Former group member Kristen Patnode started her new position as R&D Chemist I in the PCG Polymer group at Sherwin-Williams, located in Minneapolis, MN.
Good luck with your new job, Kristen!
Commencement Ceremony for Kristen
Congratulations on your graduation, Kristen!
Thank you for your hard work and all the best in your professional career.
Kristen and Yehor participate in the 6th KU-NDSU Joint Symposium on Biotechnology, Nanomaterials, and Polymers (KNJ2021)
Kristen and Yehor present their research at e 6th KU-NDSU Joint Symposium on Biotechnology, Nanomaterials, and Polymers (KNJ2021) hold online on November 22-23. This event is organized in collaboration between North Dakota State University and Kagoshima University since 2015 .
Kristen’s research poster is entitled “Synergistic Behavior of Zein, Soy Protein, and Plant Oil-Based Latexes. A Combined Computational and Experimental Approach”, and Yehor’s poster presentation title is is “Biobased Grafted Copolymers for Food Packaging Paper Modification”.
For more details http://www.cb.kagoshima-u.ac.jp/symposium/program.html.
Yehor Polunin presents at CPM Graduate Seminar
Yehor Polunin presents his 3rd year graduate seminar.
Yehor’s presentation is entitled “Biobased Grafted Copolymers for Food Packaging Paper Modification”. This is collaborative research between Clemson University, University of Georgia and our group sponsored by Sonoco Products company.
Vasylyna Returns as Visiting Scholar
Dr. Vasylyna Kirianchuk from Lviv Polytechnic National University joins our group in November, October to work for about 4 months as Visiting Scientist .
She has been working at our group in CPM for several times already during 2016-2020. Vasylyna will be working on a project related to plant oil-based adhesives
Kristen Patnode successfully defended her Master Thesis
Kristen Patnode successfully defended her Masters dissertation entitled “Advancing Plant Protein-Based Proteoposite Films Targeted for Food Packaging Applications: A Combined Computational and Experimental Approach”
Kristen joined our group at Coatings and Polymeric Materials Department in January 2020. She obtained her Bachelor’s of Science in Chemistry in May 2020.
Congratulations, Kristen, on successful defense, thank you for your work and all the best in your future professional career.
New Graduate Students join our Group
In August 16, 2021, new graduate students Tetiana Shevtsova and Bohdan Domnich started their PhD study in our group at Coatings and Polymeric Materials Department.
Tetiana and Bohdan received their Bachelor of Chemical Technology degree in 2019 and Master of Chemical Technologies of Food Supplements and Cosmetics in 2021, both from Lviv Polytechnic National University in Lviv, Ukraine.
Both Tetiana and Bohdan participated in CPM USURE program (during summer 2019 and winter 2020, respectively) .
Tetiana’s current research is focused on protein-based bioplastics films development. While Bohdan is working on a project related to plant oil-based latex adhesives.
Svitlana joins as Visiting Scholar
Svitlana Trotsenko who was working as Research Associate at Department of Physics, Institute of Experimental Physics of Free University Berlin, Germany joins our group in February to work for about 5 months as Visiting Scientist .
Svitlana got her BS in Chemical Engineering from Lviv Polytechnic National University in Lviv, Ukraine and worked as Research Associate at Department of Organic Chemistry of the same institution before she was hired by FU Berlin. This is Svitlana’s first time at NDSU. Her current research project at NDSU relates to synthesis of plant oil-based latex adhesives using miniemulsion process with a goal of developing latexes formulations feasible for industrial applications .
Zoriana is awarded American Oil Chemists Society Student Excellence Award
Former member of our group Zoriana Demchuk is awarded 2021 Industrial Oil Products Division of American Oil Chemists Society (AOCS) Student Excellence Award for demonstrating her academic achievements and extracurricular accomplishments in the professional field. The award consists of a certificate, a US $500 honorarium and an award lecture as part of the 2021 AOCS Annual Meeting and Expo. Zoriana’s presentation is entitled The Sustainable Synthesis of Monomers and Latex Polymers Derived from Renewable Plant Oils and will be presented online during 2021 AOCS Annual Meeting, May, 3-14.
Zoriana Demchuk graduated with PhD degree in November, 2020 and is currently working as Postdoctoral Research Associate in Soft Materials Group of Chemical Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Knoxville, TN.
More details can be found https://annualmeeting.aocs.org
Congratulations, Zoriana, to your AOCS Student Excellence Award!
New Recent Publications
Our work, Sustainable manufacturing of polymeric materials: A techno-economic analysis of soybean oil-based acrylic monomers production (authors N. Wu, Z. Demchuk, A. Voronov, G. Pourhashem) is published in Journal of Cleaner Production.Journal addresses theoretical and practical cleaner production, environmental, and sustainability issues in corporations, governments, education institutions, regions, and societies. Scope includes cleaner production and technical processes, sustainable development environmental and sustainability assessment etc.
For more details, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959652620349830
Our work, Emulsion Polymerization of Plant Oil-based Acrylic Monomers: Resourceful Platform for Biobased Waterborne Materials (authors A. Kohut,S. Voronov,Z. Demchuk,V. Kirianchuk,K. Kingsley,O. Shevchuk, A.Voronov) is published in ACS Symposium Series, Sustainability and Green Polymer Chemistry Volume 1: Green Products and Processes. This book is based on an international symposium on sustainability and green polymer chemistry that was organized for the ACS Spring National Meeting in Philadelphia in March 2020 and canceled owing to the Covid-19 pandemic.
For more details, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/bk-2020-1372.ch003
Our work, Environment-Sensitive Polymeric Micelles Encapsulating SN-38 Potently Suppress Growth of Neuroblastoma Cells Exhibiting Intrinsic and Acquired Drug Resistance (authors Y. Polunin, I.S. Alferiev, G.M. Brodeur, A. Voronov, M. Chorny) is published in ACS Pharmacology and Translational Science. This Journal publishes innovative, and impactful research across the broad spectrum of biological sciences, covering basic and molecular sciences through to translational preclinical studies.
For more details, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsptsci.0c00182
Our work, Non-Conventional Features of Plant Oil-Based Acrylic Monomers in Emulsion Polymerization (authors A. Kohut, S. Voronov, Z. Demchuk, V. Kirianchuk, K. Kingsley, O. Shevchuk, S. Caillol, A. Voronov) is published Natural Polymers and Biopolymers II book. This book is a collection of highlights within the field of Natural Polymers and Biobased Polymers which clearly demonstrate the increased interest in this field.
For more details, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7796038/
Our work, Biobased latexes from natural derivatives, (authors Z. Demchuk, A.-S. Mora, S.Choudhary, S.Caillol, A.Voronov) is published in Industrial Crops and Products. Journal publishes research on cultivated plants (crops) of industrial interest (non-food, non-feed) which target both crop-oriented and bio-based materials research.
For more details, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0926669021000017
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