FRIDAY |
4:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Opening Lecture / Reception |
| John Pochan and Jimmy Mays
"Career opportunities in the polymer field" |
| Welcoming Reception |
SATURDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Sesion 1: Synthesis |
| Discussion Leader: Tianzi Huang (University of Tennessee) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Tracy Bucholz (University of Texas) "Synthesis and Characterization of Semi-Fluorinated Diblock Copolymers Containing Pentafluorostyrene Via Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization" |
9:20 am - 9:25 am | Discussion |
9:25 am - 9:45 am | Zhibo Li (UCLA) "Morphologies of Multicomponent Micelles Formed by ABC Miktoarm Star Terpolymers" |
9:45 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
9:50 am - 10:10 am | Jeffrey Rose (Cornell) "Polymerization of α-Olefins with a C2-Symmetric α-Diimine Ni(II) Catalyst: Combining Living Behavior with High Regio- and Stereospecificity" |
10:10 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
10:15 am - 10:35 am | Coffee Break |
10:35 am - 10:55 am | Naomi Sanabria DeLong (University of Massachusetts) "Properties of Associative Network Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering" |
10:55 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
11:00 am - 11:20 am | Xiaoshuang Feng (University of Bordeaux) "Synthesis of Asymmetrical Dendrimer-like Poly(ethylene oxide) with Different Surface functionalities" |
11:20 am - 11:25 am | Discussion |
11:25 am - 11:45 am | Jessica Cooper (Carnegie Mellon University) "Stereoregular Poly(3-alkylthiophene) for Use in Chemical Sensor Array" |
11:45 am - 11:50 am | Discussion |
11:50 am - 12:10 pm | Stephen Budy (Clemson University) "Self-Healing Thermally Reversible Crosslinked Polymers" |
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| Session Chair: Matthew Lamm (University of Delaware) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Session 2: Characterization |
| Discussion Leader: Matthew Lamm (University of Delaware) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Sudesh Kamath (University of Tennessee) "The Effect of Copolymer Composition on the Dynamics of Random Copolymers of Styrene and Methylmethacrylate in a PMMA Matrix: A Neutron Reflectivity Study" |
7:50 pm - 7:55 pm | Discussion |
7:55 pm - 8:15 pm | Bingbing Li (Virginia Tech) "Surface Pressure Induced Dendritic Crystallization of Poly(caprolactone) in Its Blends with Poly(t-butyl acrylate) at the Air/Water Interface" |
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
8:20 pm - 8:40 pm | Shihu Wang (Case Western Reserve University) "Self-Assembling Supramolecular Networks: A Monte Carlo Simulation" |
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
8:45 pm - 9:05 pm | Yifu Ding (NIST) "Polymer Viscoelasticity and Residual Stress Effects on Nanoimprint Lithography" |
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
SUNDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Session 3: Properties |
| Discussion Leader: Naomi Sanabria DeLong (University of Massachusetts) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | William Heath (Virginia Tech) "Structure-Property Relationships of Phosphonium Based Polyionenes" |
9:20 am - 9:25 am | Discussion |
9:25 am - 9:45 am | Ankit Agarwal (Iowa State University) "Novel Injectable Polymeric Thermogelling Systems for Gene Delivery" |
9:45 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
9:50 am - 10:10 am | Phil Costanzo (U.S. Army Research Laboratory) "New applications from old technology using Diels chemistry and block copolymers" |
10:10 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
10:15 am - 10:35 am | Coffee Break |
10:35 am - 10:55 am | Tianzi Huang (University of Tennessee) "The fluorinated and sulfonated Poly(1,3-Cyclohexadiene)-block-Polystyrene, a Potential Material for Fuel Cell PEM" |
10:55 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
11:00 am - 11:20 am | Qingling Zhang (University of Massachusetts) "Organic-Inorganic Photovoltaic Composite Materials Based on Polymer-Functionalized and Self-assembled Semiconductor Nanorods" |
11:20 am - 11:25 am | Discussion |
11:25 am - 11:45 am | Chien-Chi Lin (Clemson University) "Affinity Hydrogels for Protein Stabilization and Sustained Delivery" |
11:45 am - 11:50 am | Discussion |
11:50 am - 12:10 pm | Matthew Lamm (University of Delaware) "Beta-Sheet Fibrils via Peptide Self-Assembly: Design, Characterization and Templating of Inorganic Material and Nanoparticles" |
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm | Discussion |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Student/post doc Vice Chair(s) to work with GRC Chair, serving as mentor; Fill out Evaluation Forms) |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
6:00 pm | Polymers (West) GRC starts |