报告主题：羰基聚合——可持续商用塑料的潜在平台

报告时间：2023年11月20日20：00

报告地点：材料楼404会议室

报告人：贾力（阿克隆大学高分子学院教授）

              徐伟男（阿克隆大学高分子学院助理教授）

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内容摘要：

Carbonylative Polymerizations – A Potential Platform for Sustainable Commodity Plastics

Sustainable plastics aiming to replace the current commodity plastics should ideally have the following attributes. They are made from monomers that have low-carbon footprint and are readily available at scales and costs comparable to current commodity monomers such as ethylene and propylene. They are degradable on the surface of Earth as a fraction of them will inevitably leak into the environment. If they are made via transition metal-catalyzed polymerization, the catalyst is based on earth-abundant, inexpensive metals. And finally, they are ductile as polyethylene and polypropylene are, at least to some extent. This presentation will focus on carbonylative polymerization as a platform for making sustainable plastics. Ni catalysts with various ligands will be discussed. Incorporation of comonomers, including ethylene itself, cyclic ether, and propylene, into CO-ethylene alternating copolymer will be explored as ways to achieve the essential mechanical property of polyethylene and polypropylene replacements: ductility.

About Univ. of Akron and Its World-Renowned Polymer Research

The University of Akron has world-renowned polymer research and education since more than 110 years ago when Dr. Charles Knight had the foresight to teach the world’s first course in rubber chemistry. Today, the School of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering has 25 faculty members, more than 150 graduate students. They are working on important and diversified research topics that are closely related to polymer chemistry, polymer physics, sustainability, advanced manufacturing, biomedicine, and energy. We have over 1500 PhD and MS alumni in 26 countries, many are in important leadership positions in academia and industry.

 

报告人简介：

贾力，现任阿克隆大学高分子学院教授。他在兰州大学获得化学本科学位，在美国西北大学获得化学博士学位，在加州大学伯克利分校做过博士后研究。他的主要研究方向包括金属催化聚合反应，高分子自组装，橡胶化学和技术。

徐伟男，现任阿克隆大学高分子学院助理教授。2011年于东华大学取得高分子学士学位，2015年于佐治亚理工学院取得材料科学与工程博士学位，之后于约翰霍普金斯大学做博士后研究。所获主要奖项包括DARPA Young Faculty Award, Polymer Processing Society Early Career Award, and Best Ph.D. Thesis Award from Sigma Xi and Georgia Tech。