Materials for Personal/Home Care & Cosmetics

Symposium Chairs

Prithwiraj Maitra
Research Director & Fellow
Johnson and Johnson

YuanQiao Rao
Fellow, The Dow Chemical Company

Johan Pluyter
President and Founder
Pluyter Consulting, LLC

Key Speakers

Formulation Design of Biosurfactant and Biopolymer Based Personal Care Products
Samiul Amin
Associate Professor, Manhattan College

Game-Changing Odor Elimination Technology for Retail, Textile, and Industrial Applications
Paul Sander
Engineering Supervisor, Ultratech

Richard Gross
Professor
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Symposium Sessions
	Tuesday June 18
10:30	Packaging Materials Innovation
	Wednesday June 19
1:30	Materials for Personal/Home Care & Cosmetics

Symposium Program
	Tuesday June 18

10:30	Packaging Materials Innovation	201
	Session chair: YuanQiao Rao, The Dow Chemical Company, US; Johan Pluyter, Pluyter Consulting, LLC
10:30	Vibration Assisted Injection Molding for PLA with Enhanced Mechanical Properties and Reduced Cycle Time P. GAO, A. Duhduh, A. Kundu, J. Coulter, Lehigh University, US
10:50	Novel Nanosilica - latex Polymer Dispersion Composites and Their Beneficial Environmental Application in Water Barrier Coatings for Paper-based Packaging J.H. Johnston, B. Mesic, M.J. Cairns, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
11:10	Gas Barrier Enhancement via Multilayered Thermoplastic Polymer/Fluorophosphate Glass Composites D. Vennerberg, Bemis Company, Inc., US
11:30	Closed Loop Circular Economy Approach for Oil- and Water-Resistant Paper Products M. Rabnawaz, Michgian State University, US
	Wednesday June 19

1:30	Materials for Personal/Home Care & Cosmetics	301
	Session chair: YuanQiao Rao, The Dow Chemical Company, US; Johan Pluyter, Pluyter Consulting, LLC, US
1:30	Formulation Design of Biosurfactant and Biopolymer Based Personal Care Products S. Amin, Manhattan College, US
1:55	New Natural Material Based Hair Styling Product-MaizecareTM YQ. Rao, Dow, US
2:20	Yeast Cell Wall Particle Encapsulation of Pro-Terpene Payloads E. Soto, F. Rus, G. Ostroff, University of Massachusetts Medical School, US
2:40	Production of Nano-emulsions at Relevant Industrial Rates: Use of Innovative Scale-up Strategies T. Panagiotou, R.J. Fisher, Delphi Scientific, LLC, US
3:00	Game-Changing Odor Elimination Technology for Retail, Textile, and Industrial Applications P. Sander, UltraTech, US

Innovations in materials and processing, and in our understanding and control of consumer perceivable performance, enable exciting new products. The challenge of consumer trends and drivers such as all-natural/bio-based products, multifunctional products, preservative-free products, bring industry leaders to the TechConnect World Innovation Conference symposium on Materials for Personal/Home Care and Cosmetics to hear about the latest applications-focused research and development. Submit your abstract today and participate in this exciting event.