PMSESunday, August 19, 2007

1:30 PM-5:15 PM Westin Boston Waterfront -- Alcott, Oral
50 Years after the Discovery of Polymer Single Crystals: A Look Back, Current Discoveries and Future Opportunities
Novel Structures and Morphologies
Organizer:Andrew J. Lovinger
Official:Stephen Z. D. Cheng
1:30 PMAsymmetric curvature of growth faces of polymer crystals
Maxim A. Shcherbina, Goran Ungar
2:00 PMBranching in spherulites of chain folded polymer crystals: Periodic rings and correlation length
Akihiko Toda, Mari Okamura, Masamichi Hikosaka, Hiroshi Kajioka
2:30 PMCrystallization control using optically active (chiral) polymers
Damien Maillard, Robert E. Prud'homme
3:00 PMIntermission
3:15 PMSingle lamella crystals of polyethylene accessible by catalytic emulsionpolymerization
Christa Weber, Arnaud Chiche, Georg Krausch, Sabine Rosenfeldt, Matthias Ballauff, Inigo Göttker-Schnetmann, Stefan Mecking, Ludger Harnau
3:45 PMIntimate relationship between structural change in crystal lattice and morphological change during the phase transition of polymer crystal
Kohji Tashiro
4:15 PMLocal structures in polymer single crystals evidenced by high-resolution electron microscopy
Masatoshi Tosaka, Masaki Tsuji
4:45 PMGrain boundaries, dislocations, and vacancies in polymer and organic molecular crystals
Jihua Chen, Charles Shaw, David C. Martin

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