Polymers: sustainability, processes, applications & characterization

Materials for More Sustainable Polymers and Chemicals

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

Jean-Mathieu Pin
Director of Research and Development
Polystyvert

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

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

Christopher Tassone
Materials Science Division Director
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and BOTTLE

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9:00	Sustainable Polymers
4:00	Polymers - Posters

2023 Symposium Program
	Monday June 19

9:00	Sustainable Polymers	National Harbor 8
	Session chair: Yuming Lai, Dow Chemical, US & Maksim E. Shivokhin, ExxonMobil, US
9:00	Transforming Plastic Waste for a Low Carbon, Circular Economy J. Martin, M.J. Hogg, A. Coleman, D. Chatman-Moore, V. Shah, E. Ruiz, Dow Inc., US
9:25	Rethinking Materials: From Molecular Recycling to Food Service A. Detwiler, Eastman, US
9:50	Recyclable-by-Design Plastics for the Future C.J. Tassone, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and BOTTLE, US
10:15	Break
10:25	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
10:50	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
11:10	Solvents-based Green Recycling Process of Polystyrene and Associated Copolymers J-M. Pin, Polystyvert Inc., CA
11:35	Rethinking Plastics – Approaches and Contributions from BASF Plastics Additives Group L. Liu, BASF, US
12:00	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

4:00	Polymers - Posters	Expo Hall AB
	Harvesting environmental water by hydroscopic hydrogels embedded in delinquent salt and ‎carbon nanotube N. Hamidi, I. Williams, H. Hamidi, M. McKinney, E. Smalls, P.‎D. Ferguson, 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,, L-P. Sung, National Institute of Standards and Technology, US
	Scalable Catalytic Deuteration of Polyolefins G. Larsen, T. Guin, K. McDonald, C. Malone, J. Folkert, Savannah River National Laboratory, US