Saturday, 21 October 2006: 8:00 AM-12:00 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
8:00 AMIntroductory Remarks
8:15 AMSolvent-reversibly porating materials via microemulsion polymerization
Feng Yan, John Texter
8:45 AMOrganizing nanoparticles into microcapsules and porous microspheres
Michael S. Wong, Vinit S. Murthy, JIE YU, Shyam Benegal
9:15 AMStructural characterization of dendrimer-encapsulated nanoparticles using EXAFS
Marc R. Knecht, Michael G. Weir, Heechang Ye, Anatoly I. Frenkel, Richard M. Crooks
9:45 AMMonolayers of hydrophobically-modified poly(propylene imine) dendrimers
Aihua Su, Susheng Tan, Bret Flanders, Warren T. Ford
10:15 AMBreak
10:30 AMCharge separation and exciton diffusion in poly(p-phenylene vinylene) multilayers doped with phosphomolybdate
Bin Wang, Ritesh N. Vyas, Ravi K. Rayabarapu, Ku'yen Li, J. Wayne Rabalais
11:00 AMUnderstanding Energy Transfer in Conjugated Polymers Using Single Molecule Spectroscopy
John K. Grey, Doo Young Kim, William L. Miller, Brent R. Norris, Paul F. Barbara
11:30 AMEvaluating the quality of nanometer thin films of parylene for use as an electrode dielectric through spectroscopic, electrochemical, and SPM techniques
Timothy J. Smith, R. Alan May, Ryan D. Williams, Keith J. Stevenson

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