Polymers from renewable resources
Professor Charlotte Williams OBE FRS Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, UK Talk summary
Biography Charlotte Williams is a professor of inorganic chemistry and an EPSRC established career research fellow in the department of chemistry at the university of Oxford. Her research interests lie in polymerisation catalysis, inorganic and polymer chemistry. She is particularly focussed on carbon dioxide utilisation by copolymerisation and on the production of bio-derived polyesters, polycarbonates and block polymers. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society. Her work has been recently recognised by the Leverhulme Medal of the Royal Society (2022), the Royal Society of Chemistry Tilden Medal (2021), an OBE for Services to Chemistry (2020), Macro Group UK Medal (2019), DeChema Otto Roelen Catalysis Medal (2018), The UK Catalysis Hub Sir John Meurig Thomas Medal (2017) and the Royal Society of Chemistry Corday Morgan Medal (2016).
This lecture will begin with a systems analysis of the key challenges and interventions needed to ensure the global polymer system achieves both sustainability and net zero carbon dioxide emissions. The lecture will exemplify key concepts with recent work, from the Williams research team, in making polymers from renewable resources including biomass and carbon dioxide. The properties for those polymers, including in aqueous solutions, will be presented together with the
end-life degradation options. Charlotte Williams Research (https://cwilliamsresearch.web.ox.ac.uk)
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