PMSEMonday, March 26, 2007

8:00 PM-10:00 PM Hyatt Regency Chicago -- Riverside Center, Sci-Mix
Sci-Mix
Organizer, Presiding:Dean C. Webster
 Novel approach toward biogenic amine sensing using cross-reactive poly(thiophene)s sensor arrays
Travis K. Deason, Marc S. Maynor, Toby L. Nelson, John J. Lavigne
 Aminooxy functionalized polymers by ATRP for chemoselective conjugation to proteins
Karina L. Heredia, Zachary P. Tolstyka, Heather D. Maynard
 Ampholytic diblock-copolymers by the RAFT technique: Candidates for self-assembled micelles for drug delivery
Angel Licea-Claverie, Claudia Obeso-Vera, Mercedes C. Flores-Parra, Jose M. Cornejo-Bravo, Curtis W. Frank
 Antifouling block copolymer surfaces that resist settlement of barnacle larvae
Craig J. Weinman, Sitaraman Krishnan, Daewon Park, Marvin Y. Paik, Kaiming Wong, Daniel A. Fischer, Dale L. Handlin Jr., Greg L. Kowalke, Dean E. Wendt, Karen E. Sohn, Edward J. Kramer, Christopher K. Ober
 Assembling salicylic acids into a drug-tree: A novel platform for drug delivery
Shengzhuang Tang, Stephen M. June, B. A. Howell, Minghui Chai
 Atomistic simulations of graphite polypropylene nanocomposites including covalent graphite modification
Rozlyn Nicole Chambliss, Melissa S. Reeves
 Azide end-capped hyperbranched polyglycerol: Complex polymer structures via click chemistry
Yi Shen, Zhong Shen, Jörg Nieberle, Emilie Barriau, Holger Frey
 Characterization of copolymeric hydrogel vitreous substitutes that gel in situ
Katelyn E. Swindle, Paul D. Hamilton, Ying-Bo Shui, David C. Beebe, Nathan Ravi
 Controlled release with ultra-thin polymeric nanocomposite films
Chaoyang Jiang, Dmitry Zimnitsky, Craig Tucker, Chang Liu, V. V. Tsukruk
 Controlled styrene radical polymerization initiated by epoxide ring opening with dichlorotitanium phenoxides
Alexandru D. Asandei, Yanhui Chen, Liming Tang, Tracy A. Hanna, Lihua Liu
 Copolymerization of 2-hydroxyethyl acrylate and 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate: Controlling the water content of hydrogels
W. Tandy Grubbs, Alfonso Ramirez
 Dynamic viscoelastic properties of hydroxyl-terminated poly(amidoamine) dendrimer physiological saline solutions
Dong-Hui Zhang, N. Ravi
 Electrospun PCL/CNF scaffolds with controlled surface chemistry
Himani Deshpande, Moncy V. Jose, Vinoy Thomas, William C. Clem, S Chowdhary, Derrick R. Dean, Elijah Nyairo
 Energy storage study of ferroelectric P(VDF-TrFE-CTFE) terpolymers
Zhicheng Zhang, Wei Chen, T. C. Chung
 Excellent control over branching kinetics via a one-pot RAFT polymerization reaction
Philip Mounteney, Steven P. Rannard, Paul H. Findlay, David J Duncalf, Sébastien Perrier
 Exploring the mechanism of acrylic/alkyd hybrid systems by means of one- and two-dimensional NMR
Jamie S. Hasseman, Mrunal Thatte, Mark D. Soucek
 Gadolinium-containing glyco-polymers for MRI
Joshua M. Bryson, Theresa M. Reineke
 Gate dielectric chemical control of pentacene film microstructure and field-effect transistor performance
Choongik Kim, Antonio Facchetti, Tobin J. Marks
 Hierarchical fabrication of linear (1-D) arrays of metal and metal oxide nanoparticles using block copolymer templates
Young-Hye La, Mark P. Stoykovich, Sang-Min Park, Paul F. Nealey
 High-interlayer-spacing modification of layered clays and their amphiphilic self-assembling properties
Jiang-Jen Lin, Yu Min Chen
 Incorporation of microencapsulated dicyclopentadiene into an acrylic bone cement matrix
Patrick Biggs, LeRoy Jones II, Gladius Lewis
 Mechanical investigations of wheat gluten/thiolated poly(vinyl alcohol) blends
Rebecca Dicharry, Peng Ye, Gobinda Saha, Eleanor Waxman, Richard S. Parnas, Alexandru D. Asandei
 Nanophase-separated structure from a diblock-type supramacromolecule via biocomplemetary hydrogen bonding
Atsushi Noro, Yutaka Nagata, Atsushi Takano, Yushu Matsushita
 Nanorings from the self-assembly of amphiphilic molecular dumbbells
Eunji Lee, Jung-Keun Kim, Myongsoo Lee
 Novel branched structure material with high frequency dielectric response
Meng Guo, T. Goodson III
 Novel synthesis of poly(phenylene ethynylene) composed of alternating fluorinated and non-fluorinated units
Tanmoy Dutta, Mark D. Watson
 Patterning of electrochromic polyterthiophene fiber mats and films and potential applications
Chris I. Asemota, Marissa Rousselle, Arvind Kumar, Gregory A. Sotzing
 Photopatternable nanoporous titania films by coassembly of diblock copolymer and chemically modified titanium alkoxide
Oun-Ho Park, Joy Y. Cheng, Hyun Suk Kim, Philip. M. Rice, Teya Topuria, Leslie E. Krupp, Robert D. Miller, Ho-Cheol Kim
 Polyacrylonitrile-graft-poly(ethylene glycol) (PAN-g-PEG) for size-selective, fouling resistant nanofiltration (NF) membranes
Ayse Asatekin, Anne M. Mayes
 Polyelectrolyte templating of calcium carbonate microspheres and 3D scaffolds
Sara T. Parker, Jennifer A. Lewis
 Polymer/clay and polymer/ceramic aerogel composites
Matthew D. Gawryla, Suneel A. Bandi, David A. Schiraldi
 Polyphenylene based branched polymers: Synthesis, characterization and properties investigation
Haiyu Zhuang, Suresh Valiyaveettil
 Preparation of low Tg phosphate glasses and their blends with polymers for high barrier applications
Mohit Gupta, Taneisha Deans, David A. Schiraldi
 Reactive block copolymer scaffolds prepared by RAFT polymerization
Ronald C. Li, Jungyeon Hwang, Heather D. Maynard
 Robust and biocompatible ultrathin silk fibroin films
Chaoyang Jiang, Xianyan Wang, Ray Gunawidjaja, Yen-Hsi Lin, Rajesh R. Naik, Maneesh K. Gupta, David L. Kaplan, V. V. Tsukruk
 Size exclusion chromatography coupled to on-line Fourier transform infra red spectroscopy: A powerful tool for polymer characterization
John A. McConville, Stephen O'Donohue, Greg Saunders, Andrew Woods
 Structural differences in aerogels prepared with different clay minerals
Jack R. Johnson III, David A. Schiraldi
 Synthesis and characterization of novel copolymer for reversible bioconjugation
Suhrit Ghosh, Michael Lartey, Subhadeep Basu, Britto S. Sandanaraj, S. Thayumanavan
 Synthesis and properties of telechelic poly(lactic acid) ionomers
Andrew J. Ro, Robert A. Weiss, Samuel J. Huang
 Synthesis of functionalized hexacene for OTFT application
Balaji Purushothaman, Sean R. Parkin, John E. Anthony
 Synthesis, optical and thermal properties of oligothiophenesilane dendrimers
Oleg V. Borshchev, Sergei A. Ponomarenko, Nikolai M. Surin, Yury N. Luponosov, Mikhail I. Buzin, Aziz M. Muzafarov
 Synthesis, self-assembly and characterization of a novel rod-coil-rod block copolymer containing conjugated oligomers
Kun Li, Qing Wang
 Templated microreactors: A synthetic approach to enzyme entrapment
Dara Van Gough, Alejandro Wolosiuk, Paul V. Braun
 Biological effect of amine density within poly(glycoamidoamine) DNA delivery vehicles
Chen-Chang Lee, Theresa M. Reineke
 Thiol-ene photopolymerization kinetics study of difunctional thiol with various alkenes
Kosin Wutticharoenwong, Mark D. Soucek
 Towards biosensors based on covalently functionalized poly(pyrrolepropylic acid) nanowires
Adam K. Wanekaya, Sagar Tolani
 Tunable hydrogels prepared from star PDMS and linear PEO
Katherine R. Regan, Yaping Hou, Mariah S. Hanh, Huimin Liao, Melissa A. Grunlan
 Use of new tetraalkylborate initiators for remote polymerization of acrylates
Andrey A. Ermoshkin, Ekaterina S. Nikolaeva, Douglas C. Neckers, Andrei V. Fedorov
 Well-defined glycopolymers synthesized from an ATRP amino acid initiator
Rebecca M. Broyer, Heather D. Maynard

Symposium Grid -- Division of Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering -- Session Listing

The 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 25-29, 2007