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The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES) created the Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) program in 2009. The Regenerative Energy-Efficient Manufacturing of Thermoset Polymeric Materials (REMAT) EFRC is a four-year award established in 2022 which brings together world experts to advance the science and transformative, circular strategy of energy-efficient manufacturing of thermoset polymers and composites. 

Thermoset polymers and composites are lightweight and durable, making them ideal materials for the energy, aerospace and transportation industries and products from electric vehicles to wind turbine blades. However, the required vast energy output, long cure times and lack of end-of-life strategies render these materials and processes unsustainable. REMAT is developing thermoset materials with low energetic and environmental footprints to enable multiple generations of reuse while reducing our dependence on petrochemical resources.  

Mission

REMAT’s mission is to advance the science of thermochemical reaction-diffusion processes in additive and morphogenic manufacturing and accelerate a transformative, circular strategy for thermoset polymeric and composite materials with programmed end-of-life.