POLYSunday, April 6, 2008

6:00 PM-8:00 PM Morial Convention Center -- Hall A, Poster
Undergraduate Research in Polymer Science
Organizers:Sarah E. Morgan
Sergei Nazarenko
Antibody-polymer bead conjugation determination via surface Plasmon resonance and quartz crystal microbalance
Will Gray, Bing Yuan, Gordon C. Cannon, Sabine Heinhorst, Sarah E. Morgan
Controlled electrophoretic deposition of nanoHA on electrospun polycaprolactone - carbon nanofiber nanocomposites
Sunita Jagani, Himani Deshpande, Derrick R. Dean
Directed assembly of gold nanoparticles on modified DNA origami
Caesar Buie, Christine M. Micheel, Jennifer N Cha
Directed collagen assembly on gold-silicon substrates via microcontact printing
Margo R. Monroe, Yuping Li, Elliot P. Douglas
DMPC and dendrimer aggregates examined by ITC and DLS
Meghan G. Liroff, Christopher V Kelly, Pascale R. Leroueil, Douglas G. Mullen, James R. Baker Jr., Bradford G. Orr, Mark M. Banaszak Holl
Hydrogenation utilizing ceramic clay aerogel supported metal nanoparticles
Jared James Griebel, Matthew D. Gawryla, David Schiraldi
Hydrolysis and condensation of alkoxysilane end-functionalized polymers
Jessica L. Carter, Kevin A. Cavicchi
Toward understanding natural rubber (NR) biosynthesis: in situ FTIR monitoring of model systems
Allia Lindsay, Haibo Li, Judit E. Puskas
Orientation control of block copolymer thin films
Evelyn Auyeung, Joy Y. Cheng, Daniel P. Sanders
Natural fiber reinforced polymer/clay aerogels
Katherine Finlay, Matthew D. Gawryla, David A. Schiraldi
Polymer waveguides for explosives detection
Rena L. Hammer, William F. Sherwood, Medhat S. Farahat, David E. Nikles
Stereocomplex interactions in cyclic and linear polylactides
Alexandra E. Jones, Eun Ji Shin, Robert M. Waymouth
Surface characterization of functionalized polyisobutylenes
Victoria Sain, Elizabeth A. Foreman, Judit E. Puskas
Synthesis, design, and use of an amphiphilic block copolymer as a stabilizer and a macroinitiator in miniemulsion polymerization under AGET ATRP conditions
Brian Belardi, François Stoffelbach, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Bernadette Charleux
Torlon® poly(amide imide) clay aerogel composites
Eric M. Arndt, Matthew D. Gawryla, David A. Schiraldi
Living ring-opening polymerization of cyclic esters with phosphazene organocatalysts
Benjamin S. Kester, John W Logan, Fredrik Nederberg, Russell C. Pratt, Charles G. Wade, Robert M. Waymouth, James L. Hedrick
Toward the synthesis of functionalized polymers via green chemistry: Studies of enzyme catalyzed transesterification
Joseph R. Kasper, Mustafa Y. Sen, Judit E. Puskas

Symposium Grid -- Division of Polymer Chemistry -- Session Listing

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