| Sunday, August 16, 1998 |
POLYMER PROPERTIES |
Discussion Leader: Edward Kramer (UCSB)
- Gerhard Wegner (MPI, Germany)
"Polyelectrolytes: Ionic Conductivity and other Materials Properties"
- Samuel Stupp (U. Illinois)
"Molecular Forces, Entropy, And Nanophases In The Formation Of Supramolecular Polymers"
| Monday, August 17, 1998 |
ORGANIZING FORCES IN BLOCK COPOLYMERS |
Discussion Leader: Stuart Cooper (U. Delaware)
- Takeji Hashimoto (Kyoto U.)
"Ordering Processes in Block Copolymer Systems"
- Ludwik Leibler (CNRS, Levallois, France)
"Structuring Materials and Surfaces With Triblock Copolymers"
- Anne Mayes (MIT)
"Tails of a Two-Faced Comb Copolymer"
| POSTER SESSION I: |
4:00 - 6:00 pm |
Session Leader: Timothy Lodge (U. Minnesota)
| Monday, August 17, 1998 |
STRUCTURE FORMATION IN SOLUTION |
Discussion Leader: Barry Farmer (U. Virginia)
- Eric Kaler (U. Delaware)
"Polymerization in Complex Fluids"
- Yachin Cohen (Technion, Israel)
"Hydrophobic Poly(Carboxylic Acids) And Their Complex With Poly(Ethylene Oxide) In Water And In Mixed Solvents: A New Non-Globular Collapsed Conformation And Old Models Revisited"
| Tuesday, August 18, 1998 |
DYNAMICS AND INTERACTIONS IN POLYMER SOLUTIONS |
Discussion Leader: Henning Winter (U. Mass)
- Andrea Liu (UCLA)
"Attractive Interactions in Polyelectrolyte Solutions"
- Alexander Grosberg (MIT, Institute of Biochemical Physics, Moscow)
"Kinetics of a Single Polymer Chain Phase Transition: from Homopolymer Collapse to Protein Folding"
- Timothy Lodge (U. Minnesota)
"Dynamics of Concentrated Polymer Solutions"
| Tuesday, August 18, 1998 |
BRANCHED POLYMERS |
Discussion Leader: Herve Marand (VPI)
- Patricia Cotts (DuPont)
"Structure of Novel Non-Randomly Branched Polyolefins as Revealed by Static and Dynamic Light Scattering in Dilute Solution."
- Tom McLeish (U. Leeds, U.K.)
"Branched polymer Rheology (New Results In Controlled Architectures And
Neutron-Scattering)"
| Wednesday, August 19, 1998 |
POLYMERS IN ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES |
Discussion Leader: Lewis Fetters (Exxon)
- Christopher Ober (Cornell)
"Tailoring the Properties of Microlithographic Materials using Block Copolymers"
- Michael. Rubner (MIT)
"Sequentially Adsorbed Multilayers of Polyelectrolytes: Controlling Structure to Enhance Device Performance"
- Timothy Bunning (Air Force, WPAFB)
"Switchable Holograms Using Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals"
| POSTER SESSION II: |
4:00 - 6:00 pm |
Session Chair: Timothy Lodge (U. Minnesota)
| Wednesday, August 19, 1998 |
ELECTRO-OPTICAL PROPERTIES |
Discussion Leader: Karen Winey (U. Pennsylvania)
- Andrew Lovinger (Lucent)
"Electroactive Polymeric And Organic Materials For Plastic Transistors"
- Georges Hadziioannou (U. Gronigen, N.L.)
"Polymer Optical Amplifiers and Lasers: A Structure Property Relationship"
| Thursday, August 20, 1998 |
POLYMER CRYSTALLIZATION |
Discussion Leader: Wade Adams (WPAFB)
- Stephen Cheng (U. Akron)
"Size Effects on Structural and Morphological Metastability in Polymers"
- Bernard Lotz (CNRS, Strasbourg, France)
"Novel Aspects Of Polymer Crystallization Revealed By Frustrated Polymer Structures"
- Tnthony Ryan (U. Sheffield, U.K.)
"Time Resolved Studies Of Nucleation In Homopolymers And Crystallisation In Block Copolymers Using Synchrotron Radiation"
| Thursday, August 20, 1998 |
POLYMER SURFACES AND ADHESION |
Discussion Leader: Edwin Thomas (MIT)
- Matthew Tirrell (U. Minnesota)
"Manipulation of Adhesion With Biomolecular Amphiphiles"
- Julius Vancso (U. Twente, N.L.)
"Nanoscale Adhesion and Friction of Polymers by Chemical Force Microscopy"
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