PMSEWednesday, August 22, 2007

1:30 PM-5:20 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 -- Experimental Approaches
Organizers:Stephen Z. D. Cheng
Andrew J. Lovinger
Presiding:Kohji Tashiro
1:30 PMHeterogeneous distribution of entanglements in the polymer melt and its influence on crystallization
Sanjay Rastogi, Dirk Lippits, Saeid Talebi, Bing Wang
2:00 PMCrystallization of polyethylenes containing halogens: Precise vs. random placement
Rufina G. Alamo, Keesu Jeon, Emine Boz, Alexander J. Nemeth, Kenneth B. Wagener
2:30 PMTemperature and molecular weight dependence of crystal growth rate for chain folding crystallization
Norimasa Okui, S. Umemoto
3:00 PMIntermission
3:30 PMCrystallization and thickening kinetics of monolayer PEO lamellae on mica surfaces
Er-Qiang Chen, Dun-Shen Zhu, Yi-Xin Liu, An-Chang Shi, Stephen Z. D. Cheng
4:00 PMSemicrystalline and superlattice structures in linear and branched oligomers
Xiangbing Zeng, Fangning Xie, Goran Ungar, Stephen M. King
4:20 PMGrowth of a polymer crystal from ultrathin film: Thickness diffusion field with effective diffusion coefficient
Ken Taguchi, Akihiko Toda, Yoshihisa Miyamoto
4:40 PMUpper superheating limit in polymer crystals studied by ultrafast nanocalorimetry
Alexander Minakov, Andreas Wurm, Christoph Schick
5:00 PMReaching elementary processes in polymer crystallization via growth twins in isotactic poly(vinylcyclohexane) single crystals
Daniel Alcazar, Bernard A. Lotz, Edwin L. Thomas, Akiyoshi Kawaguchi, Annette Thierry, Stephen Z. D. Cheng

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