{"id":2251,"date":"2022-08-08T13:05:53","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T17:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/?page_id=2251"},"modified":"2024-03-06T16:40:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T21:40:48","slug":"lucille-verster","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/members\/lucille-verster\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucille Verster Rivera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%\">\n<p>MS, Chemical Engineering,2021<br><span style=\"font-size: revert\">North Carolina State University, Raleigh<\/span><\/p>\n<p>BS, Chemical Engineering, 2019<br>Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2157 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/Lucille-scaled-e1636402361591-550x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/Lucille-scaled-e1636402361591-550x600.jpg 550w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/Lucille-scaled-e1636402361591-734x800.jpg 734w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/Lucille-scaled-e1636402361591-768x837.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/Lucille-scaled-e1636402361591-1409x1536.jpg 1409w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/Lucille-scaled-e1636402361591.jpg 1708w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research Focus: Unravel Degradation Modalities of Synthetic and Bio-Based Polymer Fiber<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Nonwovens<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the exponential increase in world plastic production to about 367 Mt recorded in 2020,\u00a0excluding the recycled plastics, the amount of plastics in the environment has increased\u00a0substantially due to their slow degradation rate. This poses a severe problem due to the fact\u00a0that as plastic degrades, it releases and leaches out persistent organic pollutants (POPs) that\u00a0could present a potential chemical hazard. In addition to POPs, degradation in the environment\u00a0is directly related to microplastics release causing water, environmental, and marine pollution\u00a0that adds to the harm to health and ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p>My project suggests an approach to the investigation of the degradation of filaments and\u00a0nonwoven patches in order to develop a novel millifluidic flow device (MFD). This MFD will\u00a0enable the precise characterization and manipulation of thermal, light (photo), mechanical,\u00a0chemical, and biological degradation under simulated controlled microenvironments. By\u00a0studying a versatile group of plastics (biodegradable and non-biodegradable), we can have a\u00a0better insight to the holistic mechanisms of polymer degradation and photostability as well as\u00a0asses the performance of polymers in terms of undesirable release of micro- and nanoplastics.\u00a0The expected outcome is to introduce industry-wide protocols for polymer testing to help\u00a0mitigate the release of hazardous end products and microplastic formation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2314 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/08\/Lucille.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/08\/Lucille.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/08\/Lucille-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MS, Chemical Engineering,2021North Carolina State University, Raleigh BS, Chemical Engineering, 2019Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge Research Focus: Unravel Degradation Modalities of Synthetic and Bio-Based Polymer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":639,"featured_media":0,"parent":36,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-left.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"first_name":[],"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2251","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/639"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2515,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2251\/revisions\/2515"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}