Polymer Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Novel Applications
	Yvon Durant Director of the Advanced Polymers Laboratory Materials Science Program University of New Hampshire

Yvon Durant, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor of Materials Science at the University of New Hampshire and Director of the Advanced Polymers Laboratory, Durham, NH, USA. Dr. Durant earned a degree in chemistry and chemical engineering in from Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chemie de Montpellier, received his Ph.D. in polymer chemistry from the Université Claude Bernard, Lyon I in France and an MBA from the University of New Hampshire. He has worked as both scientist and project leader in the Polymer Laboratory within BASF AG, Germany and has been an active industrial consultant. Dr Durant’s areas of research interests include polymer dispersions, drug delivery, nanostructured polymers, and polymerization kinetics.

Teaching the Polymer Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Novel Applications course in the Nano Industrial Impact Workshop on Sunday June 1, 2008.