Friday, October 20, 2006: 1:30 PM-5:15 PM
Salon B ( Houston Westchase Marriott Hotel)
Polymer Materials, Nanocomposites, and Interfaces (Invited)
This symposium will explore polymer materials, nanocomposites, and interfaces.
Organizer:Rigoberto Advincula
1:30 PMMultifunctional nanocomposite thin films prepared using layer-by-layer assembly
Jaime C. Grunlan
2:00 PMCovalent Thin Film Nanocomposites on Polyethylene Substrates
David E. Bergbreiter
2:30 PMImproved Dispersion in Polymer Nanocomposites by Incorporating Specific interactions
Mark Dadmun, Asif Rasheed, Phillip Britt, David Geohegan
3:00 PMBreak
3:15 PMPrecursor polymer approach to conjugated polymers: from nanopatterning to nanoparticles
Rigoberto Advincula
3:45 PMMesoscopic Assemblies of Hybrid Polymer Shell -Gold Core Nanostructures
Eugene R. Zubarev
4:15 PMFunctionalization of carbon nanotubes and use in composites
James M. Tour
4:45 PMSelf-assembly of alpha-helical coiled-coil nanofibers
HE DONG, Jeffrey D. Hartgerink

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