

| Richard M. Laine Departments of Materials and Engineering, and Chemistry The University of Michigan 2300 Hayward St. Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-2136 734-764-6203 fax 734-763-4788 talsdad@umich.edu |
Frank Blum Department of Chemistry Univ. of Missouri-Rolla Rolla, MO 65409-0010 573-341-4451 fax 573-341-6033 fblum@umr.edu |
Poster sessions are planned to give the confreres the opportunity to present their innovative work. To propose a poster, register, or get on the mailing list for further information, access the web link above, contact one of the organizers, or Neta Byerly, ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry, Inc., 1103 410 Davidson Hall, MC 0279, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA 24061, Phone: (703) 231-3029, FAX: 540-231-2588, nbyerly@vt.edu.
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The workshop will be held at the Sonoma Doubletree Hotel in Northern California. Hotel reservations should be made directly with the Doubletree by phone (707) 584-5466 or fax (707) 586-9726, requesting the ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry rate of $109.00 (single) or $124.00 (double) plus energy surcharge and applicable taxes per night. A scenic hour drive from the world famous San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge and only 20 minutes from the Sonoma County Airport (Santa Rosa), the Doubletree Resort affords guests the opportunity to visit over 190 wineries in the area. For more information about the hotel, visit their website at http://www.dtsonoma.com/. | ![]() |
| Time | Speaker/Event |
| 18:00 | Registration |
| 18:30 | Welcoming reception |
| 8:30 | Clement Sanchez, U. Paris 6 | Synthesis Strategies for making advanced hybrid materials: from amorphous to organized networks |
| 9:30 | Yoshiki Chujo, Kyoto U. | Organic Polymer Nano-Hybrids |
| 10:30 | Break | |
| 11:00 | Brent Viers, Air Force Research Lab. | Basic and Applied Research on Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Materials for Propulsion and Space |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | Joe Lichtenhan, Hybrid Plastics | Economic and Commercialization of Nanostructured Hybrid Chemicals |
| 14:30 | Rick Laine, U. Michigan | Octahedral silsesquioxanes and their derivatives as nanosized building blocks for nanocomposites |
| 16:00 -18:30 |
Poster session and wine tasting | Click here for a list of poster papers |
| 18:30 | Dinner (on your own) |
| 8:30 | Barry Farmer, Air Force Research Lab | Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Hybrid Polymers and Nanocomposites |
| 9:30 | Ulrich Schubert, Technische U. Wien | Polymers Reinforced by Covalently-Bonded Metal-Oxide Clusters |
| 10:30 | Break | |
| 11:00 | James Mark, U. Cincinnati | Ceramic-Reinforced Polymers, Polymer-Modified Ceramics, and Polymer-Protected Nanocatalysts |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:30 | Emmanuel Giannelis, Cornell U. | Recent Advances in Clay-Polymer Nanocomposites |
| 2:30 | Rich Vaia, Air Force Research Lab. | Morphology Development in Polymer-layered Silicate Nanocomposites |
| 3:30 | Break | |
| 4:00 | Mark Ellsworth, Tyco Electronics | Synthesis of Multi-Component Nanophase Particles and Their Use as Functional Fillers |
| 5:00 | Douglas Loy, Sandia National Labs. | Building Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials based on Silsesquioxanes |
| 6:30 | Banquet |
| 9:00 | William Brittain, U. Akron | Nanocomposite Preparation by Suspension and Emulsion Polymerization |
| 9:30 | Josef Zwanziger, Indiana U. | Polymer-inorganic composites for lithium batteries: Towards solutions for the mobile anion problem |
| 10:00 | Lon Mathias, U. Southern Mississippi | Synthesis and NMR Characterization of Polymer-Clay Interfaces |
| 10:30 | Break | |
| 10:45 | Peter Mirau, Lucent Technologies | Templating in Nanoporous Silsesquioxanes: Solid-State NMR Studies |
| 11:15 | Frank Blum, U. Missouri-Rolla | Dynamics of Hybrid and Interfacial Silane Coupling Agents |
| Lijiang Hu, Shushan Zhao, Yi Sue | Family of Silsesquioxaes (SSO) for Coating Part I: Influence of the Nature of the Organic Part on SSO |
| Min Young Jeon, Seung Hoon Han, Sang Man Koo | Preparation and Characterization of Polyhedral Oligosilsequioxane containing Networks |
| Tammy L. Metroke, Olga Kachurina and Edward T. Knobbe | Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Coatings as Corrosion Inhibiting Surface Treatments for Aluminum Alloy |
| Jin Woo Kim | Synthesis of Novel Siloxyphenyl-Containing Monomers and their Polymerized Products by the Hydrosilation |
| Jiang Lanmei | Methodology for Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Materials |
| John T. Lean, Colleen R. Baugher, Douglas A. Loy | Phenol-Protected 3-Isocyanatopropyltriethoxysilane Polymers |
| Lanyi Liu, Lijiang Hu, Shushan Zhao, Yi Sun | Family of Silsesquioxaes (SSO) for Coating Part III: Influence of Nature of Inorganic Part on SSO |
| Theodore T. Moore, Rajiv Mahajan, William J. Koros | Engineering the Polymer-Sieve Interface for Successful Mixed Matrix Membranes |
| Xin Tong, Haichao Zhao, Tao Tang, Zhiliu Feng and Baotong Huang | Preparation and Characterization of Poly(ethyl acrylate)/Bentonite Nanocomposites by In Situ Emulsion Polymerization |
| Rene Thouvenot | Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Polymers Based on Polyoxometalates |
| Tadashi Uragami, Hiroshi Matsugi, and Takashi Miyata | Water-Permselective Membranes from Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Materials |
To register, send the completed registration form with remittance to the Division of Polymer Chemistry at the address listed below or Better yet: use the on-line registration
form on the POLY website to register for the meeting. Payment may be made by credit card or check (payable to Division of Polymer Chemistry). Due to the limited space of this meeting, we strongly encourage early registration. Registration fees are listed on the Registration Form. A $50.00 late fee will be imposed for registrations received after October 1, 2001. Send registrations to:
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$700 Non-Member Registration
$225 Member Student Registration
$275 Non-Member Student Registration
$225 Accompanying Guest
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*A late fee is charged if registration is received after October 1, 2001.
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