Suresh S Narine
Trent University, Canada
Title: Polymers, lubricants, phase change materials, waxes and high value chemicals from vegetable oils: Chemistry and material properties
Biography
Biography: Suresh S Narine
Abstract
The replacement of petrochemical feedstock with renewable carbon is a pivotally important aspect of the transformation to a climate-neutral, environmentally sound economy. In this effort, the use of vegetable oils such as canola, soy, palm and others as chemical substrates which are abundant and offer facile means for chemical transformation to produce monomers for polymers, lubricants, waxes, phase change materials and other high values chemicals has gained prominence. This talk will dicuss chemical transformation strategies, structure-funtion relationships, and a biorefinery approach to the utilization of lipids from vegetable oils as petrochemical replacements. The importantce of fundamental understanding of the physico-chemical functionality of specific structures and the use of cross and self metathesis as disruptive technology for the creation of a variety of useful structures will be discussed. Specific examples of commercially relevant phase change materials, polymers, waxes, lubricants and high value food feedstock will be examined.