PMSEWednesday, August 22, 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
Polymer Crystallization -- Theory, Modeling and Simulation
Organizers:Stephen Z. D. Cheng
Andrew J. Lovinger
Presiding:Akihiko Toda
8:30 AMHomogeneous primary crystal nucleation: The case for the fringed micelle
Buckley Crist
9:00 AMGrowth kinetics of polymer crystals in bulk
Tai-Yon Cho, Werner Stille, Gert Strobl
9:30 AMWhat can molecular simulation reveal about the crystallization and structure of semicrystalline polymers?
Gregory C. Rutledge
10:00 AMIntermission
10:15 AMNew paradigms for polymer crystallization
Murugappan Muthukumar
10:45 AMChain-folding via intramolecular crystal nucleation: Theory and simulations
Wenbing Hu
11:15 AMMolecular simulation of the effect of olefin block copolymer microstructure on lamellar thickness
Jeffrey D. Weinhold, Gary R. Marchand, Stephen P. Chum
11:45 AMOn the nucleation of chain-folded crystals: Insights from MD simulation
Hendrik Meyer

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