Amar Mohanty, Manjusri Misra, Debarshi Nath, and Arturo Rodriguez attended the SPE ANTEC 2025 Conference from March 3-6, 2025, in Philadelphia, PA. SPE ANTEC is an annual technical conference about plastics and polymer science that is open for anyone to attend. It highlights new industrial, laboratory, academic, and international technology, research, materials and more.

Poster Presentations:

Debarshi Nath: 2nd prize winner "Blown Films from Biobased Poly(Butylene Succinate-Co-Adipate) and Surface modified Wollastonite: Impact of Uniaxial Orientation on Film Performance" and

Oral Presentations:

Prof. Mohanty: "Circular Economy Driven Biodegradable Composites: Can biodegradable plastics alleviate single-use plastic waste problem?"

Prof. Misra: "Biocarbon materials for a circular economy"

Arturo Rodriguez: "Influence of plasticizers and fillers on the rate of biodegradation of marine biodegradable cellulose acetate composites".

Debarshi Nath: "Effect of Compatibilization in Engineering Compostable Biocomposites of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV) Reinforced with Cellulosic Fibers"