ArticleNature communications2021
Rapid synchronized fabrication of vascularized thermosets and composites.
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- Efficient Exothermic Press toward Ultrafast and Scalable Manufacturing of Complex Polymer Composites.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
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- Configuration-independent thermal invariants under flow reversal in thin vascular systems.PNAS nexus · 2023Article
- Rapid Preparation of Superabsorbent Self-Healing Hydrogels by Frontal Polymerization.Gels (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Frontal Polymerizations: From Chemical Perspectives to Macroscopic Properties and Applications.Chemical reviews · 2023Review
- Frontal polymerization-triggered simultaneous ring-opening metathesis polymerization and cross metathesis affords anisotropic macroporous dicyclopentadiene cellulose nanocrystal foam.Communications chemistry · 2022Article
- Quantum Dots-Loaded Self-Healing Gels for Versatile Fluorescent Assembly.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Progress of 3D Bioprinting in Organ Manufacturing.Polymers · 2021Review
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Abstract
Bioinspired vascular networks transport heat and mass in hydrogels, microfluidic devices, self-healing and self-cooling structures, filters, and flow batteries. Lengthy, multistep fabrication processes involving solvents, external heat, and vacuum hinder large-scale application of vascular networks in structural materials. Here, we report the rapid (seconds to minutes), scalable, and synchronized fabrication of vascular thermosets and fiber-reinforced composites under ambient conditions. The exothermic frontal polymerization (FP) of a liquid or gelled resin facilitates coordinated depolymerization of an embedded sacrificial template to create host structures with high-fidelity interconnected microchannels. The chemical energy released during matrix polymerization eliminates the need for a sustained external heat source and greatly reduces external energy consumption for processing. Programming the rate of depolymerization of the sacrificial thermoplastic to match the kinetics of FP has the potential to significantly expedite the fabrication of vascular structures with extended lifetimes, microreactors, and imaging phantoms for understanding capillary flow in biological systems.
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