CALL FOR PAPERS
PREPRINT/ABSTRACT DEADLINE—MONDAY, OCTOBER 19^TH, 2009

ACS / Polymer Chemistry Division Announces its Call for papers for the Spring Symposium for San Francisco 2010:  Nanostructured Polymers

For details, go to: National Meetings-San Francisco

Abstract submission is now open!  To submit abstract, go to:  http://oasys.acs.org/

The Organizers of this symposium invite you to submit your abstract for the Nanostructured Polymers symposium to take place during the 2010 ACS National Meting in San Francisco, CA. The abstract submission site is available at http://oasys.acs.org/

The theme of this symposium is the synthesis and development of polymeric materials with significant structure at the nanometer scale.   Applications of these nano-structured materials are realized in how one controls properties at the nano-level and translates them into the macro level.  Appreciation of this goal has been slower than anticipated for a variety of reasons, but perhaps most importantly due to the incredible complexity of controlling nano-structures under challenging physical, chemical and mechanical boundary conditions.  

The symposium will be divided into sessions that highlight what we believe are the major thrusts in nanostructured materials.  There is a major drive to take traditional electronic devices and incorporate their function into the materials themselves.  This area is particularly interesting because it requires researchers to solve challenging fundamental problems, but in doing so the end result will be a very useful material.  There will also be a session on hybrid or multi-functional materials, where two or more materials are combined in a symbiotic fashion to create new materials.  We also will have a session dedicated to new synthetic methods for creating nanostructured materials, which will dovetail well with the more application-based papers.

The overarching theme of the talks at the Nanostructured Symposium is that chemists have been working in the nano- and subnanoscale size regimes for a very long time.  What sets nanostructured materials apart from traditional polymers is the ability to rationally control macroscale function or properties through the manipulation of molecular structure.  These papers will help bridge the gap between macro- and nanoscale--where micro-structure meets molecular structure. We see this as the direction materials chemistry is moving towards.

Topics to be addressed include (but are not limited to):

• Polymer nanofiber materials
• Polymers and nanomaterials for sensing, reactive materials and molecular electronics
• Functional polymer thin films for switching, sensing and adaptive applications
• Response-driven polymeric films and coatings
• Polymers in micro- and nano-electronics
• Self-assembled nano and mesostructured materials
• Templating and synthesis of novel nanostructured materials
• Hybrid organic-inorganic nanomaterials
• Developing nanomaterial applications

Invited speakers (partial list) include:

Zhenan Bao  (Stanford University), Ken Carter  (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Luping Yu (University of Chicago), Richard B. Kaner (UCLA), Richard M. Laine (University of Michigan), Zoran Zujovic (University of Auckland), Bruce H. Weiller (The Aerospace Corporation).

Symposium Organizers

Alan R. Hopkins, Ph.D.
The Aerospace Corporation
Materials Science Department, Space Materials Laboratory, PO BOX 92957-M2/242
Los Angeles, CA  90009-2957
Tel 310-336-5664
 alan.r.hopkins@aero.org

Randy M. Villahermosa, Ph.D.
The Aerospace Corporation
Space Materials Laboratory
PO BOX 92957-M6/227
Los Angeles, CA  90009-2957
Tel 310-416-1693
 mailto:randy.m.villahermosa@aero.org

Prof. Alejandro L. Briseno
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Conte Research Center
120 Governors Drive
Amherst, MA  01003
Tel 413-577-1210
mailto:abriseno@mail.pse.umass.edu


Sara R. Halper, Ph.D.
The Aerospace Corporation
Materials Science Department, Space Materials Laboratory,
PO BOX 92957-M2/242
Los Angeles, CA  90009-2957
Tel 310-336-1397
 mailto:sara.r.halper@aero.org