Polymer Reaction Engineering for Advanced Materials
Shiping Zhu（朱世平）, McMaster University, Canada
The human race is now living in the “Materials World”. Humanity currently consumes more polymeric materials than all other types of synthetic materials combined. Polymers are chain molecules and their materials properties are determined to a large extent by their chain microstructure properties. Presented in this seminar are a chemical engineer’s point of view on advanced polymer materials and several research examples that include: (1) high-strength polyethylene fibers made by nano-extrusion polymerization; (2) long chain branched polyethylene that offers good combination of melt strength and processability; (3) semi-batch reactor technology for controlled gradient copolymers; (4) re-dispersible polymer latexes based on CO2/N2 switchable surfactant and comonomer; (5) polymer grafting for non-biofouling materials; and (6) large-area long-range nanochannels and nanowires by a novel “cutting-edge” technology.
朱世平教授82年毕业于浙大化工系，91年在麦克马斯特（McMaster）大学获博士学位，现为麦克马斯特大学化工系教授，加拿大科研讲座，加拿大皇家科学院院士，加拿大工程院院士。
朱教授长期致力于聚合反应工程与科学研究，他领导的研究小组为烯类单体的催化聚合机理、聚合物结构调控理论与技术的发展，为新聚合过程特别是原子转移自由基聚合与聚合物材料的开发及生物材料表面改性技术作出了突出的贡献，现已在国际学术刊物上发表论文300余篇，培养高级学位人才100多名。
朱教授2000年获加拿大安大略“总理研究优秀奖”(PREA)，04年获中国国家自然科学基金委“海外青年学者”合作研究基金，05年入选中国教育部“长江学者讲座教授”，11年获加拿大化学联合会“大分子科学与工程奖”(MSEA)，12年入选中国中组部短期 “创新人才计划”。
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