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PMSE Preprints Volume 98, Spring 2008

Papers Presented at the 235th ACS National Meeting

April 6-10, 2008 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

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PMSE Division of ACS

American Chemical Society Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering

PMSE Preprints Volume 98,

Spring 2008

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 1

Autoreduction of Metal Cations for Polyaniline Nanofiber and Metal Nanoparticle Composites.......................................................................................................................................... 1

Christina O. Baker, Brian Shedd, Robert W. Kojima, Ricky Tseng, Yang Yang, and Richard B. Kaner

Antibacterial and Antiyeast Activity of Organotin Polymers Derived from Acyclovir ................. 2Yoshinobu Naoshimaa , Kazutaka Nagaob , Theodore S. Sabirc, Charles E. Carraher Jr.

Antibacterial and Antiyeast Activity of Organotin Polymers Derived from Cephalexin and Norfloxacin .......................................................................................................................................... 5

Yoshinobu Naoshimaa , Kazutaka Nagaob , Charles E. Carraher Jr.

Molecular Weight Dependency on the Ability of Organotin Polyethers Based on Hydroxyl-Terminated Poly(ethylene glycols) to Inhibit Cancer Cell Growth ................................ 8

Kimberly Shahi, Michael R. Roner, Girish Barot, Charles E. Carraher Jr.

Ability of a Series of Organotin Polyethers Derived from Diethylstilbestrol to Inhibit Ovarian, Colon, Lung, and Breast Cancer Cells ............................................................................ 11

Kimberly Shahi, Michael R. Roner, Charles E. Carraher Jr.

Effect of Chain Length on Ability to Inhibit Cancer Cell Lines for Organotin Polyethers Derived from Diols with Varying Methylene Spacers.................................................................... 14

Kimberly Shahi, Michael R. Roner, Girish Barot, Charles E. Carraher Jr.

Ability of a Series of Organotin Polyethers Containing Methylene Spacers to Inhibit Prostrate, Breast, Colon, and Lung Cancer Cell Lines ................................................................. 17

Kimberly Shahi, Michael R. Roner, Girish Barot, Charles E. Carraher Jr.

Cell Inhibition by Titanocene, Zirconocene, and Hafnocene Polyethers Containing the Synthetic Hormone Diethylstilbestrol............................................................................................. 20

Kimberly Shahi, Michael R. Roner, Yuki Ashida, Girish Barot, Charles E. Carraher Jr.

Electrical Properties of a Series of Titanocene Polyester Derivatives of Terephthalic Acid..................................................................................................................................................... 23

Amitabh Battin, Charles E. Carraher Jr.

ESI Mass Spectrometry of Ciprofloxacin and the Enrofloxacin Dimer Product......................... 26Charles E. Carraher, Anna Zhao

MALDI MS of Enrofloxacin-Dibutyltin-Enrofloxacin Dimer........................................................... 30Charles E. Carraher, Anna Zhao

Molecular Weight Control of Organotin Polyethers Synthesized by Interfacial Polymerization................................................................................................................................... 32

Charles E. Carraher, Girish Barot, Charles E. Carraher Jr.

Stability of Water-Soluble Organotin Ethylene Glycol Polyethers as a Function of Time ........ 35Girish Barot, Charles E. Carraher Jr.

Chain Length Dependence of Organotin Ethylene Glycol Polyethers in HMPA as a ................ 38Girish Barot, Charles E. Carraher Jr.

HR EI F MALDI MS of Polyphosphonate Amide Esters and Polyphosphate Amide Esters Containing the Antiviral Drug Acyclovir............................................................................. 41

Theodore Sabir, Charles E. Carraher Jr.

Synthesis of Polyphosphonate Amide Esters and Polyphosphate Amide Esters Containing the Antiviral Acyclovir .................................................................................................. 44

Theodore Sabir, Charles E. Carraher Jr.

Electrical Properties of Selected Organotin Fluorescein Polydyes ............................................ 46Amitabh Battin, Charles E. Carraher Jr.

Performance of Glass Flake Incorporated in Interpenetrating Polymer Network (IPN)............. 49Yan Kou, Zhihuan Weng, Jinyan Wang and Xigao Jian

Mechanical Properties, Degradation and Dyeability of PLA-PP Polyblend Fibers .................... 51Narendra Reddy, Digvijay Nama and Yiqi Yang,

Responsive Hydrogels with Gold Nanoparticles as Optical Sensors ......................................... 53Jay Wm. Wackerly, Lucas B. Thompson, Natasha M. Rajabali, John A. Rogers, Ralph G. Nuzzo, and Jeffery S. Moore

Microcombustion Calorimetry Screening of Non-Halogenated Flame Retardant Polymer-Clay/Polymer-Nanofiber Nanocomposites...................................................................... 54

Alexander B. Morgan, Mary L. Galaska

Ignition Resistance of Fluoropolymers .......................................................................................... 56Shiow-Ching Lin

Flame Retardancy Mechanisms in Halogen-Free PC/ABS Blends .............................................. 58Bernhard Schartel, Kristin H. Pawlowski, Birgit Perret

Well-Defined Hybrid Magnetic Nanoparticles by Self-Assembly ................................................. 60Lyudmila M. Bronstein, Xinlei Huang, Jason Dyke, Abrin Lee Schmucker, Chris Dufort, Eleonora V. Shtykova, Dmitri I. Svergun, Bogdan Dragnea

Synthesis and Characterization Of Novel Sulfonated Poly(Arylene Ether Ketone Ketone Sulfone) Proton Exchange Membrane Materials ........................................................................... 62

Zhe Wang, Hongzhe Ni, Mingyao Zhang

High Performance Maleimide and Nitrile Functionalized Benzoxazines with Good Processibilities for Advanced Composite Applications ............................................................... 63

Thanyalak Chaisuwan and Hatsuo Ishida

Low Band-Gap Polymers and Molecules: Designs and Applications ......................................... 65Timothy Swager

Preparation and Release characterization of Poly(DL-lactic acid)-Poly(ethylene oxide) (PEG-PLA) Microspheres with Temperature-Sensitivity............................................................... 66

Hua Zheng, Jintao Huo, Miao Hu, Shaobo Wang and Xiaoqing Zou

Study of Diblock Polymer Poly (DL-lactic acid)-poly (ethylene oxide) Synthesis Craft and Its Optimization ................................................................................................................................. 68

Hua Zheng, Jintao Huo, Xiaoyu Gong, Yunbo Xu and Xiaoqing Zhou

Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Drug Sorption onto PLA Fibers and its Release.................. 70Weijie Xu and Yiqi Yang,

Some Degradation Mechanisms in Membrane-Electrode Assembly Aged in PEMFC .............. 72Lionel Flandin

Aligned Carbon Nanotube to Enhance Through Thickness Thermal Conductivity in Adhesive Joints................................................................................................................................. 73

Sabyasachi Ganguli and Ajit K.Roy

Effect of Filler Shape on the Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Composites .................... 75Kee Yoon Lee and Donald R. Paul

Variation of Anions in Layered Double Hydroxides: Effects on Fire Properties........................ 76LinJiang Wang and Charles A. Wilkie

Synthesis, Properties and Applications of Hybrid Particles by ATRP ........................................ 77Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

Folate-Mediated Chondroitin Sulfate/Chitosan Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery ...................... 78Li-Fang Wang, Yin-Tzu Lin, and Shih-Jer Huang

Construction of Cyclodextrin-Carbon Nanotube Hybrids ............................................................ 80Tomoki Ogoshi, Tada-aki Yamagishi, Yoshiaki Nakamoto, Akira Harada

Flame Retarded PS with Combination of APP and MgAl - Layered Double Hydroxide............. 82Calistor Nyambo, Everson Kandare and Charles A. Wilkie

Novel Synthesis to Polymer/Carbon Nanotube Composites........................................................ 84Huisheng Peng and Yuntian Zhu

Study on Dielectric Properties of Polyimide/Barium Titanate Composites ................................ 86Wei-Dong Liu,, Bao-Ku Zhu, Shu-Hui Xie, Jian Zhang

Ambiguous Polymeric Surfaces for Marine Anti-fouling Applications ....................................... 87S. Krishnan,, J.A. Finlay, D. Park, C.J. Weinman, R. Dong,, K. Wong, N. Asgill,, M.E. Callow, J.A. Callow, D.L. Handlin, C.L. Willis, L. Brewer, D.E. Wendt, K.E. Sohn, E.J. Kramer, C.K. Ober

Preparation and Properties of Tung Oil-Based Composites Using Spent Germ as a Natural Filler ...................................................................................................................................... 89

Daniel P. Pfister, Jeffrey R. Baker, Phillip H. Henna, Yongshang Lu, and Richard C. Larock

Multiamino-functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes by Covalently Grafting Poly (Nacryloyl ethylenediamine) Chains ............................................................................................... 91

Zhongjie Du, Yanxin Liu, Chen Zhang and Hangquan Li

Highly Porous Polymer Systems Synthesized through Emulsion Templating .......................... 93Michael S. Silverstein

Porous and Bicontinuous Hydrogel Systems through Emulsion Templating ........................... 95Olga Kulyagin, Tamar Leizer, and Michael S. Silverstein

Synthesis of Nanofunctional Materials in Non-Aqueous Emulsions .......................................... 97Markus Klapper, Kevin Müller, Svetlin Nenov, Klaus Müllen

Preparation and Characterization Hydroxyethyl Chitosan (HEC)/ PolyvinylAlcohol (PVA) Composite Membranes.......................................................................................................... 99

Hua Zheng, X. Zou and Shaobo Wang

Development of Polyurea Nanocomposites with Improved Fire Retardancy........................... 101Walid H. Awad, Calistor Nyambo, Seogjun Kim and Charles A. Wilkie

Elongational Rheology of Salt Containing Montmorillonite-PEO Aqueous Dispersions........ 103Eduard A. Stefanescu, Ioan I. Negulescu, William H. Daly, Simioan Petrovan

New Nanocomposites of PE, PE-BuA, and PMMA Using Zinc Aluminum Oleate Layered Double Hydroxide as the Nanomaterial ......................................................................... 105

Charles Manzi-Nshuti, Jeanne M. Hossenlopp and Charles A. Wilkie

Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Poly(ethylene oxide) Nanocomposites Containing Laponite and Montmorillonite.................................................................................... 107

Eduard A. Stefanescu, Ioan I. Negulescu,, William H. Daly, Gudrun Schmidt

Polyelectrolyte Brushes: Simulation Results and Scaling Theory ............................................ 109Christian Seidel

Chain Length Dependence of Organotin Ethylene Glycol Polyethers in HMPA as a Function of Time ............................................................................................................................. 111

Girish Barot, Charles E. Carraher Jr.

Instabilities in Soft Active Materials.............................................................................................. 114Zhigang Suo, Xuanhe Zhao, Wei Hong and Jinxiong Zhou,

Spatial Forcing of Microwrinkle Patterns ..................................................................................... 115Takuya Ohzono

Self-Assembly of Complex Patterns by Controlled Mechanical Instability in Patterned Polymer Films.................................................................................................................................. 116

Shu Yang

Synthesis and Ordered Assembly of Silica Particles Grafted with Concentrated Polymer Brush................................................................................................................................. 117

Kohji Ohno

Buckling Instability of Nanocomposite Polymeric Structures: Measuring Elastic Properties of Complex Nanostructured Materials ....................................................................... 119

Vladimir V. Tsukruk

Protein-based Dressings for Improved Wound Healing ............................................................. 120Andreia Vasconcelos and Artur Cavaco-Paulo

Integrating Top-Down Fabrication with Bottom-Up Self-Assembly .......................................... 121Vincent M. Rotello

Synthesis of Highly Branched Silicone-Epoxy Resin Systems for Marine Coatings .............. 122Christopher T. Lloyd, Patrick G. Santangelo, J. Paige Phillips

Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Multifunctional Polymer-Inorganic Hybrid Thin Films............... 124James C. Grunlan

FTIR-Photoacoustic Spectroscopy Study of Water Diffusion in Cured Epoxies ..................... 126Ravikumar Vijayaraghavan and Chong Sook Paik Sung

Novel Amphiphilic Triblock Copolymer Poly(methoxyethylene glycol)-b-Poly(Llactide)-b-Poly(L-lysine) for Enhancement of Osteoblast Attachment and Growth.................................. 131

Hui Peng, Ross Crawford, Lan Chen, Yin Xiao and Andrew K. Whittaker

Design, Construction and Analytical Characterization of a DNA Sensor for the Detection of Salmonella ................................................................................................................................... 133

Madeline Díaz Serrano, Arelys Rosado, Joselyn del Pilar, Esther Vega, Ana R. Guadalupe

Modeling the Dispersion and Agglomeration of Carbon Nanotubes in Polymers ................... 135Marc R. Nyden, Stanislav I. Stoliarov, Venkat Ganesan, Landry Khounlavong

Flame Retarding Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) Through Use of Comonomers and Nanofillers ...... 137John R. Ebdon, Andrew G. Cook, Barry J. Hunt and Paul Joseph

Toward Complex 3-D Polymeric Microobjects: Micro-blow Molding ....................................... 139Akshay Kokil and Timothy E. Long

Surface Modification of Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes by Living Anionic and Ring Opening Surface Initiated Polymerization.................................................................................... 141

Georgios Sakellariou, Dimitrios Priftis, Hermis Iatrou, Durairaj Baskaran, Jimmy W. Mays,, and Nikos Hadjichristidis

Characterization of Gas Sorption in Glassy Polymers Combining Experimental and Molecular Modeling Techniques ................................................................................................... 144

Martin Böhning, Ole Hölck, Matthias Heuchel, and Dieter Hofmann

Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Flame Retardant Coating for Foam ............................................. 146Jaime C. Grunlan

Multivalent Counterion Induced Collapse of Spherical Polyelectrolyte Brushes: Experiments, Simulations, and Theory......................................................................................... 148

Arben Jusufi,, Yu Mei and Matthias Ballauff

Thermo-Kinetic Model of Pyrolysis............................................................................................... 150Stanislav I. Stoliarov and Richard E. Lyon

Development of Antimicrobial Materials Utilizing Surface-Active Biocides in a Resin Matrix................................................................................................................................................ 151

James H. Wynne, Robert A. Brizzolara, Joanne M. Jones-Meehan, Preston A. Fulmer and Ramesh R. Pant

Poly (ethylene oxide)-Laponite Derived Hydrogels for Synthetic Extra Cellular Matrix Applications ......................................................................................................................... 153

Patrick Schexnailder and Gudrun Schmidt

Designing Synthetic Vesicles that Engulf Nanoscopic Particles .............................................. 155Kurt A. Smith, David Jasnow, and Anna C. Balazs

Electrochemically Formed Semiconductor Nanoparticle/Polymer Composite Thin Films..... 156R. Clayton Shallcross, Amy Graham, Gemma D. D’Ambruoso, Brian Korth, H.K. Hall Jr., Zhiping Zheng, Jeffrey Pyun, Neal R. Armstrong

Multiple Hydrogen Bonding Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes ............................................... 157Akshay Kokil, Tomonori Saito, Wade DePolo, Casey Elkins, Garth L. Wilkes, and Timothy E. Long

Dispersion of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Polystyrene with the Aid of a Semiconjugated Polymer ............................................................................................................... 159

Maxim N. Tchoul, Warren T. Ford, Israel J. Chavez Sumarriva, Brian P. Grady, Daniel E. Resasco and Sivaram Arepalli

Effects of Initiators in the Chain-Growth Polymerization of Semiconducting Polymers ........ 161Christine K. Luscombe, Anh Ho, Natalia Doubina, Alex K.-Y. Jen

Flame Retardancy of Polymer Nancomposites with and Without Flame Retardants .............. 162Serge Bourbigot, Gaëlle Fontaine, Sophie Duquesne, Fabienne Samyn, Thomas Turf and Séverine Bellayer

Discreet Hybrid Nanoparticles Formed by Rapid Bulk Thermal Cure of Monotethered POSS-bis(cyanate Ester) ................................................................................................................ 164

Andrew J. Guenthner, Michael E. Wright, Brian J. Petteys, Gregory R. Yandek, Lawrence C. Baldwin, Lee R. Cambrea, Conrad Jones, and M. Joseph Roberts

Copper Complexes as Flame Retardants: Synthesis, Characterization and Properties ......... 166Gaëlle Fontaine, Serge Bourbigot and Sophie Duquesne

Computational Design of Block Copolymers............................................................................... 168Glenn H. Frederickson

Overview of the NSF Science and Technology Center on Environmentally Responsible Solvents and Processes................................................................................................................. 169

Joseph M. DeSimone

Surface Engineering Using Layer-by-Layer Assembly of pH-Sensitive Polymers and Nanoparticles .................................................................................................................................. 170

Robert E. Cohen

Supramolecular Assembly of Carbon Nanotubes on Silicon Substrates ................................. 171Akshay Kokil, William H. Heath, Shijing Cheng, and Timothy E. Long

Well-Defined Hyperbranched and Linear Polymers by Anionic Polymerization in Continuous Flow ............................................................................................................................. 173

Daniel Wilms, Johannes Klos, Frederik Wurm, Holger Löwe, Holger Frey

Online Monitoring of Free Radical Polymerization in Emulsions .............................................. 175Alina M. Alb, Stephan Moyses, Jason Ness, Christopher A. Bertelo, Wayne F. Reed

Compatibilization of Heterophase Multi-Polymer Blends Using Block Copolymers and Cellulose Nanofibers ...................................................................................................................... 177

Sarah Bobek, Aniket Selarka and Charles Beatty

Wavy Semiconductor Nanomaterials for Stretchable Electronics ............................................ 179John A. Rogers

Protein-Crosslinked Polymeric Materials through Site-Selective Bioconjugation .................. 180Aaron P. Esser-Kahn and Matthew B. Francis

Poly(4-vinylpyridine) Based Nanoparticle Syntheses and Their Applications to Functional Materials ....................................................................................................................... 181

Ozgur Ozay, Fatma Aydin, Sema Ekici, Mustafa Yildiz, Yakup Baran, Grace Tan, Vijay T. John, and Nurettin Sahiner,

Curved Polymer Brushes on Inorganic Nanoparticles: Effect of Polymer Brush Mw on Conditions for Adsorption to Block Copolymer Interfaces ........................................................ 183

Bumjoon J. Kim, Glenn H. Fredrickson, and Edward J. Kramer,

Design and Analysis of Alternative High Heat Flux Sources for Materials Fire Testing ......... 185Douglas S. Dierdorf, Virgil J. Carr, Christopher P. Menchini, Ramõn D. Sellers

Separation of Parent Homopolymers from Diblock Copolymers by Means of Novel Liquid Chromatographic Method .................................................................................................. 187

Dusan Berek

Thin Film Experiments with PCHE-based Block Copolymers.................................................... 189Edward J. Kramer

Polymers with Reactive Side Chains Synthesized by ATRP and RAFT Polymerization ......... 191Heather D. Maynard, Ronald C. Li, and Jungyeon Hwang

Comparative Study and Modeling of Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Drug Release from Bioerodible Polymers ..................................................................................................................... 192

Luciana Lisa Lao , Subbu S Venkatraman and Nicholas A. Peppas

Surface Activity of New Amphiphilic Invertible Polyesters from Poly(ethylene glycol) and Aliphatic Dicarboxylic Acids .................................................................................................. 194

Andriy S. Voronov, Serhiy V. Vasylyev, Ananiy M. Kohut, Wolfgang Peukert

Inversion of an Emulsion by Changing the Curvature of a pH and Temperature-Sensitive Copolymer....................................................................................................................... 196

Patrick Guenoun, Frédéric Marchal, Angelina Roudot, Nadège Pantoustier and Patrick Perrin

New Polymeric Hydrogels Covalently Grafted to Planar Polymer Surfaces............................. 197Andriy S. Voronov, Ihor Tarnavchyk, Nataliya Nosova, Volodymyr Y. Samaryk, Serhiy V. Vasylyev, Ananiy M. Kohut, Stanislav A. Voronov

Heterogeneous Catalytic Process for the Hydrogenation of Styrene-Butadiene Copolymers ..................................................................................................................................... 199

Michael M. Olken and Edward Calverley

Flame Retardant Nanocomposites Based on Recycled PET and PC ........................................ 200B. Swoboda, E. Leroy, F. Laoutid and J.-M. Lopez-Cuesta

Bimetallic Metal Nanoparticles Immobilized on Spherical Polyelectrolyte Brushes ............... 201Marc Schrinner, Joachim Schmelz, Sebastian Proch, Rhett Kempe, Nobuyoshi Miyajima, Matthias Ballauff,

Fabrication of Strain Responsive Microlens Array by Confined Buckling of Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Bi-layer Structure .............................. 203

Dinesh Chandra, Pei-Chun Lin and Shu Yang

Random Copolymers with Controlled Monomer Sequence Distributions: Interfacial Partitioning ...................................................................................................................................... 205

James J. Semler, Young K. Jhon, Alan E. Tonelli, Martin Beevers, Ramanan Krishnamoorti, and Jan Genzer

Synthesis of Composite Polymer-Metal Nanoparticles by Miniemulsion Polymerization ...... 207Kim Y. van Berkel and Craig J. Hawker

Chemically Produced Toner Particle Shape Factor Control with Reactive Coalescence Agent ................................................................................................................................................ 209

Zhen Lai and Chieh-Min Cheng

Preparation and Properties of Poly(phthalazinone ether sulfone ketone) Membranes by Controlled Evaporation Precipitation Method ........................................................................ 210

Jian-Hua Cao, Yang-Zheng Lin, Ji-Ding Li and Cui-Xian Chen

Effect of Chemical Environment of Organophosphorus Compounds on Thermal Decomposition of Cellulose........................................................................................................... 212

Viktoriya Salimova , Sabyasachi Gaan and Dimitry Nazarov

Synthesis of Metal Particles in Nanoreactors Made from Amphiphilic Polyesters ................. 214Ananiy M. Kohut, Andriy S. Voronov, Serhiy V. Vasylyev, Wolfgang Peukert

Nanostructure Development in Glassy and Semicrystalline Polymers as Revealed by X-Ray Diffraction and Nanoindentation Methods............................................................................ 216

Francisco J. Baltá-Calleja and Araceli Flores Sr.

Analytical Assessment of the Quality Properties of Recycled Styrenic Polymers Using Spectroscopy and Chromatography............................................................................................. 217

Francisco Vilaplana,, Amparo Ribes-Greus and Sigbritt Karlsson

PCHE Based Block Copolymers: Toughness by Molecular Design ......................................... 218Frank S. Bates

Macromolecular “Hedge” Brushes Grafted from Au Nanowires ............................................... 219Edmondo M. Benetti, Szczepan Zapotoczny, G. Julius Vancso.

Contrasting Thermal Behavior and Morphology of Polyurethanes Containing P[AB]-co-Polyoxetane Telechelics with Fluorous A and Oligoalkylether Pendant B Groups having Random and Block Sequences ..................................................................................................... 221

Kenneth J. Wynne and Tomoko Fujiwara

Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles for Live Cell Imaging.......................................................... 222Joong Ho Moon, William McDaniel and Lawrence F. Hancock

Lateral Segregation in Polymer Coated Nanoparticles............................................................... 224R.J. Nap, I. Szleifer

Using Non-Covalent Interactions to Modulate Local Soluble Signaling ................................... 227Gregory A. Hudalla, William L. Murphy

Kinetics of Room Temperature Homo and Copolymerization of Vinylidene Fluoride with Hexafluoropropene under UV Irradiation ..................................................................................... 228

Alexandru D. Asandei and Yanhui Chen

Luminescent Organoboron Polymers........................................................................................... 230Kshitij Parab, Yang Qin and Frieder Jäkle

Thermoreversible Liquid Crystalline Networks ........................................................................... 232Paul J. Yanzer, Jason R. Greuel, and Kurt N. Wiegel

Excimer-Forming Fluorescent Dyes as Sensors ......................................................................... 234Jill Kunzelman, Liming Tang, Charles E. Sing, and Christoph Weder

Towards Microscale Electronic Structure in Polymer – Nanoparticle Composites for Solar Energy Conversion ............................................................................................................... 235

Michael L. Blumenfeld, Brandon S. Tackett and Oliver L.A. Monti

Optimizing the Viscosity of Wheat Gluten Aqueous Solutions for Electrospinning by Blending with Thiolated Additives ................................................................................................ 236

Jing Dong, Richard Parnas, and Alexandru D. Asandei,

Improved Synthesis and Characterization of a Low Energy Gap and Mono-End Functional Poly-(3-dodecyl-2,5-thienylenevylene) ...................................................................... 238

Taína D. Matos, Cheng Zhang, and Sam-Shajing Sun,

Dendrimers: New Opportunities to Treat and Prevent Human Disease.................................... 239David J. Owen

Light Weight and Highly Conductive Bipolar Plate for Fuel Cell: an Approach via Composite Material ......................................................................................................................... 240

Yaowapa Treekamol, Suwabun Chirachanchai, and Thanyalak Chaisuwan

Search for a Source of Cavitation in Plasticity of Crystalline Polymers................................... 242Andrzej Galeski, Andrzej Pawlak, and Artur Rozanski

Positioning of Quantum Dots into Prestructured Arrays by Polymer Encapsulation ............. 243Yan Gao, Sabrina Reischmann, Tobias Hanke, Rudolf Bratschitsch, Alfred Leitenstorfer and Stefan Mecking

Gas Barrier and Adhesion Properties of EVOH/Glass Composite for Glass Sealing .............. 245Kyoko Miyauchi and Hidetoshi Yamabe

Poly(amidoamine) Dendrimer-Based Multifunctional Engineered Nanodevice for Cancer Therapy ............................................................................................................................... 246

Istva´n J. Majoros and James R. Baker Jr.

Photochromic Superabsorbent Polymers .................................................................................... 247Thilini K. Mudiyanselage, Douglas C. Neckers

Controlling Polypeptide Interactions with Cells and Tissues by Design.................................. 249Timothy J. Deming, Daniel T. Kamei, Eric P. Holowka, Victor Sun, Chu-Ya Yang, Michael V. Sofroniew, and BingBing Song

Light Emitting Boron Biomaterials................................................................................................ 250Cassandra L. Fraser, Guoqing Zhang, Sarah J. Payne, J. N. Demas, Anne Pfister, Steven E. Kooi, Yin Jie Chen, Tyler L. St. Clair, & You-Jin Lee

Compatibilization of Polymer Blends by Multiblock Copolymers Formed in-situ via Melt Mixing....................................................................................................................................... 251

Earl Ashcraft, Haining Ji, Jimmy Mays,, and Mark Dadmun,

Thermograviametric Analysis of Ion Exchanged Sulfonated Poly(styreneisobutylene-styrene) ............................................................................................................................................ 253

Eugene Napadensky and James M. Sloan

Partial Specific Volume and Thermal Expansion of Poly(3,5-dimethylphenyl acrylate) in Tetrahydrofuran .......................................................................................................................... 254

Nasrollah Hamidi

Multilayer Polymer Films for Surface-Emitting Lasers ............................................................... 257Kenneth D. Singer, Eric Baer, Anne Hiltner, Christoph Weder, Tomasz Kazmierczak, Joseph Lott, Lewis Sharpnack, Hyunmin Song, Yeheng Wu, James Andrews

Metallo-Supramolecular Polymers and Gels: A Dynamic Class of Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Polymers.............................................................................................................................. 259

Stuart J. Rowan, Wengui Weng, and Alex M. Jamieson

Creasing of Hydrogels under Compression: Harnessing an Elastic Instability to Create Active Surfaces ................................................................................................................... 261

Jungwook Kim, Veronica Trujillo, Anesia Burns, and Ryan C. Hayward

Plasticization Regimes in Biopolymers ........................................................................................ 262Ahmad Athamneh and Justin Barone

Organoclays as Flame Retardants for PVC and New Application of Nanocomposites for Simplifying Flame Retardant Cable......................................................................................... 263

Dr. Günter Beyer

Aggregation of Nanoparticles Using Real Time High Temperature X-Ray Diffraction ............ 265Brent Fox, Holly Stretz, Andrew Payzant, and Roberta Meisner

Solution Properties and Adsorbed Morphology of Polystyrene – Polyisoprene Miktoarm Copolymers .................................................................................................................... 267

uan Pablo Hinestrosa, Jose Alonzo, Ming Liu, Masashi Osa, Jimmy Mays, S. Michael Kilbey

Enhancement of Char Formation of Polymer Nanocomposites Using a Catalyst ................... 269Takashi Kashiwagi, Ryan Danyus, Mauro Zammarano, John R. Shields

Effects of Covalent Bonding of Polymer Chains to Nanoparticles on Polymer Glass Transition Temperature, Physical Aging, and Related Dynamics ............................................. 271

Perla Rittigstein, T. Ramanathan, L. Catherine Brinson, John M. Torkelson

Adhesion Failure of PMMA and PBMA in Humid Environments................................................ 273K. Hamilton, C.C. White , K.T. Tan, and D.L. Hunston

Supramolecular Strategy for Robust Polymer-Nanoparticle Composites ................................ 275Gillian F. Eade, Delia J. Milliron, Russell C. Pratt, Alshakim Nelson, James L. Hedrick

Poly (Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Methacrylate) Brushes as Biomaterials Coatings: Stability, Non-Fouling Properties and Integrin-Specific Cell Adhesion .................................... 277

Stefano Tugulu and Harm-Anton Klok

Electrospun Copolyimide Nanofibers with Excellent Mechanical Properties .......................... 279Ping Hu, Shuiliang Chen, Chuyun Chen, Andreas Greiner, Yonghong Li and Haoqing Hou

Improvement of Thermal Stability of Thermoplastic Polymide.................................................. 281Masahiro Toriida, Hitoshi Onishi, Wataru Yamashita and Shoji Tamai

Functional Modificatons of Cotton Fibers with Incorporation of Cationic Reactive Dye for Biocidal Applications................................................................................................................ 282

Tao Zhao, Gang Sun, Xinyuan Song

Effect of Hydrophilic SiO2 on the Gelation Behavior of Konjac Glucomannan/Organic Borate Gels ...................................................................................................................................... 284

Lili Wu, Chaocan Zhang, Jinming Guo and Sanjun Gao

Encapsulation of Polar Dye within Dendritic Star Block Copolymers ...................................... 286Dawanne M. Eugene, Marco D. Giles, and Scott M. Grayson

Cyclization of Amphiphilic Block Copolymers ............................................................................ 288Dawanne M. Eugene, Scott M. Grayson

Thermal Degradation of Cotton Cellulose Modified With THPC and its Metal Complexes ....................................................................................................................................... 290

Ming Gao, Fachao Wu, Rongjie Yang

Preparation and Properties of Luminescent Polymeric Colloidal Crystals .............................. 292Quan Lin, Yingnan Jiang, Hui Li, Dengfeng Zhao, Xuesong Meng, Jing Zheng, bai Yang

Establishment of Nanofiber Preparation Technique by Electrospinning ................................. 294Hajime Miyake, Yukio Higashiyama and Yoshihiro Yamashita

Biodegradable Nanoparticles: Interaction between Polymeric Structure and Bioadhesion..................................................................................................................................... 297

Dinggui Ma

Thermal Degradation and Flame Retardancy of Epoxy Resins Containing Microencapsulated Flame Retardant ............................................................................................ 299

Ming Gao, Yuqing Yan

Control of Cell Adhesion and Release by Thermoresponsive PEG and Glyco ........................ 302Brigitte I. Voit, Stefan Gramm, Zeynep Özyürek, and Carsten Werner

Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy as a Detection Technique in Size Exclusion Chromatography ............................................................................................................................. 304

J. McConville, I. Willoughby, G. Saunders, A. Woods, S. O'Donohue

Surface Attached Polymer Layers through Immobilized Monomers – a Robust Technique for Surface Modification.............................................................................................. 306

Oswald Prucker, Daniel Mädge and Jürgen Rühe

Biodegradable Product-Compounding of Poly(lactic acid) for Extrusion Product ................. 308Phanupan Klaysang, Suwabun Chirachanchai, and Thanyalak Chaisuwan

Designing Gel Permeation Chromatography Columns for the Analysis of Polar Polymers in Polar Organic Solvents ............................................................................................. 310

J. McConville, G. Saunders, I. Willoughby

Following the Progression of Complex Multi-stage Polymerization Reactions Using Process Monitoring......................................................................................................................... 311

J. McConville, S. O’Donohue, I. Willoughby, G. Saunders, W. Reed

Metathesis Polymers with Advanced Architectures Using Sacrificial Synthesis .................... 313Stefan Hilf and Andreas F. M. Kilbinger

Self-Exploding Microcapsules....................................................................................................... 315Bruno G. De Geest,, Stefaan De Koker, Joseph Demeester, Stefaan C. De Smedt and Wim E. Hennink

Uptake and Release of Therapeutic Agents from Shell-Crosslinked Nanoparticles ............... 317Andreas M. Nyström, Jinqi Xu, and Karen L. Wooley

Pervaporation of Dimethyl Carbonate/Methanol Mixtures Through Polydimethylsiloxane Membranes ................................................................................................ 318

Luying Wang, Jiding Li and Yangzheng Lin

Amorphous Silicon Dioxide as Additive to Improve the Fire Retardancy of Polyamides ....... 321G. Schmaucks, B. Friede, H. Schreiner and J.O. Roszinski

Instability in Nanoimprinted Structures........................................................................................ 322Kyle J. Alvine, Hyun W. Ro, Yifu Ding, Brian Okerberg, Jack F. Douglas, Alamgir Karim, and Christopher L. Soles

Polyelectrolyte Brushes as Templates for Layer-by-Layer Depositions................................... 323Hyun-Kwan Yang, Oswald Prucker, and Jürgen Rühe

Relating Oxygen Permeation to Physical Properties of BIMSM Nanocomposites .................. 325Mun F. Tse

Guiding Immiscible Fluids in a Microchannel by Polymeric Surface Modification ................. 328Julia Viertel and Jürgen Rühe

Capillary Wrinkling of Floating Thin Films ................................................................................... 330Jiangshui Huang,, Megan Juszkiewicz, Wim H. De Jeu,, Enrique Cerda, Todd Emrick, Narayanan Menon, and Thomas P. Russell

Polymer Brushes with Steep Graft Density Gradients................................................................ 331Christian Schuh and Jürgen Rühe

Self-Assembly of Nanorods at Fluid-Fluid Interfaces: Orientation and Packing ..................... 333Jinbo He, Qingling Zhang, Suresh Gupta, Pappannan Thiyagarajan, Todd Emrick, and Thomas P. Russell

Using Self-Assembly for the Synthesis of Hybrid Nanoparticles .............................................. 334Rachel K. O’Reilly, Adam O. Moughton and Alexander D. Ievins

Photoolymerization Kinetics and Dispersion Behavior of Thiol-Functionalized Organoclays in Acrylic Systems ................................................................................................... 335

Kwame Owusu-Adom and C. Allan Guymon

Design of Stimuli-Responsive Surfaces by Surface Segregation of Hybrid-Peptide Diblock Copolymers ....................................................................................................................... 337

J. Rodriguez-Hernandez, A. Bousquet, C. Drummond, E. Papon, E. Ibarboure

Polymer Brush Layers for Switching and Sensing ..................................................................... 339Manfred Stamm

Block Copolymer Surfactants in Polymer Blends: Equilibrium and Kinetics .......................... 340Kwanho Chang, Christopher W. Macosko, David C. Morse

Modifying and Repairing Polymer Surfaces with Well-defined Multi End-functionalized Polymers .......................................................................................................................................... 341

Lian R Hutchings, Amilcar Pillay Narrainen, Nigel Clarke, Richard L. Thompson, Imtyaz A. Insari

Nanostructured Polyelectrolyte Layer-by-Layer and Polymer Brushes by Surface Initiated Polymerization: Dual Control in Core Shell and Ultrathin Film Coatings .................. 343

Rigoberto C. Advincula

Surface-Attached Polymer Networks............................................................................................ 345Kerstin Schuh, Oswald Prucker and Jürgen Rühe

Post Sulfonation of Bisphenol A Polyetherimide ........................................................................ 347Soma Guhathakurta and Kyonsuku Min

Synthesis and Thermal Properties of Polymer–Silica Hybrid Nanoparticles ........................... 349Arno Kraft, Valeria Arrighi, and Nathalie Grima

Cruciform Fluorophores................................................................................................................. 351Anthony J. Zucchero and Uwe H. F. Bunz

Applications of Conjugated Polyelectrolytes: Fluorescent Biosensors and Light-Activated BiocideS.......................................................................................................................... 354

Xiaoyong Zhao, Yan Liu, Katsu Ogawa, Sireesha Chemburu, and Kirk S. Schanze

Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Alkyd-Siloxane Hybrid Resins................................. 355Ruby Chakraborty, Mrunal Thatte, Mark D. Soucek

Interactions Between 2D Assemblies of Hydrogel Nanoparticles Assessed by SFA.............. 357Xavier Banquy , X.X. Zhu and Suzanne Giasson

Improved Nafion® Membrane Mechanical Properties by in situ Generation of Metal Oxide Quasi-network Particles ...................................................................................................... 359

Yatin P. Patil and Kenneth A. Mauritz

Amphiphilic Scorpion-like Macromolecules (AScM)-based Micelles as Carriers for Campothecin ................................................................................................................................... 361

Leilani S. del Rosario, Sarah M. Sparks, Alex Harmon, Jinzhong Wang, Kathryn E. Uhrich

New Developments in Textile Flame Retardancy ........................................................................ 364E.D. Weil, S.V. Levchik, R. Mazor, I. Shalev, M. Peled, A. Ben-Zvi

Density Functional Calculations and HOMO/LUMO Orbital Structure as a Probe of Hydrogen Bond Strength and Mesophase Stability in Supramolecular Liquid Crystalline Polymers and Small Molecules .................................................................................. 366

Clinton J. Cook, James A Phillips and Kurt N. Wiegel

Fabrication of Water Soluble Chains Using Divalent Metal Nanoparticles............................... 368Oktay Uzun, and Francesco Stellacci

Performance of Mg-Rich Primers in B117 Salt Fog..................................................................... 370Nicholas D. Richter, Dante Battocchi

Mechanism Study on the Flammability and Thermal Stability of Polymer/Alumina Nanocomposites via Extrusion ..................................................................................................... 371

Feng Yang, Irina Bogdanova and Gordon L. Nelso

How Does Laminate Construction Affect Fire Performance of Fiber Reinforced Polymers .......................................................................................................................................... 373

Michael G. Stevens

Adhesion Test Method for Sprayed Fire-Resistant Materials .................................................... 375Kar T. Tan, Christopher C. White and Donald L. Hunston

Wrinkling of Polymer Coatings...................................................................................................... 377Soumendra K. Basu, Alon V. McCormick, Lorraine F. Francis, L.E. Scriven

Development of Layered Metal Hydroxide/Polymer Nanocomposites: Effects of Metal Ion Composition on Thermal Stability .......................................................................................... 378

Liying Zhu and Jeanne M. Hossenlopp

Synthesis of an Electroactive Polymer with Degradabe Linkages for Tissue Engineering Applications............................................................................................................... 379

Nathalie K. Guimard, Jonathan L. Sessler, and Christine E. Schmidt

Wheat Gluten Blends with Functionalized Alumina Particles .................................................... 380Christopher Simpson, Laura M. McGrath, Richard Parnas, alexandru D. Asandeil

Synthesis, Functionalization and Self-Assembly of Ferromagnetic Nanoparticles ................ 382Jeffrey Pyun, Bryan D. Korth, Pei Yuin Keng, Steven E. Bowles

Photocurable Silicon Elastomers for Advanced Soft Lithography............................................ 383Kyung Choi

Synthesis and Characterization of Temperature and pH Responsive Copolymer Contained Tertiary Amino Group .................................................................................................. 386

Na Hu, Rongji Dai, and Yulin Deng

Functionalization of Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes with Polyvinyl Pyrrolidone by Different Approaches...................................................................................................................... 388

Jun Qiu, Guo-jian Wang, Yan Li and Shi-hong Zhang

Combustibility of Wood Treated with Flame Retardants by Cone Calorimetry........................ 390Guifen Li, Yuqing Yan, Fang Kun

Thermal Degradation of Wood Modified with Compounds ........................................................ 392Guifen Li, Fachao Wu

Highly Emissive Organic Nanoparticles for Targeted Immunofluorescence Labeling ........... 394Hyong-Jun Kim, Jiseok Lee, Tae-Hoon Kim,, Taek Seung Lee, Jinsang Kim

Guided Adhesion and Outgrowth of Cells through Tailormade Surfaces ................................ 396Anke Wörz,, Steffen Kandler,, Oswald Prucker, Ulrich Egert, Jürgen Rühe

Advanced Composite Materials Based on Flame-retardant Epoxy Resins .............................. 398Manfred Doering

Chemical Micropatterning of Poly(dimethylsiloxane) by Self-Assembly of Functional Molecules at the Interface .............................................................................................................. 399

Maaike L. van Poll, Feng Zhou, Madeleine Ramstedt and Wilhelm T.S. Huck

Well-defined Supramolecular Oligo(pbenzamide) Block Copolymers in a Facile One-Pot Reaction .................................................................................................................................... 401

Johannes Klos, Frederik Wurm and Andreas F.M. Kilbinger

Nanolayered Optical Polymers ...................................................................................................... 403James S. Shirk, Marie L. Sandrock, Guy Beadie, Richard S. Lepkowicz, Yi Jin, Aditya Ranade, Eric Baer, and Anne Hiltner

Metathesis Staining Putting Grubbs Catalyst on Polymers ....................................................... 404Frederik Wurm, Hannah M. König, Stefan Hilf, and Andreas F. M. Kilbinger

Statistical Copolymer Brush Gradients as a Platform for Screening Block Copolymer Self-Assembly ................................................................................................................................. 406

Derek L. Patton, Brian C. Berry, Christopher M. Stafford, Kathryn L. Beers, Michael J. Fasolka

Thermosets Prepared by the ROMP of a Modified Linseed Oil and Dicyclopentadiene ......... 407Phillip H. Henna and Richard C. Larock

Antifouling ABC Triblock Copolymers with Grafted Functionality............................................ 409C.J. Weinman, J.A. Finlay, D. Park, M.Y. Paik, S. Krishnan, B.R. Fletcher, M.E. Callow, J.A. Callow, D.L. Handlin, C.L. Willis, D.A. Fischer, K.E. Sohn, E.J. Kramer, C.K. Ober

Online Monitoring of Polybutadiene Chain Scission and Crosslinking in Solution by Free Radical Initiators..................................................................................................................... 412

Raber Inoubli, Daniel Elizarrarás, Scott Cooper, José Sosa, Alina M. Alb, Michael F. Drenski, Wayne F. Reed

Yeast Cell Wall Particles as a Versatile Macromolecular Delivery System............................... 414Ernesto R. Soto and Gary R. Ostroff

Limitations and Opportunities for Electric Field Assisted Patterning of Polymer Nanocomposites ............................................................................................................................. 417

Richard A. Vaia, Hilmar Koerner, Evangelis Manias, George Polizos, Wei Lu

Synthesis of Folded Oligo(p-benzamide)s via N-Amide Protecting Group .............................. 419Helga Seyler and Andreas F. M. Kilbinger

Polymeric Brushes as Functional Templates for Immobilizing RNase A: Study of Binding Kinetics and Activity ........................................................................................................ 421

Sean Cullen, Ian Mandel, Xiaosong Liu, Franz Himpsel, Padma Gopalan

Synthesis and Characteristics of Hydrogenbonding Supramolecules Composed of OctaPhenol-functionalized Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane .......................................... 423

Chu-Hua Lu, Chih-Feng Huang, Feng-Chih Chang

Synthesis of pH-sensitive Hydrogels of Carboxy Methyl Cellulose-graft-Poly(Acrylic Acid) and Study of the Drug Release Property ............................................................................ 426

Hui Dong, Yihua Yin, Xingmin Ji and Hua Zheng

Kinetics of Adsorption of Polystyrene–Polyisoprene Miktoarm Copolymers.......................... 428Juan Pablo Hinestrosa, Jose Alonzo, Ming Liu, Masashi Osa, Jimmy Mays, and S. Michael Kilbey II

Nanoparticles and Reactive Polymers: Tools for Functional Nanomaterials.......................... 430Patrick Theato

Functionalization of Silica Nanoparticles by Surface-Initiated RAFT Polymerization of 2-Azidohexyl Methacrylate and Click Chemistry ......................................................................... 432

Yu Li and Brian C. Benicewicz

Gene Delivery and Transfection Studies with Lipopolyplexes in Human Endothelial and Smooth Muscle Cells .............................................................................................................. 434

Luis Brito, Steven Little, Robert Langer, and Mansoor Amiji

Fire and Engineering Properties of Polyimide - Aerogel Hybrid Foam Composites for Advanced Applications .................................................................................................................. 436

Trent M. Smith, Martha K. Williams, James E. Fesmire, Jared P. Sass, Erik S. Weiser

Photopatternable Substrate-Independent Poly(glycidyl methacrylate-ran-2-(acryloyloxy) ethyl 2-methacrylate) Polymer Films for Immobilization of Biomolecules........ 438

Sean P. Cullen, Sangkeun Ha, Max G. Lagally, and Padma Gopalan

Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Coatings Prepared from Glycidyl Carbamate Resin and Amino-Functional Silane ................................................................................................................ 440

D. K. Chattopadhyay, Aaron Muehlberg and Dean C. Webster

Mechanical Properties and Instabilities of PDMS Surfaces ....................................................... 442M. D. Thouless,, K. L. Mills, D, Lee, S. Takayama, J. R. Barber, N. Triantafyllidis

Routes to Robust Nanoporous Membranes Using Multifunctional Block Copolymers .......... 443Marc Hillmeyer

Synthesis of Polyurethane/Clay Nanocomposite From Aqueous Prepolymer Dispersions...................................................................................................................................... 444

Samy A. Madbouly, Joshua U. Otaigbe, Ajaya K. Nanda, Douglas A. Wicks

Mechanisms of Deformation of Polylactide Systems ................................................................. 446Ewa Piorkowska, Marcin Kowalczyk, and Jaroslaw Marczyk

Study of Bacillus anthracis PA-EF-LF, PAEF, and PA-LF Toxin Complexes Neutralization during Phagocytosis Using Glycoconjugates .................................................... 447

Olga Tarasenko, April Jones, Jill Castleberry, Dolo Akpore, Kristin Hester, Michelle Park Kim, Deidre McManus, Lee Soderberg, and Pierre Alusta

Adsorption Kinetics of Amphiphilic Water Soluble Triblock Copolymers Based on Poly(2,3-dihydroxypropyl methacrylate) and Poly(propylene oxide) at the Air-Water Interface ........................................................................................................................................... 449

Elkin Amado, Jörg Kressler, Andreas Kerth and Alfred Blume

Brominated Aryl Phospholanes as Dual Functional Reactive Flame Retardants for Polymeric Materials ........................................................................................................................ 451

Bob A. Howell and Young Jun Cho

Modeling Thermal Degradation Kinetics of Flame-Retarded Epoxy Resin Formulations....... 453Everson Kandare, Baljinder K. Kandola, and John. E. J. Staggs

Emerging Challenges and Opportunities in Polyolefins............................................................. 456Kurt W. Swogger and Bruce A. Story

Volume 2

Effect of Ambient Oxygen Concentration on Thermal Decomposition of Organic Polymers Engineering the Cellular Microenvironment ............................................................... 457

Kenneth L. Erickson and John Oelfke

Engineering the Cellular Microenvironment ................................................................................ 459Sangeeta N. Bhatia

Effects of Substrate Compliance on Fracture of Thin Hard Films ............................................. 460N. R. Moody, M. J. Cordill, M. S. Kennedy, T. D. Nguyen, D. P. Adams, J. A. Emerson, D. F. Bahr, and E. D. Reedy, Jr.

Electrospinning Self-Stratifying Additives with Poly(methyl methacrylate)............................. 461Matthew T. Hunley, Adam Harber, Joshua A. Orlicki, Adam M. Rawlett, and Timothy E. Long

Monitoring Alignment of Osteoblast Cells Directed by Gradient Nanopatterns ...................... 463Jirun Sun, Yifu Ding, Nancy J. Lin, Hyun Wook Ro, Christopher Soles, and Sheng Lin-Gibson

Flame Resistance and Thermal Combustion Properties: A Statistical Analysis .................... 465Richard E. Lyon

Wrinkling of Anisotropic Crystal Films on Soft Substrates ....................................................... 466Se-Hyuk Im and Rui Huang

Ophthalmic Delivery of Dexamethasone by Poly(hydroxyethyl methacrylate) (PHEMA) Contact Lenses ............................................................................................................................... 468

Jinah Kim and Anuj Chauhan

Synthesis and Thermodynamic Properties of Poly (cyclohexylethylene-bdimethylsiloxane-b-cyclohexylethylene).................................................................................... 470

Sudeep Maheshwari, Michael Tsapatsis, and Frank S. Bates

Surface Functionalized Polymer Vesicles for Controlled Biocompatibility, Cell Uptake, and Targeting .................................................................................................................................. 472

Elizabeth R. Gillies, Bo Li, and Amanda Martin

Development of Multifunctional Flame Retardants for Polymeric Materials ............................ 474Bob A. Howell

Fully Hydrogenated, Styrene Based Block Copolymers: Designing Materials at the Nanometer Scale for Macroscopic Performance......................................................................... 476

Stephen F. Hahn and Weijun Zhou

Applied Polymer Research in Academia ...................................................................................... 477Anne Hittner

Molecular Dynamics of Sulfonated Poly(Styrene-b-Ethylene/Butylene-b-Styrene) Block Copolymers........................................................................................................................... 478

Hongying Chen, Mohammad K. Hassan, and Kenneth A. Mauritz

Determination of Silver Nanowires Elastic Modulus by Means of Longitudinal Buckling Instability ......................................................................................................................... 480

R. Gunawidjaja, C. Jiang, V. V. Tsukruk

Kinetics of Self Assembly of Star Block Copolymers that Tether by their Corona Blocks at the Solid-Fluid Interface ................................................................................................ 482

Jose Alonzo, Haining Ji, Juan Pablo Hinestrosa, Jimmy W. Mays,, Mark Dadmun, and S. Michael Kilbey

Gel Spinning of Silk Tubes for Tissue Engineering .................................................................... 484Michael Lovett, Christopher Cannizzaro, Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, and David L. Kaplan

Equilibrium Structure of Polymer Brushes with Multiple Tethers by Self Assembly of Stars Block Copolymers at the Solid-Fluid Interface .................................................................. 485

Jose Alonzo, Haining Ji, Juan Pablo Hinestrosa, Jimmy W. Mays,, Mark Dadmun, and S. Michael Kilbey

Advanced Solutions in Fire Retardancy and Resistancy: Breakthroughs Proposed by an Innovative Company ............................................................................................................ 487

Michael Claes, Géraldine Dupin, Frédéric Luizi, Mays,, Mark Dadmun, and S. Michael Kilbey II

Substrate Effects on the Luminescence of Quantum Dots Encapsulated into the Ultrathin Polymer LbL Film ............................................................................................................ 488

Dmitry Zimnitsky, Jun Xu, Zhiqun Lin, Vladimir V. Tsukruk

Temperature and Rate Dependence of Adhesive Bonding to Glass Substrates With Controlled Surface Chemistry ....................................................................................................... 489

E. Jason Robinette, Andres A. Bujanda, Robert E. Jensen, Steven H. McNigh

Gas Barrier Structures Using Particulates ................................................................................... 491Sergei Nazarenko

Perylene Materials for Photovoltaic Applications ....................................................................... 492Xiaowei Zhan, Zhan’ao Tan, Benoit Domercq, Zesheng An, Xuan Zhang, Stephen Barlow, Yongfang Li, Daoben Zhu, Bernard Kippelen, and Seth R. Marder

Nanoparticle Self Assembly in Multiple Dimensions .................................................................. 493Michael E. Mackay,, Erin McGarrity, Tiffany Bohnsack, Tzu-Chia Tseng, Jon Kiel, Phillip M. Duxbury, Michael S. Wong, Matteo Pasquali

Structural Control in Functional Rod-Coil Block Copolymers ................................................... 495Yuefei Tao,, Bradley D. Olsen,, Hagar Zohar, and Rachel A. Segalman

Gold Nanoparticles Assembly on Silver Nanowires Surface for Potential Raman-Based Sensor .................................................................................................................................. 497

R. Gunawidjaja, S. Peleshanko, H. Ko, D. Zimnitsky, V. V. Tsukruk

Synthesis and Characterization of Star Oxazoline Polymer Structure ..................................... 498Mallory A. Cortez and Scott M. Grayson

Light Induced Morphology Changes in Photochromic Polymer Brushes ................................ 500Jason Locklin

Morphology and Magnetic Properties of Sulfonated Poly [styrene-(ethylene-cobutylene)-styrene] Triblock Copolymer/Iron Oxide Composites ........................................... 502

Sateesh K. Peddini, Kenneth A. Mauritz, David E. Nikles, James L. Weston

Rheology and Phase Behavior of a Galacturonate Polysaccharide Capable of In-Situ Gleation ............................................................................................................................................ 504

Shawn D. McConaughy, Stacey E. Kirkland, Josh Gibson, Charles L. McCormick

Synthesis and Characterization of Liver-Targeted Polymers as DNA Delivery Vectors ......... 506Chen-Chang Lee, Giovanna Grandinetti and Theresa M. Reineke

Synthesis of 2-Hydroxyethyl Acrylate-2-Oxazoline Block Copolymers Utilizing Click Chemistry......................................................................................................................................... 507

Mallory A. Cortez and Scott M. Grayson

Assembly of Star Polymers by "Clicking" Linear Polymers To Poly(alkynated) Dendrimer ........................................................................................................................................ 509

Yejia Li, Marco D. Giles, Scott M. Grayson

Covalent Functionalization of Nanocrystals and their Self-Assembly...................................... 511Eugene R. Zubarev, Bishnu P. Khanal, Jacob D. Gibson

Rheological Behavior of Reinforced Polyurethane/Clay Nanocomposite Films Prepared from Aqueous Prepolymer Dispersion ........................................................................ 513

Samy A. Madbouly, Joshua U. Otaigbe

Norbornene-Based Copolymers with Pendant Heavy-Metal Phosphors and their use in Bis(Carbazole) Groups and their use in Light-Emitting Diodes ............................................ 515

Stephen Barlow, Alpay Kimyonok, Benoit Domercq, Andreas Haldi, Jian-Yang Cho, Joseph R. Carlise, Xian-Yong Wang, Lauren E. Hayden, Simon C. Jones, Yadong Zhang, Carlos Zuniga, Seth R. Marder, Bernard Kippelen, and Marcus Wec

Development of High-Throughput Combinatorial Screening Method for Probing Cell-Biomaterials Interactions ............................................................................................................... 516

Khaled A. Aamer, Joachim Kohn, and Matthew L. Becker

N-alkyl Dithieno[3,2-b:2’,3’-d] Pyrroles-based Copolymers ....................................................... 518Junying Liu, Rui Zhang, Geneviève Sauvé and Richard D. McCullough

Confinement and Mechanical Stiffening Behavior of Tyrosine-derived Polycarbonate Thin Films ........................................................................................................................................ 519

Khaled A. Aamer , Christopher M. Stafford , Lee Richter , Joachim Kohn, Matthew L. Becke

Inactivated Halide Initiators for Cp2TiCl-Catalyzed Styrene Living Radical Polymerization: 1,10-Dibromodecane........................................................................................... 521

Alexandru D. Asandei,, Yanhui Chen and Olumide Adebolu

Synthesis and Evaluation of New Photocurable and Biodegradable Elastomers ................... 523Jinrong Liu, Jacob J. Sprague, Ed T. Samulski, Valerie V. Sheares

Telechelic Polystyrene for Bioconjugation .................................................................................. 526Zachary P. Tolstyka, Jordan T. Kopping, and Heather D. Maynard

Carbon Nanostructures Grown on Carbonized Electrospun Nanofibers by Palladium Catalysis .......................................................................................................................................... 527

Xiaoqing Xiong, Chuiling Lai, Andreas Greiner, Darrell H. Reneker, Haoqing Hou

Subcellular Fate of Polymeric Drug/Gene Carriers ..................................................................... 529Jind?ich Kope?ek,, Pavla Kope?ková, Jon Callahan, Vaikunth Cuchelkar

Polyethylene-Polyvinylcyclohexane Diblock Copolymers Comprising Perfectly Linear Polyethylene .................................................................................................................................... 531

Sasha Myers, Richard A. Register

Structure-Property Relationships in Polymeric Materials: From Plastic Beer Bottles to Light Weight Composites............................................................................................................... 533

David Chiraldi

Effects of Humidity on the Thickness and Young’s Modulus of Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Films ............................................................................................................................... 534

Adam J. Nolte,, Neil D. Treat, Michael F. Rubner, and Robert E. Cohen

JKR Adhesion Measurements at Layer-by-Layer and Polymer Brush Functionalized Surfaces ........................................................................................................................................... 535

Adam J. Nolte, Heqing Huang, and Christopher M. Stafford

Synthesis and Characterization of Polyurethane Containing Hydroxyl Butyl Terminated Polydimethylsiloxane................................................................................................. 536 Chao-Can Zhang and Li Yu

Development of PEGylated Organic-Inorganic Hybrids as Potential Contrast Agent for Medical Imaging .............................................................................................................................. 538

Jean-François Lutz and Erik Ortel

Effect of Particle Size on the Self-Organization of Fluorinated Polyacrylates Latex Blends Gradient Film ...................................................................................................................... 540

Yuanyuan Hu, Chaocan Zhang, Yanjun Chen

Effect of Flame Retardants on the Thermal, Burning and Char Formation Behaviour of Polypropylene – Nanoclay Compounded Polymers.................................................................... 542

Baljinder K Kandola, Alper Yenilmez, A. Richard Horrocks, Gillian Smart

Aging on Isotactic Polypropylene by 1H Low-field Solid-state NMR ......................................... 544C. E. Hedesiu, , D. E. Demco, R. Steenbakkers,R. Kleppinger, G. Vanden Poel, B. Blümich,V. M. Litvinov, K. Remerie

Selective Interfacial Polymerization for PEDOT Nanostructures Formation ............................ 546Eunyu Park, Joonwon Bae and Jyongsik Jang

Performance Improvement of Low Temperature Plasma Treated Carbon Nanofibers as Nanofluid Fillers .............................................................................................................................. 548

Sa Hoon Min, Kyung Jin Lee, Seong-Ho Yoon Jyongsik Jang

Highly Sensitive Ammonia Sensor of Polyaniline/Poly(4-styrenesulfonate) Using Ink Jet Printing ...................................................................................................................................... 550

Joonhyuk Cho, Jyongsik Jang

Preparation of Thin, Flexible, Conducting and Nanoparticle-Loaded Carbon Nanotube Films via Supramolecular Polymer Functionalization ................................................................ 552

Gregor Lawson, Fuyong Cheng, Patigul Imin, and Alex Adronov

General Method for the Preparation of Inorganic-Organic Core Shell Nanoparticles ............. 554Jean-Christophe Daigle, Jerome P. Claverie

Polymerization of Ethylene Catalyzed by New Titanium and Zirconium Complexes with Fluorinated β -Imineenolato Ligands ........................................................................................... 555

Sze-Man Yu and Stefan Mecking

Preparation and Characterization of Physically Crosslinked Poly(vinyl alcohol)/Carboxymethyl Cellulose Hydrogels ............................................................................. 557

Guanghua He, Hua Zheng, Fuliang Xiong and Runxiang Zhao

Preparation, Structure, Performance, Industrialization and Application of Advanced Clay/Rubber Nanocomposites....................................................................................................... 559

Liqun Zhang, Youping Wu, and Xiaofeng Zhang

Wiring Molecules with Polymer Brushes: End-Functionalization of Conjugated Polymer Brushes via ROMP........................................................................................................... 560

Nicholas M. Marshall, Sara V. Orski, and Jason Locklin

Structure and Mechanical Properties of PEO-Laponite Films Made from Gels ....................... 562Akhilesh K. Gaharwar, Vikas Kaul, Avinash Dundigalla, Ozan Akkus and Gudrun Schmidt

Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Nanomaterials from Block Copolymers ........................................... 564Robert B. Grubbs, Anand Sundararaman, Laura B. Sessions, Liliana A. Mîinea, Jeffrey A. Garber, Gloria J. Sheng, and David S. Glueck

Coaxial Electrospinning of PA6/Epoxy Superfine Fibers ........................................................... 565Yan Li, Wei Wang, Qianwei Xu and Jiangwei Li

Chemical Gating With Polymer Brushes ...................................................................................... 567Sergiy Minko, Evgeny Katz, Mikhail Motornov and Roman Sheparovych

Janus Particles at Interfaces ......................................................................................................... 568Andreas Walther and Axel H. E. Müller

Development of Semi-Conductive Biomaterials for Regulating Cell Growth ........................... 570Charlene Rincon and J. Carson Meredith

Silica/Polyethylene Nanocomposites from Catalytic Emulsion Polymerization ...................... 571Joerg Stumbaum, Lizhi Zhou, Stefan Mecking

Perforated Ultrathin Freely Suspended Layer-by-Layer Films................................................... 573Dmitry Zimnitsky, Valery V. Shevchenko, Vladimir V. Tsukruk

Ordered Nanoceramics via Block Copolymer Self-Assembly.................................................... 574Patrick R. L. Malenfant, Julin Wan, Seth Taylor, and Mohan Manoharan

Fabrication and Durability of Polymer Sparse Network Microstructures Formed by Viscoelastic Phase Separation ...................................................................................................... 575

David M. Hess and Andrew J. Guenthner

Measuring the Modulus of Hydrated Contact Lenses via Surface Wrinkling ........................... 577Jun Young Chung, Young Jong Lee, Peyton L. Hopson, Michael J. Fasolka, and Christopher M. Stafford

Quantifying Interfacial Adhesion in Transfer Printing via a Cantilever Peel Test.................... 578Jiong Liu, Jun Young Chung, and Christopher M. Stafford

Stem-Cell Growth on a Phosphorylcholine-Modified Chitosan-Based Matrix.......................... 579Zhimei Miao, Kim Tardif,, Isabelle Cloutier, Caroline Lemieux, Jean-François Tanguay,, and Françoise M. Winnik

Synthesis and Characterization of Polymer Brushes from PDMS Surfaces ............................ 581Heqing Huang, Adam J. Nolte, Jun Young Chung, and Christopher M. Stafford

Dispersion and Self-Assembly of Nanospheres and Nanorods in Polymer Nanocomposite Films..................................................................................................................... 583

Russell J. Composto, Ranjan D. Deshmukh and Yu Liu

Synthesis of Linear and Cyclic Amphiphilic Homopolymers as Unimolecular Invertible Micelles ............................................................................................................................................ 584

Boyd A. Laurent, Kaitlin Willham, and Scott M. Grayson

Temperature Dependant Creep Performance of Multiwall Carbon Nanotube - Polymer Composites...................................................................................................................................... 586

Daniel R. Bortz, Matthew C. Weisenberger and Rodney Andrews

Controlled Pegylation of Monodisperse Magnetic Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications..................................................................................................................................... 588

Jin Xie, Chenjie Xu, Kaylie Young, and Shouheng Sun

Fire Retardancy of Polypropylene Composites Using Intumescent Coatings ......................... 589Sophie Duquesne, Nicolas Renaut, Pierre Bardollet, Charaf Jama, Michel Traisnel, René Delobel

Extended Release of Cyclosporine-A from Surfactant-Laden Contact Lenses ....................... 592Yash Kapoor and Anuj Chauhan

Grafting of Polymers: A Cathodic Electropolymerizaton Approach ......................................... 594Chaitanya K. Danda, Rebecca Cai, Wei Wang, Akira Baba, Rigoberto C. Advincula

Pyridine Derived BBL-Like Polymer for Organic Supercapacitor Applications ....................... 596William W. Lai, David J. Irvin, John D. Stenger-Smith, Jennifer A. Irvin

Magnetic Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Materials from Ferromagnetic Nanoparticles and Crosslinkables Copolymers........................................................................................................... 597

Pei Yuin Keng and Jeffrey Pyun

Functionalization of Ferromagnetic Nanoparticles Using Well-Defined Polymeric Surfactants: Effect of Composition and Molar Mass on Ligand Exchange .............................. 599

Bryan D. Korth and Jeffrey Pyun

Bio-assisted Surface-mediated Growth of Inorganic Nanoparticles ......................................... 600Eugenia Kharlampieva, Nils Kröger and Vladimir V. Tsukruk

Synthesis of Amphiphilic Molecules of Hydrophilic Ethylene Glycol and Hydrophobic Terthiophene ................................................................................................................................... 601

Jonathan Pullen, Yushin Park and Rigoberto C. Advincula

Multiscale Modeling of Polymer Modified Colloidal Suspensions ............................................ 603Dmitry Bedrov, Grant D. Smith, and Oleg Borodin

Modification of Poly(styrene-butadienestyrene) Block Copolymers for Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Membranes ...................................................................................................................... 604

Yuqing Liu and Kevin A. Cavicchi

Layer-by-layer Deposition of Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Thin Films.......................................... 606Antonio F. Frau, Thomas J. Lane, Clayton R. Ayers, Timothy M. Fulghum, Rigoberto Advincula

Synthesis of Polyester Based Dendrimers as Precursors for Amphiphilic Star Block Copolymers ..................................................................................................................................... 608

Marco D. Giles, Dawanne M. Eugene, Scott M. Grayson

Effect of Chain Architecture on Particle Miscibility in Block Copolymer-Nanoparticle Blends .............................................................................................................................................. 610

Jessica Listak, Hyung-Ju Ryu, Rangou Sofia, Politakos Nikolaos, Misichronis Konstantinos, Apostolos Avgeropoulos, Michael R. Bockstaller

Effect of Fire Retardants and Nanofillers on the Fire Toxicity of Four Common Polymers .......................................................................................................................................... 611

Anna A. Stec, and T. Richard Hull

Novel Conjugated Polyazines with Oligo(p-phenylene vinylene)s ............................................ 613Narayan Mukherjee, Chivin Sun, Bilal Marie, Shi Jin, Ralf M. Peetz

Stabilization of the Perforated Lamellar Microstructure in Block Copolymers with Asymmetric Block Polydispersity ................................................................................................. 615

Jessica Listak, Wojciech Jakubowski, Laura Mueller, Krzysztof, Matyjaszewski and Michael R. Bockstaller

Finite Width Effect of Thin Films Buckling on Compliant Substrate: Impact on Metrology ......................................................................................................................................... 616

Hanqing Jiang, Dahl-Young Khang, Young Huang, and John A. Rogers

Novel Aliphatic Low-Tg Polyester Based Pressure Sensitive Adhesives................................. 618Gozde Ozturk, A.J. Pasquale, and Timothy E. Long

Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy and Analysis of Layer-by-layer Ultrathin Films of Polyaniline and CdSe Nanoparticles.............................................................................. 620

Lalithya C. Jayarathna, Wei Wang and Rigoberto C. Advincula

Divergent Polyester Dendronization of Cavitands to Tune Host Solubility.............................. 622Marco D. Giles, Roy L. Emanuel, Bruce C. Gibb, Scott M. Grayson

Optimizing Membranes Structures for CO2 Separations ............................................................ 623Victor A. Kusuma, Grant Offord, and Benny D. Freeman

Strain-Induced Elastic Buckling Instability for Mechanical Measurements (SIEBIMM) on Colloidal Assemblies................................................................................................................. 624

Zekeriyya Gemici, Patrick Smadbeck, Michael F. Rubner, Robert E. Cohen

Coupled Proton Transfer in the Interaction of Chitosan with DNA as Investigated by Isothermal Titration Microcalorimetry .......................................................................................... 627

Pei Lian Ma , Françoise M. Winnik and Michael D. Buschmann

Aldol-Group Transfer Polymerization for Grafting from Cadmium Selenide Nanoparticles .................................................................................................................................. 629

Hemali P. Rathnayake, Ravisubhash Tangirala, Qingling Zhang, Todd Enrick

Use of Electrostatic Layer-by-layer Deposition 2ith Chitosan and Alginate in Testing Chitosan’s Potential In Drug Delivery........................................................................................... 630

Guoqian Jiang, Alex Marches, Roderick Pernites and Rigoberto C. Advincula

Research on Crystallization Behaviors of Surface-Modified Poly(ethylene terephthalate) Fibers....................................................................................................................... 632

Zhi-Zhi Dong, Zhi-Ying Zhang , Li Chen, Ming-Ming Yin, Jing Dong

Thiol-ene Hydrogels for Cell Culture and Stem Cell Differentiation .......................................... 634Nalini Gupta, Luis M. Campos, Sherry T. Hikita, Rosette G. Guino, Michael D. Dimitriou, EmmaLeigh K. Given, Dennis O. Clegg, Craig J. Hawker

Polyamide 11-Alumina Nanocomposites: A Preliminary Investigation..................................... 636Si C. Lao, Budi S. Hadisujoto, Wen Y. Yong, Hon K. Jor, Christopher Wu, Tessie J. Moon, Joseph H. Koo, Louis A. Pilato, Gerhardt E. Wissler

Ultrathin Films of Alternating CdSe Nanoparticles and Polythiophene: Towards Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Semiconductors ................................................................................. 638

Lalithya C. Jayarathna, Yushin Park, Vetrichelvan Muthalagu, Rigoberto Advincula

Heterogeneous Electron Transfer: A Tool to Probe the Dendritic Encapsulation at the Periphery ................................................................................................................................... 640

Arpornrat Nantalaksakul, K. Krishnamoorthy, S. Thayumanavan

Patternable Electroactive Polymer Actuators Incorporating Titanium Oxide Core-Poly(butyl acrylate) Shell Nanoparticles ...................................................................................... 642

Ashok Maliakal, Jingqin Cui,, Ilona Kretzschmar, Lei Zhu, Weiqiang Cao

Anisotropic Self-Assembly in Polymer Nanocomposites........................................................... 644Pinar Akcora, Sanat K. Kumar, Yu Li, Brian Benicewicz

PAMAM-CBZ Dendron Complexes in Solution ............................................................................ 645Chatthai Kaewtong,, Guoqian Jiang, Mary Jane Felipe, Buncha Pulpoka, Rigoberto Advincula

Nanotube/Clay Synergy to Obtain Self-Extinguishing Polymer Blends.................................... 647Seongchan Pack, Ezra Bobo, Kimberley Leonard, Joshua Rosenbaum, Takashi Kashiwagi, and Miriam H Rafailovich

Influence of Repeat Structure on Sorption in Thin Polymethacrylate Films ............................ 648Alper Karul and Bryan D. Vogt

Internal Bubble Shapes Effect on Dielectric Behaviors in PVDF Films .................................... 650Ditthapun Suwansumpan, Hathaikarn Munuspiya, Amar S. Bhalla

Improved Mechanical and Functional Properties of Elastomer/Graphite Nanocomposites Prepared by Latex Compounding ................................................................... 652

Ming Tian, Yiqing Wang, Hua Zou, Jian Yang, and Li-Qun Zhang

Nanoclay-Polypropylene Composite for Ethylene Scavenging Film......................................... 655Tantika Aksonnum, Hathaikarn Manuspiya, Rathanawan Magaraphan, and Manit Nthitanakul

Preparation of Polyester/Montmorillonite Nanocomposites in Supercritical CO2 ................... 657Yeong-Tarng Shieh, Jhen-Gang Lai, and Wei-Li Tang

Preparation of Photoreactive Hydroxypropyl Chitosan Scaffolds with Drug Release Capability ......................................................................................................................................... 660

Kai Ling, Hua Zheng, Junli Li, Jinghua Chen

Cooled Phase in Thermal Phase Transition of 65/35 Vinylidene Fluoride/Trifluoroethylene Copolymer.......................................................................................... 662

Ruijuan Yue and Zhigang Wang

Incorporation of ZnO Nanoparticles into Poly(methylmethacrylate) Matrix by Solution Mixing ............................................................................................................................................... 664

Mukesh Agrawal, Nikolaos E. Zafeiropoulos, Andrij Pich, Rüdiger Häßler, Ulrich Oertel and Manfred Stamm

UV-fabricated Chitosan Scaffold with Improved Thermostability ............................................. 667Kai Ling, Hua Zheng, Junli Li, Jinghua Chen

Smart Packaging for Fish Spoilage Indicator .............................................................................. 669Acharee Seephueng, Hathaikarn Manuspiya, Rathanawan Magaraphan and Manit Nithitanakul

Processing of PBS/MWNT Nanocomposite Foams ..................................................................... 671Seok-In Lee, Suk-Goo Jang, Sang-Kyun Lim and In-Joo Chin

Poly (2-vinylpyridine) Brushes as Carrier System for Silver Nanoparticles............................. 673Smrati Gupta, Severine Chapuis, Mukesh Agrawal, Petra Uhlmann, Ulrich Oertel and Manfred Stamm

Biocompatible Poly(acrylic acid)/Laponite Nanocomposite Hydrogels.................................... 675Li Li, Xuhong Guo, Yimin Sun

Swelling of Strong Polyelectrolyte Brushes with Change of Counter Ions .............................. 677Smrati Gupta, Mukesh Agrawal, Petra Uhlmann and Manfred Stamm

Preparation and Characterization of Biodegradable Poly(butylene Succinate) (PBS)/Organoclay Nanocomposite Foams................................................................................... 680

Suk-Goo Jang, Seok-In Lee, Sang-Kyun Lim and In-Joo Chin

Micro Combustion Calorimetric Measurements of Flame Retardant Plastics.......................... 682Frederick P. Schall, Alexander B. Morgan

Surface Modification by Fluorous Polyoxetanes and Polyurethanes ....................................... 684Ying Zheng and Kenneth J. Wynne

Synthesis, Thermal Stability and Optical Properties of Hyperbranched Poly(pyridine)s ................................................................................................................................ 685

Han Peng, Na Zhang

PEG-Peptide Micelles for Use as Drug Delivery Vehicles........................................................... 687Sarah L. Goh, Andrew P. Platt, and Katherine E. Rutledge

Carbonization of Inorganic Layered Compound on Polymer: Preparation and Mechanism....................................................................................................................................... 688

Yuan Hu, Dandan Yang and Lei Song

Cluster Effect of CpG Sequences in TLR-9 Recognition ............................................................ 689Jusaku Minari, Naohiko Shimada, and Kazuo Sakurai

Correlating Buried Interfacial Molecular Structures to Polymer Adhesion .............................. 690Anne V. Vázquez, Cheryl L. Loch, Nick E. Shephard, Zhan Chan

Assembly of Magnetic Nanoparticle Clusters of Controlled Geometry and Crystallinity...................................................................................................................................... 692

Tatsushi Isojima, Su Kyung Suh, and T. Alan Hatton

Cyclic Motion and Inversion of Surface Flow Direction in a Polymer Brush Under Shear ................................................................................................................................................ 693

Marcus Müller and Claudio Pastorino

Synthesis of Novel Organometallic Polymers ............................................................................. 694Han Peng, Yu Wang

Peptide-Conjugated Block Copolymers for Templated Inorganic Materials Synthesis by Self-Assembly ............................................................................................................................ 696

M. Kanapathipillai, Surya. K. Mallapragada and P. Thiyagarajan

Ultrasound-Mediated Gene Delivery In Vitro with Gas-Filled Liposome................................... 697Hai Feng, Miao D. Wang, Xu Cheng, Lin L. Dong, and Zai L. Fu

Synthesis of Well-Defined Poly(2-(Dimethylamino)ethyl Methacrylate) Brushes in the Presence of Air and their Application for Temperature Responsive Antibacterial Surfaces ........................................................................................................................................... 698

Hongchen Dong, Hironobu Murata, Alan Russell and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

Solvent Induced Ordering of Thin Diblock Copolymer Films..................................................... 700Abraham Arceo, Peter F. Green

Fire Retardation in Nylon 6-Layered Silicate Nanocomposites: Films, Fibers and Fabrics ... 702Prabir K. Patra, Kadhiravan Shanmuganathan, Sarang Deodhar, Nicholas A. Dembsey, Steven B.Warner, Paul D.Calvert and Qinguo Fan

Photolithographically Patterned Covalently Bonded Polythiophene Films Using In Tandem Sol-Gel, Surface Initiated Free Radical And Redox Polymerization Methods ........... 704

Anand Sadekar, Naveen Chandrasekaran, Sudhir Mulik, Chariklia Sotiriou-Leventis, Nicholas Leventis

Elucidating Structure-Property Relationships in Polycation-mediated Gene Delivery ........... 706John M. Layman, Erika M. Borgerding, Sharlene R. Williams, Dietmar Appelhans, Brigitte Voit, and Timothy E. Long, Nicholas Leventis

Study on the Thermal Degradation of Polybenzoxazine and Polyacrylonitrile Blend ............. 708HoDong Kim, InWoo Nam

TGA-FTIR Investigation of the Fire Retardant Mechanism of Acrylonitrile Copolymers Containing Nanofillers.................................................................................................................... 710

T. Richard Hull, Anna A. Stec, Shonali Nazare, De-Yi Wang, Baljinder K. Kandola, Dennis Price

Harnessing Wrinkling Instabilities for Advanced Measurements of Polymeric Thin Films ................................................................................................................................................. 712

un Young Chung, Rui Huang, and Christopher M. Stafford

Evaluation of Automated Synthesis for Chain and Step-Growth Polymerizations: Can Robots Replace the Chemist? ....................................................................................................... 713

Ramiro Rojas,, Nicole K. Harris and Joachim Kohn

Synthesis of Semiconducting Polymers Based on Selenolo[3,2-b]thiophene for Thin-Film Transistors .............................................................................................................................. 715

Sarada P. Mishra, Rui Zhang, Itaru Osaka and Richard D. McCullough

Polystyrene-b-Poly(ethylene oxide) Nanostructures: The Effect of Film Preparation, Concentration, and Molecular Weight .......................................................................................... 716

Jennifer L. Logan, Timothy Wu, Taylor Neiman, and Shenda M. Baker

Peptide Binding to Sheet Silicate and Metal Nanoparticles: Insight from Atomistic Simulation ........................................................................................................................................ 718

Hendrik Heinz, Lawrence R. Drummy, Richard A. Vaia, Rajesh R. Naik, Barry L. Farmer

Preparation of Macroporous Conductive Carbon Aerogels from Pyrolysis of Isocyanate-Crosslinked Resorcinol Formaldehyde Aerogels.................................................... 722

Sudhir Mulik, Chariklia Sotiriou-Leventis and Nicholas Leventis

New Architectures for High Resolution Resist Materials: Molecular Glass Resists ............... 725Anuja De Silva, Nelson M. Felix and Christopher K. Ober

Investigation of Conductivity Loss in LbL Assembled PEDOT:PSS Films............................... 727James H. Whittemore IV and James W. Rawlins

Temperature Induced Volume-Phase Transitions in Surface-Tethered Poly(Nisopropylacrylamide) Networks ......................................................................................... 729

Ajay Vidyasagar and Ryan Toomey

Novel Accelerators for Cyanoacrylates and their Mechanical Properties ................................ 732Serhan Oztemiz, Mitsuhiko Uchida and Myha Truong

Photoisomerization Studies of Layer-by-Layer Films: Quartz Crystal Microbalance Studies ............................................................................................................................................. 733

Xiaojun Cai, Simon Andreas Maaland and Rigoberto Advincula

Nafion®/Silicate Hybrid Membranes via Dibutyltin Dilaurate-Catalyzed in situ Sol-gel Processes ........................................................................................................................................ 735

Mohammad K. Hassan and Kenneth A. Mauritz

Enzyme Catalyzed Small Molecule Reactions Inside Polymer Films ........................................ 737Pirro B. Cipi and James W. Rawlins

Activity and Biocompatibility of Poly(vinyl pyridine)-based Copolymers ................................ 739T. R. Stratton, Bruce Applegate, and Jeffrey P. Youngblood

Positive Thermoresponsive Grafted Hydrogels For Heating-Activated Drug Delivery ........... 741Induvadana Ankareddi, Andrei Ponta, Arefeen Shamsuzzoha, Christopher S. Brazel

Influence of Repeat Structure in Poly(nalkyl methacrylate)s on Confinement in Thin Films ................................................................................................................................................. 743

Casey G. Campbell and Bryan D. Vogt

C-dots: Fluorescent Core-Shell Silica Hybrid Nanoparticles for the Life Sciences................. 745Ulrich Wiesner

Transport of Thermoresponsive Polymer Brush-Grafted Silica Particles between Water and Ethyl Acetate Phases ................................................................................................... 746

Dejin Li, Bin Zhao

Polymer-based Kreb’s Cycle Biomimic ........................................................................................ 748Daria Sokic-Lazic and Shelley D. Minteer

Morphology and Conductivity of Polybenzoxazoles Doped with Carboxylated Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes .............................................................................................................. 750

Chengjun Zhou, Shanfeng Wang, Qixin Zhuang, and Zhewen

Membrane-enhanced Surface Acoustic Wave Analysis of Polymer Brushes .......................... 752Kenneth R. Shull and David A. Brass

Fabrication and Characterization of Metal Oxide/Polyaniline Nanocomposite Films Using the Sol-Gel Layer-by-Layer Assembly Method ................................................................. 753

Thomas J. Lane, Clayton R. Ayers, Antonio F. Frau, Timothy M. Fulghum, Rigoberto Advincula

Top-Down, Bottom-Up Fabrication of a Structurally Asymmetric Membrane .......................... 756Eric E. Nuxoll, Marc A. Hillmyer and Ronald A. Siegel

Synthesis of PMMA-Silica Nanocomposites Using “Grafting Through” RAFT Polymerization................................................................................................................................. 757

Devon A. Shipp and Pavankumar S.Chinthamanipeta

Development of Novel Amino Polyesters Used in Gene Delivery ............................................. 759Peter B. Uthe, Valerie V. Sheares

Drug Delivery System Utilizing Molecularly Imprinted Electropolymers .................................. 761Marguerite N. Germain, Robert L. Arechederra and Shelley D. Minteer

Effects of Deacetylation on the Micellar Pore Structure of Modified Chitosan ........................ 763Kyle H. Sjoholm and Shelley D. Minteer

Effects of Fiber Alignment on the Behavior of Human Dermal Fibroblasts on the Three-Dimensional Poly (Methyl Methacrylate) (PMMA) Electrospun Scaffolds ..................... 764

Ying Liu, Yuan Ji, Kaustabh Ghosh, Richard A. F. Clark, Jonathan C. Sokolov and Miriam H. Rafailovich

Immobilization of Glycolysis Enzymes in Modified Chitosan .................................................... 766Corey E. Menius, Michael C. Beilke, and Shelley D. Minteer

Synthesis and Characterization of Multifunctional Chitosan-Coated MnFe2O4 for Magnetic Hyperthermia .................................................................................................................. 768

Dong-Hyun Kim, Induvadana Ankareddi, David E. Nikles, Christopher S. Brazel

Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Poly(p-phenyleneethynylenes) with Carbazole Side-Groups .................................................................................................................. 771

Mary Jane L. Felipe, Vetrichelvan Muthalugu, Ramakrishna Ponnapati, Rigoberto Advincula

Nanoparticle Building Blocks and their Periodic Structures ..................................................... 773Elena V. Shevchenko

DNA Delivery and Diagnostic Imaging with Glycopolymers ...................................................... 774Yemin Liu, Sathya Srinivasachari, Robie Lucas, Mike Benjamin, Theresa M. Reineke

Advances in Plasticizers: Using Ionic Liquids in PMMA and PVC Systems -- A Combined Experimental and Thermodynamic Modeling Approach.......................................... 775

Mustafizur Rahman and Christopher S. Brazel

Magnetothermally-Triggered Drug Delivery Using Hydrogels with Imbedded Cobalt Ferrite, Iron Platinum or Manganese Ferrite Nanoparticles ....................................................... 777

Mary Kathryn Sewell, Kyle D. Fugit, Induvadana Ankareddi, Chuanqian Zhang, Mary L. Hampel, Dong-Hyun Kim, Christopher S. Brazel

Novel Synthesis and Purification of Graphitic Carbon Nitride................................................... 779Shawn E. Bourdo , Zhongrui Li, Alex Biris, Tito Viswanathan

Application of X-ray and Neutron Scattering Techniques for the Characterization of Polymer/Nanoparticle Composites ............................................................................................... 781

Byeongdu Lee, Chieh-Tsung Lo, Soenke Seifert, Randall E. Winans,, Pappannan Thiyagarajan, Vilas Pol, and David Bohnsack

Crosslinkable Poly(propylene fumarate)/Hydroxyapatite Nanocomposites: Physical Properties and Enhanced 2D Cellular Responses ...................................................................... 782

Kee-Won Lee, Shanfeng Wang, Michael J. Yaszemski, Lichun Lu

Effects of Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation on Mechanical Properties of Semicrystalline Polyolefin Blends ................................................................................................ 784

Liang Yang, Yanhua Niu and Zhigang Wang

Tuning the Optical Properties of a Watersoluble PPV Using Surfactant Complexation ......... 786Jeremy S. Treger, Vincent Y. Ma, Yuan Gao, Chun-Chih Wang, Hsing-Lin Wang, Malkiat S. Johal

Modulating Smooth Muscle Cell Response with Novel Tunable Inorganic-Organic Hydrogels......................................................................................................................................... 788

Qu Xin, Allen Bulick, Cody Schoener, Dany Munoz, Yaping Hou, Melissa Grunlan, and Mariah S. Hahn

Gas Diffusion and Free Volume Behavior of Ethylene Vinyl Alcohol Copolymers: Effect of Hydrogen Bonding Interaction....................................................................................... 789

Alexander M. Jamieson, Kenneth A. Mauritz, Sergei Nazarenko

Encapsulation Properties of Amphiphilic Nano-Containers for Drug Delivery Applications..................................................................................................................................... 791

Oana G. Schramm, Michael A. R. Meier, Richard Hoogenboom, Ulrich Schubert

Cyclic Carbonate Synthesis from Supercritical Carbon Dioxide and Epoxides for the Preparation of Polyurethane Nanocomposites............................................................................ 793

Özge Malay, Ece Gülsen, Nilhan K. Apohan, Atilla Güngör, Yusuf Z. Mencelo?lu

Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopic Studies of Nafion®/Silicate Nanocomposite Membranes ...................................................................................................................................... 795

Mohammad K. Hassan and Kenneth A. Mauritz

Biodegradable Thermoplastic Elastomer Synthesis and Processing for Improved Biofunctionality ............................................................................................................................... 797

William R. Wagner, Jianjun Guan, Yi Hong, John J. Stankus, Priya Ramaswami, Zuwei Ma

The Combinatorial Study of Processing Conditions of Olymer Thin Films and Their Biological Performance: Protein Adsorption and Cell Adhesion ............................................. 798

Joseph T. Delaney, Jr. and Ulrich S. Schubert

Nanoparticle Loaded Electrospun Nanofibers for Therapeutic Protein Delivery..................... 799Moncy V. Jose, Derrick D. Dean, Alisha D. Peterson, Elijah Nyairo

Fabrication, Structure, and Properties of PBO-MWNT Composite Fibers ................................ 801Chengjun Zhou, Shanfeng Wang, Yi Zhang, Qixin Zhuang, Zhewen Han

Application of Combustion Science Diagnostic Techniques to an Improved Understanding of Flame Retardant Gas-Phase Activity ............................................................. 803

Mark W. Beach, Steven E. Vozar, Slavko Z. Filipi, Volker Sick, Andrey G. Shmakov, Vladimir M. Shvartsberg, and Oleg P. Korobeinichev, Ted A. Morgan, M. Anne Leugers, Terry I. Hu

Nanoporous Responsive Materials Based Upon Semicrystalline Syndiotactic Polystyrene ...................................................................................................................................... 805

Justin P. Brandt, Brian G. Olson, Sabine Heinhorst, Gordon C. Cannon, Sergei Nazarenko

Wrinkling and Snapping Polymer Surfaces ................................................................................. 807Douglas P. Holmes, Derek Breid, Edwin P. Chan, Alfred J. Crosby

Mechanically Robust Ordered Nanocomposites Exhibiting NIR Bragg Diffraction................. 809Sunil Kulkarni, Stephanie L. Wunder

Surfactant-Induced Orientation of Thin Diblock Copolymer Films ........................................... 811Kookheon Char, Jeong Gon Son, and Xavier Bulliard

Determination of Solution Properties of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) and Deuterated Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) by SANS ................................................................................................ 812

Seok Il Yun, Robert A. Russell and Peter J. Holden

Preparation and Characterization of Fluorescent Silica and Silsesquioxane Nanoparticles .................................................................................................................................. 814

Douglas A. Loy, Wade Richardson

Effect of Singlet Oxygen Generators on Adhesive Bulk-Tack Loss in Rubber-Based PSAs ................................................................................................................................................. 815

J. Paige Phillips, Xiao Deng, Meredith L. Todd, Steven Stevenson

Electronic and Geometric Structures of Thiophene-Phenylene Oligomers: A Density Functional Theory Study ................................................................................................................ 818

Phuong T.T. Pham

Use of PDMS-functionalized Unsaturated Polyester for Preparation of UV-curable Coatings with Modified Surface Properties ................................................................................. 820

Ankit Vora, Neena Ravindran, Kunal Singh and Dean C. Webster

Photo-induced Stress Relaxation in Thiolene Polymer Networks ............................................. 822Christopher J. Kloxin, Timothy F. Scott, Rocky B. Draughon, Christopher N. Bowman

Magnetic Alignment of Polypeptide-Coated Particles ................................................................ 824Paul S. Russo, Jianhong Qiu, Erick Soto-Cantu, Sibel Turksen-Selcuk, Sreelatha S. Balamurugan, Amanda Steffens, Cecile Pitot, Jerome Koch

Controlled Release of Nitric Oxide from Electrospun Biodegradable Biocompatible Fibers................................................................................................................................................ 825

Harvey A. Liu, Hector Osuna, Camden Y. Miller, John Chen, Kenneth J. Balkus Jr.

Synthesis of Hetero-Telechelic “Smart” Polymers by RAFT Polymerization........................... 827Gregory Grover, Karina L. Heredia, Lei Tao, and Heather D. Maynard

Dispersion of Carbon Nanotubes in Polymer Matrix by Spraying Technique.......................... 828Qinghua Zhang, Qingming Xia, Meifang Zhu, and Dajun Chen

Torlon® Poly(amide imide) Clay Aerogel Composites................................................................ 830Eric M. Arndt, Matthew D. Gawryla, and David A. Schiraldi

Perfluorocyclobutyl (PFCB) Linked Oligo(fluorene) Derivatives: A Modular High Performance Electroluminescent Polymer System..................................................................... 832

Andrew R. Neilson, Steven M. Budy, John M. Ballato, Dennis W. Smith Jr.

Binding and Neutralization of Bacillus Anthracis Protective Antigen Toxin and its Complexes Using Glycoconjugates.............................................................................................. 834

Jill Castleberry, Pierre Alusta , Lee Soderberg, and Olga Tarasenko

Effect of Strain on the Durability of Sealant Materials ................................................................ 836Donald L. Hunston, Kar T. Tan, and Christopher C. White

Nanofiber Yarns for Wearable Electronics and Energy Sources ............................................... 838Taras Andrukh, Chip Few, and Konstantin G.Kornev

Novel Aromatic Diimide Fluorophores ......................................................................................... 839Michael A. Meador, Daniel S. Tyson, Ashley Carbaugh

Old Fluorophore with Some New Tricks: Tunable Luminescence in Disassembling Dendronized Poly(phenyleneethynylene)s Through Post-Polymerization Chemical Modification ..................................................................................................................................... 841

David T. Sisk and Dominic V. McGrath

Template–Synthesis of Polydiacetylene Nanotubes with Controlled Dimensions .................. 842Erastus G. Gatebe, Hayley E. Herron and Punit Kohli

POSS-PEO Hemi-Telechelics: Synthesis, Characterization, and Micellization ........................ 843Pamela T. Knight and Patrick T. Mather

Layer-by-layer Ultra-thin Sol-gel Based Films of Conjugated Polymers and Nanoparticles for Electro-Optical Devices ................................................................................... 845

Clayton R. Ayers, Thomas J. Lane, Antonio F. Frau, Lalithya Jayrathne and Rigoberto C. Advincula

Characterization of Biomedical Coatings in the Application of Drug-eluting Stents .............. 847Jinping Dong and Greg D. Haugstad

Preparation of Novel Antimicrobial Polypropylene Polymers and Through Reactive Extrusion.......................................................................................................................................... 849

Mohammad Reza Badrossamay and Gang Sun

Nanofiller Effects on Glass Transition Temperatures of Ultrathin Polymer Films and Bulk Blends ..................................................................................................................................... 850

Ufuk Karabiyik, Rituparna Paul, Michael C. Swift, and Alan R. Esker

Synthesis of Cyclic Poly(β -caprolactone)................................................................................... 852Jessica N. Hoskins and Scott M. Grayson

Polymeric Microfluidic Systems for Engineering Cellular Microenvironments ....................... 854Shuichi Takayama

Defects Tolerant Self-Assembly with Tunable Polymer Nanoparticles..................................... 855A. Karim, K. Yager, Brian Berry, Kirt Page, Derek Patton, E.J. Amis

Conjugated Polylactide-Drug Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery ................................................. 856Rong Tong and Jianjun Cheng

Ductile-Brittle Transitions During the Fracture of Plastically-Deforming Adhesively-Bonded Joints ................................................................................................................................. 857

M. D. Thouless,, C. Sun, A. M. Waas,, J. A. Schroeder, P.D. Zavattieri

Surface-Induced Fibrinogen Fiber Assembly and Fibroblast Proliferation .............................. 858Jaseung Koo, Ying Liu, Dennis Galanakis, Richard A. F. Clark, Jonathan Sokolov, and Miriam H. Rafailovich

Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Block Copolymer Micelles as Drug Delivery Vehicles for Biomedical Coatings....................................................................................................................... 860

Byeong-Su Kim, Sang Wook Park, and Paula T. Hammond

Thermal Stability of Fuel Cell Membrane Based on Blends of PPO with PS-b-PVBPA Block Copolymers........................................................................................................................... 862

Sang Hun Kim and Chang Gi Cho

Development of High Barrier Layered Systems Using Particulates.......................................... 864Jeremy J. Decker, Donald Paul, David Schiraldi, Anne Hiltner, Sergei Nazarenko

Oligo (p-Phenylene) Containing Y-shaped Chromophore as Chemosensor Material: Synthesis, Characterization and Self-Assembly Study .............................................................. 866

Satyananda Barik, Suresh Valiyaveetti

Material Design Strategies for Bone and Nerve Regenerations: Controlled Physical Properties and Regulated Cell Responses................................................................................... 868

Shanfeng Wang, Diederik H. Kempen, Lichun Lu, Anthony J. Windebank, and Michael J. Yaszemski

Bioadhesive Lectin Conjugation Created Potent CFTR Inhibitors with Improved Intestinal Transit Time For Antisecretory Therapy in Cholera ................................................... 870

N. D. Sonawane, Dan Zhao, and A. S. Verkman

End Group Analysis of Poly(β -caprolactone) by MALDI-TOF MS ............................................ 872Jessica N. Hoskins and Scott M. Grayson

Simulated Tensile Behavior of Graphene-Polypropylene Nanocomposites ............................ 874Rozlyn N. Chambliss and Melissa S. Reeves

Nano-Assembly of Conducting Polyaniline and Polypyrrole by Using Biological Templates from Nano to Micro Scales.......................................................................................... 876

Fuke Wang and Chuanbin Mao

PDS/NanoHA Biocomposite Nanofibers by Electrospinning: Structure-Property-Relationship..................................................................................................................................... 878

Vinoy Thomas, Rahul Goli, Xing Zhang and Yogesh K. Vohra

New Techniques for Patterning Complex Cellular Microenvironments .................................... 879Yuk Kee Cheung, Brian M. Gillette, and Samuel Sia

Nanomolar CFTR Inhibition by Pore-Occluding Divalent Polyethylene Glycol-Malonic Acid Hydrazides .............................................................................................................................. 881

Nitin. D. Sonawane, Dan Zhao, and Alan S. Verkman

Interactions of Cationic Dendrigraft Polymers with Oligonucleotides and Morphology of the Resulting Complexes ..................................................................................... 883

Seok Il Yun, Kerie Hammerton and Mario Gauthier

Microparticle-mediated Delivery of Morphogenic Factors within Embryoid Bodies ............... 885Todd C. McDevitt,, Richard L. Carpenedo, Ross Marklein, Scott Seaman, and Andrés Bratt-Leal

Viscoelasticity of Dilute Cellulose Ionic Liquid Solutions.......................................................... 886Qinglin Kuang, Junchai Zhao, Jun Zhang, and Zhigang Wang

Polymer Nanocomposites: Thermal and Combustion Behavior ............................................... 887G. Camino, A. Frache, D. Tabuani and A. Fina

Synthesis and Optical Properties of Conjugated Fluorinated Materials................................... 888Tanmoy Dutta, Xugang Guo, Yonfeng Wang, Kathy B. Woody, Mark D. Watson

Borole-Linked Oligomers and Polymers as Fluorescent Materials ........................................... 889Weijun Niu, Brett M. Rambo, Dana L. Broughton, R. William Tilford, John J. Lavigne

Three-dimensional Patterning of Polymeric Hydrogels for Cell Guidance............................... 891Molly Shoichet, Jordan Wosnick, Ryan Wylie, Yukie Aizawa, Laura Yu

Fracture Study of PS-b-PMMA Block Copolymers after Large Scale Fractionation via Liquid Chromatography ................................................................................................................. 892

Chang Y. Ryu, Won Kim, Junwon Han and Hoichang Yang

Thermodynamics of Hierarchically Structured Block Copolymer/Layered Silicate Nanocomposites ............................................................................................................................. 894

Ross E. Behling and Eric W. Cochran

Flame Retardants - Background, Regulatory Issues, and Sustainable Use ............................. 895Susan D. Landry

Glycidyl Methacrylate Grafted Polypropylene to Improve Adhesion to Polyurethane and Pebax®: Part 1 ......................................................................................................................... 896

Shreya Paul,, Svetlana S. Verenich and Behnam Pourdeyhimi,

Wrinkling Instabilities in Monolayers and Bilayers Made of Chiral Lipids ............................... 897Sahraoui Chaieb

“Smart” Polymeric Carriers for Biotherapeutics ......................................................................... 898Patrick S. Stayton, Allan S. Hoffman, Anthony Convertine, Danielle Benoit, Craig Duvall

Biomimetic Strategies in Vascular Tissue Engineering.............................................................. 899Jennifer L. West

Studies of Factors Affecting PMMA Adhesion in Humid Environments from Sorption Experiments..................................................................................................................................... 900

C.C. White, K. T. Tan, D. L. Hunston, C. Clerici and B. D. Vogt

Evaluation of the Effect of Silicone Contamination on Various Bond Systems and the Feasibility of Removing the Contamination ................................................................................. 902

Dr. Stephanie D. Stanley

Design and Synthesis of Functional Biomaterials ...................................................................... 905David Putnam

Stem Cells, Biomimetic Polymers, and the Promise of Regenerative Medicine ...................... 906Kevin E. Healey

Hydrogels for Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering ................................................................... 907Jennifer Elisseeff

Architecture of Polymer-Drug Conjugate Controls In Vivo Fate and Efficacy ......................... 908Ashutosh Chilkoti

Multifunctional Pharmaceutical Nanocariers for Diagnostics and Therapy ............................. 909Vladimir P. Torchilin

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