Abstract and Preprint Deadline:  October 17, 2011

 
This symposium will address recent developments in the synthesis, characterization and application of polymers featuring photolabile groups, which allow the alteration of polymer properties simply by irradiation with light. The increasing utilization of different photolabile group in polymer chemistry shall reflect the focus of the symposium. This includes: of (i) chromophore-based crosslinkers for photodegradable hydrogels, (ii) photolabile side chain functionalization in (block) copolymers, (iii) photolabile side chain functionalization for thin film patterning, (iv) photolabile chemistry of self-assembled monolayers, (v) photocleavable block copolymers, and (vi) photocleavable bioconjugates.
The interdisciplinary use of block copolymers will be strongly emphasized during the symposium and we kindly invite you to participate in the promotion of photo-cleavable polymers and block copolymers for future applications.
 
Confirmed Invited Speakers:
1)    Prof. Dr. Christopher Ober, Cornell University, USA
2)    Dr. E. Johan Foster, University of Fribourg, SUI
3)    Prof. Dr. Bongjin Moon, Sogang University, KOR
4)    Dr. Leonid Ionov, IPF Dresden, D
5)    Prof. Dr. Bin Zhao, UTK, USA
6)    Prof. Dr. Sankaran ‘Thai’ Thayumanavan, UMass, USA
7)    Prof. Dr. Yue Zhao, University of Sherbrooke, CA
8)    Prof. Dr. Andrea M. Kasko, UCLA, USA
9)    Prof. Dr. Jean-Francois Gohy, UCL, B
10) Prof. Dr. Adah Almutairi, UCSD, USA
 
We cordially invite you to submit Oral and/or Poster presentations in research areas listed above or on related topics. Abstracts and preprints are due on October 17th, 2011 and have to be submitted through the PACS website: http://abstracts.acs.org.
 
Please contact us if you have any questions!
 
 
Organizers:

Prof. E. Bryan Coughlin
Department of Polymer Science & Engineering,
University of Massachusetts,
Tel: +1-413-577-1616, Fax: +1-413-545-0082, Email: coughlin@mail.pse.umass.edu
 

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Prof. Dr. Patrick Theato
Institute for Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry
University of Hamburg
Bundesstrasse 45
D-20146 Hamburg

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Tel.:  +49 40 42838 6009 (office)
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Email: theato@chemie.uni-hamburg.de
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From September 2011 to December 2011:

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School of Chemical and Biological Engineering
College of Engineering
World Class University (WCU) program of Chemical Convergence for 
Energy & Environment (C2E2)
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