Polymer Reaction Engineering Conference: AIChE Annual MeetingYear: 2017Proceeding: 2017 AIChE Annual MeetingGroup: Materials Engineering and Sciences Division Type: Oral Room: 211B Location: Minneapolis Convention Center Time: Sunday, October 29, 2017 - 3:30pm-6:00pm Chair(s):Ellison, C. J., University of Minnesota Co-chair(s):Ramesh, N., The Dow Chemical Company This session will cover topics of current interest in polymerization kinetics, catalysis, and reaction engineering. Papers may include areas such as the chemistry of polymerization, polymer reactions and physical interactions, design of new catalysts for controlled polymerizations, and polymerizations in novel media and/or reactor configurations. ***Note to faculty candidates: please include a note to the session chair during submission to alert them to your status*** Papers: 3:30 PM(36a) Engineering Pathways to New Functional Polyether MaterialsNathaniel A. Lynd 4:00 PM(36b) Topology Control of Bottlebrush PolymersDamien GuironnetDylan Walsh 4:15 PM(36c) A New, Facile Approach to Epoxide PolymerizationRobert C. FerrierJennifer ImbrognoChristina G. RodriguezMalgorzata ChwatkoNathaniel A. Lynd 4:30 PM(36d) Dynamic Chemistry Leading to Full Property Recovery Associated with Crosslink Density in Reprocessed Polymer Networks and Network Composites: Network Synthesis By Step-Growth Reactions and By Nitroxide-Mediated PolymerizationJohn M. TorkelsonXi ChenKailong JinLingqiao Li 4:45 PM(36e) Hybrid Chain-Growth/Step-Growth Mechanism Observed in Heterofunctional Thiol-Ene PolymerizationsDillon LoveKang-Min KimJ. Taylor GoodrichBenjamin D. FairbanksWeixian XiMark StoykovichCharles B. MusgraveChristopher N. BowmanBrady Worrell 5:00 PM(36f) High Pressure Ethylene Polymerization with a Post-Metallocene Bis-Phenyl Phenoxy CatalystSean EwartKarjala Tom 5:15 PM(36g) A Simulation-Based Derivative-Free Optimization Framework Using the Kinetic Monte Carlo Method for Controlling Polymer Molecular Weight and Sequence Distribution Synthesized Via Free Radical PolymerizationHanyu GaoAndreas WaechterIvan KonstantinovSteven G. ArturoLinda J. Broadbelt 5:30 PM(36h) Experimental and Macroscopic Mechanistic Modeling Studies of the Methyl Acrylate Self-Initiation ReactionHossein RiaziAhmad Arabi ShamsabadiMichael GradyAndrew M. RappeMasoud Soroush 5:45 PM(36i) A Mathematical Model Based on Artificial Neural Network for Ethylene/Norbornene Copolymerization Catalyzed By 2-(tetramethylcyclopentadienyl)-4,6-Di-Tert-Butylphenoxytitanium DichlorideNikhil Prakash Checkout Paper abstracts are public but to access Extended Abstracts, you must first purchase the conference proceedings. Checkout Do you already own this? Log In for instructions on accessing this content. Pricing Individuals AIChE Members $150.00 AIChE Graduate Student Members Free AIChE Undergraduate Student Members Free Non-Members $225.00