Saturday, 13 November 2004: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

Piedmont (Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Convention Center)

New Developments in Textile Chemistry/Polymers in Confined Environments (General Session)

Presider:Phillip J. Brown
1:30 PM Introductory Remarks
Part 1 
1:40 PM Modular Block Copolymers
Mary Nell Higley, Marcus Weck
2:00 PM Effect of Clay Concentration on the Dispersion and Thermal Properties of Polymer/Clay Nanocomposites
Deepali Pradeep Kumar, Mark Dadmun
2:20 PM MALDI-TOF MS Comparison of Nomex and Oligomeric Poly(m-phenylene isophthalamide)
Anthony P. Gies, William K. Nonidez, Sparkle T. Ellison, Haining Ji, Jimmy W. Mays
2:40 PM Photoinitiated Group Transfer Polymerization of Methyl Methacrylate
Matthew J. Morgan, Cynthia T. Sanderson, Xiyong Li, Richard J. Lavallee, Charles R. Kutal
3:00 PM Oxygen Permeability Enhancement of Polymer Films by the Addition of Functionalized Fumed Silica
Xiaoyu Sun, Nikunj P. Patel, Richard J. Spontak
Part 2 
3:20 PM Break
Part 3 
3:40 PM Development of polydiacetylenes as stress sensors for industrial polymers
Mike Castagno, Hanks Timothy, William Pennington, Jennifer Kauffman, Michael Ellison
4:00 PM Production, properties and potential applications of deep grove fibers
Phillip J. Brown, Kristofer D. Sinclair, Adeel Inam, Elizabeth A. Tucker, Massimiliano Mignanelli
4:20 PM Textile Fibers via Biomimesis
Michael Ellison, Albert G. Abbott, Phillip J. Brown, You-Lo Hsieh
4:40 PM Real Time Characterization of Fiber Structure During Melt Spinning
Kate Stevens, Gary C. Lickfield, Paulo Lopes, Srinivasa Varkol, Dushyanth Pandana

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