POLYThursday, August 23, 2007
8:00 AM-12:35 PM Westin Boston Waterfront -- Otis, Oral
Imaging Techniques for the Characterization of Polymers and Polymer-Derived Materials
X-Ray, Force, and Electron Microscopies
Organizer:Marcus T. Cicerone
Official:Hiroshi Jinnai
8:00 AM Introductory Remarks
8:05 AM628Imaging of mechanical properties for surface and internal phase of multiphase polymer thin films
Hideki Sugihara, Kazuyuki Oya, Hiroki Murase, Keiji Tanaka, Keiichi Akabori, Tisato Kajiyama, Atsushi Takahara
8:45 AM629Transmission electron microtomography of multicomponent block copolymer systems
Richard J. Spontak, Juan T. Weaver, Arif O. Gozen, Volker Abetz, Steven D. Smith, Jan Genzer, David A. Agard
9:25 AM630Structural imaging with a modern transmission electron microscope
Masahiro Kawasaki, Hiromitsu Furukawa
10:05 AM631LV-TEM imaging of nanosilica formation in thermoreversible block copolymer gel
John Texter, Rainer Schwarz, Petr Stepan
10:30 AM632Characterizing polymers through molecular visualization
Sergei S. Sheiko, Frank C. Sun, Jamie R. Boyce, Sherryl Y. Yu
10:55 AM633Nanostructured morphology of polymer conetworks: Resolving the controversy between AFM and TEM images for disordered nanophase separated multicomponent polymers
Ralf Thomann, Béla Iván, Gábor Erdődi, Attila Domján, Jonas Scherble, Rolf Mülhaupt
11:20 AM634Polymerization shrinkage of polymeric dental composites characterized by X-ray microcomputed tomography
Sheng Lin-Gibson, Jirun Sun
11:45 AM635Synchrotron X-ray tomography of flame retardants in polymers
Leslie G. Butler
12:10 PM636Blowing bubbles in PMMA with the SEM
Jürgen Kraut, Renate Hiesgen, Liehui Ge, John Texter

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The 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007