Closed-loop additive manufacturing of upcycled commodity plastic through dynamic cross-linking

Kim, Sungjin; Rahman, Anisur; Arifuzzaman, Arif; Gilmer, Dustin; Li, Bingrui; Wilt, Jackson; Lara-Curzio, Edgar; Saito, Tomonori

doi:10.1126/sciadv.abn6006

Closed-loop additive manufacturing of upcycled commodity plastic through dynamic cross-linking

Journal Article · Fri Jun 03 04:00:00 EDT 2022 · Science Advances

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abn6006· OSTI ID:1871908

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Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education

A sustainable closed-loop manufacturing would become reality if commodity plastics can be upcycled into higher-performance materials with facile processability. Such circularity will be realized when the upcycled plastics can be (re)processed into custom-designed structures through energy/resource-efficient additive manufacturing methods, especially by approachable and scalable fused filament fabrication (FFF). Here, we introduce a circular model epitomized by upcycling a prominent thermoplastic, acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) into a recyclable, robust adaptive dynamic covalent network (ABS-vitrimer) (re)printable via FFF. The full FFF processing of ABS-vitrimer overcomes the major challenge of (re)printing cross-linked materials and produces stronger, tougher, solvent-resistant three-dimensional objects directly reprintable and separable from unsorted plastic waste. This study thus offers an imminently adoptable approach for advanced manufacturing toward the circular plastics economy.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1871908

Journal Information:: Science Advances, Journal Name: Science Advances Journal Issue: 22 Vol. 8; ISSN 2375-2548

Publisher:: AAASCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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