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Highly Branched and 3-Dimensional
Polymers at Interfaces
American Chemical Society National
Meeting,
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Craig J. Hawker, Materials Research Laboratory, University
of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, 805-893-7161, hawker@mrl.ucsb.edu |
Sergei Sheiko, Dept. of Chem., FAX (919) 962-2388, sergei@email.unc.edu |
Vladimir V. Tsukruk, Mats. Sci. & Eng. Dept., IA State Univ., |
We
plan on having a dedicated symposium with five half-day sessions over three
days accompanied by a poster session.
The symposium will focus on the latest advances in new architectures, interfacial
assembly and properties, and emerging applications for dendrimers,
hyperbranches, stars, brushes, rod-dendrons, nanoparticles and 3D
macromolecules at surfaces and interfaces:
·
New chemical
architecture of highly branched macromolecules for interfacial designs
·
Physical
adsorption and chemical tethering of highly branched macromolecules at
interfaces
·
Dynamics of
interfacial interactions and stimuli-responsive molecular architectures
·
Conformation and
motion of (individual) branched molecules at interfaces
·
Guided assembly
at pre-designed interfaces: mono and multilayers, micro- and nanopatterns,
organized nanostructures
·
Freely-standing
organized assemblies: core-shell nanoparticles, branched nanoparticles, hollow
microcapsules, microtubules, nanoribbons, and membranes
Invited
speakers participating in this symposium are leading experts in the field from
all over the world. A list of speakers already
committed includes: Aida, DeSimone, Frank, Frechet, Frey, Klok, Kumacheva, Laschewsky,
Mackay, Matyjaszewski, Moller, Moehwald,
Muellen, Nolte, Percec, Ortiz, Voit, Wooley, and Zubarev.
The
deadline for abstract and preprint submission (all participants will be
required to submit one-two page preprint for Polym. Mat. Sci. & Eng.) is in November 2005 through the ACS
on-line system. Watch the ACS website.
We
look forward to your participation in this symposium.