Please note - Registration will close on Tuesday, February 23, 2021. A link to join the webinar will be emailed to you on Wednesday, February 24, 2021.
The webinar has been approved for PE/PDH.
Water and humidity are among the greatest challenges for adhesives. Fortunately, ocean animals have been solving this problem for hundreds of millions of years; and we as humans have learned some of their techniques. We will briefly review some of the adhesive systems that occur in the ocean and how the US Navy, Purdue University scientists and Mussel Polymers Inc, have moved discoveries in the laboratory to the marketplace, engineering and fielding commercial solutions for marine construction, repair and coral conservation as well as biomedical and construction applications.
Speaker
George Boyajian, CEO - Mussel Polymers, Inc.
George Boyajian is a technology executive with over 25 years of experience commercializing breakthrough technologies. He launched and headed PhytoWorks, a plant biotechnology company, Living Independently Group (an eldercare monitoring venture), and TurnPointMedical Devices, among others. As Managing Director of Columbia Digital Knowledge Ventures, he helped launch Columbia University's digital asset commercialization venture. Most recently he was Chief Commercial Officer of Primus Green Energy. Prior to his business career, he was an assistant professor at the Univ. of Pennsylvania and holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and a BA from Penn.