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Patrick McCarthy attends and speaks at American Chemical Society National Meeting

September 1, 2017

Pilot Chemical’s Patrick McCarthy, President of ATRP Solutions, spoke at the American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exhibition on August 23rd. Patrick talked about producing atom-transfer radical polymerization (ATRP)-based polymers in commercial reactors. Traditionally there are complications in this process because of costs and scalability. His paper discussed the ATRP Solutions team’s path to overcome the limitations of ATRP technology and achieve commercial-scale production.

Here is a link to an article about the 2017 ACS National Meeting http://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i34/Washington-DC-hosts-ACS-national.html

The American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition was held in Washington, D.C. on August 20th-24th. The ACS National Meeting gives chemistry professionals time to share ideas and advanced scientific and technical knowledge and to facilitate networking opportunities and career development, while also providing companies an opportunity to exhibit products and services to a targeted audience.