报告题目：On the Emerging Chemistry and Application of Sustainable Polymers from Biomass
报告人：Chuanbing Tang（唐传兵）教授
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, USA
时间：2015年07月20日（周一）下午15：30
地点：苏大独墅湖校区907#1445
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报告摘要：
Sustainable polymers from biomass are facing a critical period when the increasing demand from general public and governments stimulates opportunities and the incompetency against petro-products exerts paramount pressure on scientists. While lignocellulosic biopolymers presents indisputable dominance, the more pragmatic emerging products might rely on small molecular biomass, as it does by PLA. We are particularly interested in a class of hydrocarbon-rich biomass, ranging from resin acids to fatty acids to plant oils. In this presentation, I will talk about the utilization of natural rosin for designing thermoplastics, thermoplastic elastomers and biomaterials. Recent efforts on the new chemistry of plant oils to fatty derivatives will be also discussed.
References:
(1) Yuan, L.; Wang, Z.; Trenor, N. M.; Tang, C. Robust Amidation Transformation of Plant Oils into Fatty Derivatives for Sustainable Monomers and Polymers, Macromolecules, 2015, 48, 1320-1328.
(2) Ganewatta, M. S.; Chen, Y.-P.; Wang, J.; Zhou, J.; Ebalunde, J.; Nagarkatti, M.; Decho, A. W.; Tang, C. Bio-inspired Resin Acid-Derived Materials as Anti-Bacterial Resistance Agents with Unexpected Activities. Chem. Sci., 2014, 5, 2011 - 2016.
(3) Yao, K.; Tang, C. Controlled Polymerization of Next-Generation Renewable Monomers and Beyond. Macromolecules, 2013, 46, 1689-1712.
唐传兵教授简介：
Dr. Chuanbing Tang received B.S. from Nanjing University and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University with Profs. Krzysztof Matyjaszewski and Tomasz Kowalewski. He was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California Santa Barbara with Profs. Edward J. Kramer and Craig J. Hawker. Since August 2009, he has been an Assistant, Associate and College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor in Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of South Carolina. His research interests focus on organic polymer synthesis, sustainable polymers from renewable natural resources, metal-containing polymers, and polymers for biomedical application and nanophase-separated copolymers for energy storage. He has been recognized with a few awards including NSF Career Award, Thieme Chemistry Journal Award and USC Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentor Award. He has also been named an ACS PMSE Young Investigator and a Rising Star at the University of South Carolina. He has published about 90 papers and 10 patent applications.
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