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PMSE 2004 Spring Meeting Preface
It is a great honor to present the proceedings for the Spring 2004 meeting of the ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE). The preprints of papers to be presented at oral and poster sessions during the Anaheim, California meeting are contained in these Proceedings. The Proceedings also provide information on future meetings and proposed symposia, awards and grants sponsored by PMSE, membership information and PMSE committee structure. The PMSE program for this ACS Meeting is comprised of 12 Symposia and one poster session. Several of the symposia are cosponsored with other ACS Divisions. At this meeting, PMSE will host three award symposia. Together, PMSE will offer 347 oral presentations and 130 poster presentations at this meeting. Below is a brief description of the PMSE hosted symposia:
- ACS Creative Invention Award Symposium in Honor of Andrew J. Ouderkirk: This symposium has one session with 7 invited speakers. The topic is "The optics of nano-scaled materials," and this symposium deals particularly with the comparison of bulk optical properties of materials to the properties they exhibit when formed into various nanostructures.
- Applied Polymer Science Award Symposium in Honor of C. Grant Willson: This symposium will feature two sessions honoring polymer science and technology contributions by Professor Grant Willson of The University of Texas at Austin. In addition to an award lecture by the honoree, oral presentations in this symposium will be provided by Professor Willson's students, former students, and collaborators.
- Combinatorial Approaches to Materials: This is a five-session symposium dedicated to topics derived from recent demands placed upon material and chemical scientists to work together for future growth in high-throughput design and discovery. The subject matter covers areas that have not yet been mainstream targets of high-throughput and combinatorial approaches, yet there is an obvious and critical need to develop these methods for them. The topics range from cutting edge research in nanomaterials, biomaterials, microelectronics, sensor materials, and microfluidics to more traditional areas of materials performance properties, polymer processing and polymer blends.
- Cooperative Research Award in Honor of Krzysztof Matyjaszewski: This symposium has one session focusing on the impact of controlled radical polymerization on the production of functional materials that have been at the center of extensive academic and industrial research over the past decade and are now beginning to be introduced into commercial applications.
- Functional Polymer Thin Films for Switching, Sensing and Adaptive Applications: This symposium features 6 sessions and focuses on synthesis, fabrication and characterization of thin films with special functionalities, micro- and nanostructured functional thin films, switching of surface properties, sensing applications of functional thin films, adaptive properties and response in bio-medical and environmental applications.
- General Papers/New Concepts in Polymeric Materials: This symposium includes six oral sessions covering "Novel Materials," "Structure and Properties of Biologically Derived Polymeric Materials," "Nanoscale Structures and Hybrid Materials," "Synthesis and Properties of Novel Block and Graft Copolymers," "Surface Properties," and one "General" session.
- Interface of Polymers and Biomimetics: This symposium has five sessions focused on active supramolecular complexes, supramolecular scaffolds from biomolecules, and biosystems engineering. This symposium will focus on how to utilize biological macromolecules as polymeric building blocks, how to effectively interface with biological macromolecules, and advances in emulating biological functionality using synthetic approaches.
- Nanocomposite Fibers: This symposium contains one session focusing on the structure and properties of polymer fibers containing clay, POSS, and carbon nanotube structures.
- Nanoscale Probing of Intermolecular Interactions: This six-session symposium will present state-of-the art experimental and theoretical results on measuring, influencing and controlling intermolecular forces. We will incorporate results from a broad range of experimental techniques, ranging from atomic force microscopy to optical trapping, surface force apparatus, and computational methods. We will also survey the latest developments in understanding the nature of intermolecular bond strength and interaction potentials.
- Polyelectrolyte, Colloidal and Nanocomposite Assemblies in Ultrathin Films: This is an eight-session symposium focusing on polyelectrolyte and colloidal nanoparticle materials capable of ordered layer-by-layer assemblies and supramolecular structures. Hybrid organic-inorganic structures with unique order (both short range and long-range) and function will be described. Primarily the unique role of interfaces and self-assembly mechanisms will be emphasized. It will also highlight new characterization methods and applications for these materials.
- Polymers in Micro- and Nano-Electronics: This symposium contains six sessions focusing on "Organic Electronics, Optoelectronics and Molecular Electronics," "Resist Materials and Patterning," "Novel Processes and Electronics Packaging," and "Low Dielectric Constant Materials and Interconnects."
- Response-Driven Polymeric Films and Coatings: This symposium features four sessions focusing on stimuli-responsive behavior of polymeric films and coatings. Design, synthesis, film formation and developments of polymeric films that may mimic biological systems, or exhibit specific targeted responses in defined environments will be one of the highlights. Polymeric films and coatings with stimuli-responsive characteristics in space and confined environments will be also featured.
I wish to thank and acknowledge Timothy Bunning, Vladimir Tsukruk and Zhenan Bao, the current Program Committee Chairs, and our Symposium Organizers for their contributions to this meeting program. A special thank you goes to Eileen Ernst, PMSE Administrative Assistant, for her perseverance in compiling the PMSE Preprint Proceedings.
Benny D. Freeman
Chair-Elect, PMSE
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