Castner and Foster are Division award winners.Dr. Kenneth Castner from Goodyear and Dr. Mark Foster from the Uni-versity of Akron are among the five award winners that will be honored at the Science & Technology Awards Banquet held during the upcoming Spring technical meeting. The meeting at the Hyatt Regency in San Antonio San Antonio (săn ăntō`nēō, əntōn`), city (1990 pop. 935,933), seat of Bexar co., S central Tex., at the source of the San Antonio River; inc. 1837. , TX, May 16-18, will feature technical symposia in which researchers, specialists, and industrial technologists will report on the latest scientific and technical advances in the rubber and polymer industries. Details of the technical symposia, special events, meeting schedule and registration can be found at www.rubber. org. The annual Science and Technology Awards Banquet will be on Monday, May 16, at 7:00 p.m. Dr. Castner, senior R&D associate for the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company was founded in 1898 by Frank Seiberling. Today it is the third largest tire company in the world after Bridgestone and Michelin. Goodyear manufactures tires for automobiles, race cars, airplanes, and heavy machinery. , will receive the Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award, honoring exceptional technical competency through significant and repeated contributions to rubber science and technology. Crompton/ Uniroyal Chemical sponsors this award. Dr. Castner is particularly noted for his pioneering work in the area of nickel catalyzed diene Dienes are hydrocarbons which contain two double bonds. Dienes are intermediate between alkenes and polyenes. Classes Dienes can be divided into three classes:
Any process in which monomers combine chemically to produce a polymer. The monomer molecules—which in the polymer usually number from at least 100 to many thousands—may or may not all be the same. for the synthesis of high cispolybutadiene. Castner retired in 2003 after 35 years of service. During the course of his career he was involved in research in many areas of polymerization, including cationic cationic having qualities dependent on having free cations available. cationic detergents are wetting agents that disrupt or damage cell membranes, denature proteins and inactivate enzymes. , anionic an·i·on n. A negatively charged ion, especially the ion that migrates to an anode in electrolysis. [From Greek, neuter present participle of anienai, to go up : ana-, ana- , inverse emulsion. ROMP and Ziegler-Natta polymerization of dienes, earning 31 U.S. patents and four trade secrets. His most notable achievements were in the areas of enhanced oil recovery Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) is a generic term for techniques for increasing the amount of oil that can be extracted from an oil field. Using EOR, 30-60 %, or more, of the reservoir's original oil can be extracted [1] compared with 20-40% [2] polymers and butadiene-based Ziegler-Natta polymers. He developed ultra-high molecular weight, highly branched water soluble polymers with sufficient stability to serve as viscosifiers in the very harsh environments of oil recovery operations. His work in nickel-catalyzed cis-polybutadiene was directed towards developing new polymerization processes and control of polymer macrostructure The notion of macrostructure has been used in several disciplines in order to distinguish large-scale, or 'global' structures, from small-scale, or 'local' structures, that is, microstructures. . These processes included solution, bulk and gas phase polymerization. His work in macrostructure control expanded the range of polymer molecular weights to include liquid cis-polybutadiene. Dr. Castner also discovered a means to effect branching in nickel-catalyzed BR, leading to its improved processability. Dr. Foster, professor at the University of Akron Enrollment in fall 2006 was 23,539 students.[1] The school offers more than 200 undergraduate degrees [2] and 100 graduate degrees [3]. The University's best-known program is its College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, which is located in a , will receive the Sparks-Thomas Award, honoring continued outstanding scientific contributions and innovations in the field of elastomers by younger scientists, technologists and engineers. ExxonMobil Chemical sponsors this award. Foster is known for his pioneering work on polymer interdiffusion and the development of X-ray reflectometry, neutron reflectometry and scanning probe microscopy techniques to study interfaces and adhesion. Foster is also the associate director, Akron Global Polymer Academy, at the University of Akron. Profiles of the other three award winners, Dr. Richard J. Farris, Dr. Renato Caretta and Dr. Maria D. Ellul will be in future issues. Tickets for the awards dinner are $60.00 advance, $65.00 on-site, and $480 advance for tables of 8. Seating is limited--reserve your tickets now at www.rubber.org |
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