2017 Annual Meeting

Session: Polymer Reaction Engineering

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***

Chair

Christopher J. Ellison, University of Minnesota

Co-Chair

Narayan Ramesh, Dow Inc.

Presentations

03:30 PM

(36a) Engineering Pathways to New Functional Polyether Materials
Nathaniel Lynd

04:00 PM

(36b) Topology Control of Bottlebrush Polymers
Damien Guironnet, Dylan Walsh

04:15 PM

(36c) A New, Facile Approach to Epoxide Polymerization
Robert C. Ferrier, Jennifer Imbrogno, Christina G. Rodriguez, Malgorzata Chwatko, Nathaniel Lynd

04:30 PM

(36d) Dynamic Chemistry Leading to Full Property Recovery Associated with Crosslink Density in Reprocessed Polymer Networks and Network Composites: Network Synthesis By Step-Growth Reactions and By Nitroxide-Mediated Polymerization
John Torkelson, Xi Chen, Kailong Jin, Lingqiao Li

04:45 PM

(36e) Hybrid Chain-Growth/Step-Growth Mechanism Observed in Heterofunctional Thiol-Ene Polymerizations
Dillon Love, Kang-Min Kim, J. Taylor Goodrich, Benjamin D. Fairbanks, Weixian Xi, Mark Stoykovich, Charles B. Musgrave, Christopher Bowman, Brady Worrell

05:00 PM

(36f) High Pressure Ethylene Polymerization with a Post-Metallocene Bis-Phenyl Phenoxy Catalyst
Sean Ewart, Karjala Tom

05:15 PM

(36g) A Simulation-Based Derivative-Free Optimization Framework Using the Kinetic Monte Carlo Method for Controlling Polymer Molecular Weight and Sequence Distribution Synthesized Via Free Radical Polymerization
Hanyu Gao, Andreas Waechter, Ivan Konstantinov, Steven G. Arturo, Linda J. Broadbelt

05:30 PM

(36h) Experimental and Macroscopic Mechanistic Modeling Studies of the Methyl Acrylate Self-Initiation Reaction
Hossein Riazi, Ahmad Arabi Shamsabadi, Michael Grady, Andrew Rappe, Masoud Soroush

05:45 PM

(36i) A Mathematical Model Based on Artificial Neural Network for Ethylene/Norbornene Copolymerization Catalyzed By 2-(tetramethylcyclopentadienyl)-4,6-Di-Tert-Butylphenoxytitanium Dichloride
Nikhil Prakash