Materials for Personal/Home Care & Cosmetics

Symposium Co-Chairs

Johan Pluyter
Founder
Pluyter Consulting

Prithwiraj Maitra
Ph.D; Research Director & Fellow
Johnson and Johnson

Key Speakers

Modeling the physics and chemistry behind Personal Care Products
Peter Koenig
Group Head, Procter & Gamble

Multi-functional Solutions for Shelf Life Extension of Personal Care Formulations
Ravi Pillai
Vice President, Cosmetic Ingredients Division, Symrise AG

Formulating sustainable products for today’s consumer
Jennifer Donahue
Key Account Manager, Croda Inc.

Surface Interactions: Enhancing Deposition and Cleaning
Joe Lupia
Director Technical Innovations, BASF

Application of Computational Chemistry to Patent Analysis in Personal Care
Hans Fraaije
Founder, Culgi Inc.

Symposium Sessions
	Tuesday May 15
10:30	Multi-scale Modeling
1:30	Materials for Personal/Home Care & Cosmetics
4:00	Materials for Personal/Home Care & Cosmetics: Posters
	Wednesday May 16
8:30	Ensuring Safety of Nanomaterials in Consumer Products

Symposium Program
	Tuesday May 15

10:30	Multi-scale Modeling	263 B
	Session chair: Rick Ross, 3M Company, US; Prithwiraj Maitra, Johnson and Johnson, US
10:30	Modeling the physics and chemistry behind Personal Care Products (invited presentation) P. Koenig, Procter & Gamble, US
10:55	Application of Computational Chemistry to Patent Analysis in Personal Care (invited presentation) J.G.E.M. Fraaije, Culgi BV, NL
11:20	Recent Advances in Industrial Coarse-Grained Method Development & Modeling J.-W. Handgraaf, J.G.E.M. Fraaije, Culgi BV, NL
11:40	Materials data management in research & development: improving innovation and product liability T. Ehrig, L. Klepsch, IMA Materialforschung und Anwendungstechnik GmbH, DE

1:30	Materials for Personal/Home Care & Cosmetics	263 B
	Session chair: Prithwiraj Maitra, Johnson and Johnson, US; Johan Pluyter, S.C. Johnson, US
1:30	Formulating sustainable products for today’s consumer (invited presentation) J. Donahue, Croda, Inc., US
1:55	Multi-functional Solutions for Shelf Life Extension of Personal Care Formulations (invited presentation) R. Pillai, Symrise AG, US
2:20	Surface Interactions: Enhancing Deposition and Cleaning (invited presentation) J. Lupia, BASF Corp., US
2:45	Characterizing the stickiness property of fibrous materials under wet skin surface: Textile Friction Tester K.P.M. Tang, K.H. Chau, C.W. Kan, J.T. Fan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK
3:15	Bio-based nanoparticles for broadband UV protection with photo-stabilised UV-filters D.R. Hayden, A. Imhof, K.P. Velikov, Unilever R&D, US
3:45	A novel fabric softener system to make the softness and water wiping effect compatible. T. Igarashi, J. Uematsu, T. Onda, K. Nakamura, Kao Corporation, JP

4:00	Materials for Personal/Home Care & Cosmetics: Posters	Expo Hall
	Concentrated ultrasonic conducting resin X. Guo, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK
	Characterizing the transplanar and in-plane water transport property of fibrous materials under different sweat rate: Forced Flow Water Transport Tester K.P.M. Tang, K.H. Chau, C.W. Kan, J.T. Fan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK
	Exposure Assessment Framework for Materials Selection in Consumer Products M. Liong, Exponent, Inc., US
	Understanding Product Performance as a Means for Ingredient Molecular Design for Materials Selection in Consumer Products J.G.L. Pluyter, Pluyter Consulting LLC, US
	Wednesday May 16

8:30	Ensuring Safety of Nanomaterials in Consumer Products	262 B
	Session chair: Wendel Wohlleben, BASF SE, Germany; Philip Demokritou, Harvard School of Public Health, US
8:30	Ingested food-grade engineered nanomaterials – state of science in nanotoxicity testing and future research needs (invited presentation) D. Bello, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, US
8:55	Nanoparticles and Nano-polymer Composite Interactions with Microbial Biofilm E. Sahle-Demessie, H. Jing, G.A. Sorial, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, US
9:15	Investigation of toxicity of a panel of food-grade nanomaterials on an in vitro triculture model of the mucus-secreting intestinal epithelium I.S. Sohal, G. Deloid, K. O’Fallon, Ph. Demokritou, D. Bello, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, US
9:35	Comparative environmental fate and toxicity of copper nanomaterials (invited presentation) N. Zuverza-Mena, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, US
9:55	What do we know about the safety of cellulose nanomaterials: Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Roadmap, knowledgebase and uncertainties (invited presentation) J.A. Shatkin, Vireo Advisors LLC, US

Innovations in materials and processing, and in our understanding and control of consumer perceivable performance, enable exciting new products. The challenge of consumer trends and drivers such as all-natural/bio-based products, multifunctional products, preservative-free products, bring industry leaders to the TechConnect World Innovation Conference symposium on Materials for Personal/Home Care and Cosmetics to hear about the latest applications-focused research and development. Submit your abstract today and participate in this exciting event.

Journal Submissions

Journal of Surfactants and Detergents

Selected papers will be reviewed and invited into the Journal of Surfactants and Detergents (AOCS) which publishes peer-reviewed research papers, and reviews related to surfactants and detergents technologies.

For consideration into the the Journal of Surfactants and Detergents, please select the “Submit to the Journal of Surfactants and Detergents” button during the on-line submission procedure. Please note that you may only select a single journal during the submission process.