ACS Symposium
Defects in Polymer Nanostructures
Washington, DC, August 28-September 1, 2005
The symposium will focus on the characterization, control and role of defects in soft nanoscale functional materials and systems, with a view to developing strategies required for top-down and bottom up assemblies of nanosystems and nanodevices. In addition to neat soft materials such as block-copolymers, polymer nanocrystals, quantum dots, and hybrid nanosystems such as nanotube dispersed films, we invite research topics that examine the issues at a higher level as in hard-soft interfaces for nanodevices (e.g. defects in nanoimprint or metal-polymer interfaces). Research strategies for driven (such as by electric or thermal field) and guided self-assembly (such as by confining walls) to obtain long-range defect free and high-fidelity media such as required for optical applications are equally solicited. Areas where defect control may be a requisite or an opportunity for optimizing nanostructure function are of interest as well, such as materials for controlled failure and auto-recovery. Our aim is to provide an exposition of the current state of the art on the topic of Defects in Polymer Nanostructures, in thin films and bulk and under processing conditions, with emphasis on experiment, theory, and modeling.
Papers are solicited in but not limited to the focused topic areas of the symposia:
- Nano thin film self-assembly process e.g. block copolymer ordering, dewetting, phase separation
- Defects at nanoscale material interfaces between polymers and inorganic or metallic contacts
- Application of external fields and processing to control defects in nanostructured materials
- Coarsening of nanoscale defects
- Transport and migration of defects in soft materials
- Nanoscale defects in coatings
- Control of defects for polymer based nanomanufacturing
Invited speakers: E.J. Kramer (UCSB), R. Register (Princeton U.), C. Ober (Cornell U.), P. Nealey (U. Wisconsin), G. Krausch (U. Bayreuth), M. Fasolka (NIST), S. Sibener (U. Chicago), A. Balazs (U. Pittsburg), C.Ross (MIT), S.P.Gido (UMass Amherst), A.Chakraborty (UC Berkeley), M.Schick (U.Washington), H.Fraaije (U.Leiden), H.Jinnai (Kyoto), J.K.Kim (Pohang U.)
Organizers' contact info:
Alamgir Karim
National Institute of Standards and Technology
100 Bureau Drive, MS 8542, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
Ph: 301-975-6588
Fax: 301-975-4924
alamgir.karim@nist.gov
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Thomas P. Russell
Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
University of Massachusetts
120 Governors Drive
Amherst, MA 01003, USA
Ph: 413-545-2680
Fax: 413-545-0421
russell@mail.pse.umass.edu
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Uli B. Wiesner
Department of Materials Science & Engineering
Cornell University
329 Bard Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Ph: 607-255-3487
Fax: 607-255-2365
ubw1@cornell.edu
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Eric J. Amis
National Institute of Standards and Technology
100 Bureau Drive, MS 8540, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
Ph: 301-975-6681
Fax: 301-975-4252
eric.amis@nist.gov
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