“Live” online ACS CELL Division meeting

In place of the cancelled 2020 ACS Spring National Meeting in Philadelphia, the CELL Division ran a successful “live” online CELL Division meeting – “New Horizons: Early Career Researchers in Renewable Materials” to share some of the exciting research in the area of cellulose and renewable materials to our division members. This two-day “Live and Online” Division meeting was held remotely on YouTube Live Stream on the 22nd and 23rd April 2020. The event attracted over 100 virtual attendees. 

On Day 1 – 22nd April 2020, we had an exciting line up of presentations:

Pacific Daylight Time British Standard Time Title of the presentation Presenter
09:00 - 09:25 17:00 - 17:25 Approaches to Polysaccharide-Based Block Co-polymers Kevin Edgar
09:25 - 09:50 17:25 - 17:50 New one-pot sulfonyl-modification of cellulose nanocrystal Reeta Salminen
09:50 - 10:15 17:50 - 18:15 Cellulose building blocks design for scattering engineering Han Yang
10:15 - 10:30 18:15 - 18:30 Break  
10:30 - 10:55 18:30 - 18:55 Nanocellulose and 2D Conductors: Interactions and Forces Studied by Colloidal Probe Atomic Force Microscopy Michael Reid
10:55 - 11:20 18:55 - 19:20 High precision 3-D printing of nanocellulose into super strong yet flexible structure Feng Jiang
11:20 - 11:45 19:20 - 19:45 Towards Sustainable and Renewable Carbon Products: A Comprehensive Analytical and Statistical Study of Graphitization in Lignin Carbon Valerie García-Negrón
11:45 - 12:10 19:45 - 20:10 Pickering emulsions as synthetic tool for nanocellulose modification Katja Heise
12:10 - 12:35 20:10 - 20:35 Twist geometry of nanocelluloses probed by electron microdiffraction Yu Ogawa

 

And on Day 2 – 23rd April 2020, we also had another day of exciting presentations:

Pacific Daylight Time British Standard Time Title of the presentation Presenter
09:00 - 09:25 17:00 - 17:25 Optical consequences of distortions in cellulose nanocrystal films Bruno Frka-Petesic
09:25 - 09:50 17:25 - 17:50 Emerging Cellulose Science and Engineering towards Energy, Water and Sustainability Tian Li
09:50 - 10:15 17:50 - 18:15 Substrate interactions as a handle to control long-range order in micro- and macrostructures formed from cellulose nanocrystals Blaise L. Tardy
10:15 - 10:30 18:15 - 18:30 Break  
10:30 - 10:55 18:30 - 18:55 Saccharide Autofluorescence: Its Origins and Applications Marcus Johns
10:55 - 11:20 18:55 - 19:20 Hyper-production of Cellulase based Macromolecules by Escherichia coli engineered with UV & EMS mutated cellulase gene from Aspergillus niger for Industrial Applications Qurat-ul-ain Daud
11:20 - 11:45 19:20 - 19:45 Understanding the structural diversity in chitin as a versatile biomaterial Ahu Dumanli
11:45 - 12:20 19:45 - 20:20 Modifying materials using rod shaped fillers Johan Foster

We thank all the participants and virtual attendees of this “live” online CELL Division meeting. This meeting would not have been successful without you! 

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