<p> division of polymer chemistry, inc</p><p>AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY</p><p>“SUSTAINABLE POLYMERS”</p><p>POSTER SESSION TABLE OF CONTENTS</p><p>LOCATION: FOUR SPRINGS BALLROOM</p><p>Enrique Herrero Acero, Annemarie Marold, Katrin Greimel, Doris Ribitsch, Roland Feola, Armin Temel, and Georg M.Guebitz 1 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 2 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 3 Justin Bolton, Marc A. Hillmyer, and Thomas R. Hoye Sustainable Thermoplastic Elastomers 4 Paula A. Delgado and Marc A. Hillmyer A Hydrogen Bonding Approach to Toughening PLA 5 P.P. Deshpande Corrosion Protection of Hot Dip Galvanized Low Carbon Steel Using Conducting 6 Polyaniline Based Paints Andreia F de Faria, Diego S Martinez, Matthew J. Grossman, Oswaldo L Alves, and Lucia R Durrant 7 Biosurfactant Production by B. Subtilis Grown on Raw Glycerol And its Application for The Dispersion of Carbon Nanotubes J o hn J. Ga r c ia and Stephen A. Miller Polyalkylene and Polyarylene Oxalates from Biorenewable Diols via Ester Interchange 8 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 9 Organic Catalysts Ersen Göktürk, Alexander G. Pemba, and Stephen A. Miller An Alternative Approach for Synthesizing Polyglycolic Acid and Its Copolymers from C1 10 Feedstocks Alfonso Grassi, Sheila Ortega Sanchez, Michele Aresta, and Angela Dibenedetto ATR Copolymerization of 2-Vinylfuran With Olefins: A Novel Approach to Functional 11 Materials by Monomers from Renewable Resources Berrin Ozkan, Esra Ozdemir, and Jale Hacaloglu Direct Pyrolysis Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Polymers, Copolymers and Fibers of 12 Polylactide Kyung yeon Kang Efficient Method for Varying the Anions in Quaternary Onium Salt type Catalyst for PPC 13 polymerization Poster Session Table of Contents, Cont’d</p><p>Hanieh Kargarzadeh, Ishak Ahmad, Rasha Sheltami, Ibrahim Abdullah, and Alain Dufresne Zhang 14 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 15 Esters and Dimethyl Carbonate Tessie Panthani Mechanically Toughened Polylactide (PLA)-Based Sustainable Polymers 16 Alexander G. Pemba, Jeniree A. Flores, and Stephen A. Miller Synthesis of Degradable Polyalkylene Acetals from Biorenewable Starting Materials Via the Acetal Metathesis 17 Polymerization (AMP) Rasha M Sheltami, Ishak Ahmad, Ibrahim Abdullah, and Hanieh Kargarzadeh Effects of Acid Hydrolysis Time and Aminosilane Surface Modification on the Properties 18 of Cellulose Nanocrystals from Mengkuang Leaves Tobias Steinbach, Romina Schröder, Sandra Ritz, and Frederik R. Wurm Microstructure Analysis of Biocompatible Phosphoester-co-polymers 19 Simone Strasser and Christian Slugovc Poly(3-Hydroxybutyrate) Grafted Norbornenes as Monomers for Functional Degradable 20 Polymers Donglin Tang, Marc A. Hillmyer, and Christopher W. Macosko Thermoplastic Polyurethanes from Bio-Based Poly(Δ-Decalactone) Diols 21 Xiaofeng Chen and Guoqing Zhang All-Natural” Fluorescent Polymers for Bioimaging 22</p>