PMSE 2005 Spring Meeting Preface

It is a great honor to present the proceedings for the Spring 2005 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 San Diego, 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 10 Symposia and one poster session. Several of the symposia are cosponsored with other ACS Divisions. At this meeting, PMSE will host two award symposia. Together, PMSE will offer 275 oral presentations and 104 poster presentations at this meeting. Below is a brief description of the PMSE hosted symposia:

• Applied Polymer Science Award Symposium in Honor of Craig J. Hawker. This symposium will honor Craig Hawker, of the Materials Research Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Barbara, for his work in the development of polymeric materials for nanometer scale commercial applications.
• Cooperative Research Award. Professors Frank W. Harris and Stephen Z. D. Cheng, from the University of Akron, and Dr. Bruce Winker, from Rockwell International, are being awarded the PMSE Cooperative Research Award for their cooperative research that led to the development and large scale commercial production of negative birefringent polyimide compensators used in liquid crystal displays in avionics and large screen television applications.
• Application of Polymers in Manufacturing of Integrated Circuits. This is a two-session symposium focusing on polymer materials for lithography and CMP, Low K, packaging applications and novel materials.
• Bionanotechnology. This three-session symposium will discuss nanomaterials in biology, biological polymers and the interface between biology and nanoscale systems.
• Confinement Effects on Relaxation Properties of Polymers. Four sessions will be devoted to nanocomposites, blends and copolymers, thin films, geometric confinement and confinement within semi-similar structures.
• General Papers/New Concepts in Polymeric Materials. This symposium includes one general session and 6 sessions discussing: bio-related materials, nanostructures, synthesis, composites and layered structures, films and fibers, and structure/property relationships.
• Polymer Nanocomposites. Five sessions will discuss novel materials and processes, characterization techniques, structure/property relationships -- theory and modeling, structure/property relationships -- experimental techniques and nanotubes for nanocomposites. This symposium is co-sponsored with POLY.
• Polymeric Semiconductors for Thin-Film Electronics. This 5 session symposium discusses synthetic methods and new materials, fabrication and patterning, thin-film transistors and memory devices, photovoltaics and light-emitting devices, and characterization of interfaces and morphology.
• Polymers and Medical Devices. This is a two-session symposium that will focus on drug delivery and coatings, and a session on biocompatibility.
• Toward Noninvasive Delivery and Diagnostics: Proteins, Genes and Cells. This is a one session symposium that will highlight novel polymers and copolymers - synthesis and characterization, gene delivery systems and multi-layered polyelectrolyte films.

  I wish to thank and acknowledge Timothy Bunning, Darrin Pochan 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.

  Ronald N. DeMartino
  Chair-Elect, PMSE

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