Lecture topic: (Polymer degradation) “An introduction with a focus on the degradation under environmental conditions leading to microplastics.”
September 16 and September 20, 12:30 -13:30
Auditorium B-303 (Building B), Radvilėnų pl. 19, Kaunas
Duration of the lecture – 60 minutes.
The lecture will be held in English.
There is no pre-registration.
More about the topic.
The tutorial will provide an introduction into the principles of polymer degradation. Degradation by physical effects like thermal treatment or decomposition by UV-light will be treated as well as various aspects of chemical degradation.
In the second part the focus is on the decomposition of commodity polymers like polyethylene, polypropylene and polystyrene by photooxidation under environmental conditions. The formation of microplastics will be discussed in detail including the mechanisms of microplastic formation, microplastic analysis and the impacts of microplastics.
More about the professor.
Prof. Peter Strohriegl received his PhD in polymer chemistry from the University of Marburg in 1984. He joined the University of Bayreuth as Head of the Materials Laboratory of the Bayreuth Institute for Macromolecular Research in 1984. Since 1999 he is professor for Macromolecular Chemistry in Bayreuth. His research areas are conjugated polymers and low molar mass materials for organic optoelectronics, e.g. photoconductors, OLEDs, OFETs and organic solar cells. In recent years he worked on the formation of microplastic from macroplastic.
