Innovative coagulator design for the production of advanced compositematerials.

This unique approach to product and process design involves 2 intimately associated activities:

development of novel structured composite materials (SCM) in the form of latexes; and the related

design of a coagulator to tailor the final particle size distribution of the composite latex particles. If

produced correctly, SCM can provide society with useful, valuable products at a reasonable price that

are made in water-based reaction medium rather than in organic solvents. They allow us to

synergistically combine the novel properties of nanocomposite materials with the low price, ease of

production and flexibility of polymeric materials. In the current project we will be focusing on nanoand

micro-fibre reinforced elastomers. Once produced in the reactor, these aqueous dispersions need

to be coagulated in order to obtain them in a useful form, and this project will also contribute to the TBC

Faculty Supervisor:

Timothy McKenna;Robin Hutchinson;Martin Guay

Student:

Partner:

DuPont (Kingston, ON)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

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