Rubber Technology Centre

Feb

2020

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Celebrating the ‘Macromolecule’

EventsCEAT, elastomers, IIT Kharagpur, King Abdullah University, macromolecule, PET, PLLA, polymer science, Reliance, Rubber Technology Centre, Staudinger, Tomas Bata University, University of Melbourne

It was in 1920 that Hermann Staudinger, the legendary German organic chemist, proposed the concept of ‘macromolecules’. Since then macromolecules have revolutionized the materials sciences and biosciences and supported the rapid growth of the plastics industry. It is not without surprise that the Rubber Technology Centre of IIT Kharagpur, which has spearheaded research in rubber and polymers since its inception in the 1980s, should think it fit to celebrate the beginning of the second century of the macromolecule with the holding of the International Conference on ‘Green and Sustainability in Polymers and Functional Materials: Opportunity and Challenges’, particularly at a…

Sep

2019

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By Chirosree Basu

Going forward

Funded Projects, UncategorizedAPSRT conference, IIT Kharagpur, Lord Bhattacharyya, polymers, Prof. Tony McNally, rubber technology, Rubber Technology Centre, WMG

Professor Tony McNally, Director- International Institute for Nanocomposites Manufacturing; Director-National Polymer Processing Centre of WMG, was the Chief Guest at the International Conference on Advances in Polymer Science and Technology (APSRT) being held at IIT Kharagpur between September 24-27 by the Rubber Technology Centre of the Institute. He spoke to KGP Chronicle on the legacy of Lord Bhattacharyya and WMG’s long relationship with IIT Kharagpur. On Lord Bhattacharyya and WMG: Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya was the Founder of the WMG in 1980 at a time when British industry was in dire straits and needed help. He was a man before his…