Polymers: sustainability, processes, applications & characterization

Materials for More Sustainable Polymers and Chemicals

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Symposium Co-Chairs

YuanQiao Rao
Fellow
Dow Chemical Company

Yuming Lai
Research Scientist
The Dow Chemical Company

Matt Kweon
Senior Product Development Engineer
ExxonMobil

2023 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