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Princeton Section |
Princeton ACS Meeting Announcement |
Speaker:
Richard P. Wool, Ph.D.
University of Delaware,
Department of Chemical Engineering and Center for Composite
Materials
"Green Materials for
Renewable Energy"
Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Lecture at 6:00 p.m.
Frick Laboratory, Room 120
Princeton University*
Dinner following Triumph Brewery, Nassau St.
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ABSTRACT
Recent advances in genetic engineering,
composite science, and natural fiber development offer
significant opportunities for new, improved green materials from
renewable resources that are optionally recyclable,
biocompatible and biodegradable, thereby enhancing global
sustainability. When such biobased resins are combined with
natural fibers (plant and poultry) starch and lignin, new
low-cost composites, pressure sensitive adhesives, elastomers
and foams are produced that are economical in many high-volume
applications. These high performance composites can be used in
wind turbines, solar integrated energy efficient housing,
hydrogen storage, hurricane resistant housing, agricultural
equipment, automotive sheet molding compounds, civil and rail
infrastructures, marine applications, electronic materials, and
sports equipment. The development of biobased materials is
consistent with the principles of Green Chemistry and
Engineering, which pertain to the design, commercialization and
use of processes and products that are technically and
economically feasible while minimizing the generation of
pollution at the source and the risk to human health and the
environment.
About the
Speaker:
Richard Wool is a Professor of Chemical
Engineering and Director of the ACRES Program and past Director
of the Center for Composite Materials at the University of
Delaware. He was Chairman of the ASTM committee for
Biodegradable Plastics and was PI of the DoE Project to develop
new “Biobased materials from optimized plant varieties” in
collaboration with industry, KSU and Sandia National Labs. He is
the Chairman-Elect of the Gordon Research Conference on
Composites. He is author of the books “Bio-Based Polymers and
Composites” with XS Sun, and “Polymer Interfaces: Structure and
Strength”. Professor Wool is a Fellow of the American Physical
Society and member of the American Chemical Society and American
Institute of Chemical Engineers. He is President and founder of
Cara Plastics Inc
which manufactures bio-based polymers and composite resins from
plant oils.
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Reservations: The meeting will be held in
Frick Laboratory, Kresge Auditorium (room 120), Princeton University
(note: if the main door is locked, please enter
by the side door on the right front of the
building). The seminar is at 6 PM followed
immediately by dinner at Triumph Brewery, 138
Nassau St. Princeton, NJ.
The seminar is free and open to the public.
Reservations are required for dinner, which is $20 for members and
$10 for students. All reservations will be billed, for the section
pays on the number of reservations, not the number of attendees. Please contact Denise D’Auria at
denised@princeton.edu or
(609) 258-5202 or by Tuesday, September 22 to make or cancel
reservations. |
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