| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2025 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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2025 Technical Division Student Poster Contest
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| Presentation Title |
SPU-4: Demonstrating the Reprocessability of Liquid Crystalline Epoxy Networks (LCENs) |
| Author(s) |
Mohammad A. Husein, Cotton Pekol, David Harper |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Mohammad A. Husein |
| Abstract Scope |
Lightly crosslinked liquid crystalline epoxy networks (LCEN) possess unique characteristics that allow them to exhibit stimuli responsive behavior and shape memory. As a thermosetting epoxy, such materials are often excluded from recycling and reprocessing techniques; however, dynamic covalent bonding may be employed to enable recyclability. In this work, we demonstrate a functional LCEN capable of shape memory and the ability to self-heal via dynamic bonding mechanisms. We also demonstrate the retention of functional properties after multiple reprocessing cycles and modes. In this way, this system shows promise for introducing a class of more sustainable, functional epoxies. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Undecided |
| Keywords |
Polymers, Sustainability, Recycling and Secondary Recovery |