学术报告

题目： High Performance Bio-based Materials

主 讲 人：Dr. Dean Webster (North Dakota State University)

讲座时间：2015年05月12日（周二）14:00

讲座地点：化工楼B329

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化学与材料工程学院

专家介绍：Dean Webster is Professor and Chair in the Department of Coatings and Polymeric Materials at North Dakota State University, the editor-in-chief of Progress in Organic Coatings. He received a B.S. in Chemistry and a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering Science both from Virginia Tech.  Prior to joining NDSU in 2001 he worked for Sherwin-Williams at their Central Research Laboratories in Chicago and at Eastman Chemical Company in Kingsport, Tennessee.  He is the recipient of the 2011 Roy W. Tess Award in Coatings Science given by the American Chemical Society and the 2013 Joesph Mattiello Lecture award given by the American Coatings Association. His research is in the area of new high performance polymer systems for coatings and composites, nanocomposites, polymers for marine antifouling coatings, and use of renewable resources in polymers and coatings systems. 

学术报告

题目： Biobased Solutions to Future Coating Technologies

主 讲 人：Dr. Zhigang Chen (Rust Oleum corporation)

讲座时间：2015年05月12日（周二）15:00

讲座地点：化工楼B329

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化学与材料工程学院

专家介绍：Zhigang Chen, obtained his BS in Polymer Science in Zhongshan Unversity in 1997, PhD in Polymers and Coatings at North Dakota State University in 2006. He worked 5 years in China for ICI Paint and National Starch and Chemicals as a coating and adhesive formulation chemist before he went to US for graduate study. After his PhD study, he worked for the Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering of North Dakota State University for 5 years as a Senior Research Scientist, focusing on novel biobased polymeric materials synthesis and formulation as coatings. From 2010-2011 he worked for Ashland Performance Materials as a Senior Staff Scientist, focused on synthesis and formulation of UV curable pressure sensitive adhesives. From 2012 to present, he has been a technology manager of wood coating R&D at Rust Oleum corporation, focus on both synthesis and formulation of novel polymer materials as consumer wood coatings.