225 Polymer Reaction Engineering

Monday, November 9, 2015: 3:15 PM - 5:45 PM
251B (Salt Palace Convention Center)

Description:
This session will cover topics of current interest in polymerization kinetics, catalysis, and reaction engineering. Papers may include areas such as the chemistry of polymerization, polymer reactions and physical interactions, design of new catalysts for controlled polymerizations, and polymerizations in novel media and/or reactor configurations. ***Note to faculty candidates: please include a note to the session chair during submission to alert them to your status***

Sponsor:
Polymers
Chair:
Christopher J. Ellison Email: ellison@che.utexas.edu
Co-Chair:
Julie Albert Email: jalbert6@tulane.edu



3:45 PM
(225b) Ester-Mediated Amide Bond Formation and the Prebiotic Origin of Peptides
Sheng-Sheng Yu, Jay G. Forsythe, Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, Facunda M. Fernández, Nicholas V. Hud, F. Joseph Schork and Martha A. Grover



4:15 PM
(225d) From Laboratory to Industrial Continuous Production of Polyesters from Renewable Resources
Liborio Ivano Costa, Francesca Tancini, Emmanuel Rapendy and Ulla Trommsdorff


4:30 PM





5:30 PM
(225i) Photoactive Monomer for Light Mediated Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization
Ishan Fursule, Brad Berron, Qunfei Zhou and Matthew Beck
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