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Controlled Crystallization Of Pet Filaments In Additive Manufacturing, Ryan Kordahi
Controlled Crystallization Of Pet Filaments In Additive Manufacturing, Ryan Kordahi
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) appears in daily life in many forms, the most common being disposable soft drink bottling. To deal with the ever-growing quantitity of disposed PET (both in landfills and environment), a waste plan revolving around depolymerization should be implemented. Specifically, the potential of PET depolymerization through aminolysis into useful, low molecular weight monomers will be explored with the end goal of producing a 3D printing filament and analyzing economic feasibility.