BPG 2012 - Annual Meeting of the Belgian Polymer Group
10/05/2012
09:00Registration and Welcome Coffee
10:00Opening Remarks
Session 1
Session Chairman
Dirk VANDERZANDE
(UNIVERSITY OF HASSELT, Hasselt, Belgium)
10:10L01 - The ECO+ Value of Engineering Plastics
Frédéric PETIT
(DSM, Sittard, The Netherlands)
11:00OC01 - Alkyl-substituted Oligothiophenes: Self-assembly and Electronic Properties Probed by STM, STS and KPFM
Nasima AFSHAR IMANI
(UCL - IMCN/BSMA, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
11:20OC02 - Charge Transport and Separation in Conjugated Polymers
Dorota NIEDZIALEK
(UMONS, Mons, Belgium)
11:40BPG Award 1 Wallonia
11:55BPG Award 2 Flanders
12:10Sandwich Lunch and Council Meeting
Session 2
Session Chairman
Dirk BONTINCK
(CYTEC SURFACE SPECIALTIES, Drogenbos, Belgium)
14:00OC03 - Thermoresponsive Polymers Based on Poly(Meth)acrylate Scaffolds
Qilu ZHANG
(GHENT UNIVERSITY, Ghent, Belgium)
14:20OC04 - Development of Novel Photocleavable Block Copolymers for The Design of Multi-responsive Micellar Systems
Olivier BERTRAND
(UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
14:40OC05 - Development of Optimized Autonomous Self-healing Systems for Epoxy Materials
Xander HILLEWAERE
(UGENT, Ghent, Belgium)
15:00OC06 - Stimuli-responsive Magnetic Nanohybrids Designed for Controlled Drug Release Application
Ji LIU
(ULG, Liege, Belgium)
15:20OC07 - Halloysite as a New Potential Flame Retardant Additive for Polymeric Materials
Benoit LECOUVET
(UCL, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium)
15:40Coffee Break and Exhibition
Session 3
Session Chairman
Filip DU PREZ
(GHENT UNIVERSITY, Ghent, Belgium)
16:10OC08 - Design of Sugar-based Surface Active Agents for Emulsion Polymerization in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide
Cédric BOYERE
(CERM, LIEGE, Belgium)
16:30BPRI Award: Winner of Best PhD Thesis
16:50Winner of Biannual BPG Award:
"L02 - Spatial and Temporal Control over Polymerization and Polymer Ligation Processes"
Christopher BARNER-KOWOLLIK
(KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Brisbane, Australia)
Poster Sessions
17:40Poster Session 1 (Odd Numbers), Exhibition and Career Event
18:25Poster Session 2 (Even Numbers), Exhibition and Career Event
19:10Free Time
20:00Cocktail and Dinner
22:00BPG Party
11/05/2012
08:00Breakfast
Session 4
Session Chairman
Bruno VAN MELE
(VUB, Brussels, Belgium)
09:15L03 - Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells: An Introduction
Claudio OLDANI
(SOLVAY SPECIALITY POLYMERS ITALY, Bollate (MI), Italy)
10:05OC09 - Controlling the Crystallinity Development During the Thermal Annealing of Polymer: Fullerene Solar Cell Blends
Fatma DEMIR
(VUB, Brussels, Belgium)
10:25OC10 - Wheat Gluten Based Polymer Materials
Koen JANSENS
(KU LEUVEN, Heverlee, Belgium)
10:45Coffee Break and Exhibition
Session 5
Session Chairman
Benoît CHAMPAGNE
(FUNDP, Namur, Belgium)
11:15OC11 - Synthesis and Characterization of Regioregular Side-chain Functionalized Polythiophene-based Copolymers via the Rieke Method
Suleyman KUDRET
(UHASSELT, Hasselt, Belgium)
11:35OC12 - A Universal Protocol for the Controlled Synthesis of Conjugated Polymers: Towards All-Conjugated Block-copolymers
Michiel VERSWYVEL
(KULEUVEN, Leuven, Belgium)
11:55OC13 - Controlled PPV via Anionic Polymerization
Inge COSEMANS
(UHASSELT, Diepenbeek, Belgium)
12:15Lunch and Exhibition
Session 6
Session Chairman
Bart GODERIS
(KU LEUVEN, Heverlee, Belgium)
13:45L04 - Assessing New Chemicals and Polymers – from Lab to Factory
Martin PATEL
(UTRECHT UNIVERSITY, Utrecht, The Netherlands)
14:35OC 14 - End-capped Pluronics as Building Blocks for 3D Tissue Engineering Scaffolds
Jorg SCHELFHOUT
(UGENT, Ghent, Belgium)
14:55Coffee Break and Exhibition
Session 7
Session Chairman
Bernard NYSTEN
(UCL - IMCN/BSMA, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
15:25OC15 - Polycationic Polycarbonates – Synthesis and Applications
Michal KAWALEC
(UMONS, Mons, Belgium)
15:45OC16 - New Insights into the Solvent and Dopant Effect on the Structure and Properties of Polyaniline
Julia ROMANOVA
(FUNDP, Namur, Belgium)
16:05OC17 - Thiolactone Chemistry : a Powerful Approach in the Metal-free Conjugation Toolbox
Pieter ESPEEL
(GHENT UNIVERSITY, Ghent, Belgium)
16:25Award Ceremony for Best Oral Communication and Poster Presentation
16:35Closing Remarks
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