BPG 2006 - Annual Meeting of the Belgian Polymer Group
18/05/2006
09:00

Registration and Welcome Coffee
Poster setting and room check in

10:30Opening Remarks
10:45

1st Session

10:45

Invited Plenary Lecture:
Stimuli-responsive micelles of amphiphilic and bis-hydrophilic block and graft copolymers

Prof. Axel MUELLER
(UNIVERSITY OF MAINZ, Mainz, Germany)
11:35

2nd Session

11:35Design of stealth nanoparticles for drug delivery based on new amphiphilic copolymers
Dr. Jutta RIEGER
(ULG, LIEGE, Belgium)
11:55Star-shaped polymers with reactive end-groups as precursors for nanoscopic structures
Mr Lieven VAN RENTERGHEM
(GHENT UNIVERSITY, GHENT, Belgium)
12:15Synthesis and supramolecular organization of amphiphlic diblock and graft copolymers combining PDMAEMA and PCL
Mr François BOUGARD
(UMH, MONS, Belgium)
12:35Lunch and Poster/Exhibition Session
14:00

3rd Session

14:00Reaction-induced phase separation in crystallizable high meltiing thermoplastic/epoxy resin blends
Mrs Sara GOOSSENS
(KULEUVEN, leuven, Belgium)
14:20A new way to disperse carbon nanotubes in EVA
Mrs Sophie PEETERBROECK
(UMH, MONS, Belgium)
14:40Reactive extrusion: a tool for modifying PP tacticity and hence crystallinity
Mr Gaetan HENRY
(UCL, LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE, Belgium)
15:00Industrial research approach for the development of polymer dispersants for inkjet
Dr Jean-Marie DEWANCKELE
(AGFA-GEVAERT, MORTSEL, Belgium)
15:30

Coffee Break and Poster/Exhibition Session

Special "Awards" Session

17:00BPG-Best Final Work Awards 2006
17:30

BPG-Biannual Award 2006
Plenary Lecture: Nano - Hype or Hope?

Prof. Klaus MÜLLEN
(MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR POLYMERFORSCHUNG, Mainz, Germany)
18:30Free time and BPG-board/council meeting
20:00Banquet and BPG-party
19/05/2006
08:00Breakfast
09:00

4th Session

09:00

Invited Plenary Lecture:
Synthesis and characterization of multiblock copolymers

Prof. Cor KONING
(TUEINDHOVEN, EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands)
09:50The synthesis of polylactones at the solid-liquid interface of a grafted tin catalyst
Mr Kevin POELMANS
(VUB, Brussels, Belgium)
10:10Nano-confined polymers: from stimuli-responsive membranes to self-assembled nanotubes
Ms Halima ALEM
(UCL, LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE, Belgium)
10:30

Coffee Break and Poster/Exhibition Session
Room check out

11:10

5th Session

11:10Gelatine scaffolds with cryogenic generated pores, designed for tissue engineering
Prof. Sandra VAN VLIERBERGHE
(UGENT, Ghent, Belgium)
11:30Low band gap polymers via a new and versatile route: The dithiocarbamate precursor route
Mr Kristof COLLADET
(UHASSELT, DIEPENBEEK, Belgium)
11:50Synthesis and charactezation of liquid crystalline oliogethiophenes
Ms Julie LEROY
(ULB, Brussels, Belgium)
12:10Synthesis and proporties fo chiral poly(3-alkoxythiophene)s
Mr Marnix VANGHELUWE
(KULEUVEN, Leuven, Belgium)
12:30Lunch + meeting selection committee of presentation awards
14:00

6th Session

14:00Efficient controlled radical polymerization of vinyl acetate based on cobalt complexes
Dr Antoine DEBUIGNE
(ULG, Liège, Belgium)
14:20Electronic and optical proporties of helical polymer
Dr Edith BOTEK
(FUNDP, NAMUR, Belgium)
14:40Structure and reaction mechanism of an inorganic P-polymer
Dr Gunther MOSSELMANS
(VUB, BRUSSELS, Belgium)
15:00BPG-Best Oral Presentation and Poster Awards
15:20Concluding Remarks
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