PMSESunday, August 19, 2007

8:30 AM-11:55 AM Westin Boston Waterfront -- Alcott, Oral
50 Years after the Discovery of Polymer Single Crystals: A Look Back, Current Discoveries and Future Opportunities
Polymer Single Crystals — Past, Present and Future
Organizer:Stephen Z. D. Cheng
Official:Andrew J. Lovinger
8:30 AMIntroductory Remarks
8:40 AMFifty (plus) years of polymer nanoscience (art)
Phillip H. Geil
9:10 AMOn the crystallization habits and morphology of Nylon 66
F. Khoury
9:40 AMPolymer single crystals: What about the impact of the folds?
Bernard A. Lotz
10:10 AMIntermission
10:25 AMSelf assembled machines, in lamellar crystals, driven by stress or electric fields
Darrell H. Reneker
10:55 AMFifty-year development of the understanding of motion and defects in macromolecular crystals based on thermal analysis, structure analysis and computer simulation
Bernhard Wunderlich
11:25 AMTuning surface and interface properties through crystal engineering
Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Huiming Xiong, Ryan Van Horn, Wenbin Zhang

50 Years after the Discovery of Polymer Single Crystals: A Look Back, Current Discoveries and Future Opportunities -- Next Session

Symposium Grid -- Division of Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering -- Session Listing

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