2018 Spring - 255th NATIONAL ACS MEETING

New Orleans, LA, March 18-22, 2018 

 

The POLY and PMSE oral and award sessions was held in the New Orleans Marriott Canal Street Hotel for the 2018 Spring ACS National meeting in new Orleans. 

 

Please use the submission process: MAPS [Meeting Abstracts Programming System] for the New Orleans ACS meeting

 

Program Meeting Chair Primary Contact:      Thomas Epps      
Program Meeting Chairs:   Corinne Lipscomb ,  Brett Helms 

 

 

Call for papers

MAPS for author abstract submission opened on August 21, 2017 and closed on October 16, 2017.

 

 

 

THE POLY/PMSE PLENARY LECTURE AND AWARDS RECEPTION WAS HELD  WEDNESDAY EVENING    Plenary Speaker: Dr. Zhenan Bao (Stanford University)  "Skin-Inspired Polymer Electronic Materials and Devices"

 

 

Theme: The Food, Energy, Water Nexus

 

Program - Final

 

Adaptive Nanogels (COLL) 
Walter Richtering, Andrew Lyon, Todd Hoare, Daisuke Suzuki, Alberto Fernandez-Nieves

Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research (PRES, YCC, SOCED, PROF )
H.N. Cheng, Christopher J. Ellison, Timothy Long, Christine Landry-Coltrain

 

Flory Polymer Education Award  (Invited)
TBD  
  
General Topics: New Synthesis and Characterization of Polymers  
Dana Garcia 
   
Industrial Innovations in Polymer Science (I&EC) (Invited)
Erin Murphy, Haley Brown
   
Integrating Polymer Science in the Curriculum (PMSE, CHED) 
Sarah Morgan, Kevin Cavicchi 
  
International Symposium on Biorelated Polymers: Innovations in Biomedical Polymers (MEDI, PMSE, BIOL, BIOT)
John Matson, Frank Leibfarth, Roxanne Kieltyka, Matt Baker
 
International Symposium on Biorelated Polymers: Renewable Materials (PMSE) 
Robert T. Mathers, Eric Cochran, Erik Hagberg, Annabelle Watts 

 

International Symposium on Biorelated Polymers: Tutorial (PMSE) 
Carmen Scholz, Frederik Wurm

Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry: Symposium in honor of Aleksandr Zhukhovitskiy & Jeremiah A. Johnson (Invited)
Jeremiah Johnson   

Nonlinear Dynamical Approaches to the Synthesis of Polymeric Materials (PMSE, PHYS) 
Alberto Mariani, John A. Pojman, Annette Taylor 
 
Photochemistry and Polymers  
Dominik Konkolewicz, Derek Patton 
  
Polymer Applications and Characterization in Medical Device and Pharmaceutical Industries (PMSE) 
X. Michael Liu, Joram Slager
   
Polymer Colloids: Synthesis, Analysis, Modeling, and Applications (COLL, ANYL, I&EC, PMSE, COMP) 
Wei Gao, James Bohling, Danniebelle Haase, John Tsavalas, Wenjun Wu

 

Polymer Networks - Soft Gels to Stiff Networks (PMSE, PHYS, SOCED) 
Santanu Kundu, Edwin P. Chan, Robert B. Moore 
 

Polymer Optoelectronics  
Jason Azoulay, Yoan Simon, Xiaodan Gu
  
Research By and Career Development For non-Ph.D.s in Industry (I&EC, CTA, YCC, SOCED) (Invited)
David Germack, Michael Abrams
   
Structure and Dynamics of Materials via NMR Spectroscopy  - There will be a panel discussion, tentatively scheduled for 5:00 pm on Tuesday, March 20.  If anyone is interested in serving on the panel, please contact Ryan Nieuwendaal  

H.N. Cheng
    
Undergraduate Research in Polymer Science  
Sarah Morgan, Joe Lott, Sergei Nazarenko  

 

Other Symposia of interest

ACS Award in Applied Polymer Science: Symposium in honor Paula T. Hammond (Cosponsored Symposia with PMSE primary)

ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry: Symposium in honor C. Grant Willson (Cosponsored Symposia with PMSE primary)

Cyclic & Topologically Complex Polymers (Cosponsored Symposia with PMSE primary)

Additive Manufacturing of Structures and Functional Devices: Materials, Methods, Models, and Testing (PMSE)

 

Recent Advances in Particulate and Colloid Materials for Biomedical Applications (COLL)

 

ACS Workshop: Developing Graduate Student Leadership Skills in Laboratory Safety (Cosponsored by ACS committee on Chemical Safety and ACS Office of Graduate Education)