Title: Micromoulding of polymers - probing what molecules do in high pressure, velocity and temperature gradients

Speaker:Prof. Philip David Coates

Time:2008.07.09  10:00am

Address:Main Auditorium of  ICCAS

Biographical Sketch

Professor Phil Coates is Professor of Polymer Engineering at the University of Bradford, UK and Associate Director of the internationally recognised Interdisciplinary Research Centre (IRC) in Polymer Science and Technology, and Director of the Polymer Centre of Industrial Collaboration, with some 30 researchers.  He has published extensively - some 280 papers, in scientific journals and international conferences, and has co-authored 7 books, and edited 5 books. His research is internationally recognised, with many keynote & plenary addresses and worldwide collaborations (particularly Europe, N America, Australia, China and Japan).

Professor Phil Coates continues to focus on in-process measurements in polymer melts and solids, championing and promoting the philosophy and techniques for real time process characterisation of viscoelastic materials, in combination with computer modelling of the processing operation, and subsequent properties. Current interests also include micromoulding techniques for micro-scale (typically <<1g mass) products for a range of polymers, including nanocomposites and biomaterials, with particular concern for control of morphology and hence potentially novel property distribution in this thermally dominated process; this has recently been extended to in line compounding micromoulding, where a material may be structured (including nano filler dispersion) prior to injection.