2019 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Polymer Reaction Engineering

This session focuses on research covering polymerization kinetics, polymerization reaction engineering, new polymer syntheses, understanding or designing catalysts, and relationships between chemical structure, synthesis, reaction engineering, and properties. ***Note to faculty candidates: please include a note to the session chair during submission to alert them to your status***

Chair

Amy Peterson, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Co-Chair

Wyatt Tenhaeff, University of Rochester

Presentations

08:00 AM

(654a) Fluid Mechanics Meets Controlled Polymerizations: Theory, Experiments, and Beyond
Damien Guironnet, Dylan Walsh

08:30 AM

(654b) N-Al Lewis Pair Catalysts for Functional-Group Tolerant Living Epoxide Polymerization
Nathaniel Lynd, Robert C. Ferrier, Christina G. Rodriguez, Jennifer Imbrogno, Malgorzata Chwatko

08:45 AM

(654c) Model-Based Synthesis of Ferrocene Microgels
Alexander Mitsos, Falco Jung, Felix Plamper, Adel Mhamdi, Sabine Schneider

09:00 AM

(654d) Using Monomer Chemistry to Predict Dose Rate Effects during Electron Beam Polymerization
Nicole L. K. Thiher, Dr. Sage M. Schissel, Dr. Julie L. P. Jessop

09:15 AM

(654e) Population Balances for Polymer Upcycling Processes: A Framework for Testing Mechanistic Hypotheses
Ryan Yappert, Baron Peters

09:30 AM

(654f) Synthesis and Applications of Rapidly Degradable Polyphthalaldehyde Based Copolymers
Anthony Engler, Paul A. Kohl

09:45 AM

(654g) An Efficient Process for the Cu(0)-Catalyzed Controlled Radical Synthesis and Subsequent Chain Extension of Poly(Methyl Acrylate) Macroinitiator
Niloofar Shirali Zadeh, Robin A. Hutchinson

10:00 AM

(654h) Preparation and Characterization of Dual-Branching Thermoplastic Polyolefin Elastomer Via a Tandem Solution Copolymerization System
Donghui Bai, Kailun Zhang, Wen-Jun Wang, Pingwei Liu, Bo-Geng Li

10:15 AM

(654i) Model-Based Design and Synthesis of Copolymer Sequence Distributions through Programmed Semibatch RAFT Mini-Emulsion Copolymerization of Styrene and Butyl Acrylate
Shiping Zhu, Bo-Geng Li, Jie Jiang, Wen-Jun Wang