Stéphanie Cretté  UNC at Chapel Hill Department of Chemistry CB# 3290 Venable Hall Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3290 phone: (919) 962 3396 fax: (919) 962 5467 email: screete@email.unc.edu

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Projects:

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill-USA (1996-present)
Dissertation Research: Solid Supports for Carbon Dioxide Applications

	Design of cross-linked fluorinated copolymers.
	Synthesis of micron-sized beads by suspension polymerization in water.
	Optimization of the polymerization conditions.
	Swelling and porosity tests in gaseous, liquid and supercritical CO2.
	Investigations of transition metal catalysis and enzymatic catalysis.

Other Research Experience 

	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill-USA, Research Assistant (1995-1996) Advisor: Pr. J. DeSimone Research Project: Dispersion polymerization of MMA in supercritical CO2 using  PDMS-macromonomer
	USTL, Montpellier II-France, D.E.A. Intership (1995) Advisor: Pr. H. Blancou Research Project: New process of F-alkylation of organic compounds
	USTL, Montpellier II-France, BS Internship (1994) Advisor: Pr. F. Schué Research Project: Novel biodegradable polymers: Synthesis and Characterization of polyhydroxybutyrate by chemical route

 

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Publications & Presentations:

	Jaimes, C.; Couve, J.; Cretté, S.; Sledz, J.; Schué, F.  "Polymerization of (R,S)-(-butyrolactone from tetraisobutyldialuminoxane (TIBAO)  catalyst" Eur.Polym. J. 1996, 32(10), 1175.
	Rubio, S.; Cretté, S.; Blancou, H. An improved procedure for the synthesis of perfluoroalkylacetylenes (submitted  to Synthesis).
	Cretté, S.; Polley, J.; Carbonell, R.; DeSimone, J.M. "Solid Supports for CO2 Applications" Polym. Prep., (Am. Chem. Soc., Div. Polym. Chem.),  2000,41(1), 254.
	5th Meeting of The International Society for the advancement of Supercritical Fluids  (I.S.A.S.F.), Materials and Natural Product Processing, Nice, France; March 1998 "Bioextraction in Liquid CO2", poster presentation
	Kenan Center for the Utilization of CO2 in Manufacturing, Chapel Hill, USA; 1999 "Cross-linked Fluoropolymers: Immobilization Supports for CO2", oral and  poster presentations
	A.C.S. Spring National Meeting, San Francisco, USA; March 2000 "Solid Supports for CO2 Applications", poster presentation
	The 5th International Symposium on Supercritical Fluids (ISSF 2000), Atlanta, USA;  April 2000 "Solid Supports for CO2 Applications", poster presentation

PATENTS:

	DeSimone, J.M.; Carbonell, R.; Cretté, S.; Kendall, J. US Patent Application for Enzyme  Catalysis in Carbon Dioxide Fluids (filed in 1999).
	DeSimone, J.M.; Carbonell, R.; Cretté, S. US Patent Application for Carbon dioxide swellable polymers and applications pertaining to the same (filed in 1999).

 

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