POLYMonday, April 7, 2008

8:25 AM-11:40 AM Hilton New Orleans Riverside -- Grand Salon 18, Oral
Excellence in Graduate Polymer Science Research
Novel Polymer Syntheses
Organizers:Erica H. Martin
Christopher J. Ellison
Organizer, Presidings:H. N. Cheng
Timothy E. Long
8:25 AMIntroductory Remarks
8:30 AMTemperature responsive BAB RAFT triblock copolymers: From micelles to gels
Stacey E. Kirkland, Charles L. McCormick
8:55 AMThermoresponsive core-shell macromolecules prepared by RAFT polymerization
Andrew P. Vogt, Brent S. Sumerlin
9:20 AMWater-soluble cyclic dendronized polymers via a divergent "grafting from" approach for guest encapsulation
Boyd A. Laurent, Scott Michael Grayson
9:45 AMPhosphonium cations as a new avenue for electrostatic interactions in polymer design
Emily B. Anderson, Serkan Unal, Timothy E. Long
10:10 AMIntermission
10:25 AMPolydispersity-driven morphological transitions in abc triblock terpolymers
Adam J. Meuler, Christopher J. Ellison, Christopher M. Evans, Marc A. Hillmyer, Frank S Bates
10:50 AMDesign and synthesis of an osteotropic polyrotaxane for the treatment of skeletal diseases
Christopher Donald Hein, Dong Wang, Xin-Ming Liu
11:15 AMPhotoresponsive PEG-based 3-D cell culture platforms
April M. Kloxin, Andrea M. Kasko, Kristi S. Anseth

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