POLYTuesday, August 21, 2007

1:30 PM-5:00 PM Westin Boston Waterfront -- Otis, Oral
Polymers and Liquid Crystals
Lyotropic and Amphiphilic LC/Polymer Systems
Organizers:Douglas L. Gin
C. Allan Guymon
Presiding:Jeffrey Pyun
1:30 PMSelf-assembly of rod amphiphiles into stimuli-responsive nanostructures
Myongsoo Lee
2:05 PMPhotopolymerization kinetics in polymerizable lyotropic liquid crystalline systems
Lucas Sievens-Figueroa, C. Allan Guymon
2:30 PMNew approaches to the design of nanoporous catalysts and membranes based on polymerized lyotropic liquid crystal assemblies
Douglas L. Gin, Cory S. Pecinovsky, Meijuan Zhou, Xiaoyun Lu, Timothy J. Kidd, Jason E. Bara, Xiaohui Zeng, Brian J. Elliott, Richard D. Noble
3:05 PMIntermission
3:25 PMSilica nanocasting of lyotropic liquid crystals: Material science or an analytical tool?
Markus Antonietti
4:00 PMNanostructured polymeric networks generated from lyotropic liquid crystals
Jason D. Clapper, C. Allan Guymon
4:35 PMLiquid crystal behavior and photo-induced birefringence in azobenzene surfactomesogens complexed with oppositely-charged polyelectrolytes
Qian Zhang, C. Geraldine Bazuin, Christopher J Barrett

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