Polymers in the home, personal care and agriculture

Convener:

Ezat Khoshdel, Unilever, UK

Co-Convener: Ian Shirley, Syngenta

Co-Convener: Sebastian Koltzenburg, BASF, Germany

Programme:

Thursday 15 July (morning and afternoon)

Symposium Information

The use of functional polymers in home, personal care and agriculture is a multi-million dollar business. The type and variety of the polymers employed in products in these areas is largely unknown to academic polymer scientists. Indeed, polymers play such a key role in these applications that most modern products will not function without them. 

This symposium will address the following areas:

• Overview of  the role and function of polymer science in the home, personal care and agriculture
• Highlights of the key structural features of the diverse range of naturally derived and synthetic polymers used in these areas
• Illustrations of key features of polymers currently employed for structuring/rheology control, delivery vehicles, protection and deposition aids and functional roles such as sequestering aides, inhibition of dye transfer during laundering and adhesive polymers employed for hair styling applications
• Examples of novel architecture macromolecules such as hyper-branched and dendritic polymers as well as block and graft polymers made by living radical polymerisation methodology
• Challenges and opportunities facing polymer scientists in balancing cost/performance/sustainability paradigm and commercialisation issues
• Illustrations of applications selected from structural polymers, controlled and sustained delivery of plant health substances, formulation enhancement, seed treatments and soil conditioning

Keynote Speaker

Invited Speakers

Agrochemical Applications - Multiple uses and unique advantages through polymers
Matthias Bratz, BASF SE, Germany

Recent Developments in Silicone Technology for Life Science Applications
Michael Starch, Dow Corning Corporation, USA

Speakers

Influence of the Backbone Structure on the Release of Bioactive Volatiles from Maleic acid Based Polymer Conjugates 
Damien Berthier, Firmenich SA, Switzerland

Hybrid Organofluorosilicone Materials for Optical Applications 
Lech Wilczek, DuPont, USA

Reactive Poly(ethylene glycol) containing Polymers for Covalent Conjugation to Biological Surfaces
Stacy Slavin, University of Warwick, UK 

Polymers on snow: Towards skiing faster 
Jan Giesbrecht, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Polymer surfactant Interaction: pseudo-phase equilibria in coacervate formation
Robert Lochhead, University of Southern Mississippi, USA

Mechanical strength and release properties of silica microcapsules produced via a surfactant-free emulsion synthesis
Rachael Allen, University of Birmingham, UK

Fabrication of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticle Armored UV-Protective Microcapsules  
Stefan Bon, University of Warwick, UK

Particle encapsulation by ATRP initiated from surface adsorbed polymers
Alex Heming, Syngenta, Switzerland

Copolymerization of vinyllactams for application in personal care formulations
Linda Foltis, International Specialty Products (ISP), USA

Structure Property Relationships: The Key to Successful Development of Polymers for Hair-care
David Graham, BASF SE, Germany

Poster Presenters

The Effect of Fire Retardants on the Thermal Degradation Chemistry of Flexible Polyurethane Foam
Deborah Todd, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
 
N-Heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) as organocatalysts in polymerization of siloxanes
Sébastien Marrot, Bluestar Silicones, France
 
Synthesis and characterization of model polymeric esters to reveal the structural complexity of commercially available polsorbate surfactants
Shazia Abrar, Institute of Chemistry, Austria
 
Waste Management in Qatar
Nabil Madi, University of Qatar, Qatar
 
Surface migration of fluorinated acrylic block copolymers on vinyl chloride polymer films
Xiaogang Yang, Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences, Singapore
 
Structural analysis of high-molecular-weight brominated flame retardants usnig the MALDI-Spiral TOFMS
Akihiko Kusai, JEOL(EUROPE)SAS, Croissy-sur-Seine, France
 
Polymers and soil-zeolite aggregates - recent developments and future prospects for wastes stocks recuperation
Margarita Natova, Central Laboratory of Physico-Chemical Mechanics of BAS, Bulgaria
 
Ultra-fine PLA fibres obtained by melt-blown technology - structure, applications and properties
Jaroslaw Janicki, University of Bielsko-Biala, Poland
 
Influence of Residual Catalysts and Comonomer Content on the Thermal Degradation of PET Containing PEG Sequences
Annika Alke, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
 
Synthesis of functionalised hyperbranched polymers via combination of Catalytic Chain Transfer Polymerisation of dimethacrylates and thiol-ene Click Chemistry
Jasmin Menzel, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
 
The effect of granulometry, glycerol concentration and presence of fat in the properties of films from feathers and bovine hair
Pilar Gonçalves, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Symposium Sponsor

We are grateful to Syngenta for their sponsorship support of the Polymers in the Home, Personal Care and Agriculture symposium.