Undergraduate Students take part in Summer Research Programs Poster Session 2023

NSF REU “Green Chemistry” student Luke Leach presents his summer research poster entitled Effect of Plant Oil-based Monomers Unsaturation Degree on Adhesion Performance of Structural Acrylic Adhesives at NDSU Summer Research Programs Poster Session and presents short oral presentation. You can also listen to the podcast from Luke based on his research here Green Chemistry NDSU 2023 Podcast on sustainable food products – Luke Leach, more information about the program can be found https://www.ndsu.edu/scimath/green_chemistry_reu/

High school student in PICNICS Summer Program 2023 Rosie Hobbie presents her research poster entitled Plant oil-based Acrylic copolymers for Adhesives Applications at poster session and presents short oral presentation. More about program can be found https://www.ndsu.edu/chemistry/programs_and_events/programs/

This annual symposium features the research of more than 60 undergraduate and high school students who are working at NDSU over the summer.

Summer Student presented at the SURE 2023 Seminar

SURE 2023 student Daniel Sabrosky presented his summer research project obtained results at Department seminar. Daniels’ presentation is entitled Assessing Impact of Latex Nanoplastics on Model Biological Systems. He worked under supervision of Kateryna Rudich.

 More information can be found https://www.ndsu.edu/cpm/summer_undergraduate_research_experience/

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Group presents at Fall ACS meeting in Chicago

Our research group gives three presentations at 2022 Fall American Chemical Society meeting Sustainability in Changing World hold in Chicago, IL on August, 21-25. Tetiana Shevtsova presents poster  entitled “Bioplastic Proteoposite Films from Plant Proteins for Food Packaging Applications”, Bohdan Domnich gives oral presentation on ” Highly biobased latex adhesives from plant-oil derived monomers and isobornyl methacrylate”.

Andriy Voronov gives an invited talk “Plant Oil-Based Latexes : Effect of Unsaturation”. All three presentations are given at Green Polymer Chemistry & Sustainability symposium organized by Division of Polymer Chemistry.

For more details on the program, https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/meetings/acs-meetings/fall-2022.html and https://www.polyacs.net/acsataglance

Voronov serves as a proposal reviewer

Andriy served as a review panelist for the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding of Romania. He reviewed 6 proposals for polymers in nanotechnology program.

Bohdan Domnich presents at the CPM Graduate Seminar

Bohdan presents his 1st year graduate seminar.
Bohdan’s presentation is entitled “Plant oil-based pressure-sensitive latex adhesives (PSAs)”.

Ukrainian NDSU students describe fears, yet have hope for their devastated nation

Our group members, Yehor Polunin  and Bohdan Domnich, participate in the panel discussion “War in Ukraine”,   organized by the NDSU Department of Political Science & Public Policy and moderated by Thomas Ambrosio, Professor of Political Science at NDSU

On Thursday, March 24, Yehor and Bohdan have been part of the presentation at the panel where showed vivid images and videos they had retrieved from social media and friends about the devastation to schools, shopping centers, residential buildings, orphanages, train depots, hospitals, cultural treasures and nuclear plants.

For more information, Ukrainian NDSU students describe fears, yet have hope for their devastated nation

Yehor Polunin presents at CPM Graduate Seminar

Yehor Polunin presents his 3^rd year graduate seminar.
Yehor’s presentation is entitled “Biobased Grafted Copolymers for Food Packaging Paper Modification”. This is collaborative research between Clemson University, University of Georgia and our group sponsored by Sonoco Products company.

Voronov gives presentations

Voronov gives presentations entitled Macromolecular Inversion Triggers Interfacial Interactions and Release from Micelles into Model Lipid Membranes (invited) and Features and Properties of Latexes Copolymers from Plant Oil-Based Acrylic Monomers at Polymer in Life Sciences conference hosted by University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, PA on May, 14 – 15. For some more details, https://www.usciences.edu/news/2019/world-class-polymers-researchers-meet-at-usciences-for-new-conference.html

Another presentation given in June was entitled Monomers, polymers and polymeric materials from plant/vegetable oils at European Polymer Federation (EPF) Congress hold in Heraklion, Greece on June, 9–14 (session Biopolymers, Biocomposites, Bioengineering and Biotechnology). For more details, https://epfcrete2019.org

Voronov also attended and presented at 42nd Northeast Regional meeting of the American Chemical Society in Saratoga, NY on June, 23-26. His two resentations are entitled Biointerfacial interactions of polymer micelles and release triggered by macromolecular inversion (invited) at Dynamic Biointerfaces symposium, and Effect of plant oil-based acrylic monomers on features and properties of latex copolymers at Polymers and Polymeric materials symposium. For more details, https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/meetings/regional/northeast.html

Zoriana, Oksana received Travel Grants to attend National and International Conference

Zoriana attended 10th Workshop on Fats and Oils as Renewable Feedstock for the Chemical Industry hold in Karlsruhe, Germany on March, 17-19. She presented a poster on her research entitled The Effect of Unsaturation on Properties of High Biobased Content Plant Oil-Based Latexes and Latex Materials. To travel to Germany, Zoriana received a grant from Non-Profit Association for the Advancement of Research on Renewable Raw Materials, abiosus e.V. organizing the workshop in cooperation with the Agency of Renewable Resources (FNR). For more information, http://www.abiosus.org/kit-workshop-2019.html

Zoriana and Oksana will both travel to American Coatings Tech Conference in Cleveland, OH to be held on April, 8-10. Zoriana presents her work on Influence of Plant Oil Unsaturation on Properties of Latexes Synthesized via Miniemulsion Polymerization, Oksana’s poster title is Enzyme – Polymer Conjugates: Application for Cellulose Bioconversion. Both students received American Coatings Association travel grant for their participation in meeting in Cleveland. For more details, https://www.paint.org/2019-ctc/

ACS meeting in Orlando

Voronov gives three presentations at 257th ACS Spring 2019 National Meeting and Expo in Orlando, FL on March,31 – April,4. His oral talk Monomers and Polymers from Plant Oils will be given at symposia entitled Advances in Renewable Materials organized by Division of Cellulose and Renewable Materials. Two poster presentations, Twin function of methyl-b-cyclodextrin in emulsion polymerization of monomers from plant oils and Influence of plant oil-based monomers structure on properties of latex copolymers thereof will be presented at General Posters session organized by the same Division. For more details on the program and conference, https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/meetings/national-meeting/highlights.html