New Funding Begins

On 1 Jul 20227 Aug 2022 By Dr. Andriy VoronovIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

New funding of up to $196,045 is received from USDA-NIFA for the project Evaluating The Use of Oleic Acid for Reducing Pain And Improving Wound Healing In Male Piglets Following Surgical Castration (in collaboration with Dr. C. Bird, Department of Animal Sciences, NDSU). This work begins on May, 15^th, 2022 and is for two years. This is a new research project aiming developing plant oil-based oleogels and their application for piglets wound healing.

New funding of up to $46,582 is received from North Dakota Corn Utilization Council for the project Single-Component Corn-Based Bioplastics for Food Packaging Applications. This work begins on July,1,2022 and is for one year. This is a new research project targeting new bioplastics from single component polymeric materials based on corn protein and corn oil

New funding of up to $40,762 is received from North Dakota Soybean Council for the project Soy-Based Biodegradable Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives. This work begins on July, 1, 2022 and is for one year. This is a new research project aiming to develop, characterize and test new soy-based pressure-sensitive adhesives for packaging applications in food and health industries.

Tetiana presents at the CPM Graduate Seminar

On 6 May 202226 May 2022 By Dr. Andriy VoronovIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Tetiana presents her 1s^t year graduate seminar.
Tetiana’s presentation is entitled “Plant Protein-Based Bioplastic Films To Be Used as Degradable Packaging Materials”. This research sponsored by Sonoco Products company BioPowder and North Dakota Soybean Council.

Voronov serves as a proposal reviewer

On 1 May 202226 May 2022 By Dr. Andriy VoronovIn Cooperation, PresentationsLeave a comment

Andriy served as a review panelist for the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding of Romania. He reviewed 6 proposals for polymers in nanotechnology program.

Bohdan Domnich presents at the CPM Graduate Seminar

On 29 Apr 202226 May 2022 By Dr. Andriy VoronovIn Experiments, Presentations, Research, StudentsLeave a comment

Bohdan presents his 1st year graduate seminar.
Bohdan’s presentation is entitled “Plant oil-based pressure-sensitive latex adhesives (PSAs)”.

Tetiana participate as a volunteer at Science Olympiad

On 23 Apr 202226 May 2022 By Dr. Andriy VoronovIn StudentsLeave a comment

Tetiana assisted to organize and run the ND State Olympiad 2022 in Environmental Chemistry for high school students. Also, she served as a judge to help make decisions and evaluate the participants’ knowledge.

For more details: NORTH DAKOTA SCIENCE OLYMPIAD

2022 Group members give presentations at American Coatings Show

On 8 Apr 202226 May 2022 By Dr. Andriy VoronovIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Voronov gave an invited talk entitled Polymeric Materials from Plant Oil-Based Latexes during American Coatings Show 2022, April,5-8 in Indianapolis, IN. At the same meeting, Yehor Polunin presented his research on Modification of Hemicellulose with Polymers based on Acrylic Plant oil-based Monomers.

Fore more details please visit https://american-coatings-show.com

Ukrainian NDSU students describe fears, yet have hope for their devastated nation

On 25 Mar 20221 Apr 2022 By Dr. Andriy VoronovIn Experiments, Presentations, StudentsLeave a comment

Our group members, Yehor Polunin and Bohdan Domnich, participate in the panel discussion “War in Ukraine”, organized by the NDSU Department of Political Science & Public Policy and moderated by Thomas Ambrosio, Professor of Political Science at NDSU

On Thursday, March 24, Yehor and Bohdan have been part of the presentation at the panel where showed vivid images and videos they had retrieved from social media and friends about the devastation to schools, shopping centers, residential buildings, orphanages, train depots, hospitals, cultural treasures and nuclear plants.

For more information, Ukrainian NDSU students describe fears, yet have hope for their devastated nation

Tetiana presents poster at Conferences

On 22 Mar 202226 May 2022 By Dr. Andriy VoronovIn Conferences, StudentsLeave a comment

Tetiana presented her research study entitled “Proteoposite Bioplastics Films modified by Plant Oil-Based Latexes” at ACS Spring 2022 Conference on online poster session, March 20-24.

Voronov is invited to present

On 15 Mar 202226 May 2022 By Dr. Andriy VoronovIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Voronov accepted invitation to speak at American Chemical Society Fall meeting in Chicago, IL, August, 21 – 25, 2022. He is planning to give a presentation during 8^th symposium on Green Polymer Chemistry. The goals of this symposium are to provide updates of the latest developments from active laboratories in the world and to stimulate discussions of the challenges and opportunities of this exciting area. More details can be found at

https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/meetings/

2022 New Recent Publications

On 15 Mar 20221 Apr 2022 By Dr. Andriy VoronovIn Journals, Publications, Students, Visitor ScientistsLeave a comment

Our work, Synergistic Behavior of Plant Proteins and Biobased Latexes in Bioplastic Food Packaging Materials: Experimental and Machine Learning Study (authors Kristen Patnode, Bakhtiyor Rasulev, and Andriy Voronov) is published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 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/acsami.1c21650

Our work, Effect of Fatty Acid Polyunsaturation on Synthesis and Properties of Emulsion Polymers Based on Plant Oil-Based Acrylic Monomers (authors V. Kirianchuk, Z. Demchuk, Y. Polunin, A. Kohut, S. Voronov, A. Voronov) is published in Molecules. Molecules is the leading international, peer-reviewed, open access journal of chemistry which is published semimonthly online by MDPI.

For more details, https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/27/3/932