报告题目：Towards sustainable and cost effective production of cellulose based polymers from biowaste

报告时间：2022年11月8日（周二）下午3:00-4:00

报告地点：腾讯会议（会议号：187-109-627）

报告人：陈媛媛

报告人单位：Technological University of the Shannon

Resume of reporter：

Dr Yuanyuan Chen is a principal investigator in the Polymer, Recycling, Industrial, Sustainability and Manufacturing (PRISM) at the Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest, Ireland. She is working on biodegradable polymer synthesis, modification, and recycling. She has secured approximately €9 million competitive research funding from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), Irish Research Council (IRC), European Space Agency (ESA), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Enterprise Ireland (DAFM), and European Commission Horizon Europe. She is currently supervising 5 PhD candidates.

Research areas: 

Biodegradable polymeric vascular stents; Waste valorisation for polymer synthesis; Polymer recycling; Additive manufacturing.

Report outline：

1.PVA mimic human blood vessel for testing stent delivery;

2.Continuous fibre reinforced composite;

3.Synthetic spider silk reinforced composite by electrospinning;

4.In-situ production of cellulose from organic wastes for use in plant cultivation on a moon base.

邀请单位：能源工程学院