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Purdue investigators:
Mechanical Eng.
George Chiu
Chemistry
Alexander Wei
Jeff Youngblood (PI) Materials Eng.
Civil Eng.
Pablo Zavattieri
Sustainable Nanomanufacturing:
Creating the Industries of the Future
Industrial partners:
Forest Products
Laboratories
Thora Maltais
translucent CN film
Jeff Youngblood
Multilayer laminate
CNF film
Polymer
5-layer CNpolymer film
Thora Maltais
OH
O
R
O
HO
OH
O HO
O
HO
OH
HO
O
catalytic DMSO
(ball milling)
O
OH
O
O
O
CO2R
TMS
CN (surface alcohols)
N
H
N
H
TMS
TMSO
TMSO
O
(ball milling)
O
OTMS
Cellulose
nanocrystals (CNs)
Environmentally
controlled pulverizer
OH
HO
O
O
O
O
CN-SAN
OH
N O
styrene,
acrylonitrile
HO
O
solventless
SIP
CN
O
O
O
N O
Ph
n
Thora Maltais
Uniaxial
alignment
Optical birefringence of
CN films (0.515 m)
Thora Maltais
Result of detection
algorithm: Defects
can be distinguished,
even with uneven
illuminance
void
scratch
wrinkle
gel