POLYWednesday, August 22, 2007

1:30 PM-5:00 PM Westin Boston Waterfront -- Otis, Oral
Polymers and Liquid Crystals
LC Polymers
Organizers:Douglas L. Gin
C. Allan Guymon
Presiding:Christopher W. Bielawski
1:30 PMEffects of liquid crystallinity on the self-assembly of rod-coil block copolymers
Rachel A. Segalman, Bradley D. Olsen
2:05 PMHierarchical nanostructures of mesogen jacketed bent-core liquid crystalline block copolymers
Kishore K. Tenneti, Xiaofang Chen, Christopher Y. Li, Xinhua Wan, Qi-Feng Zhou, Lixia Rong, Benjamin S. Hsiao
2:30 PMSelf-assembly of polypeptide-based rod-coil block copolymers
Adam D. Richardson, Daniel A. Savin
3:05 PMIntermission
3:25 PMFrom rod to coil: Tuning the conformational characteristics via side-chain liquid crystals
Eric W. Cochran, Seung Ha Kim
4:00 PMArchitectural effects in side-chain liquid crystalline polymers: Hyperbranched SCLCPs
Coleen Pugh, Anirudha Singh
4:35 PMMorphology of side chain liquid crystalline block copolymers: Influence of liquid crystal content
Eric Verploegen, Tejia Zhang, Lu Tian, Paula T. Hammond

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