POLYSunday, March 25, 2007

8:15 AM-12:25 PM McCormick Place South -- Room S503A, Level 5, Oral
Unconventional Processes for Nanostructured and Microstructured Polymer Systems
Nanocomposites
Organizers:John M. Torkelson
Kenneth R. Shull
8:15 AMIntroductory Remarks
8:20 AMPolymer nanocomposites with prescribed morphology: Going beyond nanoparticle-filled polymers
Richard A. Vaia, Hilmar Koerner, Wei Lu, Evangelos Manias
8:50 AMGraphene-based materials
Rodney S. Ruoff, Supinda Watcharotone, Inhwa Jung, Sasha Stankovich, Richard Piner, Dmitriy A. Dikin, SonBinh T. Nguyen
9:20 AMCharacterizing dispersion of layered nanocomposites via melt rheology
Hyunwoo Kim, Christopher W. Macosko
9:50 AMTheory of relaxation, physical aging and mechanical properties of polymer glasses
Kenneth S. Schweizer, Kang Chen
10:20 AMIntermission
10:35 AMDesigned interfaces in nanoparticle filled polymer composites
Sarah L. Lewis, Yu Li, Brian C. Benicewicz, Sanat K. Kumar, Linda S. Schadler
11:05 AMShear-induced orientation in exfoliated polystyrene/clay nanocomposites
Wesley R Burghardt, Laura M. Dykes, John M. Torkelson
11:25 AMEffect of carbon nanoparticle geometry on the interphase in PMMA nanocomposites
Karl W Putz, L. Catherine Brinson, Ramanathan Thillaiyan, Laura Jamison
11:45 AMAnnealing, structural changes, and migration of polypropylene nanocomposites
Menachem Lewin, Yong Tang
12:05 PMSupported metallocene catalysis for in situ synthesis of high energy density metal oxide nanocomposites
Neng Guo, Sara A. DiBenedetto, Tobin J. Marks, Do-Kyun Kwon, Michael T. Lanagan

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