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Preface

It is a pleasure for me to introduce the proceedings for the Fall 2000 meeting of the ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE). These proceedings contain the preprints of papers that will be presented at the oral and poster sessions during the Washington, D.C. meeting. In addition, the proceedings provide information on future meetings and proposed symposia, awards and grants sponsored by PMSE, membership information and PMSE Committee structure. PMSE is currently using the ACS Online Abstract System (OASys) for receipt of abstracts, and beginning with the Spring 2001 meeting in San Diego, we will accept preprints on-line. Please see further information in these proceedings and on our website at: http://membership.acs.org/P/PMSE.

The PMSE Symposia presented in Washington cover a broad spectrum of applied polymer science of current interest. The program contains three symposia on coatings and materials for the automotive industry. These include the Materials for Transportation Symposium, which presents a cross section of recent advances in composites, high performance materials and material recycling targeted for transportation and civil infrastructure. The Symposium on Coatings for Transportation describes the cutting-edge research from academic, industrial and government laboratories from around the world. Fundamental work on key technological issues is presented for:

Weatherability for automotive coatings

Corrosion protection for aircraft and marine vessels

Pollution reduction from application, use and degradation of coatings

A third Symposium, organized for the Roy W. Tess Award in Coatings, will honor Dr. David Bauer of the Ford Scientific Research Laboratories for his work on accelerated testing in coatings research. Two additional award symposia will be held in Washington. These are the ICI Student Award in Applied Polymer Science Symposium and the Unilever Award for Outstanding Graduate Research Symposium (joint with POLY). Please see further information about these Awards in these proceedings.

A Symposium on Organic Thin Films for Photonic Applications is cosponsored by the ACS (PMSE and POLY Divisions) and the Optical Society of America (OSA). The objective of this symposium is to bring together organic chemists, polymer scientists, optical physicists and device specialists so as to promote the science and technology of organic and polymeric materials with novel and useful optical and electronic properties. Examples include:

Organic light emitting diode materials and devices (OLED)
Nonlinear Optical Materials and devices (NLO)
Photorefractive Materials (PR)
Organic semiconductors, organic photovoltaic materials and others

A Symposium on Transducer-Active Polymers highlights con-ductive polymers that enhance DNA biochip performance and chemically responsive polymers that add sizzle to sensors. Additionally, information on chemically and electrically stimulated controlled release for bioactive molecules from hydrogels, that offer promise in drug delivery, will be presented.

A Symposium on Fire and Polymers presents a state of the art discussion of the fire aspects of polymer science from nano-composites to halogen flame-retardants. Additional topics include new flame-retardants, char forming polymers, fire resistant polymer modeling, TV fires, and fire resistant plastics recycling. Presenters represent leading scientists from ten countries.

A Symposium on New Concepts in Polymeric Materials includes sessions on:

Mechanical Properties and Relaxation Phenomena
New Materials and Processes
Bio-Related Composites and Membranes
Materials for Information Storage
Blends and Multicomponent Systems
Films, Fibers and Surfaces

A Poster Session (joint with POLY) and a SCI-MIX Session will feature additional topics of interest.

I hope you find these symposia useful and enjoyable. I wish to thank and acknowledge my colleagues, Dr. Jay Dias and Professor Alec Scranton, who as Program Chairs assembled these symposia, along with the individual Symposium Organizers. Without the hours of volunteer work by Jay, Alec and the Organizers, our symposium would not have been possible. A very special thanks is offered to our PMSE Administrative Assistant, Eileen Ernst, who arranged the PMSE Preprint Book and handled our meeting arrangements.

Larry Charbonneau
Vice Chair and
Preprint Editor

, Number of access since October 07, 2000