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SUMMARY:Webinar Series: Polymer Fridays
DESCRIPTION:Fridays April 24 – June 26\, 2026; 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. ET \nIn this webinar series\, you will hear from several instructors who will discuss ten different groups of polymers; including details such as: \n\nHistory (when\, how\, who\, why)\nChemistry breakdown (how it works\, main linkage\, viscosities\, grade options)\nKey applications (where & why it is best used\, performance advantages)\nFuture of the polymer (new material development\, enhancements in application\, growth or demise)\n\nWebinar Series Outline: \n\nApril 24 – Introduction & Natural (NR\, IR & BR)\nMay 1 – Styrene Butadiene (SBR)\nMay 8 – Butyl (IIR\, CIIR\, BIIR)\nMay 15 – Chloroprene (CR)\nMay 22 – Ethylene Propylene Diene (EPDM)\nMay 29 – Nitrile (NBR\, HNBR\, XNBR)\nJune 5 – Fluorocarbon (FKM\, FEPM\, FFKM)\nJune 12 – Acrylic (AEM\, ACM)\nJune 19 – Silicone (VMQ\, FVMQ\, LSR)\nJune 26 – Urethane (EU\, AU)\n\nSponsoring Companies: This webinar series is sponsored by multiple companies\, in coordination with Rubber Division\, ACS and may contain a message from the sponsor. Sponsors include: Akron Rubber Development Laboratory\, DENKA Corporation\, ExxonMobil\, Lion Elastomers\, Polymer Synergies\, Smithers\, Solvay Specialty Polymers and ZEON. Special thanks to Sam Porter and Charles Olsen Jr. for their participation. \nPrice: Free for Members / $599 Non-members \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER.
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Electroelastomers - Applications\, Principles & Opportunities
DESCRIPTION:May 19\, 2026; 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. ET \nWebinar Overview: This webinar is designed for innovators working in the rubber industry and seeking new technological strategies. By providing examples of contemporary applications\, electromechanical principles and emerging opportunities\, this is the perfect course for the non-technical individual who would like to learn more about an important class of stimuli-responsive elastomers for tomorrow’s technologies. This webinar will touch on the following topics: \n– Introduction to stimuli-responsive polymers\n– Classifications of electroactive polymers\n– Comparisons of electroactive media\n– Uses of dielectric elastomers (electroelastomers)\n– Electromechanics of electroelastomers\n– Materials design of electroelastomers\n– Testing methods of electroelastomers\n– Advances in electroelastomer performance \nPrice: Free for Members / $149 Non-members \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER. \nInstructor: Dr. Richard J. Spontak\, Distinguished Professor\, NC State University \nBio: Dr. Richard J. Spontak is a Distinguished Professor and Alumni Distinguished Graduate and Undergraduate Professor in the Departments of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. He received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering (with honors/high distinction) from the Pennsylvania State University in 1983 and was later awarded the Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1988. He then pursued post-doctoral research in Materials Science & Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge (U.K.) and Condensed Matter Physics at the Institute for Energy Technology (Norway) before joining the Corporate Research Division of the Procter & Gamble Company in 1990. In 1992\, he accepted a faculty position at North Carolina State University\, where he supervises the Macromolecular Materials & Morphology Group. Since that time\, Spontak has published over 280 peer-reviewed journal papers and over 30 scholarly works as book chapters and invited monographs\, and his work has been featured on 29 journal covers and cited over 12\,000 times according to Google Scholar. Although active in a diverse range of disciplines\, his primary research interests relate to the phase behavior and morphology/property development of nanostructured polymers\, polymer nanocomposites and coatings\, electron microscopy and stimuli-responsive soft materials. In recognition of his fundamental and applied research endeavors\, he is the recipient of numerous honors and awards such as the Alcoa Foundation Engineering Achievement and Distinguished Engineering Research Awards\, Alexander von Humboldt and Tewkesbury fellowships\, the North Carolina State University Alumni Outstanding Research and Global Engagement Awards\, the 2006 American Chemical Society (PMSE Division) Cooperative Research Award in Polymer Science & Engineering\, the 2007 German Society for Electron Microscopy Ernst Ruska Prize\, the 2008 American Chemical Society (Rubber Division) Chemistry of Thermoplastic Elastomers Award\, the 2011 Institute of Materials\, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) Colwyn Medal\, the 2012 Norwegian University of Science & Technology Lars Onsager Medal and the 2015 Society of Plastics Engineers International Award. An elected fellow of the American Physical Society\, IOM3 and the Royal Society of Chemistry\, he is or has been on the editorial advisory board of more than 20 international journals and holds editorial positions on three of them. He has been recognized as a 2007 Outstanding Scholar Alumnus and a 2012 Alumni Fellow by the Pennsylvania State University\, and he is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences and the North Carolina State University Research Leadership\, Global Engagement and Outstanding Teaching Academies. Spontak is also a highly acclaimed educator and academic mentor. For his instructional effectiveness employing cooperative and active learning pedagogies in the classroom and his widespread efforts to promote interdisciplinary engineering design and undergraduate research\, he has received college- and alumni-level Outstanding Teaching Awards\, as well as the university-level Board of Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching\, the highest institutional honor bestowed by the University of North Carolina system. He has also received the 2006 International Network for Engineering Education & Research Recognition Award and the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Southeast Region Outstanding Mid-Career Teaching Award\, and he has served as a Fulbright Senior Specialist and an Erasmus Fellow. He resides in Raleigh\, North Carolina\, with his wife Josie and has two children\, Danielle and Joshua.
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