Work We've Done
Develop High Temperature and Impact Resistant Polymers
A customer contacted PSI who was interested in developing a material involving the use of an abandoned patent method to synthesize a monomer for high temperature polymer applications. The project involved repeating the patent synthetic method, optimizing the method to maximize yield and minimize the number of synthetic steps and cooperating with a downstream contractor to transition the synthesis method to the several ton production level.
Our work involved scaling the synthetic method from several grams to several kilos and identifying the key synthetic issues and chemical engineering hurdles that needed to be addressed to allow for a cost effective and safe production method.
In another project, PSI was contacted by a customer that needed research conducted on a method to produce an aerospace composite matrix resin with optimized impact resistance properties. The customer identified an abandoned patent that claimed to produce materials with properties of interest to them.
PSI repeated the synthetic technique, identified key discrepancies in the synthetic process, both in the synthetic method and in the cost effectiveness of their approach, to generate a material that achieved the desired material performance metric and cost allowance. Key synthetic parameters were forwarded to a larger scale up manufacturers to transition the material to production scale.
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