POLYTuesday, August 21, 2007

8:30 AM-12:00 PM Westin Boston Waterfront -- Otis, Oral
Polymers and Liquid Crystals
New Concepts in LC/ Polymer Systems
Organizer:C. Allan Guymon
Official:Douglas L. Gin
8:30 AMLiquid crystalline behavior in self-assembling peptide and conjugated systems
Samuel I. Stupp, Shuming Zhang, Alvaro Mata, Megan Greenfield, Ramille Capito
9:05 AMDesign, synthesis, and application of benzobis(imidazolium) salts as a new class of photoluminescent ionic liquid crystals
Christopher W. Bielawski, Andrew J. Boydston
9:40 AMSelf-organization of ionic liquids: Liquid-crystalline low-dimensional ion conductors
Takashi Kato, Masafumi Yoshio, Takahiro Ichikawa, Harutoki Shimura, Tomohiro Mukai, Atsushi Hamasaki, Hiroyuki Ohno
10:15 AMIntermission
10:25 AMAligning shape persistent polymers in liquid crystal solutions
Timothy M. Swager
11:00 AMAligned phases of polymer coated magnetic nanoparticles and binary microphase separated blends
Peiyuin Keng, Bryan D. Korth, Jeffrey Pyun
11:35 AMLiquid crystal polymers as directing medium: Creation of organized quantum dots composites
Raisa V. Talroze, Georgii A Shandryuk, Elena Matukhina, Alexey S. Merekalov, Roman B. Vasiliev, Alexander M. Gaskov

Polymers and Liquid Crystals -- Next Session

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