10th International Aerosol Conference September 2 - September 7, 2018 America's Center Convention Complex St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Industrialization of Fine-Particle-Based “Products by Process” to Enable Demanding Customer Applications
YAKOV KUTSOVSKY, Cabot Corporation
Abstract Number: 1732 Working Group: Invited by Conference Chair
Abstract Over the last 150 years, aerosol-produced fine particles have been used to enable key everyday applications – newspaper printing and reinforcement of tires with carbon black, chemical mechanical polishing of silicon wafers and silicone reinforcement with fumed metal oxides. In contrast, current trends in modern society require vehicle light-weighting and electrification, digital ink jet printing and 3D additive manufacturing. These trends place high demands on new materials that need to deliver key performance attributes as well as scaled manufacturing to allow the appropriate cost-in-use in the applications.
Development and scale-up of particles with the desired application performance attributes bring product and process needs together to define the concept of “product by process” - materials characteristics and performance that are defined by the particle production process and scale. This presentation will introduce this concept and will provide several examples of how it is applied in development of new products for tires and energy materials applications. These developments show that the connection between application needs and a deep understanding of material properties to deliver them can enable new innovations in century old technologies.
In addition to expanding opportunities with existing classes of materials such as carbon blacks we are advancing process and applications technologies with advanced carbon materials - graphenes and carbon nanostructures. These materials require a holistic approach spanning safe production and uses of these materials to finding ways to incorporate them into customer applications to deliver breakthrough performance. Examples to illustrate these points will be shared in the presentations.