Session: Tuesday Afternoon Session B: Bio-Polymers (Fall 178th Technical Meeting)

Tuesday Afternoon Session B: Bio-Polymers

Tuesday, October 12, 2010: 1:00 PM-4:30 PM

Chair:

Kimberley Dempsey-miller, West Pharmaceuticals Services

1:00 PM

PLENARY SPEAKER-Unraveling the Mystery of Natural Rubber Biosynthesis

Judit E. Puskas, The University of Akron, Akron, OH

1:45 PM

PAPER WITHDRAWN BY AUTHOR

2:15 PM

Improving the Properties of the Biopolymer Poly(Lactic Acid)

Leonard H. Palys, B.S., M.S., ORGANIC Peroxides R&D, ARKEMA INC., King of Prussia, PA and Zuzanna T. Cygan, Ph.D., Sustainability Additives, ARKEMA INC., King of Prussia, PA

2:45 PM

Break

3:00 PM

PAPER WITHDRAWN BY AUTHOR

3:30 PM

30A

Electrospin Bio-Polymeric New Fibers as Valuable Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering and Reinforcing Materials In Nanocomposites

Robert H. Schuster, Dik, Deutsches Institut für Kautschuktechnologie, Hannover, Germany