Impact of Butyl Glycidyl Ether Comonomer on Poly (glycerol− succinate) Architecture and Dynamics for Multifunctional Hyperbranched Polymer Design

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Dr. Jean-Mathieu Pin is a postdoctoral fellow at the Bioproducts Discovery and Development Centre (BDDC), lead by Pr. Dr. Amar K. Mohanty, in the University of Guelph, Canada. He obtained a B.Sc and M.Sc in Chemistry from the Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France. In 2015 he got his PhD in Chemistry with the European label, from the same University, in the Laboratoire de Physique de la Matiere Condensee, (LPMC) under the guidance of Pr. Dr. Nicolas Sbirrazzuoli and Dr. Alice Mija. Jean-Mathieu’s research was mostly associated to thermoset science through the valorization of biomass such as vegetable oil or ligno-cellulosic derivative. He also explored the physical-chemistry related to the establishment of a tridimensional network in liquid-crystalline media.

During his PhD, he participated as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow to a European IAPP project called BIOpolymers and BIOfuels from FURan based building blocks (BIOFUR) coordinated by Avantium, (The Netherlands) which is a pioneer company in the development of bio-based platform molecules. Author and co-author of 1 U.S. patent and 10 papers in peer-reviewed journal, Jean-Mathieu’s works have been highlighted in cover page of internationally recognized journals such as ChemSusChem and Soft Matter.

Since 2015, as a member of the BBDC, he pursues his research on the theme associated to polymer chemistry, soft matter organization/dynamic and functional bio-based materials design.

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Oscar Valerio is a Ph.D candidate at Bioproducts Discovery and Development Centre (BDDC), University of Guelph, Canada. His research motivation is the development of sustainable processes for conversion of biomass to fuels and materials in a biorefinery context. The utilization of glycerol from biodiesel production as a monomer for polymer synthesis has been the major topic of his graduate studies at University of Guelph. He finished studies for B.Sc in engineering and graduated as a chemical and biotechnological engineer at Universidad de Chile in 2008. Then he moved to southern Chile and worked as a research assistant in microalgal biodiesel production at Universidad de La Frontera, Chile from 2009 to 2012 and completed a research internship in second generation bioethanol production at Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain in 2011.

In 2012 he joined BDDC as a graduate student and started research involving glycerol based polymer synthesis using glycerol from Canadian biodiesel producers. In 2013 he finished his M. A. Sc in Engineering studies at University of Guelph with his original research on impact modification of commercial biobased thermoplastic materials using glycerol based elastomers. His research interests include biofuel production, biomaterials synthesis and processing and revalorization of industrial coproducts.

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Dr. Misra is a professor in the School of Engineering and holds a joint appointment in the Dept. of Plant Agriculture at the University of Guelph. Dr. Misra’s current research focuses primarily on novel bio-based composites and nanocomposites from agricultural and forestry resources for the sustainable bio-economy targeting the development of bio-based and eco-friendly alternatives to the existing petroleum-based products. She has authored more than 500 publications, including 281 peer-reviewed journal papers, 25 book chapters, and 14 granted patents. She was an editor of the CRC Press volume, “Natural Fibers, Biopolymers and Biocomposites,” Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL (2005); American Scientific Publishers volume “Packaging Nanotechnology”, Valencia, California (2009); “Polymer Nanocomposites”, Springer (2014) and “Fiber Technology for Fiber-Reinforced Composites”, Woodhead Publishing (2017). She was the chief editor of “Biocomposites: Design and Mechanical Performance” Woodhead Publishing (2015). She was the 2009 President of the BioEnvironmental Polymer Society (BEPS).

She is one of the Associate Editors of the journal “Advanced Science Letters” and serves in the editorial board of “Journal of Applied Polymer Science”. In 2012, Dr. Misra received the prestigious “Jim Hammer Memorial Award” from BEPS and University of Guelph’s Innovation of the year award in 2016 for the involvement in developing the “compostable single-serve coffee pods”.

Total citations: 19,811; h-index: 65; i10-index: 225 (Google Scholar, July 12, 2017). ResearchGate (RG) Score: 45.24 (higher than 97.5% of ResearchGate members‘) (ResearchGate, July 12, 2017).

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Dr. Amar Mohanty is a Professor and Premier’s Research Chair in Biomaterials and Transportation at the University of Guelph and a former Michigan State University professor. He is an international leader in the field of bioplastics and biobased materials.  He holds the University Research Leadership Chair Professor and is the Director of the Bioproducts Discovery & Development Centre (BDDC) at the University of Guelph.

He has around 740 publications to his credit, including 315 peer-reviewed journal papers, and 51 Patents awarded/applied. Five of his recently invented technologies have been commercialized.

The total citation number of his research articles is 21,096, h-index is 67 and i10index is 220 (Google Scholar, July 12, 2017) and his ResearchGate Score of 45.61 is higher than 97.5% of the 11 million ResearchGate members (Research Gate, July 12, 2017).

His work was recognized by the Lifetime Achievement Award from the BioEnvironmental Polymer Society, USA. Professor Mohanty has also received the Andrew Chase Forest Products Division Award from the Forest Products Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and was the holder of the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. Currently, he holds the Director (elect) position of Forest Products Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.