RadTech UV/EB Technology Conference & Expo 2008
May 4-7, 2008
Lakeside Center at McCormick Place
Chicago, Illinois - United States of America

Polymer Chemistry for the UV/EB Professional Short Course - Undergraduate-Level Course

FACULTY
Dr. Byron Christmas, University of Houston-Downtown, Dr. Charles Hoyle, University of Southern Mississippi, and Dr. Mike Idacavage, Cytec Surface Specialties, Inc.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Attendees for this course should be UV/EB professionals who are employed in the polymer or coatings industry but who have not had an extensive college-level course in polymer chemistry or photopolymerization. As a minimum, attendees should have had an undergraduate course in general chemistry and at least one semester of organic chemistry.

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This full day course is designed to acquaint UV/EB chemists and other technical professionals with the fundamentals of polymer chemistry at an undergraduate level. It will involve an overview of step-growth and chain-growth polymerization processes with special emphasis on the latter. Specifically, it will cover the chemistry of free-radical and cationic polymerization processes including kinetic and thermodynamic aspects of the subject. The session will include a detailed discussion of the chemistry of the photoinitiation process and will highlight a variety of polymer characterization techniques for UV/EB polymers. Throughout the short course, the application of polymer chemistry fundamentals to the science and technology of free radical, cationic, and/or thiol-ene UV/EB polymerization processes will be emphasized. Demonstrations will highlight each section.

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