Network formation and physical properties of epoxy resins for future practical applications

A Shundo, S Yamamoto, K Tanaka - Jacs Au, 2022 - ACS Publications
Epoxy resins are used in various fields in a wide range of applications such as coatings,
adhesives, modeling compounds, impregnation materials, high-performance composites …

The key to solving plastic packaging wastes: Design for recycling and recycling technology

Q Ding, H Zhu - Polymers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Confronted with serious environmental problems caused by the growing mountains of
plastic packaging waste, the prevention and control of plastic waste has become a major …

Machine learning discovery of high-temperature polymers

L Tao, G Chen, Y Li - Patterns, 2021 - cell.com
To formulate a machine learning (ML) model to establish the polymer's structure-property
correlation for glass transition temperature T g, we collect a diverse set of nearly 13,000 real …

Effect of functionalization on thermal conductivities of graphene/epoxy composites

X Shen, Z Wang, Y Wu, X Liu, JK Kim - Carbon, 2016 - Elsevier
Functionalization is widely used to improve the dispersion of graphene in a polymer matrix
when fabricating composites. However, there is no consensus on whether functionalization …

Molecular dynamics predictions of thermal and mechanical properties of thermoset polymer EPON862/DETDA

C Li, A Strachan - Polymer, 2011 - Elsevier
We use molecular dynamics (MD) to perform an extensive characterization of the thermo-
mechanical response of a thermoset polymer composed of epoxy EPON862 and curing …

Molecular scale simulations on thermoset polymers: A review

C Li, A Strachan - Journal of polymer science part B: polymer …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This article reviews the field of molecular simulations of thermoset polymers. This class of
polymers is of interest in applications ranging from structural components for aerospace to …

Polymatic: a generalized simulated polymerization algorithm for amorphous polymers

LJ Abbott, KE Hart, CM Colina - Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, 2013 - Springer
This work presents a generalized structure generation methodology for amorphous
polymers by a simulated polymerization technique and 21-step molecular dynamics …

Accelerated ReaxFF simulations for describing the reactive cross-linking of polymers

A Vashisth, C Ashraf, W Zhang, CE Bakis… - The Journal of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Various methods have been developed to perform atomistic-scale simulations for the cross-
linking of polymers. Most of these methods involve connecting the reactive sites of the …

Reactive molecular dynamics simulation of epoxy for the full cross-linking process

SU Patil, SP Shah, M Olaya… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Epoxy resins are used extensively in composite materials for a wide range of engineering
applications, including structural components of aircraft and spacecraft. The processing of …

The effect of cross linking density on the mechanical properties and structure of the epoxy polymers: molecular dynamics simulation

A Shokuhfar, B Arab - Journal of molecular modeling, 2013 - Springer
Recently, great attention has been focused on using epoxy polymers in different fields such
as aerospace, automotive, biotechnology, and electronics, owing to their superior properties …