2023: Polymers in Water
Back Row: Prof Patrick Warren, Prof Nico Bruns, Dr Jerry Winter, Dr Neal Williams
Middle Row: Prof Rob Mathers, Prof Dame Athene Donald, Prof Dave Adams, Prof Steve Rannard, Dr R Venkataraghavan
Front Row: Prof Rachel O'Reilly, Prof Guosong Chen, Prof Mark Grinstaff, Prof Suzana Nunes, Dr Lyndsay Leal, Prof Arthri Jayaraman
(inset Prof Gleb Yakubov)
HPRG 61st Meeting
Sunday 23rd to Thursday 27th April 2023
Shrigley Hall Hotel, Pott Shrigley, Cheshire
Programme Organisers: Professor Rachel O’Reilly and Dr Jerry Winter
Programme
Monday 25th April
| 08:45 | Professor Dame Athene Donald (University of Cambridge) Welcome to the 61st Meeting of the High Polymer Research Group |
| Session 1: Water Treatment Chair: Professor Rachel O’Reilly (University of Birmingham) | |
| 09:00 |
Professor Suzana Nunes (KAUST) "Membranes for sustainable separations in the water sector" |
| 10:00 | Dr R Venkataraghavan (Unilever plc) "The critical role of polymers in water in our daily life: Learning from clarification, purification and detergency" |
| Session 2: Hydrogels Chair: Dr Jerry Winter (Unilever plc) | |
| 11:30 | Professor Dave Adams (University of Glasgow)
"Controlling supramolecular assemblies in water" |
| Session 3: Modelling Chair: Dr Andrew Burgess (Independent) |
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| 17:00 | Professor Patrick Warren (Hartree Centre, STFC Daresbury) "Simulating water-soluble polymers: what can be learnt from coarse-grained models of surfactants?" |
| 18:00 | Professor Arthi Jayaraman (University of Delaware) "Connecting machine learning, polymer modeling, and simulations with experiments to create design-structure-property relationship" |
Tuesday 25th April
| Session 4: Fate in the Environment Chair: Professor Richard Jones (University of Manchester) |
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| 09:00 | Professor Robert Mathers (Pennsylvania State University) "Understanding the behavior of polymers in water through the lens of hydrophobicity" |
| 10:00 | Dr Andy Booth (SINTEF) "Degradation of plastic materials in the natural environment: mechanisms, importance and implications" |
| Session 5: Structuring and Rheology Control Chair: Professor Cameron Alexander (University of Nottingham) | |
| 11:30 | Dr Lyndsay Leal (Dow Chemical Company) "It’s Just Natural: Designing Functional Polysaccharides for the Personal Care Market" |
| Session 6: New Materials Chair: Dr Gareth Crapper (Independent) | |
| 17:00 | Professor Guosong Chen (Fudan University) "Polymeric glycomaterials in water: preparation, characterization and functionalization" |
| 18:00 | Professor Mark Grinstaff (Boston University) "Poly-amido-saccharides: New Carbohydrate Polymers, Biomaterials, and Therapeutics Inspired by Nature" |
Wednesday 26th April
| Session 7: Applications Chair: Professor Lorna Dougan (University of Leeds) | |
| 09:00 | Dr Neal Williams (AkzoNobel emeritus) "Water-borne coatings" |
| 10:00 | Professor Gleb Yakubov (University of Nottingham) "A Sweet Battle: The role of molecular conformation and hydration shell water in assembly of complex polysaccharides" |
| Session 8: Bioinspired Chair: Professor Matthew Gibson (University of Warwick) | |
| 11:30 | Professor Nico Bruns (Technical University of Darmstadt) "Biocatalytic Radical Polymerizations to Create Synthetic Biology Systems" |
| Session 9: New Materials Chair: Professor Dame Athene Donald (University of Cambridge) | |
| 17:00 | Professor Steve Rannard (University of Liverpool) "Transfer-dominated Branching Radical Telomerisation - A new synthesis for novel materials" |
Programme download in PDF format (314kB), with social events.
The High Polymer Research Group is grateful to the following companies and organisations for their support of our 2023 conference Polymers in Water, our 61st annual conference:
GOLD sponsors:
Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines global breadth; asset integration and scale; focused innovation and materials science expertise; leading business positions; and environmental, social and governance (ESG) leadership to achieve profitable growth and deliver a sustainable future. The Company's ambition is to become the most innovative, customer centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company in the world. Dow's portfolio of plastics, industrial intermediates, coatings and silicones businesses delivers a broad range of differentiated, science-based products and solutions for its customers in high-growth market segments, such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility and consumer applications. Dow operates 104 manufacturing sites in 31 countries and employs approximately 35,700 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $55 billion in 2021. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries.
For more information, please visit www.dow.com or follow @DowNewsroom on Twitter.
INFINEUM is a specialty chemicals company. Delivering through powerful research and development capabilities around innovative chemistry, Infineum technology supports areas such as shear modification, cold flow and wax crystal modification, optimising formulations, anti-wear and detergency, modification of flow properties, stabilising carbonaceous and metal particles (carbon black) and combining chemically incompatible materials effectively, to name just a few. Infineum maintains its relentless focus on technology excellence, reliability, operational excellence and collaboration to deliver customers performance they can rely on. Established in 1999, Infineum is a joint venture between affiliates of Royal Dutch Shell and Exxon Mobil Corporation. Our global operations encompass Worldwide production facilities, Sales representation in more than 70 countries, Business centres strategically located in the UK, USA, China and Singapore with a global supply chain, multicultural business teams and approximately 2,500 employees.
For more information, visit www.infineum.com
SILVER sponsor:
UNILEVER is one of the world's largest consumer goods companies, driven by our purpose to make sustainable living commonplace. 3.4 billion people in 190 countries use one or more of our branded Personal Care, Beauty and Wellbeing, Home Care, Nutrition or Ice Cream products every day. We have had a very strong record in innovation ever since Lord Lever industrialised soap manufacture over 100 years ago. In 2021 we spent €847m on R&D employing over 5,000 experts in 60 countries building on a portfolio of 20,000 patents protecting our ideas. A significant proportion of that effort is devoted to ensuring our products are fully sustainable and kind to our planet without compromising the needs and expectations of our consumers. We are proud to say 50% of senior R&D roles are held by women and 70% of our innovations are enabled through a global network of innovation partners.
BRONZE sponsors:
ACS Polymers Au is an open access journal publishing polymer, macromolecular and soft matter science covering synthesis, properties, self-assembly, supramolecular chemistry, biomaterials, and sustainability.
Asynt: Providing world-leading technologies for scientific research, Asynt's unique range of innovative products and services are developed by chemists for chemists.
Our highly versatile DrySyn heating blocks provide brilliant thermal performance without the associated risks of using standard oil-based systems and, when teamed with the Asynt CondenSyn air-condenser, will not only help save the environment but will also save you money.
Our other areas of expertise include sample preparation, pressure reactors, parallel synthesis, Flow Chemistry, Photochemistry, evaporation and purification and our fully-customisable ReactoMate jacketed reactor systems allow scale-up from 100mL up to 100L, providing a safe and simple solution to your process development needs.
At Asynt we are committed to investing in new technologies that respond to the real demands of industry and academia. Effective. Sustainable. Safe.
CPI: CPI take great ideas and inventions, and makes them a reality. Born in the North East of England in 2004, CPI is an independent deep tech innovation organisation and a founding member of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult.
A team of intelligent people using advances in science and technology to solve the biggest global challenges in healthcare and sustainability. Through their incredible people and innovation infrastructure, we collaborate with our partners in industry, academia, government, and the investment community to accelerate the development and commercialisation of innovative products.
CPI’s work ranges from health technologies, advanced drug delivery systems, and medicines manufacturing innovations for multiple modalities including small molecules, biologics, and nucleic acids; to developing sustainable materials for energy storage and packaging, as well as novel food, feed, and nutraceuticals, that are all underpinned by digital technology. CPI turn the entrepreneurial spirit and radical thinking of their people and partners into incredible impact that makes your world a better place.
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Diamond Light Source is the UK’s national synchrotron. Whether it’s fragments of ancient paintings or unknown virus structures, at the synchrotron, scientists can study their samples using a machine that is 10,000 times more powerful than a traditional microscope.
Diamond is one of the most advanced scientific facilities in the world, and its pioneering capabilities are helping to keep the UK at the forefront of scientific research.
ICE Publishing is a leading provider of information for researchers and practitioners worldwide in the fields of civil and environmental engineering and materials science.
Polymers — Open Access Polymer Science Journal: Offers rapid publication in polymer science, with high impact factor.
Xenocs provides complete solutions for characterizing the nanostructure and morphology of materials to help our customers in their research, development, and production of advanced materials.
The product portfolio of the company includes innovative high performance instruments that combine Small and Wide Angle X-ray Scattering techniques (SAXS/WAXS), and associated software.
Co-founded in 2000 by Peter Høghøj and Frederic Bossan, as a spinoff company from the Institute Laue Langevin, in Grenoble, France, Xenocs supplies its solutions to leading research and development institutions around the world, both academic & industrial.
Xenocs has subsidiaries in the US, China and Denmark, and work closely with a strong network of distributors worldwide ensuring local support and close contact to customers.
Visit our website on www.xenocs.com
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