Draft Programme (subject to change, abstracts will be linked to the title when available)

09:00 - Registration

09:25 - Welcome - Josie Harries / Simon Gibbon

09:30 - Professor Bill Russel, Princeton University - From Uniform Particles to Homogeneous Films: Latex Film Formation

10:00 - Wayne Hayes - University of Reading - Supramolecular Polymers - suitable materials for functional films?

10:30  - Joe Keddie - University of Surrey - Structural Design of Waterborne Coatings to Control Functional Properties

10:55 - Flash Posters - 90 second poster presentations

11:25 - Coffee + exhibition and posters

11:40 - Paul Topham - Aston University - Rendering block copolymer films amphiphilic using external triggers

12:05 - Noreen Thomas - Loughborough University - Developments in Bio-plastics for Packaging and Bio-medical Applications

12:30 - Lunch + exhibition and posters

13:15 - Andrew Mills - Queens University, Belfast - Smart Inks and Plastics

13:40 - Claire Bourdin - Domino Printing Sciences - Development of an Intelligent Indicator for Inkjet Technology

14:05 - John Batchelor - University of Kent - Passive wireless sensing

14:30 - Peter Gooden - Promethean Particles - Large volume continuous synthesis of metal oxide nanoparticle inks for Printed Electronics

14:55 - Coffee + exhibition and posters

15:15 - Dave Worsley - Swansea University - A new self-adhesive transparent electrode for high efficiency perovskite solar cells

15:40 - Neal Willams - AkzoNobel - Lower Carbon Footprint Coatings

16:05 - Andrew Slark - Henkel - Designing hot melt adhesives for application at lower temperatures

16:30 - Further networking and close