CELLMonday, April 7, 2008

8:00 AM-11:45 AM Morial Convention Center -- Rm. R07, Oral
Structure and Properties of Cellulosic Polymers, Assemblies, and Nanocomposites
Anselme Payen Award Symposium Honoring Professor Fumitaka Horii
Organizers:Yoshiyuki Nishio
Junji Sugiyama
William T. Winter
Presiding:Akira Isogai
Derek G. Gray
8:00 AMElectrospun polyethylene glycol/cellulose acetate ultrafine fibers for thermal energy storage
Yong Huang, Changzhong Chen, Linge Wang
8:30 AMPreparation of cellulose single nanofibers by TEMPO-mediated oxidation of native celluloses: Fundamentals and applications
Akira Isogai, Tsuguyuki Saito, Hayaka Fukuzumi, Yusuke Okita
9:00 AMBacterial cellulosebased nanocomposites with controlled cartilagelike mechanical properties
Dieter O. Klemm, Friederike Kramer, Falko Wesarg, Dieter A. Schumann, Wolfgang Fried
9:30 AMPatterning in movements and deposition of the secreted cellulose nanofiber of Acetobacter xylinum directed by an interfacial interaction on ordered chitin templates
Tetsuo Kondo, Wakako Kasai, Masanobu Nojiri, Yukako Hishikawa, Eiji Togawa, Dwight Romanovicz, R. Malcolm Brown Jr.
10:00 AMIntermission
10:15 AMAssembly of cellulose and other polysaccharide building blocks into hierarchical materials
Paul Gatenholm
10:45 AMEffects of added electrolytes on the phase separation behavior in aqueous suspensions of bacterial cellulose microfibrils and on the magnetic alignment of the chiral nematic phase
Asako Hirai, Osamu Inui, Fumitaka Horii, Shinpei Yamamoto, Masaki Tsuji
11:15 AMChiral structures in plants
Derek G. Gray

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