Seminar | Mould Industry & recycling | 22-7-2020 | 16:30h
Mr Sasahara from Matsui, a Japanese Company along with their Representative in Portugal Armindo Santos
Presentation (30 mins) on their products for the Mould Industry including chillers, cutters and granulators and other products for recycling in the Seminar Room at CDRSP.
This forms part of the Circular Seas project and will be useful to all.
Seminar | How can students deal better with stress? | 16-7-2020 | 12:00h
Have you ever felt stressed in the university dealing with exams, presentations, evaluations and even interviews? Have you ever said, “this is too much for me; I am giving up”? This session is aimed to help you with this.
As students, we are bearing a lot of pressure and tension in our university period, and sometimes we don’t know how to cope and overcome these pitfalls skillfully. If you attend this session on the 16th July, 12:00 WEST, you will learn several tips and tools to use whenever you feel overloaded with tasks and responsibilities!
The theme is very interesting, useful and relevant for all Students. The speakers are part of an international student association, EESTEC, which works hard on these topics.
To get together and learn more, just follow the link https://bit.ly/32dNpBe at the indicated time.
Topic: “How can students deal better with stress?”
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/96629922105?pwd=RXF1ZHNPL2h6TGhGOTV2cDNOOGpzZz09
Meeting ID: 966 2992 2105
Password: 420722
Seminar | Polymer Nanocomposites: From Laboratory Concept to Large Scale Production | 03-03-2020 | 12:00h
Polymer nanocomposites combine the properties of the matrix with those of the filler additive. This opens a wide range of possibilities and allows for the creation of fundamentally new materials that exhibit improved mechanical, electrical and thermal properties. This combination of filler and polymer allows for immense versatility and design capabilities and as consequence research in nanocomposites has been ever-growing. Traditionally carbon black has been the filler of choice due to its relatively simple structure, product versatility and reduced cost. Over the years more advanced carbonaceous fillers like fullerenes, nanotubes or graphene have been developed spearheading a revolution in the area of polymer nanocomposites. Due to their anisotropic dimensions and unique geometry these advanced fillers allow for the creation of extended network structures in the matrix with minimal concentrations. The main advantage of carbonaceous fillers is their tendency to allow for electrical conductivity, but if this is not desirable then options like glass fibres, talcum or even clays are available offering significant performance enhancements, especially in terms of mechanical reinforcement. In this presentation, we will discuss the various challenges that arise from commercial production and use of polymer nanocomposites, especially the issues around melt mixing and dispersion. We will examine the role of thermodynamics during the mixing process as well as the influence of the chain conformation along various length scales in facilitating the efficient dispersion of the filler into the matrix.
Thomas Gkourmpis | Borealis AB, Sweden and Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg Sweden.
Thomas Gkourmpis is a Senior Scientist in Borealis AB in Sweden and a Visiting Scientist in Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg Sweden. He holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Athens Greece, and an MSc and PhD in Physics from the University of Readin UK. His research is focused on the molecular organisation of amorphous and semi-crystalline polymers their performance and their processing using computational models coupled with time resolved neutron and x-ray scattering. Currently he is working on a series of projects aiming to understand the fundamental structure-property relationships in polymer nanocomposites for a number of technologically and commercially important applications.
