Coatings World - March 2016

American Coatings Show and Conference
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pipeline to industry. She will also provide insight on how it can potentially enable new materials discovery, with exceptional time and cost efficiency, when companies establish strategic and mutually beneficial collaborations with academic partners through open innovation.

Another highlight of the ACC will be the Mattiello Lecture, which will be given Wednesday, April 13. This year’s Lecture, “Towards an Understanding of How Complex Latex Particles Are Formed: What Do We Know and When Did We Know It?” will be given by Donald C. Sundberg, Ph.D., director, Nanostructured Polymers Research Center at the University of New Hampshire.

“Today we have a great variety of synthetic latices composed of nano-particles that are homogeneous, structured, hollow, multi-lobed or hybridized with other materials,” said Sundberg. “They have huge specific surface areas presenting opportunities for special surface chemistries, but challenges for colloidal stability. They are made with as many as five or more monomers resulting in polymer chains that may be linear, branched, grafted, and/ or crosslinked. These chains are “born” in the water and “die” in the particles. Searching for the chemical and physical mechanisms that determine the final properties of the latex has involved the application of organic and physical chemistry, surface chemistry, reaction kinetics, thermodynamics, molecular diffusion and engineering. What we know about these mechanisms, what tools we used to assist us in learning about them, and when during the past

75 years we decided we understood some of these mechanisms, form the basis for this presentation.”

New Features at ACS 2016

ACS 2016 will have more than 500 exhibitors who will be showcasing the latest products and services for the paint and coatings industry. ACS serves as a platform for the paint and coatings industry to showcase new products and cutting edge technology and network with new and existing customers.

This year’s show has a couple of new features. A 5K Fun Run will be held Wednesday, April 13. The race will be held in the downtown area and will begin at 7: 15 am. Proceeds from the run will be will be used to fund student participation at future AC Conferences. Show attendees, exhibitors and conference delegates are all invited to attend a networking lunch on Wednesday at 12: 30 pm on the show floor.