POLY - ACS Symposia Program - Graduate Spring 2011

Division of Polymer Chemistry

7th Excellence in Polymer Graduate Research Symposium

Anaheim, CA - March 28, 2011

As part of our initiative on graduate student membership and graduate education, the ACS Polymer Chemistry Division (POLY) started a special symposium, entitled "Excellence in Polymer Graduate Research" at the National ACS Meeting in Philadelphia in Fall 2004. Since then, we have organized this symposium every year in the Spring ACS meetings. The seventh symposium was held at the National ACS Meeting in Anaheim on March 27-28, 2011.

The purposes of this symposium were to provide recognition to outstanding graduate students in polymer science and engineering, to foster networking and exposure, and to help develop the careers of future leaders in our field. We publicized this symposium via the POLY list server, POLY web page, and direct email messages to academic departments that are active in polymer research. We requested that each department nominate one outstanding graduate student to speak on his or her original research in this special symposium. Each student was required to fill out an application form and have a nominating letter from the research advisor and a letter from the department head.

We had 26 students this year, and they were truly excellent in the quality of the research done and in their enthusiastic presentations. The detailed symposium program is attached below. This year we started the activities with a networking social on Sunday evening, with snacks and drinks. We were joined by the students from the Undergraduate Research Symposium. A large number of POLY officers and representatives from POLY Industrial Advisory Board were also present, and there were very good interactions among all the people. Professor Robert B. Moore, Chair of POLY, spoke briefly to the students, congratulating them on their selection and wishing them continued success.

As part of the recognition, each student received a certificate plus a cash award. It is important to note that Dr. Nancy Jackson, the ACS President, made this a Presidential Event, and personally attended the symposium during the intermission in the afternoon. She spoke to the students and took a group picture with them, together with Professor Moore (POLY Chair). We realize that Dr. Jackson had a very busy schedule at the meeting, and we truly appreciated her support of the symposium and her efforts to come to the symposium.

This symposium was organized by ACS Polymer Division (POLY), and cosponsored by Presidential Event (PRES), Young Chemists Committee (YCC), Division of Professional Relations (PROF), Society Committee on Education (SOCED), and POLY. The symposium had the generous support of National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research (DMR), ACS Polymer Division (POLY), and Industrial Advisory Board of the Polymer Division (IAB). The organizers thank all the sponsors and supporters, without whom this symposium would not have been possible.

Symposium Organizing Committee:

H. N. Cheng (USDA)
Christopher J. Ellison (Univ. of Texas at Austin)
Christine Landry-Coltrain (Eastman Kodak Company)
Timothy E. Long (Virginia Tech)

Symposium Program

Excellence in Polymer Graduate Research, March 28, 2011

Sponsored by POLY, cosponsored by PRES, SOCED, YCC, PROF
Organized by POLY (H. N. Cheng, Chris Ellison, Tim Long, Christine Landry-Coltrain, co-organizers)
Financial Support: ACS Polymer Division, POLY Industrial Advisory Board, NSF Division of Materials Research

Reception - 3/27/11 Sunday Afternoon (5:00 - 6:30 pm)
5:00 - 6:30 PM Networking Reception - Welcome to Students

Oral Session - 3/28/11 Morning (Chair: H.N. Cheng, Christine Landry-Coltrain)

				Student	Advisor(s)		School/Dept.

8:10 AM	Introductory Remarks
8:15 AM	Encapsulation of Au Nanoparticles and Organic Dyes into polymeric nanocapsules via miniemulsion ATRP		Li, Wenwen		Krzysztof Matyjaszewski		Carnegie Mellon Univ.
8:40 AM	Development of poly(vinyl ester) block copolymer materials		Lipscomb, Corinne		Mahesh K. Mahanthappa		Univ. of Wisconsin
9:05 AM	New method for the controlled synthesis of tailor-made polymer thin films by photocleavage		Dach, Benjamin		Nick Turro		Columbia Univ.
9:30 AM	Block copolymers derived from the Acyclic Diene Metathesis (ADMET) polymerization of a modified vegetable oil		Mauldin, Timothy		Michael Kessler		Iowa State Univ.
9:55 AM	Intermission
10:25 AM	Controlling diblock copolymer self-assembly in dip-coating thin films of PS-P4VP with hydrogen-bonding small molecules		Roland, Sébastien		C. G. Bazuin/R.E. Prud'homme		Univ of Montreal
10:50 AM	Polymersomes with ionic liquid interiors dispersed in water		Bai, Zhifeng		Tim Lodge		Univ. of Minnesota-Chem
11:15 AM	Polymer assisted mechanical reconfiguration of stereoisomers and activation of catalysts		Wiggins, Kelly		Christopher Bielawski		Univ. of Texas-Chem

Oral Session - 3/28/11 Afternoon (Chair: Chris Ellison, Christine Landry-Coltrain)
1:10 PM	Introductory Remarks
1:15 PM	Recognition of Poster Presenters
1:25 PM	Bio-functionalized and bio-mimetic conjugated polymers for the device-tissue interface		Povlich, Laura		David C. Martin /Jinsang Kim	Univ of Michigan
1:50 PM	Spatial and Temporal Control of the azide-alkyne cycloaddition		Adzima, Brian		Chris Bowman	Univ of Colorado
2:15 PM	Novel sulfonated segmented block copolyesters as thermoplastic elastomers in biomedical applications		Musan Zhang		Tim Long	Virginia Tech
2:40 PM	Tough polylactide graft copolymers from tandem ring-opening polymerizations		Theryo, Grayce		Marc A. Hillmyer	Univ of Minnesota-Materials
3:05 PM	Remarks by Dr. Nancy Jackson (ACS President) and Photo Session
3:35 PM	Photopolymerized PEG-based Membranes for CO2 Separation		Kwisnek, Luke		Sergei Nazarenko	Southern Mississippi Univ.
4:00 PM	Sulfonated Perfluorocyclobutyl (S-PFCB) Aryl Ether Polymers for Proton Exchange Membranes		Park, Jiyoung		Dennis Smith /Rhett C. Smith	Clemson Univ. -Chem
4:25 PM	Experimental observation of the Twinkling Fractal Theory of the glass transition		Stanzione, Joseph		Richard P. Wool	Univ of Delaware-CE
4:50-5:30	Informal Networking at Poster Session - Hilton California Boardroom D

Poster Sessions - Monday,3/28/11
9:30-11:00		Metabolic fluoroprobes: Metabolite carriers for examining xenobiotic degradation	Daniele, Michael Angelo-Anthony		Stephen Foulger	Clemson Univ. -Material
9:30-11:00		Engineered extracellular matrices for soft tissue regeneration	Jha, Amit		Xinqiao Jia	Univ of Delaware-Material
9:30-11:00		Sorption and diffusion of water vapor in polylactide: Experiments and model predictions	Davis, Eric		Yossef A. Elabd	Drexel Univ.
9:30-11:00		Development of calcium-binding silk scaffolds with the sequence [(Glu)₈(Ala-Gly-Ser-Gly-Ala-Gly)₄]₄, and their characterization	Nagano, Aya		Tetsuo Asakura	Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology
9:30-11:00		Studies of Self-assembly of Metallo-supramolecular Polymers in Solution	Li, Zheng		Alex Jamieson	Case Western Univ.
9:30-11:00		100 K Perturbation of the Glass Transition Temperature in Nanostructured Heterogeneous Polymers	Kim, Soyoung		John Torkelson	Northwestern Univ.

2:30-5:30		β to α crystalline phase transition of syndiotactic polystyrene (sPS) induced by mechanical strain	Ouchi, Tetsu		Atsushi Hotta	Keio Univ.
2:30-5:30		RAFT copolymerization of thermo-responsive poly(DEGMA-b-OEGA) with tunable LCST	Chen, Ning		Patricia Heiden	Michigan Technological Univ
2:30-5:30		Expanding the range of polyolefins through living coordinative chain transfer polymerization	Wei, Jia		Lawrence Sita	Univ of Maryland
2:30-5:30		Synthesis and electronic properties of semiconducting polymers containing benzodithiophene	Sista, Prakash		Mihaela C. Stefan	Univ of Texas-Dallas
2:30-5:30		High-Concentration Dispersions of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Poly(pyridinium salt)s	Jo, Tae Soo		Pradip K. Bhowmik	Univ of Nevada
2:30-5:30		Modeling the interfacial phenomena of polymer-carbon nanotube interactions via molecular dynamics simulations	Tallury, Syamal		Melissa A. Pasquinelli/ Richard J Spontak	North Carolina State U.

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