Reaction wave polymerization

Reaction wave polymerization is a process that I first observed at the BFGoodrich research and development center when I worked there on high-performance epoxy adhesives for aircraft (I was a research technician). My boss Carl Weber (to my knowledge) was the first person to observe this process. Later on I decided to make it my dissertation topic In graduate school at the University of Akron. My work was fairly succinctly summarized in a published paper that I'm linking here. from 1985 in the Journal polymer process engineering.

Reaction wave polymerization was the second idea that took me over for a number of years. The first idea was a modification of the ice maker heatpump. The ice maker heatpump idea got me into studying chemical engineering, where I gave papers three years in a row in the student AICHE meetings. I did finally give a paper at a scientific Conference on green technologies in construction in Tucson Arizona; at least I know that there is a paper preserved in a library somewhere, and eventually I will find it. 

Virtually my whole life, at any given phase I was motivated by a particular project or invention. It is a really good way to learn about things. In addition to the life-changing deep deep interest that I developed for certain areas; I have also entertained ideas that were more of a passing nature. I intend to post on this blog site a lot of those ideas as well. 

I have frequently returned to the idea of reaction wave polymerization during my career. I want to mention in particular that I filed several SBIR grant applications looking for support to develop this technology. I am going to link an excerpt of one of those SBIR grant applications, which was to the Air Force in the year 2008.


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