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Polymer Reaction Engineering - Historical Development, Current Vitality and Some Future Challenges

Monday, November 17, 2008: 2:21 PM
Lescaze Room (Loews Philadelphia Hotel)

W. Harmon Ray, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI

This talk will describe the rise of Polymerization Reaction Engineering as a discipline leading to new catalytic and kinetic mechanisms, new chemical species, and new polymer products over the last 100+ years. Some exciting new directions that illustrate the vitality and future promise of this field will also be discussed.
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