2019 1st ADVANCED WOOD NANOTECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP
   A. James Clark Forum, AJC 1101, University of Maryland, College Park
   Friday, November 8, 2019
 
8:30 am
REGISTRATION & POSTER SETUP, BREAKFAST

9:00 am
  Welcome Remarks – Robert Briber, Assoc. Dean of Research, Clark School of Engineering

9:10 am                                                        

• Opening Remarks: "Rebuilding Maryland Forestry, Reforestation, Renewables & Regulations"

          Suzanne Dorsey, Assistant Secretary, Maryland Dept. of the Environment

• "Converting Nanocellulose to Gold"

          Sean Ireland, VP Business Development, FiberLean Technologies Ltd. (remote presentation)

• "Building the market for fibrillated cellulose: from research to commercialization"

          Lixian Xu, Product Manager,  Sappi Global (remote presentation)

• "Water and Ion Transport in Micro-Nanochannels: Wood and Beyond"

          Siddhartha Das, Assoc. Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland

• ​"An Introduction to InventWood: Bringing Nanocellulose Discoveries to Market"

          Josh Cable, CEO, InventWood

10:50 am
COFFEE BREAK

11:00 am

• "ARPA-E Hard: Opportunities for Energy Efficiency and Emissions Reductions through Engineered Trees and Novel Wood Products" ​- Victoria Chernow, Program Manager, DOE ARPA-E
• "Fragrance interaction in a wood structure and what we are doing to improve this behavior using your technology" 

           Gerald Allison, Firmenich

• "Rethink Wood: its Unconventional Applications in Advanced Materials Design"

          Teng Li, Keystone Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland

• "Towards Economic and Sustainable Production of Morphologically and Chemically Diverse Lignocellulosic Nanomaterials" 

          Junyong Zhu, Research Engineer, Fiber & Chemical Sciences, US Forest Service R&D, Forest Products Lab

12:20 pm
LUNCH & POSTER SESSION
 
1:30 pm

• "Cellulose Nanocrystals: Interfacial modification, Self-assembly and Composites"

          Jeffrey Gilman, Functional Polymers Group, NIST

• "Structural Intricacies & Adventures Toward the Creation of High Value Lignin Materials"

           Dimitris Argyropoulos, Professor of Chemistry, Forest Biomaterials, North Carolina State University

• "From Atomistic Models of Cellulose to Scratch Hardness of Wood, and a Little Tribology"

          Ashlie Martini, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UC Merced

• "Chemistry and applications of nanoscale wood components"

          Maren Roman, Assoc. Professor, Sustainability BioMaterials, Virginia Tech

• "C-MEMS and C-NEMS"

          Chunlei Wang, Professor, Mechanical & Materials Engineering, Florida International University

3:10 pm
COFEE BREAK

3:30 pm

• "Electron energy and the role of plasma chemistry in a carbon constrained world"

           Yiguang Ju, Robert Porter Patterson Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University

• "Structure investigation of cellulosic materials using scattering techniques"

          Yimin Mao, Scientist, NIST/UMD

• "A new paradigm for understanding heat transfer at the atomic level"

          Asegun Henry, Noyce Career Development Assoc. Professor, Mechanical Eng., MIT (remote presentation)

• "Smart Surfaces: Integration of Flexible Electronics with Building Materials"

          Wei Wu, DuPont Electronics & Imaging

4:50 pm
Concluding Remarks - Liangbing Hu & Teng Li

5:00 pm
Program adjourns