POLYTuesday, August 21, 2007

8:25 AM-12:10 PM Westin Boston Waterfront -- Douglas, Oral
Polymers from Renewable Resources
Organizer:Geoffrey W. Coates
Official:Marc A. Hillmyer
8:25 AMRenewable green polymers
A-C Albertsson
8:50 AMNew synthesis of functional polymers using renewable resources
Shiro Kobayashi, Hiroshi Uyama, Takashi Tsujimoto, Mai Kuwabara
9:15 AMSynthesis and degradation of biodegradable plastics
Marina Sokolsky-Papkov, Abraham J. Domb
9:40 AMNew polymer intermediates from renewable resources
Jim Millis
10:05 AMIntermission
10:30 AMNatural product feedstocks for the synthesis of polymeric nanofilms
Christopher M. Snively, Jochen Lauterbach
10:55 AMEntanglement models for biobased polymer rheology: Percolation or packing?
Richard P. Wool
11:20 AMRenewable polymer nanocomposites
John R. Dorgan, Birgit Braun, Margaret J. Sobkowicz, Keith W. Gneshin
11:45 AMComparison of nanosized calcium carbonate and organoclay polylactide (PLA) nanocomposites: Toughening and reinforcing effects
Jinwen Zhang, Long Jiang, Michael P. Wolcott

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The 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007