Polymer and Organic Chemistry Towards 3D Printed Materials for Radiation Detection

Alan Sellinger

aselli@mines.edu

This project would combine organic and polymer chemistry with 3D printing in order to produce materials for application in radiation detection.

Students working on this project would be required to perform organic synthesis so organic chemistry 1&2 are required.  The materials synthesized by the students would then be formulated into inks to be 3D printed into various shapes.  The 3D printing would be performed in our labs but we also have collaborations with NIST Boulder so the student could be a part of this collaboration. Additionally, the printed parts would be tested for radiation detection properties by our partners either at Georgia Tech or Livermore/Sandia National Labs.  So collaboration opportunities abound!

Grand Challenge: Prevent nuclear terror.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsapm.2c00316 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsapm.9b00188 The paper titled "Plastic Scintillators via Rapid Photoinitiated Cationic Polymerization of Vinyltoluene" has a former undergraduate student as a co-author (Connor Hook)

Alan Sellinger, aselli@mines.edu, PI Caleb Chandler, chandler@mines.edu, graduate student John (Ben) Fein-Ashley, jfeinashley@mines.edu, undergraduate student (former MURF student)