SPE Forum will focus on nano-scale carbonaceous materials.
Press Release Summary:
Scheduled for December 6-7, 2012, SPE ANTEC® Mumbai will include New Technology Forum focusing on nano-scale carbonaceous materials such as carbon nanotubes and graphenes. Some papers that will be presented include: Are Nano Composites a 21st Century Material?; Graphene-Based Composite Materials; Graphene-Based Soluble Nanocomposites; and Surface Modification Carbon Nanotubes and Nanographene Platelets for Improved Performance in Polymer Composites.
Original Press Release:
Special Program at SPE ANTEC® Mumbai Will Focus on Nano-Scale Carbonaceous Materials
One Presenter Anticipates that Nanomaterials Will Have a “Bigger Impact on Human Life” in this Century than Polymers Did in the 1900s
NEWTOWN, CT, U.S.A., - Nano-scale carbonaceous materials such as carbon nanotubes and graphenes will be the subject of a New Technology Forum planned for the first Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) ANTEC® conference to be held in India, it was announced today by SPE.  Â
ANTEC® Mumbai will take place December 6-7, 2012 at the Renaissance Mumbai Convention Centre Hotel and consist of more than 100 presentations, chiefly technical, in sessions devoted to six major topic areas. One of these sessions will be the New Technology Forum on carbonaceous nanomaterials.
“It is expected that nanomaterials and nanocomposites will have bigger impact on human life in the current century than has been the impact of polymers to date,” said one of the Forum presenters, Dr. Satish Kumar, in a abstract of his paper.
The papers and their presenters in the New Technology Forum will include:
Are Nano Composites a 21st Century Material? Satish Kumar, School of Materials Science and Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Graphene-Based Composite Materials. Nikhil Koratkar Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Graphene-Based Soluble Nanocomposites—A Viable Route to Solution Processable Device Fabrication. Arindarupa Chunder, IBM Almaden Research Center.
Surface Modification Carbon Nanotubes and Nanographene Platelets for Improved Performance in Polymer Composites. Srinagesh K. Potluri, Zyvex Technologies.
Carbon Nanotube-Polymer Composites: Effect of Nanotubes on Polymer Physics. Brian P. Grady, School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering.
Fabrication of Microcellular PP-MWCNT Nanocomposite Foams in a Sub-Critical CO2 Process. Vipin Kumar, Microcellular Plastics Lab, Mechnical Engineering Department, University of Washington.
The organizers of the New Technology Forum at ANTEC Mumbai are Sadhan C. Jana, University of Akron; Prithu Mukhopadhyay, IPEX Technologies; and Arup Ranjan Bhattacharya, Indian Institute of Technology.
Information on ANTEC Mumbai is available from Vijay Boolani, technical program chair, at vboolani@4spe.org. Or visit www.mumbai,antec.ws.
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