3 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
A Unified Thermo-Chemo-Mechanical Framework for Bulk and Frontal Polymerization: Coupled Kinetics and Front Stability
Xuanhe Li, Tal Cohen
Polymerization is a fundamental chemical process enabling large-scale production of material components across modern industries. By transforming a monomer mixture into a cross-lin…
cond-mat.soft2025
Interfacial Cavitation with Surface Tension: New Insights into Failure of Particle Reinforced Polymers
Xuanhe Li, Brendan Unikewicz, S. Chockalingam +2
Understanding and mitigating the failure of reinforced elastomers has been a long-standing challenge in many industrial applications. In an early attempt to shed light on the funda…
cond-mat.soft2023
Mechanical Forces Quench Frontal Polymerization: Experiments and Theory
Xuanhe Li, Tal Cohen
Frontal polymerization is a promising energy-saving method for rapid fabrication of polymer components with good mechanical properties. In these systems, a small energy input is su…