The First International Conference on “Green” Polymer Materials 2020
We hope you enjoyed the conference and we would like to take this opportunity to invite you submit your related work to the joint special issue "Feature Papers of Green and Sustainable Chemistry in Polymer Science".
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/polymers/special_issues/Green_Sustainable_Chemistry
the chairs
Dear Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to invite you to join the 1st International Conference on "Green" Polymer Materials 2020 that will take place exclusively online at: https://cgpm2020.sciforum.net/.
"Green" polymers are a strongly rising field due to, on the one hand, the perceived future decrease of oil resources, and their consequent increasing scarcity and cost. Correspondingly, the public, governments, and industry are well aware of the fact that materials from biogenic resources are the valid alternative to secure the substitution supply preferably at the same or lower cost or even at a higher cost if no feasible alternatives exist. Based on this background, "green" polymer research is vibrantly alive today and gaining growing importance as a research area. This huge interest creates an urgent need for a place enabling the exchange of the latest cutting-edge research in the innumerable areas that are now of interest.
The 1st International Conference on "Green" Polymer Materials 2020 seeks to fulfill this need by offering a completely digital (online) scientific conference. It will allow participants to share their latest research results and receive near-instantaneous feedback from researchers throughout the world through online question-and-answer sessions and discussion groups. In this way, the conference will serve as a platform for advancing the state-of-the-art of ‘green’ polymers.
In order to stimulate scientifically profound discussions among the scientists in the field, both from academy as well as from industry, the conference will be scheduled as a three-week event taking place on 5–25 November 2020. There is no cost to participate.
"Green" polymer materials are involved in a number of application fields of high relevance, now linked to petrochemicals, but in the future most likely to depend on renewable and sustainable materials. This includes the role of bioderived polymer materials in a number of applications such as:
- Polymer adhesives, binders and coatings;
- Polymeric thermoplastics and thermosetting solid materials;
- Polymers in medic(in)al applications such as drug delivery/pharmaceuticals;
- Polymers in microelectronics, high-voltage engineering and automotive (e-mobility);
- Polymers for applications in aircraft and aeronautics;
- Polymers for special applications (e.g., dentistry, sealants, water purification);
- and many others.
All submitted abstracts will be evaluated by the conference committee. Upon acceptance of their abstract, authors will be asked to contribute an extended abstract for the conference proceedings and a slide presentation of their work. The authors of the most outstanding contributions will be invited to submit a full manuscript for potential publication in a Special Issue of the open-access journal Polymers (impact factor: 3.426).
We hope you will choose to be a part of this exciting conference and look forward to welcoming you.
CGPM 2020 Conference Chairs
Prof. Dr. Antonio Pizzi and Prof. Dr. Frank Wiesbrock
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Sigrid Zhao
Ms. Betsy Feng
Email: CGPM2020@mdpi.com
Meet the Event Chairs
Important Dates
- Abstract submission deadlineSep 25, 2020
- Abstract acceptance notificationOct 05, 2020
- Full file submission deadlineOct 20, 2020
Meet Our Speakers
Dr. Mariolino Carta
Department of Chemistry, Swansea University，Swansea, UK;
Mariolino Carta completed his PhD in Organic Material Chemistry at Cardiff University in 2008. He then held PDRA positions at Cardiff University until 2014 and at the University of Edinburgh. In October 2017, he was appointed as a lecturer in Chemistry at Swansea University and promoted to senior lecturer in March 2020. His research involves the design and synthesis of novel organic monomers for polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs) and their structural modification, with the objective of tailoring the polymeric structures and tuning the physical properties of the final materials.
Prof. Patrizia Cinelli
Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy;
Prof. Dr. Alessandro Gandini
Chemical Institute of san Carlos, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil;
Alessandro Gandini completed his PhD at Keele University in 1965. He has personally researched, and taught in, polymer chemistry, photochemistry and the physical chemistry of surfaces and interfaces, in Switzerland, Canada, the USA, Cuba, France, Brazil and Portugal. He has also been a visiting professor in the UK, Italy, Tunisia, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Mexico, Argentina, Sweden and Spain.
Dr. Gandini’s major research interests include polymers from renewable resources, of which he has been a pioneer. He has published around 480 publications, three books (more than 22,000 citations, h-factor 72), and around 500 communications at scientific symposia, including ~130 invited or plenary lectures. He has directed or co-directed more than 80 doctorate theses.
Additionally, he has honorary doctorates from St. Petersburg Forestry Academy and Havana University.
Prof. Alvaro Rodríguez-Prieto
Department of Construction and Manufacturing Engineering at the National Distance Education University (UNED), Spain;
Alvaro Rodríguez-Prieto is Assistant Professor within the Department of Construction and Manufacturing Engineering at the National Distance Education University (UNED), Spain, and also provides materials consulting services for the Swiss multinational company SGS. He holds an MSc in Materials Engineering (2007) from Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), as well as an MSc (2011) and a PhD degree (2014) in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering from the National Distance Education University (UNED). During 2018, he was Guest Faculty Researcher (Visiting Scholar) at the Applied Materials Division of Argonne National Laboratory (USA). His experience corresponds to more than 14 years of intense professional and research activity in the field of Materials and Manufacturing Technologies for energy applications, including qualification of mechanical equipment for nuclear facilities and materials reliability studies for the oil and gas industries.
Dr. Stephanie Reynaud
CNRS Senior researcher, IPREM, Pau FRANCE;
Dr Stéphanie Reynaud (F) is Permanent Researcher at the CNRS and project coordinator. She is the co-leader of the scientific axe ‘Materials and polymer physico-chemistry’ of the IPREM institute; she is also the leader of the platform dedicated to the elaboration and characterization of polymers. She is a polymer chemist, and her research interests focus on the design of well-defined polymers and/or polymer particles. She develops eco-friendly process as water dispersed, microwave-assisted and fluidic processes for environmental applications as sensors, artificial photosynthesis and nanoplastics fate and behavior study. Research she carries out is targeting to imagine and create functional polymers based on a comprehensive study of relation structure-properties.
Since 2018, she is one of the co-leaders of the team Nanoplastic devoted to the study of the plastic pollution: fate, transport and analysis. The team focuses on the smallest plastic debris called nanoplastic, and IPREM researches within this domain are internationally recognized.
She has published 3 patents and around 65 peer-viewed articles for an h index of 20 and 1300 citations.
- Co-leader of the Scientific team ‘physico-chemistry of materials and polymers’
- Manager of the scientific and instrumental platform POLYCATS (Polymer characterization Technologies and Synthesis)
- Responsible of 5 permanent engineers within the domain of polymer characterization
- Member of the IPREM scientific committee
- Member of the IPREM laboratory scientific council
- Member of the UPPA scientific council
- Supervision of 18 PhD students (4 on-going) and of 11 postdoctoral fellows (1 on-going)
Since 2003, she has been responsible for 10 industrial projects, leader of 2 ANR projects, task leader within 2 European projects, and numerous projects with institutional partners: 10 as scientific responsible and 7 as scientific partner.
- S1. Polymer Synthesis, Modification and Self-Assembly
- S2. Polymer Bioapplications
- S3. Green Polymers: Durability & Aging, Degradation & Biodegradation
- S4. Biopolymers: Design, Fabrication, Characterization and Applications
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