division of polymer chemistry, inc AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY “SUSTAINABLE POLYMERS” POSTER SESSION TABLE OF CONTENTS LOCATION: FOUR SPRINGS BALLROOM Enrique Herrero Acero, Annemarie Marold, Katrin Greimel, Doris Ribitsch, Roland Feola, Armin Temel, and Georg M.Guebitz Towards More Sustainable Polymer-Processing: Enzymes Meet Polymers Ahmad A. Adewunmi, Muataz A. Atieh, and Tahar Laoui Effect of MWCNT modified with 1-Octadecanol (C18H38O) on the Mechanical, Thermal and Rheological properties of HDPE Nanocomposites Johannes A. M. Awudza and Susana Addo Ntim Studies on Some Chemical Processes Involved in Plastic Bead Making in Ghana Justin Bolton, Marc A. Hillmyer, and Thomas R. Hoye Sustainable Thermoplastic Elastomers Paula A. Delgado and Marc A. Hillmyer A Hydrogen Bonding Approach to Toughening PLA P.P. Deshpande Corrosion Protection of Hot Dip Galvanized Low Carbon Steel Using Conducting Polyaniline Based Paints Andreia F de Faria, Diego S Martinez, Matthew J. Grossman, Oswaldo L Alves, and Lucia R Durrant Biosurfactant Production by B. Subtilis Grown on Raw Glycerol And its Application for The Dispersion of Carbon Nanotubes John J. Garcia and Stephen A. Miller Polyalkylene and Polyarylene Oxalates from Biorenewable Diols via Ester Interchange Alessandra Caovilla, Jean-François Carpentier, Osvaldo Casagrande, and Marcelo Gil Ring Opening Polymerization of the Cyclic Carbonate 5-allyl-1,3-dioxan-2-One using Organic Catalysts Ersen Göktürk, Alexander G. Pemba, and Stephen A. Miller An Alternative Approach for Synthesizing Polyglycolic Acid and Its Copolymers from C1 Feedstocks Alfonso Grassi, Sheila Ortega Sanchez, Michele Aresta, and Angela Dibenedetto ATR Copolymerization of 2-Vinylfuran With Olefins: A Novel Approach to Functional Materials by Monomers from Renewable Resources Berrin Ozkan, Esra Ozdemir, and Jale Hacaloglu Direct Pyrolysis Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Polymers, Copolymers and Fibers of Polylactide Kyung yeon Kang Efficient Method for Varying the Anions in Quaternary Onium Salt type Catalyst for PPC polymerization 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Poster Session Table of Contents, Cont’d Hanieh Kargarzadeh, Ishak Ahmad, Rasha Sheltami, Ibrahim Abdullah, and Alain Dufresne Zhang Effects of Surface Treatment on the Dynamic Mechanical Thermal Properties of Cellulose Nanocrystal Polyester Composite N. Kolb and M. A. R. Meier Malonate Derivatives and Their Polymers Prepared from Saturated Fatty Acid Methyl Esters and Dimethyl Carbonate Tessie Panthani Mechanically Toughened Polylactide (PLA)-Based Sustainable Polymers Alexander G. Pemba, Jeniree A. Flores, and Stephen A. Miller Synthesis of Degradable Polyalkylene Acetals from Biorenewable Starting Materials Via the Acetal Metathesis Polymerization (AMP) Rasha M Sheltami, Ishak Ahmad, Ibrahim Abdullah, and Hanieh Kargarzadeh Effects of Acid Hydrolysis Time and Aminosilane Surface Modification on the Properties of Cellulose Nanocrystals from Mengkuang Leaves Tobias Steinbach, Romina Schröder, Sandra Ritz, and Frederik R. Wurm Microstructure Analysis of Biocompatible Phosphoester-co-polymers Simone Strasser and Christian Slugovc Poly(3-Hydroxybutyrate) Grafted Norbornenes as Monomers for Functional Degradable Polymers Donglin Tang, Marc A. Hillmyer, and Christopher W. Macosko Thermoplastic Polyurethanes from Bio-Based Poly(Δ-Decalactone) Diols Xiaofeng Chen and Guoqing Zhang All-Natural” Fluorescent Polymers for Bioimaging 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22