Science & Technology Award Winners

Wednesday, April 29, 2015: 2:15 PM-5:30 PM
Hyatt Regency Greenville
Chair:
Dr. Maria D. Ellul, ExxonMobil Chemical Co.
2:15 PM
Charles Goodyear Medal Winner - Meso Crystalline Propylene-Ethylene Copolymers: Elastomers with Plastics Processing
Dr. Sudhin Datta, ExxonMobil Chemical Company, Houston, TX
3:15 PM
Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award - Behavior of Rubber: Applications of Stress-strain Models
Dr. Alan Muhr, Research and Development, TARRC, Hertford, United Kingdom
3:45 PM
Break
4:00 PM
George S. Whitby Award for Distinguished Teaching and Research - A Constitutive Tube Model of Rubber Elasticity: The Path from Polymer Network to the Rubber Component
Dr. Gert Heinrich, Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, Dresden, Germany
4:30 PM
Sparks-Thomas Award - Recent Progresses in Physical Understanding, Mechanical Characterization and Modeling of the Mullins Softening in Carbon-Black Filled Rubbers
Dr. Julie Diani, Arts et Meteris ParisTech, PIMM- CNRS, Paris, France
5:00 PM
Chemistry of Thermoplastic Elastomers Award - Advances in the Synthesis of Thermoplastic Elastomers-Styrenic Block Copolymers
Dr. Carl Willis, Kraton Polymers, Houston, TX


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