HPRG 60th Conference: Polymers in Extreme Environments
Sunday 24th to Thursday 28th April 2022
Shrigley Hall Hotel, Pott Shrigley, Cheshire
Programme Organisers: Professor Eva Malmström and Dr Gareth Crapper
Programme
Monday 25th April
| 08:45 | Professor Andy Cooper, Chair, HPRG (University of Liverpool) Welcome to the 60th Meeting of the High Polymer Research Group |
| Session 1 Chair – Dr Jerry Winter | |
| 09:00 |
Professor Neil Bourne (School of Materials, University of Manchester) "Extreme Timescales" |
| 10:00 | Professor Chris Ober (Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University) "Extreme UV Patterning for Fast Electronics: Making materials vanish with nm-scale precision" |
| Session 2 Chair – Professor Rachel O’Reilly | |
| 11:30 | Professor Sanat Kumar (Chemical Engineering, Columbia University)
"Polymer-grafted nanoparticles under extreme confinement" |
| 17:00 | Session 3 Chair – Professor Cameron Alexander |
| Professor Lorna Dougan (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds) "The physics of life in extreme environments" | |
| 18:00 | Professor Matthew Gibson (Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick) "Antifreeze Polymers for the Biologic Cold Chain" |
Tuesday 26th April
| Session 4 Chair – Professor Matthew Gibson | |
| 09:00 | Professor Timothy P Lodge (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota) "Extreme kinetics: Dynamics of copolymer micelles" |
| 10:00 | Professor Linda Schadler (College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, University of Vermont) "Nanodielectrics under high electric field" | Session 5 Chair – Dr Gareth Crapper |
| 11:30 | Professor Dr Miriam M Unterlass (Department of Chemistry, Universität Konstanz) "New production technique for highperformance polymers" | Session 6 Chair – Dr Gareth Crapper |
| 17:00 | Marion Ingle (Sandberg LLP) "Design (or lack of) for using polymers in extreme environments" |
| 18:00 | Dr Matthieu Gresil (Materials Science and Engineering, Monash University) "Early damage detection in composites" |
Wednesday 27th April
| 09:00 | Session 7 Chair – Professor Athene Donald |
| Professor David Bucknall, (School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University) "Polymers designed for the Ocean Depths" | |
| 10:00 | Dr Matthew Unthank (Department of Applied Sciences, University of Northumbria) "Epoxy network polymers for applications in extreme environments" | Session 8 Chair – Dr Andrew Burgess |
| 11:30 | Professor Steven Howdle (School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham) "Clean Synthesis and Renewable Polymers" | Session 9 Chair – Professor Andy Cooper |
| 17:00 | Professor Richard Thompson (School of Biological and Marine Sciences, University of Plymouth) "Plastic litter in the oceans: are there solutions to this global environmental problem?" |
Programme download in PDF format (297kB), with social events.
