HPRG 52nd Meeting
Sunday 29th April - Thursday 3rd May, 2012
Shrigley Hall Hotel, Pott Shrigley, Cheshire
Conference Chairmen: Professor Neil Cameron and Dr Ian Robinson
Speakers
| 1 | Professor Stefan Bon (Warwick University, UK) "Supracolloidal chemistry: from building blocks to assembled structures" |
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| 2 | Dr Roland Franz (Fraunhofer-Institute for Process Technology and Packaging , Germany) "From activation energy of diffusion in polymers to food and consumer safety" |
| 3 | Professor Mike Gidley (University of Queensland, Australia) "Natural biopolymer assemblies in foods and their behaviour during digestion" |
| 4 | Dr Robb Hermes (Los Alamos, USA) "A new use for a commodity monomer: deep water oil wells" |
| 5 | Professor Paul Hogg (Manchester University, UK) "Powered by Composites: Clean Energy and Record Breaking Sport" |
| 6 | Professor Derek Irvine (Nottingham University, UK) "Microwave assisted scale up - selective power for selective people" |
| 7 | Dr Mike Jenkins University of Birmingham, UK) "Polymers in sports technology: an overview" |
| 8 | Professor Kazunori Kataoka (University of Tokyo, Japan) "Block copoloymer self-assemblies as smart nanocarriers in gene and drug delivery" |
| 9 | Professor Eugenia Kumacheva (University of Toronto, Canada) "Microfluidic Generation of Polymer Microgels: A Sea of Applications" |
| 10 | Professor David Lidzey (University of Sheffield, UK) "Organic photovoltaic devices: technology and materials" |
| 11 | Dr. Hong-Yee Low (A Star, Singapore) "Biomimetic Surface Functionalities through Nanoimprinted Micro- and Nanostructures" |
| 12 | Professor. Heather Maynard (UCLA, USA) "Protein-polymer nanocapsules for drug delivery" |
| 13 | Dr Glyn Roberts and Dr Ezat Khoshdel (Unilever, UK) "Toward a Sustainable Future - How Polymer Chemist will enable 21st century Home and Personal Care" |
| 14 | Dr. Phil Souter (Procter & Gamble, UK) "Developing a household-based water purification product for low income consumers" |
| 15 | Professor Kathryn Uhrich (Rutgers University, USA) "Polymers with a Purpose: Biocompatible Polymers that Degrade into Bioactives" |
| 16 | Professor David Weitz (Harvard University, USA) "Emulsion templated colloidal structures fabricated with microfluidics" |
The background image on this page is based on an electron micrograph of polystyrene-silica colloidal nanocomposite particles, courtesy Steve Armes (more about this photograph).
