Nature Communications (May 2018)

Reprocessable thermosets for sustainable three-dimensional printing

  • Biao Zhang,
  • Kavin Kowsari,
  • Ahmad Serjouei,
  • Martin L. Dunn,
  • Qi Ge

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04292-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Thermosetting polymers are widely used in 3D printing owing to their superior mechanical stability, but once they are printed, the highly crosslinked polmyers cannot be reprocessed or repaired. Here the authors demonstrate a two-step polymerization strategy toward 3D printing of reprocessable thermosets.