2008 MIT-PRINCETON MICROSYMPOSIUM ON POLYMERS

JUNE 10 AND 11, 2008

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 
 

Tuesday afternoon June 10, 66-201 (Walker lounge) 

Arrival - Noon – Lunch 66-201 

1:00 Zekeriyya Gemici – Utilizing capillary effects in nanoparticle thin film assemblies 

1:30 Bob Scogna, "Yield Stress of Sodium-Neutralized Ethylene-Methacrylic Acid Ionomers" 

2:00 Erik Williamson – Durable self-cleaning antireflection coatings for polycarbonate glazing 

2:30 Sheng Li, "Characterization of Novel Semicrystalline Ethylene-alpha-Olefin Block Copolymers" 

3:00 Break/Snacks 

3:30. Pinar Kurt – Contact Antibacterial Surfaces via Polymer Surface Modifiers 

4:00. John Bishop, "Thermoplastic Elastomers Containing Crystalline and Glassy Components from Single-Phase Melts" 

4:30 Al Swiston – Synthetic functionalization of living cells using PEM patches 

5:00. Rick Register (presenting work of Sasha Myers):  "Crystalline-Crystalline Diblock Copolymers of Linear Polyethylene - Hydrogenated Polynorbornene" 

6:15 pm Dinner Jacob Wirth’s,  http://www.jacobwirth.com/ 
 

Wednesday morning, June 11, 66-110 (Gilliland Auditorium) 

8:15 Light breakfast 66-110 

8:30 Anish Tuteja – Design parameters for engineering superoleophobic surfaces 

9:00 Andy Marencic, "Sphere-Forming and Cylinder-Forming Block Copolymer Thin Films Aligned Under Double and Oscillatory Shear" 

9:30 Wonjae Choi – Robust oleophobicity: Effects of surface texture geometry 

10:00. John Papalia, "Variable-Density Micelle Arrays in Block Copolymer Thin Films"

 
10:30 Jonathan DeRocher - Polyelectrolyte multilayer coatings in confined geometries 

11:00 Brooke van Horn, "Improving Efficiency and Limiting Side Reactions in ROMP-to-Anionic Polymerization Transformation" 

11:30 Gary Chia - Design and synthesis of mechanomutable nanotubes via layer-by-layer assembly 

Noon -  Lunch 66-110 - Departure