NEXT MEETING
Tuesday, September 7th
USC Upstate
Spartanburg, SC
Campus Location: Ballroom of the Campus Life Center (CLC)
Click for campus map with suggested parking
Host: Chris Bender
Meeting Schedule
Menu: Stuffed Chicken Florentine Topped with a Mornay Sauce
Tossed Garden Salad
New Potatoes Oven Roasted
Lemon Pepper Broccoli
Hot Fudge Cake
Tea/water
Assorted rolls
Cost: $16.00 Members and $8.00 for students.
7:00 p.m. Celebration of our 50 and 60 Year Members
7:15 p.m. Lecture - : Dr. Nina Veas, Michelin Corporation
Reservations: Please RSVP toto Chris Bender at cbender@uscupstate.edu by 5 p.m. Wednesday, September 1st. Please include the names and affiliations of each person attending. We always welcome attendance at the presentations even if you are unable to come for the dinner!
Please Honor Your Reservations!
September 2010 ABSTRACT
Chemistry and Technology in Tires
Dr. Nina Veas, Michelin Corporation
Tires are round, black, come in sets of four, and need to be inflated to perform. Is there more to it than that? A closer examination of the materials and chemical processes used in the manufacture of a tire reveals that they are highly sophisticated composites. The performance of a vehicle (acceleration, cornering, breaking) depends directly on the interaction of the tire and the road surface. The properties of the tire also influence vehicle milage, tread wear, and susceptibility to weather. In this talk, we will discuss some of the rubber compounds and additives used in tires, and how their properties effect tire performance and vehicle safety. Specifically, we will show how the performance of a tire can be tailored by selecting a particular polymer combination. We will discover that the "simple" tire is actually a precision device designed for particular vehicles, environmental conditions, and even driving styles.
September 2010 Speaker
Dr. Nina Veas
Michelin Americas Research Corporation
Greenville, South Carolina
PITTCON 2011
March 13 - 18, 2011
Atlanta, GA
Pittcon 2011 is the world's annual premier Conference and Exposition on laboratory science. Pittcon is the one place you can evaluate and compare products from nearly 1,000 exhibitors from around the world, network with thousands of the world's leading scientific minds and enhance your professional development by attending a Technical Session or Short Course.
Program and registration information can be found at http://www.pittcon.org/
ELECTED OFFICIALS 2010
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WESTERN CAROLINAS SECTION ACS
WCACS Members:
Several of you requested a copy of Dr. Wagener's presentation from our July 2010 meeting. Dr. Wagener has graciously agreed and provided his presentation in .pdf format. Please click the link below to save it to your computer.
Survival Techniques and Commercial Technologies of a Clemson University Faculty Start-up
Linking Science and Art through Poetry
Good news. Our local section submission for the K-2nd grade category level won second place in the national CCED poetry competition. Check back soon for more details!
If you are not receiving email reminders from the section regarding upcoming meetings, please contact Tim Hanks (tim.hanks@furman.edu) with your email address as it is with National ACS.
Councilors Report Page on the WCACS website
The Executive Committee has voted affirmatively to post the Councilors' reports on the web site. A new web page has been created and added to the site and is linked on the left hand navigation bar.
The Councilor reports from each National Meeting will be posted.
The reports from the San Francisco, CA Meeting are now available and can be viewed at:
http://membership.acs.org/w/wca/Business/WCCouncilors%20Report.html
The Webmaster's Plea
Our Webmaster, Dwayne Grassie, would welcome your "press releases" about activities that you believe would be of interest to our section. As he says so eloquently on our web site, "without active members reporting the activities of the section to me there would be no web site because there would be nothing to report." Dwayne can be reached at: MAG-IT@charter.net
Western Carolinas Meeting and Speaker Itinerary
2010
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| October 2010 |
TBA |
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| November 2010 |
TBA |
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THE SECTION NEEDS YOUR HELP!!!
The Western Carolinas Section of the American Chemical Society urgently needs the help of each of its members in helping us recruit new Section Affiliate members. We would like to request that each member print out or copy the following invitation and present it to as many persons as possible who have an interest in chemistry:
AN INVITATION
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