BPG Annual Meeting 2015

IL02 - Recent Theoretical Advances in the Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Copolymerization

Prof. Pierre GASPARD

ULB, Brussels, Belgium
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Prof. Pierre GASPARD

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Pierre Gaspard was born in Brussels, Belgium, the 6th of December 1959. He received his doctoral degree at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in 1987 under the supervision of Professor Grégoire Nicolis. After a postdoctoral stay at the University of Chicago from 1987 till 1989, he obtained a position at the « Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique » (FNRS Belgium). His research fields are statistical mechanics and chemical physics. In 2006, he was awared the FRANCQUI Prize in Exact Sciences. Currently, he is Professor at ULB and Director of the « Service de physique des systèmes complexes et mécanique statistique » (URL: http://complex.ulb.ac.be). He is also member of the « Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique ».

IL01 - Enzyme-Catalysis Ever Expanding Role in Polymer Science

Prof. Richard A. GROSS

RENSSELEAR POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, Troy, United States
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Prof. Richard A. GROSS

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Professor Richard A. Gross He is currently a Full Professor and a Constellation Chaired Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). His research is focused on developing biocatalytic routes to biobased materials including monomers, macromers, prepolymers, polymers, surfactants and other biochemicals. Current research programs include whole-cell routes to biosurfactants, -hydroxylation of fatty acids, protease-catalyzed peptide synthesis, engineering cutinase for polymer transformations, developing biofibers for composites and chemical conversions of biobased monomers to bioplastics and biomaterials. He has over 500 publications in peer reviewed journals, been cited about 15,000 times, edited 6-books and has 26 patents (granted or filed). Prof. Gross was the recipient of the 2003 Presidential Green Chemistry Award in the academic category. In 2010 he was selected as the Turner Alfrey Visiting Professor. He founded SyntheZyme LLC in 2009 and serves as Chief Technology officer.

IL04 - Industrial Polymer Design for Digital Imaging Applications

Dr Johan LOCCUFIER

AGFA GEVAERT NV, Mortsel, Belgium
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Dr Johan LOCCUFIER

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Johan Loccufier has received his PhD in polymer chemistry from the University of Ghent in 1990. His PhD thesis was focussed in synthetic strategies for the development of polymeric cytostatics, targeted at specific cancer cells.
After his PhD, Johan Loccufier joined the chemistry department of Agfa Gevaert in 1990. His initial research was focussed on the design of new organic compounds for the development of optimized silver halide based photographic materials for graphical, medical and industrial applications. Over the years his area of research was extended to all new areas where Agfa Gevaert was involved with a main focus on dry hard copy films for medical applications, digital printing plate technology for graphical applications and professional ink jet applications, enlarging the scope of the chemistry to polymers and inorganics. Since a few years, Johan Loccufier is responsible for the chemistry department within the Materials Technology Centre, the central R&D group of Agfa.
Johan Loccufier published 17 peer-reviewed scientific papers and conference proceedings as well as more than 150 international patents.
He is the current president of the Belgian Polymer Group.

IL03 - Unnatural Information-Containing Macromolecules

Dr Jean-François LUTZ

INSTITUT CHARLES SADRON, Strasbourg, France
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Dr Jean-François LUTZ

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Jean-François Lutz is CNRS research director, deputy director of the Institut Charles Sadron and head of the Precision Macromolecular Chemistry Group. He received a PhD degree from the University of Montpellier in 2000 and a habilitation degree from the University of Potsdam in 2009. Before joining the CNRS in 2010 he was post for two years in the group of Kris Matyjaszewski at Carnegie Mellon University and afterwards group leader for eight years at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research in Potsdam, Germany. He is author/inventor of approximately 150 publications and patents. He received in 2008 the prize of the polymer division of the French Chemical Society. He is also an ERC laureate since 2010. His current research interests include the synthesis of sequence-controlled polymers, single-chain technologies and the preparation of information-containing macromolecules.

OC08 - Polymer Characterization using Fast Scanning Calorimetry in Conjunction with Synchrotron X-ray Scattering

OC05 - Associating Polymer Gels Constructed through Hydrophobic and Coordinative Interactions

OC01 - Field-Effect Memory Transistors Based on Arrays of Nanowires of a Ferroelectric Polymer

OC15 - A Tool for the Precision Synthesis of Poly(ionic liquid)s in Water

OC07 - Vinylogous Urethanes, a New Chemistry for High-Performance Vitrimers

OC17 - Thermoanalytical Characterization of Mixed Reversible/Irreversible Selfhealing Networks

OC14 - Super-Lubricity Induced by Soft Dendritic Nanoparticles to Entangled Polymers

OC16 - Degradable Polyesters for Optical Applications

OC06 - PEDOT-based Electrochromic Devices Doped with Carbon Nanotubes

OC10 - Charge Transport in pi-Conjugated Polymers: A Combined Classical-Quantum Approach to Establish Structure-Property Relationship

OC03 - Design of New Multifunctional Nanocarriers for Protein Delivery

OC12 - Shape-Memory Polymers: From Reactive Extrusion to Multistimuli-Responsive Properties

OC02 - Synthesis of New BTBT Derivatives for Charge(s) Transport

OC04 - Development of Branched and Grafted Conjugated Polymers

OC09 - Wheat Gluten Based Thermoplastic Vulcanisates

OC13 - Boronic Acid-decorated Copolymers for Stimuli-Responsive Applications

OC11 - Photo-Initiated Copper-Mediated Polymerization - A Fast and Efficient Pathway to Complex Sequential Polymer Architectures