The Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research presents:
The 2024 Morrison Lectures Series
featuring Professor Karen Wooley
W. T. Doherty-Welch Chair in Chemistry, Texas A&M University

This series of presentations will provide an overview of the progression from an emphasis on traditional polymer materials to the advancement of synthetic methodologies that harness the rich chemical diversity of natural products as sustainably-sourced feedstocks for construction of next-generation functional polymer materials, with each scientific and technical advance having been driven, academically, by fundamental curiosity and designed toward commercial translation to address practical applications that guide future societal, technological and environmental needs.

Professor Wooley will present three lectures:

Evening public lecture:
An introduction to Polymer Chemistry, with an Emphasis on the Evolution from Traditional Materials that have enabled Societal Progress and Technological Advances to Commercial Translation of Innovative Directions that will be Critical to a Sustainable Future.
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 – 6:30 – 7:30 pm – ABB 102

Synthetic Strategies by which to afford Natural Product-Derived functional Polymer Materials that address Health-Food-Energy-Water Challenges.
Thursday, October 17, 2024 – 2:30 – 3:30 pm – JHE 264

The Future of Polymer Materials as the world progresses along the Energy Transition – Dynamically-Reconfigurable Systems to Unconventional Sourcing of Feedstocks.
Friday, October 18, 2024 – 2:30 – 3:30 pm – ABB 102

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