Max Saccone
Assistant Professor • Materials, Micro/Nanoscale, Design
max.saccone@colorado.edu

Research Interests

Additive manufacturing, Polymer-derived materials, energy materials

The Saccone Research Group develops and studies manufacturing processes that enable the fabrication of polymer-derived materials. We additively manufacture (3D print) nano-/micro-architected materials by using polymer precursors as scaffolds, reactors, or reactants in conversion processes that yield materials ranging from metals to ceramics to carbon fibers. Deeply understanding these dynamic conversion processes will enable us to effectively build chemical reactors to accomplish precise transformations, to fully utilize byproducts, and to scale up these processes. We approach these problems by developing molecular design strategies for materials for use in energy applications, by looking into the 鈥渂lack box鈥� of conversion processes through thermal and X-ray characterization, and by designing novel reactors that enable the fabrication of previously impossible-to-produce materials.

Select Publications

  1. Lipkowitz, G.; Saccone, M. A.; Panzer, M. A.; Coates, I. A.; Hsiao, K.; Ilyn, D.; Kronenfeld, J. M.; Tumbleston, J. R.; Shaqfeh, E. S. G.; DeSimone, J. M. Growing Three-Dimensional Objects with Light. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2024, 121 (28), e2303648121. .
  2. Saccone, M. A.; Gallivan, R. A.; Narita, K.; Yee, D. W.; Greer, J. R. Additive Manufacturing of Micro-Architected Metals via Hydrogel Infusion. Nature 2022, 612, 685鈥�690. .
  3. Saccone, M. A.; Greer, J. R. Understanding and Mitigating Mechanical Degradation in Lithium鈥揝ulfur Batteries: Additive Manufacturing of Li2S Composites and Nanomechanical Particle Compressions. Journal of Materials Research 2021, 36 (18), 3656鈥�3666. .