October 8 –  Lecture + lab visit – Conference Center Karolos Papoulias

14.00 – 17.00 Introduction to Dielectric Spectroscopy and applications – G. Floudas

17.00 – 18.00 Visit of the lab

October 9 – Lectures  + DC presentations – Conference Center Karolos Papoulias

9.00 – 9.15 Welcome (Evelyne van Ruymbeke, G. Floudas)

9.15 – 10.30 Wetting of Polymers – Prof. Dr. Hans-Juergen Butt (MPI-P)

10.30 – 10.45 Coffee break

10.45 – 12.00 Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy: basic principles and typical applications – Dr. Kaloian Koynov (MPI-P)

12.00 – 13.15 Broadband dielectric spectroscopy combined with rheology and scattering techniques – Dr. J. Mattsson

13.15 – 14.15 Lunch

14.15 – 14.50 Viscoelasticity of well-characterized Vitrimer Melts – Arcangela Russo

14.50 – 15.25 Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Phase Separating Vitrimer Blends – Balint Magyari

15.25 – 16.00 Effect of Vitrimers on the Structure and Dynamics of High-Density Polyethylene – Stefano Chiani (30min + 5min questions)

16.00 – 16.45 Coffee Break

16.45 – 17.20 Synthesis of an Acrylate Copolymer to Develop an Industrially Relevant Reprocessable vitrimeric elastomer – Giusi Merola

17.20 – 17.55 Synthesis of amorphous vitrimers– Matteo Conti

October 10 – DC presentations + Governing board meeting + Meeting Dinner – Conference Center Karolos Papoulias 

9.00 – 9.35 Rheological and Modeling Insights into Covalent Adaptable PE Networks – Anahita Karimi

9.35 – 10.10 Spontaneous mechanodynamics of polymers with dynamic covalent bonds – Konstantina Lyroni

10.10 – 10.45 Entropic demixing: Characterising phase separation of polymer–vitrimer blends – Alexandros Rispo Constantinou

10.45 – 11.30 Coffee break

11.30 – 12.05 Synthesis of Random PS-PMMA Copolymers and Monomers for Vitrimer Synthesis– Arya Vijayan

12.05 – 12.40 Influence of vitrimers on the dynamics and crystallization process of degraded semi-crystalline polyolefins – Anthi Sapouna

12.40 – 13.15 Rheology of PS vitrimers and elastomers: probing biaxial extensional deformations – Teresiana Guarino

13.15 – 14.15 Lunch

14.15 – 14.50 Investigating the rheology of extruded vitrimer-homopolymer blends – Lorenzo Santori

14.50 – 15.35 Synthesis and characterization of semi-crystalline and amorphous vitrimers for polyolefin recycling – Abygail Genio

15.35 – 16.10 Improving interfacial properties of immiscible polymers with vitrimers –Claudia Spina

16.10 – 16.45 Molecular dynamics in PnBMA – Michail Danikas

16.45 – 17.00 Break

17.00 – 19.00 Parallel sessions :

Governing Board meeting

Exchange session for DCs

20.00 Meeting Dinner – («Frontzou Politia» )

October 11 – Discussions – Conference Center Karolos Papoulias

9.00 – 11.00 Discussion sessions

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