CHICAGO SECTION AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Distinguished Service Award Presentation FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 2000
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APRIL • 2000 CHICAGO SECTION AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Distinguished Service Award Presentation FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 2000 HOLIDAY INN NORTH SHORE DISTINGUISHED then rejoined AMCOL as vice president 5300 West Touhy Avenue SERVICE AWARD 8:00P.M. of corporate development. In August Skokie, IL 1995, he became president of PRESENTATION TO DR. ELLI S K. AMCOL's Nanocor business unit upon DIRECTIONS TO THE MEETING FIELDS its formation. Maul has a degree in From the City: Take 1-94 (Edens (continued on page 2) Expressway) north to Touhy Ave. Go PRESENTATION OF 50-YR MEMBERS west (lett) on Touhy about three blocks to hotel. GENERAL MEETING From the west: Take 294 North to PLEASE VOTE Touhy Ave East. Go east on Touhy to THE TOPIC (Ballots were mailed in March) the hotel, which is on the left side on Peter L. Maul, President of Nanocor Touhy. and Vice President of AMCOL Interna tional, "Recent Advances in Clay/Plas FREE PARKING tic Nanocomposites". JOB CLUB The fundamental bases of clay/poly The next meeting of the Chicago TOPICAL GROUP 5:00- 6:00 PM mer nanocomposites are the clay uti Section Job Club will be held on Fri lized and the surface modification, day, April14 at the Holiday Inn North Dr. Gary Spedding, Siebel Institute of which renders that clay compatible with Shore at 5 p.m. The Job Club pro Technology, Chicago, IL, "Fermentation the polymer of interest. Nanocor's sur vides a continuing opportunity for and Flavor Chemistry as Applied to the face modified clays are sold under the unemployed members of the Section Brewing of Beer" trade name, Nanomer. The selection of to meet with one another, share their appropriate clay involves a number of experiences and develop a network See abstract and biography on Page 2. variables including, among others, mor that may help in identifying employ phology, cation exchange capacity, ment opportunities. Bring plenty of SOCIAL HOUR: 6:00- 7:00 P.M. cationic form, charge density, aspect resumes and business cards to dis ratio, color and degree of purity. The tribute to your colleagues. DINNER 7:00P.M. most critical of these are discussed in Should you wish to attend the Dinner reservations are required and some detail as they relate to surface Section meeting following the Job should be received in the section office modification and ultimately the formation Club, the fee for unemployed mem (847/647-8405) by noon on Tuesday, of nanocomposites. There are a number bers is only $13 and you can contin April 11, 2000. Dinner cost is $23.00 to of surface modification options, includ ue your networking activities. Please Section members. Cost to non-Section ing onium ion exchange, ion-dipole call the Section office for reserva members is $25.00. Seating will be treatment and coupling agents. These tions and indicate that you are eligi available for those who wish to attend chemistries are also briefly discussed. ble for a discount. the meeting without dinner. PLEASE Performance properties for three HONOR YOUR RESERVATIONS. The clay/polymer nanocomposites, epoxy, section must pay for all dinners nylon-6 and nylon MXD6 are presented. ordered. No-shows will be billed. AVAILABLE NOW! The menu consists of Homemade THE SPEAKER Soup Du Jour, Caesar Salad, Chicken Peter L. Maul was born April 2, 1950, REGISTER TO ATTEND Breast Marsala in a Marsala wine, peas in Alton, IL and joined American Colloid MONTHLY SECTION MEETINGS & pearl onions, rice pilaf, rolls and but Co. in 1976 as a product development ter, lemon sunburst cake, and bever specialist. He left the corporation and ON LINE age. A fish entree (broiled Lake Superi served as vice president and general at or Whitefish) is available upon request manager of a California-based chemical http://membership.acs.org/C/Chicago at the time of reservation. firm from 1986 to September 1993, 2 (continued from page 1) physiology from Southern Illinois Uni • • versity in Carbondale, and a master's in business administration from North micron Inc. western Un iversity's Kellogg Graduate ANALYTICAL SERVICES School of Management in Evanston, Ill. Topical Group Abstract: Dr. Spedding's SEM - TEM - EPA - ESCA - AUGER presentation will cover the basic brewing process with an emphasis on yeast XRF- XRD- OES- FTIR- DSC metabolism and the process of fermenta MORPHOLOGY-CHENUSTRY-STRUCTURE tion . ("One vast chemical soup with multi 3815 LANCASTER PIKE, WILMINGTON DE. 19805 component reactions leading to the pro (302) 998-1184 duction of a potable beverage"). While we will not be tasting beer, Dr. Spedding will bring 5 or 6 key Aroma Bottle Samples to illustrate the key Fla vors (produced during fermentation). Dr. Spedding will present chemical SURFACE ANALYSIS structures and some chemical implica can help you better understand tions with respect to each flavor compo catalysis • corrosion • chemical bonding • nent. Some flavor components will be ~ semiconductor processing • soldering • highly desirable components, and some fluorescence efficiency • thin film properties • not so dependent upon the style of beer composites • metals • ceramics under consideration. SAM 3-D Elemental Maps and Depth Profiling Local Service - Participate in your analysis Topical Group Speaker: Dr. Gary SEM Fast Turn Around - <48 Hrs. Spedding spent 12 years in biochem Scanning Auger and ESCA at SEM Prices istry research and taught college-level BP Vacuum Analysis, Inc. biochemistry and general chemistry for ESCA Tel (847) 467-2594 6 years. After taking the 67th Short Northwestern University/Evanston Research Park Course in Brewing Technology, he XPS 906 University Place, Evanston, IL 60201 joined the Siebel Institute in 1999 as FAX (847)491-7955 E-Mail:BPVA ®aol.com Laboratory Director. As a long-term homebrewer, Dr. Spedding has a fasci nation with historical recipes and has published papers on early and novel . ntract beer flavor ingredients. In addition to his lab work, microbiological media pro and Dev duction, consulting, and teaching duties, Dr. Spedding maintains Analytical Services research interests in beer flavor stabili ty. He also serves on the review panels • Preparative HPLC .sepa[iJtidg$ · of chemical and brewing journals. • ·Flash chromatography t.Qldlo.scale, · • NMR, IR, MS, HPLC:1 aod~C . analysis • -Reference standard analysis i DESERT Custom Synthesis ~ ANALYTICS . • Full service prep a11c1 kilo laboratori~s .· • Pharmaceutical inte~n,-.ed. i~~e$ ·· · LABORATORY ~ . 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