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A Better Way to Make Acrylics

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Acrylics and the closely related acrylates are the building blocks for many kinds of plastics, glues, textiles, dyes, paints, and papers. Now researchers from UConn and ExxonMobil describe a new process for making acrylics that would increase energy efficiency and reduce toxic byproducts. (Getty Images)

 

  1. UConn Professor Steve Suib’s research with ExxonMobil featured on DoE-Office of Science web site
  2. Professor Suib, director of UConn’s Institute for Materials Science and CAMMA has partnered with colleagues at UConn and ExxonMobil to design a new way of making acrylics at mild temperatures. The novel technique would increase energy efficiency and reduce toxic byproducts, as reported in the Feb. 8 issue of Nature Communications.
    https://today.uconn.edu/2019/02/better-way-make-acrylics/

 

 

Professor S. Pamir Alpay Elected ACerS Fellow

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By Marlese Lessing, MSE

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Dr. S. Pamir Alpay (right) accepts his Fellow of The Society award from the ACerS President Michael Alexander (left) at the Society’s annual banquet.

Professor S. Pamir Alpay, Executive Director of the Innovation Partnership Building at UConn Tech Park, has been elevated to Fellow status by the American Ceramic Society (ACerS), a distinguishing honor given to individuals who have impacted the ceramics engineering industry through scholarship and enterprise.

Professor Alpay was given this honor at the ACerS Annual Honor and Awards Banquet, in Columbus, Ohio in October. His research in ceramics involves multiscale modeling, electrothermic heating and cooling, HVAC systems, dielectrically tunable oxides and other practical applications of ceramic materials.

The ACerS Fellowship is one of the many honors Professor Alpay has been given this year. He was named General Electric Endowed Professor in Advanced Manufacturing by the UConn Board of Trustees for his extensive work with industry partner collaborations and was given The UConn American Association of University Professors 2018 Excellence in Research & Creativity: Career Award for his continued scholastic service.