Dr. Gerard Caneba
Professor, Chemical Engineering
The free-radical precipitation-polymerization (FRRPP) process
is a polymerization method that was produced by
Dr. Caneba
in the 1990s, and it involves the inherent control over chain
reaction in polymerization operations. Conceptual underpinnings
of the FRRPP process, such as reactive spinodal decomposition
in microscale has already been developed in the first FRRPP
monograph, and mesoscale-macroscale computer simulation of
flat temperature profiles of FRRPP systems have also been
discovered and presented in the second FRRPP monograph.
Dr. Caneba's recent research has shown the occurrence of flat
composition profiles in FRRPP systems. These discoveries of
flat temperature and composition profiles confirm the inherent
reaction and dimensional control of products from this method.
This combined phenomenon was used for micro-patterning and for
entrapment of reactive radical sites, for the formation of
block co-polymers that can be used as intermediates,
surfactants, coatings, coupling agents, foams, and hydrogels.
FRRPP-based materials and its mechanism have also been proposed
to be relevant in energy and environmentally responsible
applications.
Dr. Caneba and his group have therefore embarked on the use of
the Superior's capabilities, in order to combine microscale
spinodal decomposition with the mesoscopic-macroscopic computer
simulation efforts that resulted in flat temperature and
composition profiles for the FRRPP process. Anticipated
results of this computational effort along with new
experimental results will be assembled into the third FRRPP
monograph.
Recent publications
| 01 |
Emulsion Free-Radical Retrograde-Precipitation Polymerization G. T. Caneba, Y. L. Dar Springer-Verlag (2014) |
| 02 |
Free-Radical Retrograde-Precipitation Polymerization (FRRPP): Novel Concept, Processes, Materials, and Energy Aspects G. T. Caneba Springer-Verlag (2010) |
| 03 |
Analytical Solutions and Computer Simulations of the Evolution of Flat Temperature Profiles in Spherical FRRPP Systems G. T. Caneba, M. Alharthi Journal of Minerals and Materials Characterization and Engineering, vol. 1, p. 184 (2013) |
| 04 |
Flat Temperature and Composition Profiles from the FRRPP Process G. T. Caneba, M. Alharthi, L. Wang Submitted to Open Journal of Mathematical Modeling |
