Contact Dr Festus Ifeanyi Anagwu
- Tel: +447840199803
- Email: F.I.Anagwu@cranfield.ac.uk
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Areas of expertise
- Composites
- Computing, Simulation & Modelling
- Manufacturing of Functional Materials
Background
Dr Festus Ifeanyi Anagwu received his PhD in polymers and composites at Cranfield University. As a PhD researcher, he was also employed as a research assistant in thermoset processing science at Cranfield University. He specializes in high-performance vitrimers for aerospace, composite process science, modelling, and optimization. He is associated with the Composites and Advanced Materials Centre in order to enable publication of pending papers out of his PhD and other research work, which were carried out with Cranfield affiliation. During his PhD, he designed a novel benzoxazine vitrimer, which was adopted as the basis of development for the EU-funded PLAEIDES project launched in 2025, aiming to develop advanced composite technologies for aviation to enable lighter, more durable, and sustainable aircraft structures with expected cost savings of up to 30-40%.
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Anagwu FI, Dossi E & Skordos AA. (2025). High glass transition catalyst-free polybenzoxazine vitrimer through one-pot solventless method. Reactive and Functional Polymers, 209
- Anagwu FI & Skordos AA. (2023). Cure kinetics, glass transition advancement and chemo-rheological modelling of an epoxy vitrimer based on disulphide metathesis. Polymer, 288(December)
- Anagwu FI, Thakur VK & Skordos AA. (2022). High-performance vitrimeric benzoxazines for sustainable advanced materials: design, synthesis, and applications. Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, 308(4)