3^rd International Conference on Polymer Science and Engineering(10 Plenary Forums-1Event) October 2-3 2017 Chicago, USA

Mosongo Moukwa is a senior level management professional and entrepreneur recognized for his achievements to helping companies improve their profitability by commercializing new technologies and developing new markets. He is Director of Technology at PolyOne for the Designed Structures and Solutions Division. He was Vice President of Global Technology at Johnson Polymer, WI, now part of BASF, Vice President of Global Technology at Reichhold, NC. Most recently, he was Vice President of Technology at Asian Paints, India. He holds a PhD from the Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada and was a NSERC postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University, IL. He also holds an MBA from Case Western Reserve University, OH. He is a member of the American Chemical Society.

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Manijeh Razeghi is the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Electrical Engineering at Northwestern University and Director of the Center for Quantum Devices, which she founded in 1991 after a successful 10-year career as the Director of Exploratory Materials at Thomson-CSF, France. She is one of the leading scientists in the field of semiconductor science and technology, having pioneered the development and implementation of major modern epitaxial techniques. Her current research interest is in nanoscale optoelectronic quantum devices from deep-UV up to terahertz. At Northwestern University she has commercialized aluminum-free pump lasers, developed type-II superlattices for next generation infrared imagers (an area in which she holds key patents), and currently holds most of the quantum cascade lasers records for high power and tunability. She has authored 18 books, 31 books chapters, and more than 1000 journal publications. She is editor, associate, and board member of many journals, including Nano Science and Nano technology. Her awards include the IBM Europe Science and Technology Prize, the SWE Lifetime Achievement Award, the R.F. Bunshah Award, the IBM faculty award, Jan Czochralski Gold Medal, and many best paper awards. She is a fellow of SWE, SPIE, IEC, OSA, APS, IOP, IEEE, and MRS.

Her current research interest is in nanoscale optoelectronic quantum devices from deep-UV up to terahertz

Prof. Kremer joined the Max-Planck Society in September of 1995 as the sixth director of the Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, heading the new theory group. He studied physics at the University of Cologne. In 1983 he received his PhD degree in theoretical physics from the University of Cologne under the supervision of Prof. Binder at the National Research Center KFA Jülich. He performed computer simulations for dynamic and static properties of polymers in bulk and near surfaces. After spending another year at Jülich as a scientific staff member he moved for a post-doctoral stay to Exxon Research and Engineering Corporation, Annandale, New Jersey, USA. There, he started working on molecular dynamics simulations of polymers and on charge stabilized colloids in collaboration with Drs. Grest, Pincus, and others. In 1985 he came back to Germany becoming a member of Prof. Binder's group at the University of Mainz as an Assistant Professor of theoretical physics. There he got his Habilitation in 1988. After that he returned to the solid state laboratory of the KFA Jülich as a senior scientific staff member joining the group of Prof. Villain. In 1992 his Habilitation was transferred to the University of Bonn and in fall of 1995 back to Mainz. He spent several extended visits as visiting professor/scientist at Exxon Research (Dr. Grest), UC Santa Barbara (Materials Dept., Prof. Pincus), and University of Minnesota (Dept. Chem. Engineering and Materials Science, Profs. Davis, Bates, Tirell, and others). In spring 1995 he stayed for a period of three months at the central research department of the Bayer AG, Leverkusen, looking into the applicability of current theoretical results to industrial problems. Prof. Kremer was awarded the ''George T. Piercy Distinguished Professorship of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science'' of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 1991 and the ''Walter Schottky Preis der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft'' in 1992. In 1999 he was Whitby Lecturer at Akron University, and in 2006 Nakamura Lecturer at UC Santa Barbara. Since 2006 he is Fellow of the American Physical Society. Together with G. S. Grest he is the 2011 recipient of the Polymer Physics Prize of the American Physical Society.

His research mainly employed various computer simulation techniques to a variety of different problems in the general area of soft matter physics in close relation to either experiment or analytic theory or both. This covers models which contain some or all local chemical details as well as highly idealized models. Specific current research areas of the theory group include: computational physics methods/ applications, statistical mechanics of soft matter (polymers, colloids, membranes), polyelectrolytes, theory of complex fluids, multiscale modeling, structure property relations and multiscale modeling of soft matter electronics and of biological soft matter

Igor Emri is a Chair Professor of Mechanics at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana and President of the Institute for Sustainable Innovative Technologies, EEIG. He has developed an innovative theoretical-experimental approach, known as Knauss-Emri model, to study the non-linear behavior of time-dependent materials. His current research activities are focused on non-linear time-dependent behavior of dissipative systems with the emphasis on behavior of solid polymers and their nano-, micro-, and macro-composites and granular systems. He is one of the founders and Editor-in-Chief of the international journal »Mechanics of Time Dependent Materials«, published by Springer. He is a fellow grade member of the Society of Experimental Mechanics (USA), Russian Academy of Engineering, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, European Academy of Sciences, Slovenian Academy of Engineering, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and Honorary Member of the Ukrainian Academy of Engineering. He is the Chairman of the Science Europe Scientific Advisory Committee, and a past president of the Society of Experimental Mechanics and the International Committee on Rhelogy (ICR).

His current research activities are focused on non-linear time-dependent behavior of dissipative systems with the emphasis on behavior of solid polymers and their nano-, micro-, and macro-composites and granular systems

Professor Geoffrey Mitchell studied in Sheffield and London before obtaining a PhD working with Alan Windle at the University of Cambridge, UK. His PhD thesis focused on the study of the local structure of polymer melts and glasses using x-ray scattering and computational modelling. He spent a period in Cambridge as a research fellow with a programme centered on the study of liquid crystal polymers. This was followed by a spell at Hokkaido University, Japan with Professor Akira Odajima applying nmr and dielectric measurements to main-chain liquid crystal polymers. In 1984 he took up a lectureship in physics at the University of Reading, was appointed Reader in Polymer Physics in 1992 and Professor of Polymer Physics in 1995. He was the Founding Coordinator of the Polymer Science Centre a collaborative research programme in polymer science involving the Departments of Physics and Chemistry. In 2005 he was the founding Director of the Centre for Advanced Microscopy at Reading which was University wide centre of excellence. In 2013 he was appointed Emeritus Professor. In 2010 he joined the staff of the Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development at the Institute Polytechnic of Leiria. Previously he had been Visiting Professor of IPL since 2004. He is now Vice-Director of CDRSP since 2014. Professor Mitchell has a broad experience of materials research ranging from non-linear optics through smart materials to the microstructural study of technologically important materials. He has developed novel time-resolving techniques in x-ray and neutron scattering for the study of both local structure and the influence of external fields (shear and extensional flow, stress, magnetic, electric) on polymer melts, glasses, liquid crystal polymers and crystallisable polymers. He has co-edited a book on “Controlling the Morphology of Polymers; Multiple Scales of Structure and Processing” published by Springer in 2016. He has combined such scattering techniques with computational modelling to reveal quantitative information about the segmental packing in polymer melts and glasses. He has pioneered the study of liquid crystal elastomers including both chiral networks and the use of such networks as smart materials. He was one of the first to develop photoactive materials for a variety of applications, including non-linear optics, optical fibre switches, coatings and smart systems. In the last 15 years he has developed strong interest in additive manufacturing, firstly with the development of a novel UV/IR Stereolithography process and then the influence of 3-d printing processes of the structure and morphology of the final products. He has developed a strong interest in electrospinning and was amongst the first to evaluate the effect of the electrospinning parameters on the polymer structure of the fibres. He initiated and has chaired a highly successful conference series on electrospinning. This has led to a book ‘Electrospinning: principles, practice and possibilities’ which was published by the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2015

Professor Mitchell has a broad experience of materials research ranging from non-linear optics through smart materials to the microstructural study of technologically important materials. He is particularly interested in the development of additive manufacturing processes including electrospinning and the control of the polymer morphology during manufacturing. He exploits x-ray and neutron scattering for the study of both local structure and the influence of external fields (shear and extensional flow, stress, magnetic, electric) on polymer melts, glasses, liquid crystal polymers and crystallisable polymers and uses scattering data with computational modelling. He is current extending additive manufacturing to functional materials including photoactive systems

Ana Barros Timmons has completed her PhD in Chemistry in 1997 from Manchester University. Since 1996 she has been lecturing at the University of Aveiro various courses related to Polymer Science and Chemical Engineering laboratories as well as participating in the coordination of a couple of joint European Master Courses in the field of Materials Science & Enginnering. She has published ca 63 papers in reputed journals and over 120 communications. Her research interests are foccused on the preparation and characterization of nanocomposite materials with particular emphasis on controlled polymerization mechanisms, thermal analyses and the use of renewable materials.

Her research interests are foccused on the preparation and characterization of nanocomposite materials with particular emphasis on controlled polymerization mechanisms, thermal analyses and the use of renewable materials

In 1978 and 1999 he has completed his Ph.D and D.Sci. from Institute of Organic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia and Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Tbilisi, Georgia, respectively. 2006 up to date he is the head of laboratory of plant biopolymers at the Tbilisi State Medical University Institute of Pharmacochemistry. 1996 and 2002 he has been a visiting scientist at Utrecht University (faculty of pharmacy), The Netherlands, by University Scholarship and The Netherlands organization for scientific research Scholarship Scientific Program, respectively. He has published more than 81 papers in reputed journals.

Vakhtang Barbakadze has his expertise in isolation and structure elucidation of a new series of plant polyethers, which are endowed with pharmacological properties as anti-cancer agents. Besides, he interested in enantioselective synthesis and biological activities of basic monomeric moiety of these biopolyethers, synthesis of enantiomerically pure epoxides as chiral building blocks for the production of synthetic analogues of natural polyethers.

Dr. Nekane Guarrotxena earned her PhD in chemistry from the University of Complutense, Madrid-Spain in 1994. She held post-doctoral research positions at the Ecole Nationale Superieure d´Arts et Metiers, Paris-France (1994-1995) and the University of Science II, Montpellier-France (1995-1997). She was the Vice-Director of the Institute of Polymer Science and Technology (ICTP)-CSIC (2001-2005). From 2008-2011, she was visiting professor in the Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Materials at University of California, Santa Barbara-USA and the CaSTL at University of California, Irvine-USA. She is currently Research Scientist at the Institute of Polymers Science and Technology, CSIC-Spain. She has been involved for several years on the dissemination of Science and Technology of Polymers-plastics (where she served as a member of Scientific Committee of Escuela de Plasticos y Caucho and FOCITEC or Association for the Promotion of Science and Technology). She is Editorial Board member of several journals and organizing committee member of several scientific and technological events. She also acts as External Expertise Consultant on I+D+I Management and Policy for National and International Agencies. Her studies have been published in more than 60 peer-reviewed publications, 4 books (also co-editor) and more than 21 book chapters. Her research interest focuses on the synthesis and assembly of hybrid nanomaterials, nanoplasmonics, and their uses in nanobiotechnology applications (bioimaging, drug delivery, therapy and biosensing).

Her research interest focuses on the synthesis and assembly of hybrid nanomaterials, nanoplasmonics, and their uses in nanobiotechnology applications (bioimaging, drug delivery, therapy and biosensing).

Padmaja Guggilla has completed her PhD from Alabama A&M University in 2007. Dr. Guggilla is presently working as Associate Professor of Physics at Alabama A&M University. She has published more than 45 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of reputed journals. She has secured over 2 million dollars of extramural funds as Principal Investigator in the last five years.

Nariyoshi Kawabata completed his PhD degree from Kyoto University at 1963. He was a chemistry assistant at Kyoto University from 1963 to 1969. He was an assistant professor of Kyoto Institute of Technology from 1969 to 1976 and a professor from 1976 to 1999. He was a professor of University of Shiga Prefecture from 1999 to 2005. He has a faithful opinion about severe duty of chemists in the protection of natural abundant environment from harmful and obstructive chemical materials produced by chemists and chemical industry.

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Dr. Emo Chiellini has completed his PhD in the year 1963 at the age of 26. He is Director for Bio lab Research Group at the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry – University of Pisa UdR/INSTM and former full professor at university of Pisa, Italy and he is a member of scientific Committee at Interuniversity Consortium of Materials Science & Technology (INSTM), Florence – Italy. He has more 50 years of teaching experience. He took responsibility in industrial funded r&d projects from 1977-2014. He is involved in Ec-funded projects (fp4 - fp7) from 1993-2013. He has his involvement in Project co-funded by the Italian ministry of university & research from 1998-2009. He is editorial board member for more than 10 journals. He has Over 500 publications (420 in Peer Reviewed Journals and 85 Chapters in Books) in the field of Polymer Science and Technology. He has 34 Patents & 19 Books . he marked his presence in more than 300 national and international conferences. He visited more than 80 countries as invited scientist and professor.

Polymer Science and Technology

After completing his PhD and two postdoctoral research assignments in Weizmann Inst. of Science and University of Miami, he had joined CSMCRI Bhavnagar as a Scientist and later moved to SSCSSN-DDU as an Associate Professor in 2011. He is working on Nanomaterials Synthesis and their applications in Photovoltaics, nano-composites, Coatings, Drug delivery and thin films etc.

He is working on Nanomaterials Synthesis and their applications in Photovoltaics, nano-composites, Coatings, Drug delivery and thin films etc.