PMSEMonday, August 20, 2007

8:30 AM-12:15 PM Westin Boston Waterfront -- Alcott, Oral
50 Years after the Discovery of Polymer Single Crystals: A Look Back, Current Discoveries and Future Opportunities
Semi-Crystalline Polymers in Hybrid, Complex and Bio-Related Systems
Organizers:Stephen Z. D. Cheng
Andrew J. Lovinger
Presiding:Rufina G. Alamo
8:30 AMMorphological changes upon adding nanotubes or acid groups to polyethylene
Karen I. Winey
9:00 AMOn the shish kebab structure of carbon nanotube induced polymer crystallization
Christopher Li, Lingyu Li, Bing Li, Bingbing Wang
9:30 AMTailoring onion-like morphology in polylactide-containing block copolymers
Lu Sun, Lixia Rong, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Lei Zhu
10:00 AMIntermission
10:15 AMPolymer single crystal mediated Au nanoparticle assembly
Bing Li, Christopher Y. Li
10:45 AMLow voltage TEM and Scherrer analysis of Bombyx mori silk fiber crystallites
Lawrence F. Drummy, Rajesh R. Naik, B. L. Farmer
11:15 AMBeta pleated sheet crystals in silk fibroin
Xiao Hu, David L. Kaplan, Peggy Cebe
11:45 AMHierarchic structure of shish-kebab by neutron scattering in a wide Q range
Toshiji Kanaya, Go Matsuba, Yoshiko Ogino, Koji Nishida

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