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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