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Symposium GG: Functional Inorganic Nanoparticle-Polymer Composites with Engineered Structures and Coupled Properties

• 2012 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit

• April 9 - April 13, 2012
• Moscone West Convention Center | Marriott Marquis - San Francisco, California-
• Meeting Chairs: Lara A. Estroff, Jun Liu, Kornelius Nielsch, Kazumi Wada

Functional Inorganic Nanoparticle-Polymer Composites with Engineered Structures and Coupled Properties

Functional inorganic nanoparticle-polymer composites can have diverse structures and highly tunable, actively coupled mechanical, electronic, optical, and magnetic properties that cannot be obtained from polymers or nanoparticles alone.  This symposium will focus on two fundamental aspects of functional inorganic nanoparticle-polymer composites: 1) Engineered structures, such as the use of polymers to control the self assembly or the use of nanoparticles to control the phase behaviors of polymers, and 2) Coupled properties, where there is active coupling between the properties of the nanoparticles and the polymer beyond dilution of the nanoparticles in an inert polymer matrix.  This symposium will also focus on applications of inorganic nanoparticle-polymer composites, particularly in energy, electronics, biology, and medicine.

Session topics will include (but will not be limited to):

• Nanoparticles for modifying the mechanical, electronic, optical, and magnetic properties of polymers
• Functional coupling between nanoparticles and polymers
• Copolymer-assisted self assembly of nanostructures
• Phase control in multiphase polymer systems
• Polymer-grafted nanoparticles
• Responsive inorganic nanoparticle-polymer composites
• Computational simulations of self assembly and the properties of inorganic nanoparticle-polymer composites
• Applications in energy, electronics, biology, and medicine

Invited speakers include:

Anna C. Balazs (Univ. of Pittsburgh), Kookheon Char (Seoul National Univ., Korea), Hongyu Chen (Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore), Todd Emrick (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst), Sharon C. Glotzer (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Jaime C. Grunlan (Texas A&M Univ.), Paula T. Hammond (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology), Ho-Cheol Kim (IBM Almaden Research Ctr.), Nicholas A. Kotov (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Edward J. Kramer (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara), Eugenia Kumacheva (Univ. of Toronto, Canada), Zhiqun Lin (Georgia Inst. of Technology), Geoffrey A. Ozin (Univ. of Toronto, Canada), Jeffrey Pyun (Univ. of Arizona), Thomas P. Russell (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst), Richard J. Spontak (North Carolina State Univ.), Manfred Stamm (Leibniz Inst.-Dresden), Vladimir V. Tsukruk (Georgia Inst. of Technology), Richard A. Vaia (Air Force Research Lab), Bing Xu (Brandeis Univ.), Ting Xu (Univ. of California, Berkeley).

Symposium Organizers

Joseph B. Tracy
North Carolina State University
Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
Campus Box 7907
Raleigh, NC 27695
Tel 919-513-2623, Fax 919-515-7724
jbtracy@ncsu.edu 

Yadong Yin
University of California, Riverside
Dept. of Chemistry
Chemical Sciences Bldg. 136
Riverside, CA 92521
Tel 951-827-4965, Fax 951-827-4713
yadong.yin@ucr.edu 

Nicole S. Zacharia
Texas A&M University
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
3123 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843
Tel 979-845-2204, Fax 979-845-3081
nzacharia@tamu.edu 

Unyong Jeong
Yonsei University
Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
134 Shinchon-dong
Seoul 120-749, Korea
Tel 82-2-2123-5832, Fax 82-2-312-5375
ujeong@yonsei.ac.kr