Polymer conferences

The Deformation and Fracture of Composites series provides an unrivalled opportunity to discuss the issues and impact of composite materials on different industry sectors. Since 1991 this series has atttracted high quality papers and delegates from industry, research associations and universities worldwide, and has successfully brought together researchers from a variety of backgrounds to discuss common interests.

For more information, please visit the conference website:

DFC10 website

A two day international symposium on fire Retardants - vital chemicals protecting people and property in all walks of life and particularly in areas such as mass transport, furnishings, construction, electrical equipment and electronics. Different fire retardant strategies have evolved from halogen flame retardants to metal hydroxides and more modern char forming and intumescent fire retardants. More recently phosphorus based materials and nanocomposites have shown potential to reduce flammability whilst addressing environmental concerns.

FRT09: Fire Retardant Technologies 2009

An international conference covering thin polymer films including polymer crystallisation, polymer brushes, glass transition, soft nanotechnology. Deadline for abstract submission is July 31st 2008. Confirmed speakers include:

Jan Genzer: Creating heteropolymers with adjustable monomer sequences via templated chemical “coloring”
Wilhelm Huck: Polyelectrolyte Brush Amplified Electroactuation of Microcantilevers
Elie Raphaël: Dewetting Dynamics of Thin Polymer Films
Jürgen Rühe: Wetting of Surfaces- How important is the nanoscale?
Tom Russell: Capillary wrinkling of floating thin films
Tony Ryan: Polymer Crystallisation: Influence of flow and interfaces
Ashu Sharma: Self-organized Adhesion and Pattern Formation in Elastic Solid Films
Jens-Uwe Sommer: Polymer Brushes at moderate and high grafting densities: Effects of chain stretching and end-groups
Uwe Thiele: Rupture and coarsening pathways for dewetting two-layer films and films of binary mixtures
Ophelia Tsui: Examination of Non-liquidlike Behaviors in Molten Polymer Films
Uli Wiesner: Nanostructured Metals from Soft Designer Macromolecules
Mitch Winnik: Living self- assembly of block copolymers into fibre-like structures in solution and from surfaces

PolyFilm conference website

Weetwood Hall, Leeds

Plastic, plastic packaging and their impact on the environment are hot topics. More significantly, they are also complex, causing confusion and chaos in the commercial market place. Drivers and solutions do not appear to be joined up - the outcome being plastics taking a political and media battering.

This one-day event, organised by Faraday Packaging, will explore how a supply chain committed to true sustainability can beat the odds and drive towards a sustainable plastics operation.

It brings together the leading company practioners, representing the whole packaging supply chain, who will describe how they are responding to the challenge of the sustainable plastics agenda.

The companies sharing their insights include Dow, Innovia Films, Alliance Boots, Nextek Ltd and The Co-operative.

Please visit the link below for more information on venue, programme and registration:

Towards Greener Plastics website

A conference at the College de France in Paris from May 15-17, 2008. In addition to the main conference, there are four satellite symposia on topics to which Pierre-Gilles de Gennes made major contributions, including one devoted to polymers. These satellite symposia will take place on May 14, 2008.

Both the main conference and the satellite symposia are free of charge, however registration is compulsory. If you would like to attend, please register on the conference website. The conference website also has pratical information on hotel reservation, etc.

The program of the main conference and the satellite symposia is available on the conference website:

DeGennesDays conference website

Macro Group UK, the Science Museum, the Institute of Physics and SCI announce a one-day meeting to celebrate the anniversary of the discovery of polyethylene, 75 Years of Polyethylene: Past Successes and Future Challenges, to be held at the Dana Centre, London, on March 27, 2008.

Speakers include Dr Jamie Hobbs of the University of Sheffield.

More information, including how to register, is given in the PDF file below.

75 Years PE (PDF file, 96 kB)

Jamie Hobbs

A one day conference organised by the Rubber in Engineering Committee of the Polymer Society, part of the Institute of Materials, Mining and Minerals, to be held at 1, Carlton House Terrace, London on October 30th 2008.

Papers are invited on all aspects of the time and frequency dependent properties of elastomeric materials. Please submit your abstract of less than 250 words, which should identify all authors including the proposed speaker as well as their affiliations, to Martin Burke at QinetiQ (e-mail: mpburke@qinetiq.com).

Further details on the RIEG website:

www.rieg.org.uk

Location: Sheffield, UK.

First announcement of an international conference covering thin polymer films including polymer crystallisation, polymer brushes, glass transition, soft nanotechnology.

Conference website

Location: Salerno, Italy.

The Conference goals are to foster scientific understanding and technical innovation in polymer processing for the worldwide community of Engineers and Scientists in the field.

Abstract submissions should be made by the 1st November 2007. Please see the conference website for further details:

Conference website

Location: University of York, United Kingdom

This unique international discussion meeting will bring together researchers from different backgrounds (physical chemistry and biology) to share their knowledge and foster new collaborations and directions.

The meeting will aim to focus on two main strands: the physical chemistry of macromolecules as common ground between biology and polymer science; and the problems associated with biocompatibility and biodegradability of polymers, particularly with regard to their role as therapeutic delivery vehicles.

For more information, please visit the conference website, or download the flyer, both linked below:

Conference website.

Conference flyer (PDF 130kB).