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

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