Reprocessable thermosets for sustainable three-dimensional printing
- Submitting institution
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Nottingham Trent University
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 75 - 703134
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1038/s41467-018-04292-8
- Title of journal
- Nature Communications
- Article number
- 4292
- First page
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- Volume
- 9
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 2041-1723
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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4
- Research group(s)
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A - Imaging, Materials and Engineering Centre
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This output, funded by Singapore Public Sector Funding (A*STAR, Project 1521200086), is recognised internationally as demonstrating how 3D printable and reprocessable thermosetting photopolymer provides a practical solution to “help alleviate environmental challenges” (doi:10.1039/D0TA07088B) associated with increasing consumption of 3D printing materials. It attracted attention as a method for recycling (e.g. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-10582-6; 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121602) and self-healing (doi:10.1039/D0PY01520B) of thermosets, features in reviews as an “elegant” (doi:10.1002/marc.202000475) and “innovative” (10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c02008) method, supported patents (WO-2019217641-A1; WO-2020055609-A1), has received press/news coverage at phys.org (https://phys.org/news/2018-05-reprocessable-thermosets-sustainable-d.html), 3d printing industry (https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/3d-printing-news-digest-ricoh-sciaky-sharebotxaar-materialise-stratasys-133739/) and digital engineering (https://www.digitalengineering247.com/article/is-large-scale-3d-printing-sustainable), and has been the basis for follow-up studies (e.g. doi:10.1039/C9RA00015A; 10.1016/j.cej.2021.128446).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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