The Polymer Division of the American Chemical Society will organize Symposium on "Controlled/ Living Radical Polymerization" at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Philadelphia, PA, August 17-21, 2008. This is a sequel to the previous very successful Meetings taking place in San Francisco in 1997. New Orleans in 1999, Boston in 2002 and Washington, DC in 2005. The proceedings from the last meetings have been published in the books "Controlled Radical Polymerization", ACS Symposium Series, Vol. 685 (1998), "Controlled/Living Radical Polymerization", ACS Symposium Series, Vol. 768 (2000), "Advances in Controlled/Living Radical Polymerization", ACS Symposium Series, Vol. 854 (2003) and " Controlled/Living Radical Polymerization: from Synthesis to Materials", ACS Symposium Series, Vol. 944 (2006).

The Philadelphia Symposium will cover recent advances in kinetic, mechanistic and synthetic aspects of the rapidly developing field of controlled radical polymerization.

Symposium with approximately fifty lectures and a poster session is planned. The deadline for submission of the abstracts and two page papers for "Polymer Preprints" is March 17, 2008. Downloadable "Polymer Preprint" Template is available at:

http://uweb.txstate.edu/science/polymerpreprints/formatguide.htm

For more information contact the organizer:

Prof. Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
Department of Chemistry
Carnegie Mellon University
4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Phone 412-268-3209; Fax 412-268-6897
email: km3b@andrew.cmu.edu

www: http//polymer.chem.cmu.edu