19th Annual BEPS Meeting
September 28-30th 2011
Vienna, Austria
The BEPS 2011 conference boosted our knowledge of state-of-the-art research in synthetic, renewable and natural degradable polymers and green (nano) composites. 218 participants from 28 countries, a mix of industry, academia and research institutes attended. A total of 113 oral and 42 poster presentations on fundamental and application driven research were presented. Interaction and knowledge exchange between the participants was encouraged through the Welcome Mixer, poster session with complementary food and drinks as well as conference dinner held in the Viennese microbrewery Salmbräu. BEPS 2011 allowed participants to catch up on the latest innovations and ideas. We congratulate the BEPS award winners: Prof Richard Wool (Lifetime Achievement Award), Prof Amar Mohanty (Jim Hammar Award), Dr Charlotte Williams (Outstanding Young Scientist Award), Koon-Yang Lee (Student Achievement Award) and Anni Karppinen (Student Poster Award). We thank our sponsors and exhibitors for their support and the participants for coming to Vienna. We look forward seeing you all next year Dallas, Texas, USA – details will be announced shortly.
Plenary, Keynote and Invited Speakers
- Apl. Prof. Seema Agarwal - University of Marburg, Germany
- Dr. Martijn Antonisse - DSM, The Netherlands
- Prof. Lars Berglund - KTH, Sweden
- Prof. Emo Chiellini - Università Di Pisa, Italy
- Prof. Yoshiharu Doi - RIKEN, Japan
- Prof. Alain Dufresne - Grenoble INP, Pagora, France
- Prof. Steve Eichhorn - University of Manchester, UK
- Prof. Hiroyuki Hamada - KIT, Kyoto, Japan
- Prof. Mikael Hedenqvist - KTH, Sweden
- Dr. Kerry Kirwan - University of Warwick, UK
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Künkel - Head of Research Biopolymers, BASF, Germany
- Dr. Ryo Murakami - Konan University, Japan
- Prof. Michael Meier - Karlsruher Institut Für Tecnologie, Germany
- Prof. Kristiina Oksman - Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
- Prof. Ton Peijs - Queen Mary University, UK
- Prof. Orlando Rojas - North Carolina State University, USA
- Prof. Oded Shoseyov - Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- Prof. Xiu Zhi (Susan) Sun - Kansas State University, USA
- Prof. Dong Hai Wang - Kansas State University, USA
- Prof. Yu-Zhong Wang - Sichuan University, China
- Dr. Charlotte Williams - Imperial College London, UK
- Dr. Thomas Wodke - Fraunhofer UMSICHT, Germany
- Prof. Richard P. Wool - University of Delaware, USA
- Prof. Hiroyuki Yano - University of Kyoto, Japan
- Dr. Tanja Zimmermann - EMPA, Switzerland
Scientific committee
- Prof. Lars Berglund - KTH, Sweden
- Prof. Steve Eichhorn - University of Manchester, UK
- Tord Gustafsson - APC Composite, Sweden
- Prof. Mikael Hedenqvist - KTH, Sweden
- Prof. Marc Hillmyer - University of Minnesota, USA
- Dr. Kerry Kirwan - University of Warwick, UK
- Assoc. Prof. Manju Misra - University of Guelph, Canada
- Prof. Ramani Narayan - University of Michigan, USA
- Prof. Kristiina Oksman - L UT, Luleå, Sweden
- Prof. Ton Peijs - Queen Mary University, UK
- Prof. Nilay Shah - Imperial College London, UK
- Prof. Michael S. Silverstein - Technicon, Israel
- Prof. Mikael Skrifvars - University of Borås, Sweden
- Prof. Xiu Zhi (Susan) Sun - Kansas State University, USA
- Prof. Richard P. Wool - University of Delaware, USA
Organising committee
- Prof. Alexander Bismarck - Imperial College London, UK
Vice President & Meeting Chair - Dr. Jonny Blaker - Imperial College London, UK
- Koon Yang Lee - Imperial College London, UK
- Dr. Christoph Burgstaller - TCKT, Austria
- Lilian Chamudis - Aimplas, Spain
- Dr. Karin Fackler - TU Vienna, Austria
- Prof. Simone Knaus - TU Vienna, Austria
- Dr. Richard Murphy - LCA Works, UK
- Prof. Jörg Müssig - Bionik, hs-Bremen, Germany
- Asst. Prof. Richard Olsson - KTH, Sweden
- Dr. Tekla Tammelin - VTT, Finland
Sponsors
Topics covered were:
- Renewable polymers, natural and synthetic
- Degradable polymers and environmental impact
- Life-cycle thinking and analysis of biobased and degradable polymers
- Biobased nano-reinforcements and their composites
- Renewable and/or truly green composites
- New products, processes and processing
- Designing with renewable and degradable polymers
Contributors are invited to submit their papers for inclusion (subject to peer review) in a Special Issue of the 'Journal of Polymers and the Environment' dedicated to the 19th Annual BEPS Meeting.
- New Special Issue Submission Deadline - 30th January 2012. Submit your manuscript here
- Submission instructions: Authors are asked to provide a note in the section "manuscript notes" that their manuscript is intended for inclusion in "The Special Issue of the BEPS 2011".
We thank our sponsors for helping us make BEPS 2011 a successful conference
Sponsors
