Abstract and Preprint Deadline: October 22, 2008

This symposium will provide an interactive forum for a discussion of the role of nanostructured environments, nanoscale features, molecular organization, and nanocomposite structure on the polymerization reaction and the ultimate polymer structure and properties that result from polymerizations performed in nanostructured and nanocomposite systems.

Topics will showcase how polymer chemistry, polymer molecular weight, polymerization kinetics, and polymer properties are influenced and ultimately controlled by the interactions of the monomer, nanofillers, and the forming polymer with the surrounding nanostructured environment. Sessions will focus on polymerizations in self-assembled systems, polymerizations in nanoemulsions, the formation of polymer structures on the nanoscale through lithographic and other techniques, the control of polymer properties and composition by manipulation of the polymerizing environment as well as other aspects of polymerizations in nanoscale media including all aspects of their design, synthesis, kinetics, structural evolution, and application of these systems.

Confirmed speakers include:

Dirk Broer (Eindhoven U. of Technology), Douglas Gin (U. Colorado), Craig Hawker (UC Ð Santa Barbara), Charles Hoyle (U. Southern Mississippi), Takashi Kato (U. Tokyo), Joseph Schork (U. Maryland)

Organizers:
Christopher Bowman
Chemical and Biological Engineering
CB 424
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0424,
christopher.bowman@colorado.edu

Phone: 303-492-3247


Allan Guymon
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Seamans Center 4125
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
allan-guymon@uiowa.edu

Phone: 319-335-5015