Upcoming ACS Symposium in 2003

"Branching in Polyolefins"

2003 Fall National ACS Meeting

New York, NY, USA, September 7-12, 2003

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"Branching in Polyolefins", one of the emerging frontiers in polyolefins is pursued actively by both academic and industrial researchers around the world. Key discoveries and useful products based on novel polyolefin architectures and their beneficial product attributes have come out of this exciting area in polyolefins. It has been and still is a fertile research field for all scientific disciplines to produce, understand, and utilize the unique feature, especially the long chain branching of polyolefins. New theories explaining the unique melt behavior, and sophisticated tools/techniques to characterize and process these new polyolefin compositions have been developed. Because of their ability to enhance the end-use product performance and processibility, branching in polyolefins has opened new "market niches" and "patent windows" which are otherwise inaccessible to the industrial producers. We believe time is right to have an international forum to discuss the recent progress and the future potential of this emerging frontier in polyolefins. The focus of this ACS Symposium is to cover various aspects - synthesis, characterization, structure/property, processibility, and applications of the branched polyolefins. The lead experts on those topics will be presenting their new and exciting discoveries in this symposium. Both oral and poster presentations by both invitation and submission are included. If you would like to participate in the symposium, please contact the organizers or the ACS website: "http://oasys.acs.org/acs/226nm/poly/program.html" for additional information. The polymer preprint instructions are on the website: www.swt.edu/science/polymerpreprints

As for abstracts, that can be typed in (or cut and paste) on the oasys website where all of the abstracts are submitted -- it does the formatting for you. The deadline for paper submissions (abstract and preprint are both required by) is May 2, 2003.

Symposium Organizers:

Dr. Pal Arjunan Prof. Christian Friedrich

Baytown Polymer Center Freiburg Material Research

ExxonMobil Chemical Company Center (FMR)

5200 Bayway Drive University of Freiburg

Baytown, TX 77522, USA Stefan-Meier-Str. 21

79104 Freiburg

Phone: (281) 834-1533 Phone: +49 761 203 4746

Fax: (281) 834-2480 Fax: +49 761 203 4709

e-mail: pal.arjunan@exxonmobil.com christian.friedrich@fmf.uni-freiburg.de