The first evening of the Executives Conference gave Paper Science and Engineering students the opportunity to display posters summarizing their current research to members of the Pulp and Paper industry. The poster session took place at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center.

Engineering Escherichia Coli for Consolidated Biofuel Production
Ramanan Sekar, Hyun Dong Shin, Rachel Chen
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering |

Designing Robust and Smart Antimicrobial Microcapsules from Double Pickering Emulsions for Applications in Papermaking Industry
Hongzhi Wang, Virendra Singh, and
Sven Behrens
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering |

Tar Removal from Biomass Derived Syngas
Jessica Ewbank
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering |
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Effect of Steam Explosion on Degradability and Accessiblity of Loblolly Pine in Bioethanol Applications
Yuzhi Kang, Prabuddha Bansal, Matthew Realff, Andreas Bommarius
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
Parker H. Petit Institute of Bioengineering and Biosciences
School of Chemistry and Biochemistry |

Hydrodeoxygenation of Pyrolysis Oils
Michael Koenig, Sarah McNew,
Carsten Sievers
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering |

Effects of Ethanol Fuel Chemistry on the Stress Corrosion Cracking
and Passivation of Pipeline Steel
Lindsey Goodman, Preet M. Singh
School of Materials Science and Engineering |
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Kinetic Study of High Pressure Biomass Gasification
Gautami Newalkar, Abiola Shitta, Pradeep K. Agrawal, Kristiina Iisa, Steve Lien, Scott A. Sinquefield and Carsten Sievers
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
National Renewable Energy Laboratory |

Controlling Liquid Droplet Adhesion and Mobility on Paper Substratesfor Lab-on-PaperApplications
Lester Li, Balamurali Balu,
Dennis W. Hess and Victor Breedveld
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering |

Investigating the Anatomical Features of Ethanol
Organosolv Pretreated Buddleja davidii
Bassem Hallac and Art J. Ragauskas
School of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Richard J. Murphy and Michael Ray, Division of Biology, Imperial College London and Porter Alliance, UK |
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Stereochemical Dependence on Bioactivity of an Inhibitor of Loblolly Pine Somatic Embryogenesis and Work in Progress
to Identify a Substance Stimulatory to Loblolly Pine Somatic Embryo Germination
Jacob Lucrezi, Di Wu, Gerald Pullman, Sheldon W. May
School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, School of Biology |

Understanding Aspect Ratio Effects on Polymer Crystallization and
Mechanical Properties in Cellulose/Polyhydroxybutyrate Nanocomposites
Stephanie J Lin and Meisha L. Shofner
School of Polymer, Textile & Fiber Engineering |

Fate and Degradation of Sterolsin Pulp Mill Wastewater
Hamilton Giles, Sujit Banerjee,
and Spyros G. Pavlostathis
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering |
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Water-Driven Shape Memory Aerogel from Crosslinked Native Cellulose Nanofibers
Wei Zhang, Yaan Zhang, Yulin Deng
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering |

Accelerated Hydrolysis of Biomass for Biofuel Production
Sandeep Mora, Kendra Maxwell,
Sujit Banerjee
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering |

Effect of Chloride on the Selective Corrosion and Stress Corrosion Cracking of Duplex Stainlass Steels in Hot Alkaline Pulping Liquors
Kevin Chasse
School of Materials Science and Engineering |
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Cellulosic Nanocomposite as a Potential Scaffold in Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering
Parisa Pooyan, Il Tae Kim, Cyrus Aidun, Rina Tannenbaum, Hamid Garmestani
Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering,
School of Materials Science and Engineering |
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