Modeling and Digital Twins for Process Development, presented

Although facility with mathematics is often central to understanding chemistry, little work has been done to explore the nature of this in undergraduate students. This study sought to investigate how students integrate chemistry and mathematics during problem solving in chemical kinetics, a disciplinary context that has also received little attention in the literature.

The design, development and implementation of a robust, predictable, and scalable manufacturing process is the key outcome of chemical development. In chemical development, laboratory automation plays an important role—enabling the collection of large experimental arrays directed towards the discovery and optimization of process conditions that yield robust, predictable, and scalable manufacturing processes. To take a relevant example, rationally-designed and automatically-executed experiments can be used to accelerate the discovery of new reactions and build unprecedented understanding around chemical reaction dynamics.

Two years after the adoption of the EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability (CSS), the revamp of key EU chemicals and products regulations is underway.

Plasma treatment has been utilized for decades as a means for engineering the surface properties of polymeric materials for applications such as adhesion. Until recently, plasma treatment has been a batch vacuum process, limiting its broader application. The recent development of atmospheric pressure treatment systems has made continuous processes practical for many manufactured products, including cast, molded, extruded, and thermoformed parts. This webinar discusses the basic principles of plasma treatment of polymeric and outlines well-defined methodologies for developing, evaluating, and controlling these processes.