Invited Session 4

Wednesday, July 13, 2011: 9:00 AM-5:30 PM
Goodyear Polymer Center Auditorium (The University of Akron)
9:00 AM
25
Synthesis of Filler Reactive Polymers Via Ionic Polymerization
Gabor Kaszas, Ph.D., 400 C, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, OH
9:30 AM
26
Synthesis of CONTROLLED Helical Polyisocyanates by Living Anionic POLYMERIZATION
Priyank N. Shah1, Joonkeun Min1 and Jae-Suk Lee, Professor2, (1)Department of Nanobio Materials and Electronics and School of Material Science and Engineering, Department of Nanobio Materials and Electronics and School of Material Science and Engineering, GIST, Gwangju, South Korea, (2)School of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Nanobio Materials and Electronics, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju, South Korea
10:00 AM
27
Star Polymers of Different Functionalities Via Living and Controlled Polymerizations
Andrzej Dworak1, Barbara Trzebicka1, Wojciech Walach1, Agnieszka Kowalczuk1, Marcin Libera1, Barbara Mendrek2 and Iwona Zymelka1, (1)Centre of Polymer and Carbon Materials Polish Academy of Sciences, Zabrze, Poland, (2)Centre of Polymer and Carbon Materials Polish Acaddemy of Sciences, Zabrze, Poland
10:30 AM
Coffee Break
11:00 AM
28
Functional Polyisobutylenes As Building Blocks of Complex Polymeric Architectures: From the Nanoscale to Macroscopic Objects and to Intelligent Materials
Béla Iván, Márton Haraszti, Gergely Kali, Péter Mezey, Viktória Pálfi and Ákos Szabó, Department of Polymer Chemistry and Material Science, Institute of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Chemical Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
11:30 AM
29
Anionic Polymerization of Bio-Sourced Monomers
Costas Patrickios, Eleni Kassi, Evgenia Papaconstantinou and Mihalis Constantinou, Chemistry, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
12:30 PM
Lunch (a la carte)
2:00 PM
31
Similarities and Differences IN ENZYMATIC and CATIONIC POLYMERIZATION MECHANISMS of NATURAL RUBBER and Polyterpenes
Alain Deffieux1, Frédéric Peruch1, Samira Ouardad1, Marc-Elias Bakleh1, Hassen Bouchekif2, Judit E. Puskas3 and Cheng Ching K. Chiang3, (1)Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymčres Organiques, Bordeaux University/CNRS, Pessac Cedex, France, (2)Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymčres Organiques, Bordeaux University /CNRS, Pessac Cedex, France, (3)The University of Akron, Akron, OH
2:30 PM
32
Biohybrid Polymers Via Living/Controlled Ring-Opening Polymerization
Junpeng Zhao, Christina Diehl and Helmut Schlaad, Colloid Chemistry, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany
3:00 PM
33
End-Functional Polyethylenes for Macromolecular Architectures. Application to the Synthesis of New Thermoplastic Elastomers
Edgar Espinosa1, Christophe Boisson1, Franck D'Agosto1, Bernadette Charleux1, Ranjan Tripathy2 and Rudolf Faust3, (1)Laboratory of Chemistry, Catalysis, Polymers and Processes, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France, (2)Department of Chemistry,, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, (3)Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA
3:30 PM
Coffee Break
4:00 PM
34
RECENT PROGRESS IN the CATIONIC POLYMERIZATION of VINYL MONOMERS with AlCl3 AS A COINITIATOR
Sergei Kostjuk, Irina Vasilenko, Alexander Frolov and Nadezhda Kukhta, Research Institute for Physical Chemical Problems of the Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus
4:30 PM
35
Characterizing Complex Architectures: Is GPC Adequate?
Jimmy Mays, Ph., D.1, M. Shahinur Rahman, Ph.D.1, Taihyun Chang, Ph., D.2, Hyojoon Lee2, Ronald Larson, Ph., D.3 and Xue Chen, Graduate, Student3, (1)Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, (2)Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea, (3)Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
5:00 PM
36
Self-Organized Multi-Compartment Nanostructures of New Triblock Terpolymers
Axel H. E. Mueller, Macromolecular Chemistry II, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany