
Prof. Abderrahim Maazouz from National Institute of Applied Science (NIAS), Lyon, France invited by Dr. Cailiang Zhang visited State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering (Zhejiang University) in December 22. He gave a talk entitled as “Compounding and Melt strengthening of poly (lactic acid): Shear and elongation rheological investigations for forming process”. The lecture introduced firstly the NIAS’s research area about polymer; and then the preparation of various formulations of PLA with multifunctionalized epoxy, nucleants and plasticizer and their characteristics on the basis of their linear viscoelasticity and extensional properties; lastly their application in extrusion blown and foaming processing.
Prof. Abderrahin Maazouz is the Professor of NIAS, Lyon, France. He is supervisor of rheology, processing of polymers group. He conducts his research activities in the field of structure /processing /property relationships. He was recently honored by French government by the “Palm academic medal”: Palmes académiques. He is a conveyor of academic research to numerous high-technological industrial applications, which make him being recognized by both academia and industry.