POLYTuesday, April 8, 2008

8:00 AM-11:50 AM Hilton New Orleans Riverside -- Grand Salon 7/10, Oral
Functional Nanomaterials from New Polymer Synthetic Methodologies
Catalyzed Polymerizations
Organizers:Devon A. Shipp
Robert B. Grubbs
James L. Hedrick
Hengbin Wang
Presiding:Alshakim Nelson
Christopher W. Bielawski
8:00 AM(Co)polyolefin-based nanocomposites via carbon nanotube-supported metallocene catalysis
Philippe Dubois
8:40 AMPalladium aryl sulfonate phosphine and phosphite catalysts for the copolymerization of ethene with acrylates
Laurence Piche, Delphine Carponcin, Kirill Skupov, Jerome P. Claverie
9:00 AMAnnealing of ultrathin polyethylene films from aqueous dispersions
Qiong Tong, Marina Krumova, Stefan Mecking
9:20 AMCatalytic copolymerization of ethylene with N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidinone and N-iso-propylacrylamide
Kirill Skupov, Laurence Piche, Jerome P. Claverie
9:40 AMIntermission
9:50 AMCatalyst-transfer polymerization for the synthesis of well-defined pi-conjugated polymers
Tsutomu Yokozawa, Akihiro Yokoyama
10:30 AMMorphological implications of structurally precise carboxylic acid polyolefins
Kathleen L. Opper, Travis W. Baughman, K. B. Wagener
10:50 AMPoly(p-phenylene vinylene) nanoparticles by acyclic diene metathesis (ADMET) polycondensation in aqueous emulsion
Johannes Pecher, Stefan Mecking
11:10 AMSynthesis and characterization of a functional low energy gap poly(thienylenevinylene-S,S-dioxide-thienylene vinylene) for potential supramolecular optoelectronic applications
Thuong Nguyen, Cheng Zhang, Sam-Shajing Sun
11:30 AMDesign of novel nanostructured cholesteric stimuli responsive polymers
Rajeswari Kasi, Suk-kyun Ahn, Yuxiang Zhou, Nitin Sharma

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