Hybrid Materials:

Polymer and Interfacial Science

of Organic/Inorganic Systems

Organizers – Rick Laine, Frank Blum, Ken Wynne, and Yoshiki Chujo

A Symposium as part of the

Pacific Polymer Federation Meeting (PPF14)

December 9-13, 2015

Grand Hyatt Resort and Spa

Kauai, Hawaii USA

Call for Papers:

Contributed papers are now solicited for all areas of hybrid materials including: optical materials, surface functional materials, analytical methods, nanocomposites, synthesis.

Both Oral and Poster presentations are solicited. 

Confirmed Speakers:

• Keynote Speaker, Yoshiki Chujo, Kyoto U, Japan - New Hybrid Materials Based on Element-Blocks
• Harry Allcock, Pennsylvania State U, USA - Recent Variations of Polyphosphazene Elastomers for Medical or Aerospace Applications
• Suresh Valiyaveettil, National U of Singapore, Singapore - Synthesis and characterisation of novel 2D and 3D polymeric materials
  
• Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Uli Wiesner, Cornell University, USA - Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials
• Yoshiyuki Sugahara, Waseda U, Japan - Element-blocks from Inorganic Nanostructures via Surface Modification: Preparation and Their Applications
• Kazuyuki Kuroda,  Waseda U, Japan  - Hybrid Materials Design through Chemistry of Silica, Silicates, and Organosiloxanes for the Preparation of Porous Materials
  
• Frieder Jaekle,  Rutgers U, USA- Modification of Polymers with Organoborane and Organoborate Functional Groups and their Applications
  
• Karen Winey,  U of Pennsylvania, USA- Dynamics in polymer nanocomposites
  
• Daniel Schmidt, Massachusetts at Lowell, USA - Insights from Model Polymer Nanolaminates
• Kensuke Naka,  Kyoto Inst. Tech., Japan- Synthesis of Element Block Polymers Based on T8-Caged Silsesquoxanes
  
• Pinar Akcora,  Stevens Institute of Technology, USA - Reversible Thermal Stiffening in Polymer Nanocomposites 
• Barry Arkles, Gelest, Inc., USA- Introducing Opposing Polarity into Hybrid Materials:  "Contraphobia" in Siloxanes
• Takeo Suga, Waseda University, Japan- Gradient Nanodomain Formation in Controlled Photo-curing toward Hybrid Materials
• Takayoshi Nakamura, Hokkaido University, Japan- Functional Materials based on Ferromagnetic Coordination Polymer of Mn-Cr Oxalate
• Satoru Hiroto, Nagoya University, Japan- Creation of Three-Dimensional π-Conjugated Element Blocks with Highly Curved Surface
  
• Brad Chmelka, University of California, Santa Barbara U.S.A-Molecular and surface interactions of self-assembled hybrid materials containing photo-responsive guests
  
• Cassandra Fraser, University of Virginia, USA - Luminescent Boron Beta-Diketonate Biomaterials  for Oxygen Sensing and Imaging
  
• Alan Sellinger, Colorado School of Mines, USA -   
• Doug Loy, U Arizona, USA -   Comparison of bridged polysilsesquioxanes prepared by sol-gel polymerization with those made with surfactant templating
  
• Richard M. Laine, U Michigan, USA-F^- Catalyzed Reactions at Silicon, as a Route to Hybrid Materials
• Frank D. Blum, Oklahoma State U, USA- Hybrid Composites from Concentrated Emulsion Gels
  
• Kenneth J. Wynne, Virginia Commonwealth U, USA- Hybrid Approaches to Nanoscale and Mesoscale Soft Surface Modification

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