Tailoring Polymer Properties Through Control of Morphology and Hierarchical Design

with Dr. Kylie Van Meter 

Postdoctoral Researcher
Sandia National Laboratories

Abstract: Epoxies are a versatile class of materials with highly tunable thermomechanical properties and are frequently used as shock mitigating materials to protect sensitive electronics. In this talk, I will discuss our recent work on developing additively manufactured phase separating epoxies, whose properties and structure can be tuned at multiple scales. We demonstrate that these phase separating epoxies are promising energy absorbing materials under high strain rate and shock conditions, and additive manufacturing enables an additional avenue to mitigate shock propagation through architectural design. Thermoset foams with tunable pore morphologi...