ERC Advanced Grant · 2024
Interactively connecting our polymer production design
A challenge in the polymer industry is the design of molecular and morphological properties along the whole production chain, minimizing energy consumption and product heterogeneity, and ensuring recyclability. Ideally, we need to track the compositional/topological variations and interactions of individual species during (i) synthesis, hence, the polymer reaction engineering (PRE) stage; and (ii) downstream final material shaping, hence, the polymer processing (PP) stage (e.g. (reactive) extrusion). Today, the connection between the PRE and PP stage is weak and monodirectional, with only average, not distributed, ballpark PRE characteristics inputted in PP optimization. Both stages…
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