Polymers: sustainability, processes, applications & characterization

Materials for More Sustainable Polymers and Chemicals

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Symposium Co-Chairs

Maksim Shivokhin
Staff Engineer
ExxonMobil

Green Chemistry in Home and Personal Care
YuanQiao Rao
Fellow, The Dow Chemical Company

Yuming Lai
Research Scientist
The Dow Chemical Company

Key Speakers

Jesus Cortes
Market Developer
ExxonMobil

Jean-Mathieu Pin
Director of Research and Development
Polystyvert

Rethinking Plastics – Approaches and Contributions from BASF Plastics Additives Group
Lily Liu
Senior Scientist, BASF

Transforming Plastic Waste for a Low Carbon, Circular Economy
Jill Martin
Senior Fellow, The Dow Chemical Company

Rethinking Materials: From Molecular Recycling to Food Service
Andrew Detwiler
Group Leader, Eastman Chemical

Recyclable-by-Design Plastics for the Future
Katrina Knauer
CTO of BOTTLE Consortium, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Multimodal Characterization of Degraded and Consumer Polyolefins Towards Quantitative Structure-Property Relationships in a Sustainable Plastics Economy
Sara Orski
Research Chemist, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Back to Top ↑ 2023 Symposium Sessions
9:00	Polymers: Keynotes
1:30	Sustainable Polymers
4:00	Polymers - Posters

2023 Symposium Program
	Monday June 19

9:00	Polymers: Keynotes	TBA
	Session chair: Yuming Lai, Dow Chemical, US
	Transforming Plastic Waste for a Low Carbon, Circular Economy J. Martin, MJ Hogg, A. Coleman, D. Chatman-Moore, V. Shah, E. Ruiz, Dow Inc., US
	Rethinking Materials: From Molecular Recycling to Food Service A. Detwiler, Eastman, US
	Recyclable-by-Design Plastics for the Future K. Knauer, E. Chen, G. Beckham, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, US
	Multimodal Characterization of Degraded and Consumer Polyolefins Towards Quantitative Structure-Property Relationships in a Sustainable Plastics Economy S. Orski, National Institute of Standards & Technology, US
	Generation and identification of microplastics under accelerated UV weathering L-P Sung, S.S. Jhang, S. Rostampour, R. Cook, National Institute of Standards and Technology, US

1:30	Sustainable Polymers	TBA
	Session chair: Maksim E. Shivokhin, ExxonMobil, US
	Solvents-based Green Recycling Process of Polystyrene and Associated Copolymers J-M. Pin, Polystyvert Inc., CA
	Rethinking Plastics – Approaches and Contributions from BASF Plastics Additives Group L. Liu, BASF, US
	A Simple, Selective, and General Catalyst for Ring Closing Depolymerization of Polyesters and Polycarbonates for Chemical Recycling C. Gallin, W-W Lee, J.A. Byers, Boston College, US
	The effect of organic nucleating agents on crystallization behavior of polylactic acid P. Gao, J. Krantz, S. Alanazi, D. Masato, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, US
	Synthesis of degradable linear and bottlebrush polymer through atom transfer radical ring-opening polymerization of thionolactone Q.U. Nisa, N.M. Bingham, P.J. Roth, University of surrey, UK
	High Throughput Methods for The Development of Polymeric Stabilizers for The Mechanical Dispersion Process. T.H. Kalantar, M. Ladika, G. Strandburg, A. Safir, S. Zong, Dow Chemical, US
	Cyclic Ketene Acetals (CKAs), Old Monomers with New Features Y. Du, S. Lazzari, M. Bergeler, M. Pfeifle, Y. Du, E.B. Coughlin, BASF, CN

4:00	Polymers - Posters	Expo Hall AB
	GridWrap to Retrofit Structural Integrity of Utility Poles D. Zamani, ALD Technical Solutions, US
	A facile method to prepare functional fibers with excellent adsorption and catalysis property for organic pollutant removal J. Wang, Henan Academy of Sciences, China, CN
	Harvesting environmental water by hydroscopic hydrogels embedded in delinquent salt and ‎carbon nanotube N. Hamidi, South Carolina State University, US
	Understanding the Effect of Fabrication Technique on Plarn Properties U. Ezimora, L.P. Davila, University of California Merced, US
	Evaluation of PET degradation under accelerated weathering S-S. Jhang, R. Cook, S. Rostampour, B.H. Liu, and L-P. Sung, National Institute of Standards and Technology, US