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A combination of increasingly stringent environmental legislation and economic competition is driving industrial processes further and further towards the three “E”s of chemical manufacture: economy, efficiency and environmental impact. In this paper, we present a novel aqueous method for the synthesis of polyimides. The products resulting from this process perform similarly, through both qualitative and quantitative comparisons, to those conventionally produced using high boiling dipolar aprotic solvent. This highly efficient one-pot method potentially provides economic advantage through low solvent cost and environmental impact benefit from the manageable aqueous waste.

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Polyimide aqueous polymer synthesis thermoset thermoplastic high-performance resins composites Ultem 1000®PETI-5®P 84®

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Water as Solvent in Polyimide Synthesis: Thermoset and Thermoplastic Examples

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