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http://membership.acs.org/C/Chicago NOVEMBER• 2002 CHICAGO SECTION AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Joint Meeting of the University of Chicago Department of Chemistry and the Chicago Section ACS Julius Stieglitz Award Lecture, Dinner and Presentation FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2002 Manzo's Banquets Salad with choice of dressing, Entree Abstract: Polymers and advanced 1571 South Elmhurst Road choices of Orange Roughy, New York material really can be made and com Des Plaines IL 60018 Strip Steak , or Pasta Primavera , rolls mercialized successfully when starting 847-593-2233 and butter, Spumoni ice cream. from renewable resources. In order to Dinner reservations are required and be successful a shift in thinking is DIRECTIONS TO THE MEETING should be received in the Section Office required. The combination of modern From the East: Take 1-90 west. Exit via phone (847-647-8405), fax (847- biotechnology and chemical processing Elmhurst Rd North. Go past first light 647 -8364), email (chicagoacs@ has opened whole new avenues of (Oakton St.) . The banquet hall is on ameritech.net), or website (http://mem what is possible. These advances are your right. bership.acs.org/C/Chicago) by noon on enabling a new echelon of green chem From the West: Take 1-90 east. Exit Tuesday, November 19, 2002. The din istry and materials with improved sus Arlington Heights Rd. Turn right. Turn ner cost is $28.00 to Section members tainability having impact reaching from right. Go to Higgins Rd. (Rt. 72). Turn who have paid their local section dues, farmers to consumers. left. Take Higgins to Oakton St. Turn members ' families, and visiting ACS Cargill Dow LLC is bringing to market a left. Go to Elmhurst Rd. Turn left. The members. The cost to non-Section family of new polymer materials made banquet hall is on your right. members is $30.00. The cost to students from lactic acid. This new material which From the North: Take 294 south to 1- and unemployed members is $14.00. we are marketing as NatureWorks TM PLA 90 west. Exit Elmhurst Rd. North . Go Seating will be available for those who is the first major new industrial polymer past first light (Oakton St.). The ban wish to attend the meeting without din product made from renewable resources quet hall is on your right. ner. PLEASE HONOR YOUR RESER in since the early 1900's. PLA has value From the South: Take 294 North to 1- VATIONS. The Section must pay for all in the marketplace because it works well 90 west. Exit Elmhurst Rd. North. Go dinner orders. No-shows will be billed. and addresses sustainability issues. We past first light (Oakton St.). The ban PRESENTATION OF are operating a world-scale manufactur quet hall is on your right. Another way STIEGLITZ LECTURE 8:00 P.M. ing facility with an annual capacity of 300 from the South is to take 1-355 North to million pounds. The technology depends 1-90 east. Exit Arlington Heights Rd. both on industrial biotechnologyand mod Turn right and go to Elmhurst Rd. Turn ern chemical processing. left. The banquet hall is on your right. In this presentation I'll briefly discuss what we've done, explain the products, FREE PARKING why they are valuable, the process and design choices that brought us to where Topical Group 5:30 - 6:30 P.M. we are; principles of sustainability. I'll talk about principles of designing chemical Dr. Luke Hanley of the Department of products for the very real, but emerging, Chemistry, University of Illinois at green chemicals and materials market. Chicago , will present a talk entitled (continued on page 2) "Controlling the Nanoscale Morphol ogy and Chemistry of Organic Films NOTICE TO ILLINOIS Deposited by Polyatomic Ions". See TEACHERS page 2 for more details. Dr. Patrick R. Gruber Vice President and CTO The Chicago Section-ACS is an SOCIAL HOUR: 6:00- 7:00 P.M. Cargill Dow, LLC ISBE provider for professional devel Cash Bar available. opment units for Illinois Teachers . Title: Polymers from Renewable Teachers who register for the Novem DINNER 7:00 P.M. Resources: No Longer a Field of ber meeting will have the opportunity Menu: Fresh Onion Soup, Garden Dreams to earn up to 5 CPDU's. 11/02 2 (continued from page 1) Organic Films Deposited by Polyu and a University Scholar Award in 1995. atomic ions Biography: Dr. Patrick Gruber is the He is currently Professor of Chemistry vice president and chief technology offi and Bioengineering, with funding from the cer, Cargill Dow LLC. He has served in National Science Foundation and the his current position since the company's National Institutes of Health. His research inception in 1997. Prior to the formation interests include polyatomic ion-surface of Ca rgill Dow, Gruber held several interactions and the modification and · positions in the techno logy and busi- analysis of biomaterials surfaces. ness development areas of Cargill, Inc., but has spent the majority of his career JOB CLUB specializing in chemical products made from renewable resources , targeted to The next meeting of the Ch icago animal feed products , food ingredients Section Job Club will be held on Fri and industr ial chemicals . Dur ing his day , November 22 at Manzo's Ban tenure at Cargill, Inc., Dr. Gruber served quets at 5 p.m. The Job Club pro on several strategy and business teams. vides a continuing opportunity for He was director of technology develop unemployed members of the Section ment for Carg ill's Bioproducts areas to meet with one another, share their from 1995-1998 and technical director experiences and develop a network of Carg ill's BioScience division from that may help in identifying employ 1998-1999. In this position , he served Dr. Luke Hanley, UIC ment opportunities. Bring plenty of as a member of the business manage resumes and business cards to dis ment team where he was involved in the Abstract: The control of chemistry and tribute to your colleagues . Be pre identification and incorporation of sever morphology on the nanometer scale is pared to talk about what kind of job al new businesses, as well as increas critical to a range of new technological you are looking for. ing capability in the areas of food prod applications. Polyatomic ion beams with The Job Club is also for employers ucts and animal nutrition. hyperthermal kinetic energies ranging seeking chemists. Employers need to Dr . Gruber has been recognized by from 1 to 500 eV are advantageous for be prepared to describe the positions several industry leaders for his achieve practical surface modif ication and to be filled and requirements for these ments , in additio n to obtaining more nanofabrication due to their ability to fab positions. than 47 patents and having more than a ricate thin film nanostructures with con Should you wish to attend the Section dozen pending. In 2001 , Gruber trol led morphology , unique co llision meeting following the Job Club, the fee received the Discover Award for Envi dynamics , and ability to transfer intact for unemployed members is only $14 ronmental Innovation, presented by the chemical functional ity to the surface . and you can continue your networking Ch ri stopher Columbus Fellowship Hyperthermal polyatomic ions also play activities. Please call the Section office Foundation. In 1998, Gruber received a critical role in plasma processing, laser for reservations and indicate that you the Inventor of the Year Award from the ablation , and several other energetic are eligible for a discount. Minnesota Patent Lawyers and in 1993 deposition processes . Several experi he was recognized by R&D Magazine's ments are described in which mass IN THIS ISSUE Top 100 Inventions of the Yea r for selected and non-mass-selected poly advances in stabilizing enzymes. Other atomic ion beams are used to create :Features awards include The Presidential Green nanometer organic thick films with con 1 Stieglitz Award Lecturer Chemistry Award, Popular Mechanics trolled surface and buried interface mor 2 Topical Group Speaker Design and Engineering Award, Indus phologies. X-ray photoelectron spec 2 Job Club try Week 's Technology of the Year troscopy, atomic force microscopy, x-ray 3 Chair's Letter award and the Department of Energy reflectivity , and scanning electron 4 Report of Council Meetin OIT Technology of the Year award. microscopy are utilized to analyze the 5 Online Conference on Teaching Several years earlier , Gruber was morphology and chemistry of these Safety named leader of Cargill 's Renewable films. Polyatomic ions are found to con 5 Continuing Education Seminars Bioplastics project. This position led to trol film morphology on the nanoscale 5 2003 Presidential Green the development and marketing of a through variation of the incident ion ener Chemistry Challenge Awards lactic acid polymer, which is now known gy, ion structure, and/or substrate. 6 Walter C. Mccrone , Jr. as Nat ureWorks™ PLA, and is the 7 Stieglitz Information basis upon which Cargill Dow LLC is Biography: Luke Hanley received his 8 Section's Profit & Loss Statement built today . Dr. Gruber earned a bache Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the 9 Section's Balance Sheet lor's degree in chemistry and biology State University of New York at Stony 9 Section's Meeting Calendar from the College of Saint Thomas , St. Brook in 1988, where he studied gas 9 Continuing Education Committee Paul, Minn., and a doctorate in chem phase reactions of metal clusters with 10 Career Fair istry from the University of Minnesota. Prof. Scott L. Anderson using a home 10 Saturday Science Clubs Additionally, Gruber earned a master's built tandem mass spectrometer. He degree in business administration from was National Science Foundation Post In 'EveryIssue the Carlson School of Management at doctoral Research Fellowship in Chem 1 Dinner Meeting the University of Minnesota.