel material systems.
Congrats to Dr. Rigoglioso on earning his PhD!
Congrats to Dr. Vincent Rigoglioso on defending his PhD dissertation, “Assessing and Optimizing the Performance of Photoredox-Mediated Metal-Free Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization in Batch and Flow Reactors!” We are very proud of you and will miss …
Welcome to our new undergrad researcher, Hayoung!
We are very excited to have you in our group!
Congrats to Brittany on passing her RP!
Congrats Brittany for passing her research proposal (RP) about “Evaluating Efficacy of Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity with Tröger’s Base Linkages on Dye Adsorption in Aqueous Systems”! We are excited to see what you will do …
Congrats to Sean and Ruojia on their most recent publication in ACS Macro Letters!
Congrats to Sean and Ruojia for publishing their most recent publication in ACS Macro Letters! This work reports on metal-free ring-opening metathesis polymerization of active esters and divergent postpolymerization modification.