Wednesday, 28 June 2006: 1:30 PM-5:40 PM
Federal Room B (Capital Hilton)
Resources & Renewables (R&R)
Bio-based Materials II
Organizer:Green Chemistry Institute
1:30 PMValuable products from Nigerian elephant sawgrass
Joseph Fortunak, Frank Ohwoavworhua, Olobayo Kunle, Robin D. Rogers
1:50 PMGreen monomers and polymers for functional and reactive polyesters and nylons
Lon J. Mathias, Allison M Sikes, Kaitian Xu, Carl Bennett, Eylem Tarkin-Tas
2:10 PMCorn (sugars)-based polymer chemistries
Michael Jaffe, George Collins, Anthony East, Yi Zhang
2:30 PMExopolymer as a raw material
Joan Combie
2:50 PMChemical investigation of Anthemis tigreensis for bioactive sesquiterpene lactones
Nigist Asfaw, Sinedu Dejene, Senait Dagne
3:10 PMEffects of a star-branched polyol and poly(vinyl alcohol) on the electrospinning behavior of wheat protein
Dara L. Woerdeman, Suresh Shenoy
3:30 PMBreak
4:00 PMEco-friendly bioplastics from renewable feedstocks: Microbial conversion and downstream recovery
Jian Yu
4:20 PMAcacia and Tamarix as green corrosion inhibitors of galvanized steel
Ahmed A. Taha
4:40 PMEcofriendly decolorization of wastewater using seed galactomannans from renewable resources
Rashmi Sanghi, Ishan Desai, Binayak Adhikary, P. A. Parikh
5:00 PMPreparation of cellulose acetate membranes from coconut water
Cynthia Lukiani Linaya
5:20 PMLCA of bio-based products: A comparison of starch and polyethylene foams
Chisa K. Brookes, Bruce Dale, Seungdo Kim, Ramani Narayan

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