PMSETuesday, August 21, 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
Crystalline Polymers Under Nano-Confinements or External Fields
Organizers:Stephen Z. D. Cheng
Andrew J. Lovinger
Presiding:Lei Zhu
8:30 AMCrystallization of perfectly linear polyethylene inside nanodomains
Sasha B. Myers, Richard A. Register
9:00 AMCrystallization of the chiral block copolymers with helical nanostructures
Rong-Ming Ho, Yeo-Wan Chiang
9:30 AMManipulation of athermal nuclei in a levitated droplet of aqueous polyethylene oxide
Julia A. Kornfield, Adam P. Olsen, Richard C. Flagan
10:00 AMIntermission
10:15 AMInvestigating homogeneous nucleation and phase transformations in iPP nanodroplets using temperature controlled AFM
Lekshmi Kailas, Cvetelin Vasilev, Jamie K. Hobbs
10:45 AMDynamic formation of shear-induced shish-kebab structure in highly entangled melts of UHMWPE/HDPE blends
Benjamin S Hsiao, Jong Kahk Keum, Feng Zuo
11:15 AMAspects of crystallization in polymer blends
Jerold M. Schultz
11:45 AMCrystallization kinetics of linear polyethylene under nanoscopic cylindrical confinements
Kyusoon Shin, Euntaek Woo, June Huh, Young Jeong

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