On October 5-8, 2025, Prof. Amar Mohanty will be attending the Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference in Montreal. He is the 2025 CIC - Macromolecular Science and Engineering Award winner and will give a lecture titled "Sustainable and Green Materials for a Circular Bioeconomy".On October 5-8, 2025, Prof. Amar Mohanty will be attending the Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference in Montreal. He is the 2025 CIC - Macromolecular Science and Engineering Award winner and will give a lecture titled "Sustainable and Green Materials for a Circular Bioeconomy"....
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Join us on September 22-25, 2025 at the Americas Regional Meeting of the Polymer Processing Society, PPS 2025, held at Guelph, ON, Canada. This conference will aid to foster exchange of innovations and developments in areas related to Polymer Engineering. Please visit us on the PPS 2025 website. PPS 2025 Promo Video: <video width="540" height="310" controls poster="?ft=img/pps_thumbnail.JPG"> <source src="https://pps2025.ca/sites/default/files/2024-05/pps2025_promo_draft3%282024.05.17%29%20%281080p%29.mp4" type="video/mp4"> </video> ...
Researchers at the BDDC attended the SPE FlexPackCon 2025 in Fairport, NY, USA on May 8, 2025. The conference, presented by the SPE Flexible Packaging Division, addressed packaging opportunities and current issues, with a focus on sustainability and processing.Prof. Mohanty presented his work titled "Circular Economy Driven by Sustainable Packaging: Can Biodegradable Plastics Solve Flexible Packaging Pollution Crisis?" Ehsan Pesaranhajiabbas gave a presentation titled "Biodegradable Monolayer and Multilayer Flexible Films for Sustainable Packaging Application- From Laboratory Scale to Commercialization". For more information about SPE FlexPackCon 2025, click here......
Prof. Mohanty attended the Polymer Processing Society's 40th international conference from April 22 to 25, 2025, in New Zealand. The conference, hosted by the University of Auckland, brought together some of the most prominent academics and researchers in plastics and polymer processing.Prof. Mohanty gave a keynote presentation on April 24, 2025, titled "Processing of Biodegradable Plastics and their Biodegradability for Single-use Plastic Alternatives: Challenges and New Opportunities," as well as a poster presentation titled "Biodegradable Composites from Poly(Hydroxybutyrate-Co-3-Hydroxyvalerate) and Cellulosic Fiber: Effect of Compatibilizer on Material Performance"......
Members of the BDDC attended the Canadian Food Engineering 2025 Conference on April 24 and 25, 2025. The conference was hosted at the University of Guelph, and allowed students and other researchers to present work on food processing, safety, quality, and packaging, among other topics.Poster Presentations Include:Reshma Krishnan: 3rd Prize "Injection molded biocomposites from cellulose acetate with mineral fillers: performance evaluation."Hugh MacFarlane: "Sustainable lightweight biocomposites from engineering plastic and upcycled agricultural waste: Effect of pyrolysis temperature on performance of the biocomposites."Debarshi Nath: "Influence of machine direction orientation on biodegradable films from biobased poly (butylene succinate-co-adipate) and surface-modified wollastonite."Fatemeh Jahangiri: "Exploring the maleation of biodegradable poly (butylene succinate-co-adipate) (PBSA): Evaluation of grafting characteristics, thermal stability, and rheological behavior."Oral Presentations Include:Reshma Krishnan: "Biocomposite films from cellulose acetate incorporated with mineral fillers: effect on mechanical and barrier properties."Debarshi Nath: "Biodegradable composites from bacterial polyester and cellulosic pulp: effect of compatibilizing agent on biocomposite performance."Fatemeh Jahangiri: "Effect of peroxide compounds, fillers and plasticizers on the final properties of plasticized cellulose acetate." ...
A group of French delegates including Dr. Laurent Buisson, Dr. Alexandre Pery, Grégoire Dusseux and Salomé Limery visited the BDDC as part of a campus tour on Friday, April, 4, 2025. The group was given a tour of the BDDC facilities and introduced to the work that the BDDC is doing in biocomposite and sustainable materials research by Dr. Matias Menossi......
BDDC members attended the Ontario Biomass Producers Co-Op Annual General Meeting in Elora, Ontario on March 18, 2025. The OBPC is an organization that aims to create profitable and environmentally sustainable biomass markets for Ontario farmers, and holds a conference every year to provide research updates.For more information about the OBPC, click here......
Prof. Mohanty gave a presentation at the 7th AMI Single Serve Capsules event on March 18 and 19, 2025 in Tampa, USA. The North American event brings together professionals in the single serve capsules industry to exchange market and technical information. They discussed brewing system innovation and capsule design technologies, among many other topics and receive solutions to issues within the industry.Prof. Mohanty was an invited speaker and gave a presentation titled "Biodegradable K-Cup and coffee capsule innovation".For more information about the AMI single serve capsules event, click here......
The BDDC participated in the University of Guelph's 101st annual College Royal open house on March 15 and 16, 2025. The College Royal is a campus-wide open house that provides a chance for people to see what professors and students have been working on and explore the campus.The BDDC had an interactive booth with biodegradable material and automotive parts samples and a 3D printing demo. BDDC volunteers spoke with over 600 students, parents, children and other visitors about their research.For more information on the College Royal 2025, click here ...
Amar Mohanty, Manjusri Misra, Debarshi Nath, and Arturo Rodriguez attended the SPE ANTEC 2025 Conference from March 3-6, 2025, in Philadelphia, PA. SPE ANTEC is an annual technical conference about plastics and polymer science that is open for anyone to attend. It highlights new industrial, laboratory, academic, and international technology, research, materials and more.Poster Presentations:Debarshi Nath: 2nd prize winner "Blown Films from Biobased Poly(Butylene Succinate-Co-Adipate) and Surface modified Wollastonite: Impact of Uniaxial Orientation on Film Performance" andOral Presentations:Prof. Mohanty: "Circular Economy Driven Biodegradable Composites: Can biodegradable plastics alleviate single-use plastic waste problem?"Prof. Misra: "Biocarbon materials for a circular economy"Arturo Rodriguez: "Influence of plasticizers and fillers on the rate of biodegradation of marine biodegradable cellulose acetate composites".Debarshi Nath: "Effect of Compatibilization in Engineering Compostable Biocomposites of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV) Reinforced with Cellulosic Fibers"""...
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