• openAccess   Decoupling manufacturing from application in additive manufactured antimicrobial materials 

      Wales, Dominic; Miralles-Comins, Sara; Franco Castillo, Isabel; Cameron, Jamie; Cao, Qun; Karjalainen, Erno; Alves Fernandes, Jesum; Newton, Graham; Mitchell, Scott George; Sans, Victor Royal Society of Chemistry (2021-05-11)
      3D printable materials based on polymeric ionic liquids (PILs) capable of controlling the synthesis and stabilisation of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) and their synergistic antimicrobial activity are reported. The ...
    • openAccess   Environmental performance of 3D-Printing polymerisable ionic liquids 

      Gonçalves Maciel, Vinícius; Wales, Dominic; seferin, marcus; Sans, Victor Elsevier (2018-12-28)
      This work presents a “cradle-to-gate” Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of 3D-printing polymerisable ionic liquids (PILs) using digital light projection (DLP). It is based on primary data from environmental emissions, wastewater, ...
    • openAccess   State-of-the-art and limitations in the life cycle assessment of ionic liquids 

      Gonçalves Maciel, Vinícius; Wales, Dominic; seferin, marcus; Ugaya, Cássia; Sans, Victor Elsevier (2019-01-19)
      Even though the development and use of ionic liquids (ILs) has rapidly grown in recent years, in the literature, information addressing the environmental performance of these substances in a life cycle context is comparatively ...