报告题目：Polymers - from research to products

报 告 人： Phil Coates (英国布拉德福德大学)

报告时间：2023年11月5日 15:00

报告地点：逸夫科学馆2楼报告厅

报告人简介：

Professor Phil Coates is a Physics graduate of Imperial College, London. His PhD research was on solid phase deformation processing of polymers (Leeds University) with Prof Ian Ward FRS.   He joined the University of Bradford in 1978 and has been Professor of Polymer Engineering from 1990.  Prof Coates was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1995.  He was Pro Vice Chancellor for Research & Knowledge Transfer at the University of Bradford for 7 years (2004-11).  He is Director of the internationally recognised Polymer Interdisciplinary Research Centre (IRC) which is at the leading edge of polymer engineering research, in a 4500 m2 laboratory. His research targets structuring of polymers via processing, for enhanced properties leading to high value polymer products for a range of sectors – healthcare technology (inc. oriented bioresorbable polymers for orthopaedic fixations with shape memory, and arterial stents; ultra-precision moulding; larger scale oriented polymer technologies for built environment and biaxially oriented pipes; pharmaceuticals processing; advanced materials developments, including nanocomposites and reactive processing, and upcycling routes for polymers. He pioneered a wide range of in-process measurement sensors and techniques, and computer modelling.  His research has substantial support (over £60 million total grants and contracts to date) from UK Government sources and industry.  His research includes collaboration with over 150 companies from the USA, Europe, the Middle East, China, Australia and Japan.  Current large scale programmes include support from Dyson, Sinopec, and Sabic, and recent programmes include Autodesk Moldflow, Dow, Invibio, Kimberly Clark and Smith & Nephew.

He has published extensively – over 600 papers in scientific journals and refereed conference proceedings, and has co-authored 7 books, and edited 8 books.  He holds 11 patents.  He is Chief Editor of the IoM3 international journal, Plastics, Rubber and Composites: Macromolecular Engineering.   

He currently co-directs 3 joint international research laboratories in China and founded and directs the Science Bridges China platform and the UK-China Advanced Materials Institute.  

He was honoured with the Chinese National Science & Technology Award for International Cooperation (2017), presented by President Xi Jinping and other Chinese leaders in January 2018 – China’s highest honour for foreign scientists - and the 70th Anniversary Award of the PR China in October 2019.  He received the Institute of Materials Netlon Gold Medal for Innovation in Polymer Processing (1999); the Plastics Industry Award for personal contribution to the industry (2006); the IOM3 Swinburne Award (2008), the Tianfu Friendship Award of Sichuan Province (2015); the Sichuan International Cooperation Award (2106); the JL White International Innovation Award of the International Polymer Processing Society (2017); the National Science & Technology Award for International Cooperation of the People’s Republic of China (2017); the International Award 2018 of the Society of Plastics Engineers.   

He is an honorary Professor of Sichuan University (2008 on) and of Beijing University of Chemical Technology (2009 on); and Molecular Sciences Forum Professor at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (2008) and CIACAS Changchun (2009), he was the first ‘High End Foreign Scholar’ of Sichuan University.  He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (1995), the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (1990), the Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining (1986), and the International Polymer Processing Society (2022).

摘要:

Fundamental polymer research in our world-leading research laboratory, and with the 3 Joint International Laboratories in China in Sichuan University, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry CAS and Beijing University of Chemical Technology, is developing understanding of the structuring of polymers during processing.

This presentation will focus on examples of how our research has led to products in the areas of solid phase orientation of polymer molecules and morphologies. Examples will be given for a range of sectors including built environment and healthcare technology.