Re: Symposium on "Polymeric Nanofibers" at the 226th ACS National Meeting in New York City From: Darrell H. Reneker Dear Colleague: Now is the time to make plans to be a part of the Symposium on "Polymeric Nanofibers" at the 226th ACS National Meeting in New York City, September 7-11, 2003. The deadline for submissions is May 2, 2003. The symposium is co-sponsored by the Fiber Society. See their web site at: . I invite you to present a talk or poster in the Symposium on "Polymeric Nanofibers" that Dr. Hao Fong and I are arranging for the Division of Polymer Chemistry. The central focus of the symposium will be polymeric nanofibers made by electrospinning. We are making a very broad interpretation of the title, and nanofibers of most substances made by most methods will be appropriate. Papers on uses of nanofibers, surface modification, and process modeling are also appropriate. Please call this Symposium to the attention of anyone who is interested in nanofibers. All registered ACS members or non-members are welcome to attend the Symposium. The Online Abstract Submission System (OASYS) can be found on the ACS website at www.chemistry.org . Click on "National Meetings," and then click on "Abstract Info." This will lead you to detailed instructions for submission of a 150-word abstract and a two-page polymer preprint. Both the abstract and the preprint are required. Your "Polymer Preprint" will become a part of the archival literature abstracted by Chemical Abstracts Service. It is essential for you to submit your Abstract and Preprint directly through OASYS. Hao Fong and I will find your abstracts there and will arrange the sessions and presentation times. The following people have agreed to chair the sessions listed: Electrical and Physical Properties of Nanofibers Professor Wayne Jones State University of New York Binghamton Theory and Modeling of the Electrospinning Process and Nanofibers Professor Greg Rutledge Massachusetts Institute of Technology Applications of Nanofibers Dr. Heidi Gibson U.S. Army Soldier Systems Command, Natick, Massachusetts If you want to submit a paper for inclusion in a book that will be part of the ACS Symposium Series, please tell me at your earliest convenience. Full-length manuscripts for review will be due September 7th, the date of the meeting. If the usual ACS policies regarding the numbers of papers submitted, length, and quality are satisfied, we will edit such a book, which would be published between March and September of 2004.