Polycondensation 2004

The Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center,
Roanoke, Virginia,
September 26 - 29, 2004

Sponsored by
The Division of Polymer Chemistry
American Chemical Society

 

Invitation & General Information

The 5th of an international series on Step Polymerization or Polycondensation will be held at the Virginia Tech Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center (http://www.hotelroanoke.com/) near the Roanoke Airport from September 26-30, 2004. The co-chairs of POLYCONDENSATION 2004 are James E. McGrath (Virginia Tech), Frank W. Harris (University of Akron) and Ed Paschke (Amoco, retired). This will be the 5th in a series, which historically started in Paris in 1996, then continued in Annapolis, MD in 1998, in Tokyo in 2000, and last year in Hamburg, Germany.

The theme of the conference will primarily be polymer synthesis and reactions, although additional related subjects could be included. Talks on linear, branched, special architectures, and network polymerizations are particularly invited.

The meeting will feature an international advisory board, an industrial advisory group, and a local organizing committee. The meeting is expected to attract speakers from around the world, including North and South America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. For further information or to submit a proposed lecture title or poster title, feel free to contact the organizers (Jmcgrath@vt.edu, harris@polymer.uakron.edu, and edpaschke@aol.com). The program will be an ACS Polymer Division Workshop and the details and arrangements are currently being finalized by Neta Byerly (nbyerly@vt.edu, Secretary of the ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry. And as always, Ms. Laurie Good will be handling much of the program scheduling, including receipt of titles, abstracts, etc. (Laurieg@vt.edu).

Please feel free to contact any or all of us for additional information about POLYCONDENSATION 2004 -- and hopefully with news of your intent to participate.

Chairs
James E. McGrath
University Distinguished Professor
Materials Research Institute and Department of Chemistry
Virginia Tech (0344)
2108 Hahn Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
Phone: 540-231-5976
Fax: 540-231-8517
Email: jmcgrath@vt.edu 		Frank Harris
University of Akron
Department of Polymer Science
Akron, OH 44325-3909
Phone: 330-972-5459
Fax: 330-972-5704
Email: harris@polymer.uakron.edu

Edward Paschke
BP Petrochemicals (retired) Email: Edpaschke@aol.com

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Accommodations

The workshop will be held at the The Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center in Roanoke Virginia. Hotel reservations should be made directly with the Doubletree by phone1-866-594-4722 or 540-985-5900, or fax 540-853-8264, requesting the ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry rate of $114.00 (single/double) plus applicable taxes per night. The hotel provides a shuttle service to and from Roanoke Airport just minutes away. For more information about the hotel, visit their website at http://www.hotelroanoke.com

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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Sunday, September 26

OPENING SESSION

8:00 a.m.

Scenic Tour

2:00 p.m.

Registration

3:00 p.m.

James E. McGrath, Introduction, Overview and Objectives of the Workshop

3:15 p.m.

Jim Economy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

"Novel Inorganic and Organic High Temperature Polymers Made by Condensation Reactions"

4:00 p.m.

Paul Hergenrother, NASA Langley Research Center

"Phenylethynyl Terminated Imides: Resin Transfer Molding Resins"

4:30 p.m.

Doetze Sikkema, Magellan M5, BV

"M5 polymerization (Heteroaromatic Cyclization in Polyphosphoric Acid)"

5:00 p.m.

Rikio Yokota, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan

"Isomeric Biphenyl Polyimides: Dynamic Tensile Properties-Chemical Structures Relationships"

5:30 p.m.

Yakov S. Vygodskii, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

"Synthesis, Characterization of Ionic Liquids and Their Application in Polymer Synthesis"

6:00 p.m.

OPENING RECEPTION

 

Monday, September 27

INVITED LECTURE SESSION I

Judy Riffle, Virginia Tech, Discussion Leader

7:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m.

Jeff Moore, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

"Folding Driven Polymerization"

9:00 a.m.

Zinaida Shifrina, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

"New Polyphenylene Dendrimers with Pyridine Embeds"

9:30 a.m.

 

Mary Ann Meador, NASA Glenn Research Center

"Advances Toward the Design of End Caps with Controlled Oxidation for Addition Polyimides"

10:00 a.m.

BREAK

INVITED LECTURE SESSION II

Timothy E. Long, Virginia Tech, Discussion Leader

10:15 a.m.

Masa-aki Kakimoto, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

"Aromatic Hyperbranched Polymers: Control of Degree Branching"

10:45 a.m.

H.R. Kricheldorf,

"Cyclic Oligo- and Polycarbonates by Direct Phosgenation"

11:15p.m.

Jon Geibel, Chevron Phillips Chemical Co, LP

"Solution Behavior of PPS - NMP Mixtures: Influence on Polymerization Performance"

12:00 p.m.

LUNCH

INVITED LECTURE SESSION III

Harry Gibson, Virginia Tech, Discussion Leader

1:15 p.m.

Ed Paschke, BP Petrochemicals (retired)

"Synthesis and Packaging Applications for Branched Polyesters"

1:45 pm.

Valerie Sheares-Ashby, UNC Chapel Hill

"Advances in Ni(0)-Catalyzed Coupling in Polymer Synthesis"

2:15 p.m.

Michael Wright, Stephen Fallis and Andrew, J. Guenthner, US NAVY, China Lake

"Novel Materials Based on the Synthesis of Linear-Carbon"

2:45 p.m.

James L. Hedrick, IBM Almaden Research

"Expanding the Catalytic Activity of Nucleophilic N-Heterocyclic Carbenes for Transesterification Reactions"

3:15 p.m.

BREAK

INVITED LECTURE SESSION IV

Ed Paschke, Discussion Leader

3:30 p.m.

Martin Weber, BASF

"In situ Polyamide 6 Alloys Prepared by Polycondensation"

4:00 p.m.

S. Richard Turner, Eastman Chemical Company

"Amorphous Copolyesters Containing Monomers Derived from Bisphenols"

4:30 p.m.

Saverio Russo, University of Genova, Italy

"A Study on Dendritic Aramids as Carriers for Metal Nanoclusters: Their Role in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis"

5:00 p.m.

Regis Mercier, CNRS, France

"Assisted Microwave Polymer Systhesis"

6:00 p.m.

RECEPTION AND POSTER PRESENTATION

Submit poster abstracts to Lesia Robertson, ACS Polymer Div., Virginia Tech - E-mail: lesiar@vt.edu

 

Tuesday, September 28

 

INVITED LECTURE SESSION V

Frank W. Harris, University of Akron, Discussion Leader

7:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m.

David Schiraldi, Case Western Reserve University

"Polyester and Polyamide Silsesquioxane Nanocomposites"

9:00 a.m.

Dan Brunelle, General Electric

"Phase Transfer Catalyzed Aromatic Displacement Polymerization"

9:30 a.m.

Timothy E. Long, Virginia Tech

"Segmented Hyperbranched Polymers: From Submicron Fibers to Elastomers"

10:00 a.m.

BREAK

Tuesday, September 28, cont'd

INVITED LECTURE SESSION VI

Jim Hedrick, IBM Almaden Research Center, Discussion Leader

10:15 a.m.

 

Kenneth J. Wynne, Virginia Commonwealth University

"Novel Polyurethanes Coatings Containing Oxetane Soft Blocks"

10:45 a.m.

Robert Ward, The Polymer Technology Group

"Continuous Synthesis of Polyurethanes with Surface Modifying Endgroups"

11:15 a.m.

Harry W. Gibson, Virginia Tech, Turkey

"Self-Threading at the Monomer Level or Concatenation at the Polymer Level in Aramides"

12:00 p.m.

LUNCH

INVITED LECTURE SESSION VII

Ken Wynne, VCU, Discussion Leader

1:15 p.m.

Richard A. Gross, Polytechnic University

"Bioresorbable Polyol-Polyesters Prepared by Lipase Catalysis"

1:45 p.m.

Anthony East, Polymerix Corporation

"New Developments in Polyanhydride Chemistry"

2:15 p.m.

Iskender Yilgor, Koc University, Turkey

"Novel Silicone-Urea Copolymers with a Gradient Interphase Between Pdms and Urea"

2:45 p.m.

BREAK

INVITED LECTURE SESSION VIII

Iskender Yilgor, Koc University, Discussion Leader

3:00 p.m.

C. E. Koning, University of Technology Eindhoven, The Netherlands

"Controlling the Chain Structure of Semi-Aromatic Polyesters by Solid-State Copolymerization"

3:30 p.m.

Brian Benicewicz, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

"Advances in Polybenzimidazole Synthesis and Applications to Fuel Cells"

4:00 p.m.

B. I. Voit, University of Dresden, Germany

"Hyperbranched poly(urea-urethanes) by AA*+B*B2 approach"

4:30 p.m.

Dan Knauss, Colorado School of Mines, Inc.

"Poly(aryl ether thianthrene)s: Synthesis and Characterization"

 

Wednesday, September 29

INVITED LECTURE SESSION IX

Dan Brunelle, General Electric, Discussion Leader

 

7:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

8:15 a.m.

Terry McGrail Cytec Engineered Materials, Wilton Center, Wilton, UK

"Polyaromatic-Epoxy Blends for Composites: Property and Processing Innovations"

 

8:45 a.m.

 

JosŽ G. de la Campa, Institute of Polymeric Science and Technology, Madrid

"Novel Polyimides for Gas Separation Membranes: A Theoretical and Experimental Study"

9:15 a.m.

Albert Gourdenne, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Arts Chimiques et Technologiques, Toulouse, France

"Curing Under Continuous Radiofrequencies (27.12 Mhz) of Thermosetting Epoxy Prepolymers"

9:45 a.m.

John W. Connell, NASA Langley Research Center

"Development of Transparent, Flexible, Low Color, Anti-Static Polyimides for Advanced Spacecraft"

10:15 a.m.

BREAK

INVITED LECTURE SESSION X

Paul Hergenrother, NASA Langley, Discussion Leader

10:30 a.m.

Frank Harris, University of Akron

"Synthesis and Behavior of Achiral, Liquid Crystalline Monomers and Their Polymers"

11:00 a.m.

Dennis Smith, Clemson University

"Step-Growth Terpolymers from Lactide and Bisphenol-A Derivatives: Introducing Renewable Resource Monomers into Commodity Thermoplastics"

11:30 a.m.

Roderic P. Quirk, University of Akron

"Regiochemistry of Nickel-Catalyzed Polymerization of 1,5-Dichlorobenzophenone in the Presence of Coordinating Ligands"

12:00 p.m.

LUNCH

INVITED LECTURE SESSION XI

Martin Rogers, Luna Innovations, Discussion Leader

1:15 p.m.

A.L. Rusanov Russian Academby of Sciences

"Synthesis and Polymeranalogous Transformations of the New Functionalized Polyheteroarylenes"

1:45 p.m.

Ramaz Katsarava, Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia

"New Biodegradable Poly(ester amide)s Composed of ¶-Amino Acids: Synthesis and Biomedical Applications"

2:15 p.m.

Ken Carter, IBM Almaden Research Center

"Nanocontact Molding of Functional Photopolymer Resins for Direct Fabrication of Organic Electronics"

2:45 p.m.

BREAK

3:00 p.m.

Mike Meador, NASA Glenn Research Center

"UV Curable Polyimides and Polyesters - A Non-condensation Approach"

3:30 p.m.

Jim McGrath, Virginia Tech

"Advanced Materials for Proton Exchange Membranes Via Polycondensation"

4:00 p.m.

CLOSING REMARKS, Jim McGrath

 

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Registration

The registration fee is $650 for Members of the Division of Polymer Chemistry and $700 for Non-Members ($200 Student Members, $250 Student Non-Members). There is a $200 fee for a Non-Participating Guest that may accompany you. Written cancellation or registration after August 1, 2004, will cost an additional $50. In addition to handout material, the fee includes meals, receptions and breaks as noted in the program.

To register send the completed registration form with remittance to Lesia Robertson, Division of Polymer Chemistry, Inc., Virginia Tech, 410 Davidson Hall, M.C. 0279, Blacksburg, VA 24061, Phone: 540-231-3052, Fax: 540-231-2588, e-mail: lesiar@vt.edu.

Use the on-line registration form (preferred) or the form below.

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