PMSETuesday, August 21, 2007

1:30 PM-4:45 PM Westin Boston Waterfront -- Alcott, Oral
50 Years after the Discovery of Polymer Single Crystals: A Look Back, Current Discoveries and Future Opportunities
Structure-Property Relationships and Technological Applications
Organizers:Stephen Z. D. Cheng
Andrew J. Lovinger
Presiding:Goran Ungar
1:30 PMInfluence of constitutional defects on the crystallization properties of isotactic polypropylene: A tool to predict the polymorphic behavior
Claudio De Rosa, Finizia Auriemma, Odda Ruiz de Ballesteros, Giovanni Talarico
2:00 PMEffect of nucleating agents on fractionated cyrstallization of polypropylene
Anne Hiltner, Deepak S. Langhe, Yi Jin, Eric E. Baer
2:30 PMEnhanced nucleation of semi-crystalline polymers: Specificity and versatility of nucleating agents toward isotactic polypropylene crystal phases
Annette Thierry, Cyrille Mathieu, Daniel Alcazar, Bernard A. Lotz
2:50 PMSynthesis and surface properties of a semicrystalline poly(fluorooxetane)
Ying Zheng, Kenneth J. Wynne
3:10 PMIntermission
3:25 PMRoom temperature liquid crystalline material with crystalline π stacks and its crystallization
Shi Jin, Chenming Xue, Yijin Xu
3:45 PMHolographic polymer dispersed semicrystalline polymers and block copolymers
Michael Birnkrant, Christopher Y. Li, Lalgudi V. Natarajan, Vincent P. Tondiglia, Pamela F. Lloyd, Richard L. Sutherland, Timothy J. Bunning
4:05 PMSolid-state packing and hole transport of functionalized pentacenes in solution-processed organic thin-film transistors
Jihua Chen, Sankar S. Subramanian, Chee Keong Tee, Max Shtein, John E. Anthony, David C. Martin
4:25 PMStructure of elastomeric olefin copolymers
Peter Dias, Haopeng Wang, Angela A. Taha, Stephen P. Chum, Anne Hiltner, Eric E. Baer

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