Highlight on Low Energy Composite Manufacturing Processes
05 Mar 2025
Campus
When manufacturing fiber reinforced composite materials, either with a thermoset or a thermoplastic resin, external energy is generally required to heat-up the molds and cure or melt the matrix material to produce the final part. Frontal polymerization recently emerged as an alternative to oven cure for thermoset-based resins, as it has the potential to bring unprecedented reductions in energy demand and process time. I will present our recent efforts on this topic to produce high Vf Composite with epoxy matrices cured using this method and controlling the heat exchanges with the mould.
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Campus Speech