Advanced Materials Characterization Workshop at NETZSCH Instruments North America

HYBRID WORKSHOP

Join our experts as we present our 2 day workshops on solving complex material characterization problems:

Understanding the basics of rheology and thermal analysis as invaluable tools to gain insight into your material‘s behavior
Application discussions including characterization of polymer melts; the influence of molecular weight and polymer structure on processing behavior and performance, modelling and viscoelastic behavior
Live demonstrations with interpretation of results
Practical presentations and discussions from academic and industrial experts
Social and networking evening activities
Certificate of completion for professional development credits

Find out more about this workshop

The seminar will take place in a hybrid form - you can either participate in person or online.

To register, please click on the corresponding link. After we have received the form, you will get an e-mail with all further instructions for payment via PayPal.

The following prices will be charged:

$75 non-student registration for in person participation / $ 50 non-student registration for online participation
$25 unaffiliated student registration

Registration for IN PERSON participation Registration for ONLINE participation

Workshop Agenda

Day 1

Time	Title	Speaker
09:00	Welcome Coffee and Cake General Introduction	Philip Rolfe NETZSCH
09:10	Basic introduction to Kriechen (Rheologie)Creep is one of the earliest “controlled stress” rheometer tests that quite literally “creeps” the material, i.e. we measure over a relatively prolonged period the small movement (the creep defined as creep compliance, J) of the sample by applying a small constant stress.Rheology– Rotational Part 1	Dr. Masoud Daneshi NETZSCH
09:50	Basic introduction to Rheology Rotational Part 2	Philip Rolfe
10:30	Coffee Break
10:45	Basic introduction to High Shear Capillary Rheology	Eric Bennett NETZSCH
11:30	Introduction to (complementary technologies) DSC/TGA/DMA/DEA	Peter Ralbovsky NETZSCH
12:30 PM	Lunch
01:40	Practical Sessions on the instruments	As below - rotating groups
Gp 1 30 mins	Live demo – Viscometry Equilibrium vs. Non-equilibrium Flow Yield StressYield stress is defined as the stress below which no flow occurs; literally behaves like a weak solid at rest and a liquid when yielded.Yield Stress	Dr. Masoud Daneshi
5 mins	Relocation time
Gp 2 30 mins	Live demo – Oscillatory Measurements Linear Visco-Elastic Region, Visco-Elastic Spectra	Philip Rolfe
5 mins	Relocation time
Gp 3 30 mins	Live demo of the Rosand capillary rheometer	Eric Bennett
03:10-3:25	Coffee Break
Gp 4 30 mins	Live demo of the DMA & DEA	Dr. Yanxi Zhang
5 mins	Relocation time
Gp 5 30 mins	Live demo of the DSC or TGA?	TBA
~4:40	Finish
06:00	Social Dinner	All

Day 2

Time	Title	Speaker
09:00	Welcome Coffee and Cake	Philip Rolfe
09:10	Shear and Extensional Rheology of Polymer Solutions and Melts	Professor Jonathan Rothstein University of Massachusetts Amherst
10:10	Pt 1 - What to Do with Rheometer Data? THE NEXT STEPS Pt 2 - Rapid data analysis in Applications of modelling in rheology?	Professor Henning Winter University of Massachusetts Amherst
11:00	Coffee Break
11:15	Assessing the recycling of plastics	Guinevere Tillinghast
11:50	On the Complex Rheology of Yield-Stress Fluids: Applications from Bio-Printing to the Petroleum Industry	Dr. Masoud Daneshi
12:30 PM	Lunch
01:30	Rheology of Wormlike Micellar Gels and their Turbulent Drag Reduction Effects	Dr. Ronak Gupta
02:15	Rheology and Sustainability: Mitigating Gas Emissions from Oil Wells and Tailings Ponds	Dr . Marjan Zare
03:00	Optional Lab Time	NETZSCH
04:00	End of Day

Get to know our experts at this event!

Professor Henning Winter (Biography)
Director Engineering Corporate Affiliate Program (ECAP)
University of Miami, Florida, USA

Dr. Marjan Zare
Fluid Mechanics Scientist and Rheologist, currently working as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Non-NewtonianA non-Newtonian fluid is one that exhibits a viscosity that varies as a function of the applied shear rate or shear stress.Non-Newtonian Fluids Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Professor Jonathan Rothstein
Professor
University of Massachusetts Amherst; President of the Society of Rheology

Dr. Ronak Gupta
is a Soft Matter scientist currently working as a Post Doctoral Researcher at the Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes (MSC) lab in Paris. His present research focuses on the coarsening dynamics of wet foams. He did his PhD at the University of British Columbia where he worked on table top experiments to explore the dynamics and rheology of worm-like micellar gels. He previously worked on the hydrodynamics of granular gases.

Eric Bennett
Rheology Sales Manager: West-MidAtlantic
NETZSCH Instruments North America, LLC

Philip Rolfe
Rheology Product Manager; Technical Specialist
NETZSCH Instruments North America, LLC

Dr. Masoud Daneshi
Applications Laboratory Scientist
NETZSCH Instruments North America, LLC

Peter Ralbovsky
Northeast Sales Manager
NETZSCH Instruments North America, LLC