BPG 2010 - Annual Meeting of the Belgian Polymer Group 25/05/2010
09:00 Registration
10:00 Opening Remarks
Session 1
Session Chair
Dr Dirk BONTINCK (CYTEC SURFACE SPECIALTIES, Drogenbos, Belgium)
10:10 The Use of Numerical Simulation in Polymer Processing and Plastic Parts Design: from Flow Analysis to Micro Mechanics and Structural Analysis
Prof. Vito LEO (SOLVAY, Brussels, Belgium)
11:00 Flow-induced Crystallization of Particle-containing Polymers from Low to Processing Speeds
Ms Michelle D'HAESE (KULEUVEN, Heverlee, Belgium)
11:20 Glucose-responsive Layer-by-layer Microcapsules : A Potential Route to Self-regulated Insulin Delivery
Mr David ALAIMO (ULG, CERM, Liège, Belgium)
11:40 Complex Particle Architectures Via a Tubing-needle Based Simple
Microfluidic Setup
Mr Muhammed Talha GOKMEN (GHENT UNIVERSITY, Ghent, Belgium)
12:00 Sandwich Lunch
Session 2: Award Session
Session Chair
Prof. Dirk VANDERZANDE (UNIVERSITY OF HASSELT, Hasselt, Belgium)
13:00 Biannual BPG Award 2010 to prof. dr. Ulrich S. Schubert
Introduction
Prof. Jean-François GOHY (UCLOUVAIN, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
Award Lecture: Engineering Functional Macromolecules
Prof. Ulrich SCHUBERT (UNIVERSITY OF JENA, Jena, Germany)
14:00 BPG Award for Master thesis
14:20 Coffee Break
Session 3
Session Chair
Prof. Alain JONAS (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
15:00 Metallo-supramolecular Diblock Copolymers Based on Heteroleptic
Cobalt(Iii) and Nickel(Ii) Bis-Terpyridine Complexes
Mr Clément MUGEMANA (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
15:20 Solving the Problem of the Bis(acetylacetonato)cobalt(II)-mediated Radical Polymerization of Acrylates
Ms Marie HURTGEN (ULG, Liège, Belgium)
15:40 Exploring the Dithiocarbamate Precursor Route: Observation of a Base Induced Regioregularity in PPV derivatives
Dr Joke VANDENBERGH (UHASSELT, Diepenbeek, Belgium)
16:00 Poster Session 1
17:15 Poster Session 2
18:30 Council Meeting (for BPG members only)
20:00 Cocktail - Dinner with BPRI award ceremony
22:00 BPG Party
26/05/2010
08:00 Breakfast
Session 4
Session Chair
Prof. Vito LEO (SOLVAY, Brussels, Belgium)
09:00 Multi-Scale Modeling of Nano and Fiber Reinforced Polymers
Dr Roger A. ASSAKER (E-XSTREAM ENGINEERING S.A., Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
09:50 Novel Bionanocomposites : How Polyester-graft-cellulose nanowhiskers Can Enhance Materials Performances?
Ms Anne-Lise GOFFIN (UMONS, MONS, Belgium)
10:10 Characterisation of the Nanofiller Dispersion in Poly(e-caprolactone) Nanocomposites
Mr Nick WATZEELS (VUB, Brussel, Belgium)
10:30 Coffee Break
Session 5
Session Chair
Prof. Benoît CHAMPAGNE (FUNDP, Namur, Belgium)
11:00 Electrospun Polyamide 6 Nanofibres for the Use in Water Filtration
Mr Sander DE VRIEZE (GHENT UNIVERSITY, Ghent, Belgium)
11:20 Polypropylene/clay Nanocomposites by Water Assisted Extrusion
Ing Dimitri ROUSSEAUX (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
11:40 Structure and Stability of Semi-enzymatically Synthesized Amylose-lipid Complexes
Ms Joke PUTSEYS (KULEUVEN, Heverlee, Belgium)
12:00 Lunch
Session 6
Session Chair
Prof Christine JEROME (ULG, Liège, Belgium)
13:30 The Occurrence of Magnetism in Purely Organic, Neutral Conjugated Polymers
Mr Steven VANDELEENE (KULEUVEN, Heverlee, Belgium)
13:50 Potential of Curing Time Reduction of Photopolymerizable Dental
Resins
Mr Julian LEPRINCE (UCL, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium)
14:10 Rapid Prototyping of 3D Structures from Biodegradable Polyesters, an Optimization Process
Mr Tim DESMET (GHENT UNIVERSITY, Gent, Belgium)
14:30 Coffee Break
Session 7
Session Chair
Dr Peter DUBRUEL (UGENT, Ghent, Belgium)
14:50 Probing the Interfacial Properties of Molecular Films on Solid Surfaces through the Analysis of their Vibrational Second Order Nonlinear Optical Response
Dr Francesca CECCHET (FUNDP - UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR, Namur, Belgium)
15:10 Directional Crystallization in Polyethylene Oxide Thin Films Induced
by a Thermal Gradient
Mr Gabin GBABODE (ULB, Bruxelles, Belgium)
15:30 Theoretical Models for Polymers-CNTS Interactions
Dr Andrea MINOIA (MATERIA NOVA ASBL, Mons, Belgium)
Closing Session
15:50 Award Ceremony for Best oral Presentations and Poster Presentations
16:00 Closing remark
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