CELLThursday, April 10, 2008

8:20 AM-11:45 AM Morial Convention Center -- Rm. R09, Oral
Nanotechnology: A Fiber Perspective
Organizers:Lucian Lucia
Dimitris S. Argyropoulos
8:20 AMIntroductory Remarks
8:30 AMCellulose aggregate structure: Variation and relation to properties
Lennart Salmén
9:00 AMDetermination of the accessible hydroxyl groups in cellulose by using phosphitylation and 31P NMR spectroscopy
Ilari Filpponen, Lucian A Lucia, Dimitris S Argyropoulos
9:30 AMCharacterization of mechanically and enzymatically produced nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC) from wood pulp
Nazia Sidduqui, Ryan Lena, Douglas Bousfield, Ryan Mills, Douglas J. Gardner, Raymond C. Fort Jr., Barbara J. W. Cole
10:00 AMIntermission
10:15 AMFacile in situ syntheses of mono- and bimetallic nanoparticles on cellulose nanocrystal
Yongsoon Shin, In-Tae Bae, Bruce W. Arey, Gregory J. Exarhos
10:45 AMCellulose nanocrystals as scaffolds for nanodevices
Ilari Filpponen, Lucian A Lucia, Dimitris S. Argyropoulos
11:15 AMEncapsulation of fluorescent dyes in cyclodextrins for brightness enhancement of paper
Ezequiel Delgado, Carlos A. Ramírez, Guillermo Toriz, J. Angel Andrade, Héctor J. Contreras, L. Ramón Bravo, Higinio Regla

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The 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008