Status
In Progress
Material Class
Polymers
specific materials
Polyurethane
20-01-RR-4071

Reprocessing and Upcycling of Mixed Polyurethane Waste Streams

NODE
Technical Thrust
Recycling & Recovery
Chemical & Solvent-Based Recycling & Separation (Atomic/Molecular) Technologies
project Members
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About

This project seeks to increase post-consumer polyurethane foam recycling and circularity through an innovative reprocessing strategy which incorporates a catalyst into the post-consumer materials to enable these materials to be reprocessed by extrusion or injection molding at elevated temperatures to useful products.

PUBLICATIONS

August 7, 2023
Circular Reprocessing of Thermoset Polyurethane Foams
Journal Article
Pub. Info: Advanced Materials 2023
August 27, 2023
Green Catalysts for Reprocessing Thermoset Polyurethanes
Journal Article
Pub. Info: Macromolecules 2023
November 16, 2021
Blending of Polyurethane Thermosets Using Dynamic Urethane Exchange
Journal Article

Jeremy L. Swartz, Daylan T. Sheppard, Greg Haugstad, and William R. Dichtel, “Blending Polyurethane Thermosets Using Dynamic Urethane Exchange,” Macromolecules 2021 54 (23), 11126-11133, DOI: doi/10.1021/acs.macromol.1c01910

Pub. Info: Macromolecules

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