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Extremely Strong Material Made from Ternary Acrylic Resin System
Title: Extremely Strong Material Made from Ternary Acrylic Resin System
Unmet Need: Chemical recycling of plastic waste through aminolysis diverts waste stream to useful resin products
Polylactic acid (PLA) is the most used bioplastic in the world. PLA products include disposable cutlery, electronics, and medical implants. Degradation of PLA by aminolysis...
Published: 3/18/2025
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Inventor(s): Jinwen Zhang, Lin Shao, Yu-Chung Chang
Keywords(s): 3D printing, acrylic resin, lactic acid, photocuring, polylactic acid, recycling
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A Facile, Mild, Fast, Catalyst Free Polylactic Acid (PLA) Degradation Method that Generates a Variety of Valuable Products
Unmet Need: Current Polylactic Acid Recycling Processes are not Optimal, Requiring High Pressures/Temperatures, Long Degradation Times and/or Catalysts
Currently, PLA degradation routes are divided into three categories: high temperature hydrolysis, low temperature hydrolysis and alcoholysis. Alcoholysis usually requires transesterification catalysts...
Published: 10/8/2024
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Inventor(s): Jinwen Zhang, Yu-Chung Chang, Lin Shao
Keywords(s): 3D printing, aminolysis, chemcial recycling, polylactic acid, recycling of composites
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A prism array based portable microplate reader
Unmet Need: Portable and low-cost point-of-care smart phone reader
Traditionally, microplate based assays rely on laboratory microplate reader for data reading and analysis. This greatly limited the application of microplate based assays to laboratories and well-trained professionals. For on-field applications that require rapid and immediate, low-cost,...
Published: 10/8/2024
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Inventor(s): Lei Li, Li-Ju Wang, Rongrong Sun, Yu-Chung Chang
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