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