Program of the Thermosetting Resins 2018 Conference
25–27 SEPTEMBER 2018, BERLIN, GERMANY

The conference program included plenary and bi-parallel sessions as well as a poster exhibition.
Final conference program 

Plenary Speakers
Zoubair Cherkaoui (Global Director of Innovation at Huntsman Advanced Materials, Basel, Switzerland): Trends in high performance thermosetting resins
 
Torsten Gottschalk-Gaudig (Wacker Chemie AG, Burghausen, Germany): Silicone Resins – an emerging class of binders for fiber reinforced composites?
 
Filip Du Prez (Group Leader Polymer Chemistry Research Group, Department of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium):Vitrimers: Upcoming recyclable and reshapable thermosets
 
David Tilbrook (Hexcel Composites Limited, Duxford, Cambridge, United Kingdom): Future Challenges for Aerospace Fibre Reinforced Composites
 
Tim Welter & Sascha Pöller (Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Duesseldorf, Germany): Developing and Modeling Thermosetting Adhesives for Composite and Multi-material Joints
 
H. Henning Winter (Director Laboratory for Experimental Rheology University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, USA): The solidification rheology of amorphous polymers – Vitrification as compared to gelation
 
 
Invited Lectures
Miroslava Dušková-Smrčková (Professor, Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic): Ab Initio Design of Binders Architecture and Optimization of Curing Conditions for Cross-Linked Polyurethane/Polyurea Coatings
 
Eike Langkabel (Manager Technical Marketing VESTAMIN, Evonik Resource Efficiency GmbH, Marl, Germany): Uretdione – a versatile building block for outstanding new prepreg systems
 
Rolf Mülhaupt (Professor and Director Institute for Macromolecular Chemisty and Executive Director of the Freiburg Materials Research Center FMF, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany: Isocyanate-free routes to multifunctional bio-based polyhydroxyurethane thermosets and composites
 
Dennis Smith (Professor of Chemistry and Director, Advanced Composites Institute, Department of Chemistry, Mississippi State University, Mississippi, USA): Advanced polymer networks from fluoroalkenes and enediynes
 
Ambrose Taylor (Reader in Materials Engineering, Faculty of EngineeringDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom): Toughening Epoxies using Nanoparticles