Fall ACS National Meeting Washington DC August 20 - 25, 2000

Symposium Announcement

Call for Papers

Session 1 -- Controlled Release (Wednesday 23rd A.M.)

A. Guiseppi-Elie, G. E. Wnek, and N. F. Sheppard Jr., Organizers

Anthony Guiseppi-Elie, Presiding

8:30 - 8:40 a.m. Introductory Remarks.

8:40 - 9:10 a.m. (Invited) Molecular Dynamics of pH-Sensitive Hydrogels Based on Poly(acrylic acid). P. Bures, N. A. Peppas

8:40 - 9:10 a.m. Electrorelease of Divalent Cations from Electroconductive Hydrogels. E. Iwuoha, A. M. Wilson, D. Narinesingh, A. Guiseppi-Elie

9:35 - 10:0 a.m. Synthetic Peptide/Poly(ethylene oxide)/Poly(pyrrole) Macromolecular Complexes. Responsive Systems for Peptide Drug Delivery. I. M. Khan, S. Thorpe, K. P. Pemawansa

10:00 - 10:15 a.m. .Break

10:15 - 10:40 a.m. Nanoporous Polymers for Controlled Absorption and Release of Organic Molecules. D. Li

10:40 - 11:05 a.m. Electroactive hydrogels for the construction of clinically important biosensors. S. Brahim, D. Narinesingh, A. Guiseppi-Elie

11:05 - 11:30 a.m. Volume transition of polyacrylate hydrogels induced by monovalent-divalent cation exchange in physiological salt solutions. F. Horkay, P. J. Basser, I. Tasaki

 

Session 2  -- Synthesis and Characterization (Wednesday 23rd P.M.)

A. Guiseppi-Elie, G. E. Wnek, and N. F. Sheppard Jr., Organizers

Gary E. Wnek, Presiding

1:30 - 1:40 a.m. Introductory Remarks.

1:40 - 2:10 a.m. (Invited) Artificial muscle systems for biomedical applications. T. A. Zawodzinski Jr., M. Mann, P. Haridoss, S. Paddison

2:10 - 2:35 p.m. Dimensional changes as a function of charge transfer in doped trans-polyacetylene: a density functional study. G. Sun, M. Kertesz, J. Kurti, R. H. Baughman

2:35 - 3:00 p.m. Mechanical responses approaching stress, strain, and time scale properties of muscle using anisotropic liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs). D. L. Thomsen III, P. Keller, R. Pink, J. Naciri, D. Shenoy, B. R. Ratna

3:00- 3:15 p.m. Break

3:15 - 2:40 p.m. Toward new actuating devices: Synthesis and electrochemical studies of poly(11,23-bis([2,2'-bithiophen]-5-yl)-26,28-dimethoxycalix[4]arene-25,27-diol). H-H. Yu, A. E. Pullen, B. Xu, T. M. Swager

3:40 - 4:05 p.m. Morphology and ordering behavior study of a novel organometallic diblock copolymer: poly(isoprene)-b-poly(ferrocenyldimethylsilane). Z. Chen, N. Vaidya, T-H. Cheong, M. D. Foster, R. P. Quirk

4:05 - 4:30 p.m. Synthesis of highly sensitive polymer fluorescent chemosensors for transition metals. Y. Zhang, C. B. Murphy, S. Chatterjee, W. E. Jones Jr.

4:30 - 4:55 p.m. Two-dimensional conjugated polymer assemblies: Interchain spacing for control of photophysics. D. T. McQuade, J. Kim, T. M. Swager.

 

Session 3 -- New Materials and Processes (Thursday 24th A.M.)

A. Guiseppi-Elie, G. E. Wnek, and N. F. Sheppard Jr., Organizer

, Presiding

8:30 - 8:40 a.m. Introductory Remarks.

8:40 - 9:10 a.m. (Invited) Transducer active thin films by electrostatic layer-by-layer self-assembly. S. K. Tripathy, S-H. Lee, J. Kumar, J. Kim, F. F. Bruno, L. A. Samuelson

9:10 - 9:35 a.m. Environmentally responsive polymer brush layers for switchable surface properties. S. Minko, M. Stamm, E. Horeshnik, D. Usov, A. Sidorenko

9:35 - 10:00 a.m. Vapor sorption mechanisms in plasma polymerized thin-film sensor materials. D. H. Weinkauf, S. P. Russell

10:00 - 10:15 a.m. Break

10:15 - 10:40 a.m. A New Silica/Polyaniline Composite with Interesting Electrochemical and Optical Properties. L. Chigirinskaya, K. Levon

10:40 - 11:05 a.m. Chemically sensitive nanoparticles developed from rapid expansion of supercritical solutions. D. Pestov, N. Levit, D. Colby, G. Tepper

11:05 - 11:30 a.m. Synthesis of conductive elastomeric foams using supercritical carbon dioxide: The effect of ethanol cosolvent on the impregnation of the foam with oxidant. S. L. Shenoy, I. Kaya, D. Cohen, C. Erkey, R. A. Weiss

11:30 - 11:55 a.m. Polyaniline-based electrorheological fluid for semi-active damper. H. J. Choi, J. W. Kim , H. G. Lee* and S. B. Choi*

 

Session 4 -- DNA-based Genosensors (Thursday 24th P.M.)

A. Guiseppi-Elie, G. E. Wnek, and N. F. Sheppard Jr., Organizer

Gary Tepper, Presiding

1:30 - 1:40 p.m. (Invited) Introductory Remarks.

1:40 - 2:10 p.m. Polyaniline based chemical transducers with sub-micron dimensions. A. G. MacDiarmid, W. E. Jones Jr., I. D. Norris, M. A. El-Sherif, F. K. Ko

2:10 - 2:35 p.m. DNA conformation switching using a templated conducting polymer. R. Nagarajan, S. K. Tripathy, J. Kumar, F. F. Bruno, L. Samuelson

2:35 - 3:00 p.m. DNA doped polypyrrole: synthesis and application. V. Misoska, W. E. Price, S. F. Ralph, G. G. Wallace, N. Ogata

3:00 - 3:15 p.m. Break

3:15 - 3:40 p.m. Low-density arrays of DNA-doped polypyrrole. M. Gheorghe, C. Lei, A. Guiseppi-Elie

3:40 - 4:05 p.m. DNA Immobilization and Bioelectronic Detection Based on Conducting Polymers. C. Lei, M. Gheorghe, A. Guiseppi-Elie

 

Session 5 -- Posters (Sci-Mix and Joint POLY.PMSE Poster Session) (Tuesday 22nd P.M.)

A. Guiseppi-Elie, G. E. Wnek, and N. F. Sheppard Jr., Organizer

Exploitation of A Novel Artificial Muscle Material for Controlled Drug Delivery. K. He, M. J. Madou

Elaboration of conducting polymer nanostructures : Applications as responsive materials in gas sensors and biosensors. S. M. Demoustier-Champagne, P-Y. Stavaux, M. Delvaux

Electroresponsive Phosphate Cellulose Suspension. H. J. Choi, S. G. Kim, J. W. Kim, M. S. Jhon

One-step direct immobilization of acid phosphatase in mesoporous silica sol-gel materials. Q. Feng, J. Xu, M. Lin, H. Dong, Y. Wei

Simultaneous immobilization of oxidase/peroxidase in the mesoporous sol-gel silicate matrix. H. Dong, J. Xu, Q. Feng, Y. Wei