第八期教师发展论坛：生物基热固性树脂材料研究：原料选择，单体设计与性能调节

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报告题目：生物基热固性树脂材料研究：原料选择，单体设计与性能调节（Investigation of Biobased Thermoset Materials:Feedstock Selection, Design of Monomer Structure, Manipulation of Properties ）

报告人：张锦文（美国华盛顿州立大学）

报告时间：3月13日14：30-17：30

报告地点：姚穆报告厅（金花校区纺织楼2楼）

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2018年3月12日

个人简介：张锦文，美国华盛顿州立大学教授，博士生导师。主要从事高分子材料领域的研究。他具有多学科的教育背景以及丰富的研究经历。其研究涉足从高分子合成，加工到应用各个方面。特别是在新型生物质聚合物，高分子材料改性，生物质复合材料，水凝胶，化学回收以及纤维纺丝技术等领域取得了突出成就。张锦文教授负责主持多项美国国家科学基金会，美国农业部，美国能源部等机构的项目研究课题，已申请获得超过6百70万美元的科研经费。由于同行业的广泛好评使他的论文索引次数不断增加，并多次受邀在国际学术会议做学术报告。到目前为止，张教授领导的课题组已经发表期刊论文90余篇，累积索引超过4700次， H-index33。同时他还编辑撰写1本著作，11 篇专著章节，拥有5项美国国家专利。

主要研究领域：1. 利用天然可再生原料来合成新型高分子；2. 聚乳酸（PLA）的加工及增韧改性；3.生物基水凝胶的制备和应用；4. 热固性树脂及纤维增强热固性复合材料的化学回收。

Biography

Prof. Jinwen Zhang is a polymer materials scientist. Dr. Zhang has a diverse educational background and a profound research experience. Dr. Zhang’s research interest lies in the areas of synthesis, processing technology and applications of renewable polymer materials. Specially, Zhang has conducted active research in synthesis of new biobasedepoxy polymers, polymer toughening and reinforcing, biocomposites, hydrogels, chemical recycling and novel fiber spinning technology. Zhang has received more than $6.7 millions of competitive grants from National Science Foundation, United States Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, Department of transportation, United Soybean Board, Washington Technology Center and industry. Zhang’s research has been well received from his peers as reflected in the increasing numbers of citation of his publications and those invited presentations in national and international professional conferences in recent years. So far, Dr. Zhang has published 90+ peer-reviewed journal papers, 11 book chapters and edited 1 book.  Dr. Zhang’s publication is well cited by peers, with a H-index of 33 and a total citation of more than 4700 times (Google Scholars).  In addition, Dr. has been awarded 5US patents and has 6patentspending.

Dr. Zhang has received his international recognitions in the following areas:

1. Use of natural and renewable chemicals as feedstocks for synthesis of new polymers

2. Toughening of PLA and processing

3. Preparation and application of biobased hydrogels

4. Chemical recycling of thermosets and fiber reinforced thermosets

Abstract

Compared with petrochemical polymers, biobased polymers are very scarce in terms of variety and production volume. There are only a few biobased polymers commercially available with relatively small scales of production. Currently biobased polymers only find some niche applications due to limited performance and relatively high production costs. In order for biobased polymers to replace conventional polymers in a broad range of applications, it is necessary to manipulate the monomer and building block structure of the renewable polymers for attaining diverse properties. In this work, we have made a series of attempts to explore the use of various renewable feedstocks in developing new thermosetting polymer resins. The renewable feedstocks used include rosin, eugenol, vegetable oils, lignin, terpenes, etc. Syntheses of epoxies, curing agents, and unsaturated polyesters using these renewable feedstocks were studied. By manipulating the molecular structures of monomers and polymers, the resulting polymers exhibited a broad spectrum of properties. Particularly, we have demonstrated that by employing vitrimer chemistry method in the materials preparation, the resulting biobased thermosets exhibit self-healing property, malleability and facile chemical recyclability. In addition, we have also developed viable mild chemical recycling methods for CFRP wastes and investigated the total reuse of the recylates in new composites.