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IBM’s “Indestructible” Thermosetting Polymer: Polyhexahydrotriazine (PHA)

IBM’s “Indestructible” Thermosetting Polymer: Polyhexahydrotriazine (PHA)

Jeannette “Jamie” Garcia is the researcher credited with discovering a virtually indestructible, recyclable, Nitrogen-based polymer known as “polyhexahydrotriazine” (PHT); though behind its existence, lies an accident. As the by-product of ambitious experimentation, PHT made its appearance when a reagent was left out of a beaker that held the ingredients for observing a random polymeric reaction….