Polypropylene Response Essay

On February 6 of 2018, at 11:00 a.m. in room 1043 of Thomas Cole Research building, Sade Rhodes spoke about the characterization of lignin-coated cellulose nanocrystals (C-CNCs) as a reinforcing agent in polypropylene (PP) nanocomposites. The logistics of the seminar that was most enjoyable was when the speaker focused on the matter of Nanocelluloses. She provided a lot of information on this topic and I understand how it related to her topics in her research. However, the only part that I did not like about the speaker’s presentation was that there was not enough information on polypropylene nanocomposites. Without the background of the polypropylene provided, I could not comprehend exactly how this material was so significant following her research. I believe if the speaker gave more insight on that subject then I could actually perceive the importance of polypropylene and why it would become so expensive after certain amount of years. Overall the speaker did answer some of the questions that I had asked through her future work and conclusion of her research. The only thing I would still be curious about is if the speaker’s approach doesn’t work will she be open minded to try a different approach from other researches to see what would result. A follow …show more content…
In the presentation there is a brief explanation of polypropylene, yet for there to be an extensive variety of applications that are produced when involving polypropylene only three were mentioned. There would need to be an elaboration as to what type of tacticity the material and crystallinity is found in these materials. Furthermore, any additional information on why polypropylene is considered the most significant plastic, consisting of revenues anticipated to exceed, would need to be provided as more background information to comprehend the speaker’s