Invited Session 6

Friday, July 15, 2011: 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Goodyear Polymer Center Auditorium (The University of Akron)
9:00 AM
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High Strength Poly(acrylamide)-Clay Hydrogels
Ekmel Helvacıoğlu1, Volkan Aydın2, Bilge Uluocak3, Sinan Sen4, Turgut Nugay5 and Nihan Nugay1, (1)Chemistry-Polymer Research Center, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, (2)Chemistry-Polymer Research Center, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, (3)Research and Development Center for Advanced Technologies, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey, (4)Polymer Engineering, Yalova University, Yalova, Turkey, (5)Chemistry-Polymer Research Center, University, Istanbul, Turkey
9:30 AM
42
NEW APPROACHES for NOVEL MULTI-FUNCTIONAL ATRP Initiators
Metin H. Acar, Candan Catli and Sebnem Inceoglu, Chemistry Department, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
10:30 AM
44
Controlled Grafting of Cellulose Esters
Petr Vlcek, Controlled Macromolecular Synthesis, Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
11:00 AM
45
Peptides As Building Blocks for Functional Biomaterials
Wen Tang and Matthew L. Becker, Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, OH
11:30 AM
46
Synthesis of Branched (Co)Polymers by Anionic Polymerization
Junpo He, Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China