PPS Webinar
This webinar of the Polymer Processing Society (PPS) focuses on nano and Bionano-polymers, an emerging area of research that has farreaching influence in materials development, characterization andapplications. Five distinguished speakers will share their researchcontributions. The session includes five talks, 30 min each and aquestion period at the end of the presentations.

Nano- and Bionano- Polymers:
Preparation, Characterization andApplications
15:00-18:00, TOKYO TIME, July 15, 2021
Prof. Joung Sook Hong, Seoul National University, S. Korea

Particle network formation control for electrically and mechanicallyreinforced biopolymer composite development
Prof. Takeshi Kikutani, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Tentative title: Melt spinning of bio-based and bio-degradable polymers
Prof. Yongjin Li, College of Material, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Hangzhou
Normal University, China

Interface Engineering and Functionalization of Polymer Blends byReactive Compatibilization
Prof. Abderrahim Maazouz, INSA, University of Lyon, France

Model Biocomposites based on poly (lactic acid) and bioactive glass fillers
for bones regeneration: Structure/ innovative processes relationships
Prof. Chi Wang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Extension rate of straight jet segment during electrospinningDr. Joung-Sook Hong is currently research professor in the instituteof chemical processes at Seoul National University of South Korea.
She received the Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering fromJeju National University in 1995, and earned her Master and Ph.D.
degrees from Seoul National University in 1998 and 2005,
respectively. Dr. Hong had been working as a Post-doctoral research
fellow at Korea University and University of Queensland at Australia between 2006
and 2008, and working at Samsung Cheil Industry from 2008 to 2009. After then, Dr.
Hong moved to academia, worked as assistant professor in Department of Chemical
Engineering at Soongsil University till 2015. She received the Young Scientist Award
from Korean Society of Rheology in 2016. Her research interests are interfacialrheology of particulate interfacial layer, blend polymer composite and particle
dispersion in ternary system. She is the author of more than 50 scientific publications
and the author of 12 patents.
Takeshi Kikutani is currently a Specially Appointed Professor in theSchool of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute ofTechnology, and in charge of the Idemitsu Kosan Collaborative
Research Cluster of Advanced Materials. He received his doctor ofengineering degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1982.
His main research interests are the mechanism of higher-order
structure development in the fiber and polymer processing.
Especially, he has been conducting researches on the high-speed melt spinning,bicomponent melt spinning, uni- and bi-axial film stretching, thermoplastic fiber
reinforced composites etc. He is the author of more than 280 scientific publications
including 190 refereed journal papers, editor and co-editor of 11 books and theauthor of 38 patents. Dr. Kikutani was also served as the Associate Editor forInternational Polymer Processing (1996-2009) and currently serving as the Associate
Editor for Advanced Fiber Materials.
Dr. Yongjin Li is currently Professor in the College of Materials andChemical Engineering at the Hangzhou Normal University ofChina. He received his PhD degree in 2002 from Shanghai Jiaotong
University of China. He is now the head of the department ofpolymer science at the Hangzhou Normal University. Prof. Li’s
research work deals with the structure control and the structureproperty relationship of multi-component polymers, including polymer alloys andpolymer composites. Prof. Li has published more than 200 publications ininternational peer-reviewed journals and is a (co-)author of 6 book chapters. Prof. Liis now serving as the associate editor of Journal of Polymer Engineering. He serves
also an Editorial Board Member for several international journals including
Composite Science and Technology, Functional Composites Materials, and Materials
International.
Abderrahim. Maazouz is a Full Professor of Polymer Engineeringand Science in the Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering(IMP) at National Institute of Applied Science at Lyon (INSA de Lyon,
University of Lyon), France. Currently He is the Chairman of“Polymer Structure – Rheology, Modelling and simulation” center inthe lab of IMP-UMR CNRS 5223. He is the Director of the "Polymerand composites processing “in the mechanical department of INSA de Lyon (France).
Since 2011, he is member elected at the “National Consul of Universities (CNUFrance). Prof. Abderrahim MAAZOUZ is also Resident Member of Hassan II Academyof Science and Technology, Rabat, Morocco. French government recently honored
him by the “Palm academic medals”: Palmes académiques as chevalier (2010) andofficier (2016). His scientific Contributions lead him to have more than 200
publications including 120 articles peer-reviewed scientific articles, 8 patents, 2 bookchapters and more than 150 oral and poster communications where he has on
numerous occasions been an invited speaker and a chairman of conferences.
Chi Wang is currently Professor in the Department of Chemical
Engineering at the National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan,Taiwan. He received his BS in 1984 and MS in 1986, both from
Chemical Engineering of National Taiwan University. In 1992, heearned his PhD from the University of Akron under Prof. Alan N.
Gent. He was a visiting professor to the Institut Charles Sadron(CNRS-ULP), France in 2007, and the Chemical Enginerring
Department, MIT in 2012. He received the outstanding alumni award from Polymer
Engineering Department, the University of Akron in 2015. Dr. Wang has been
involved in various work including (1) fracture mechanism of polymers and related
fiber composites, (2) cavitation of rubber, and (3) microphase separation and tearstrength of block copolymers. His recent work focuses on the development ofelectrospinning process, characterizations of electrospun fibers by using synchrotron
WAXD/SAXS, and nanofiber applications. Dr. Wang is the author of more than 100
scientific publications including 90 referred journal papers.