2008 Annual Meeting

(93d) Polymer Reaction Engineering - Historical Development, Current Vitality and Some Future Challenges

Author

W. Harmon Ray - Presenter, University of Wisconsin - Madison
This talk will describe the rise of Polymerization Reaction Engineering as a discipline leading to new catalytic and kinetic mechanisms, new chemical species, and new polymer products over the last 100+ years. Some exciting new directions that illustrate the vitality and future promise of this field will also be discussed.