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Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy Studies on Organic, Polymer, and Biological Surfaces, at the ACS National Meeting, September 2006, San Francisco, CA

Zhan Chen, University of Michigan

This grant was used to support the foreign speakers for the symposium entitled “Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy Studies on Organic, Polymer, and Biological Surfaces” at the 2006 Fall ACS National Meeting in San Francisco. The symposium was organized by Prof. Zhan Chen (University of Michigan) and Prof. Shen Ye (Hokkaido University). The oral presentations were given in five sessions: (1) Polymers at Interfaces, (2) New Techniques and Simulations, (3) Membrane Molecules, Lipids, and Surfactants at Interfaces, (4) Organic Molecules at Interfaces, and (5) Protein, Peptide, and DNA Molecules at Interfaces. Many organic and polymer materials are petroleum products. Apparently, the topics in this symposium are closely related to fundamental research in the ‘petroleum field,' which fit the nature and scope of meetings and symposiums supported by ACS Petroleum Research Fund. The grant was used to cover expenses for the following invited foreign speakers: Prof. Paul B. Davies (University of Cambridge), Prof. Koichi Itoh (Waseda University), Dr. Takayuki Miyamae (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan), Dr. Masahito Oh-e (Japan Science & Technology Agency), Prof. Yukio Ouchi (Nagoya University), Prof. Kohei Uosaki, (Hokkaido University), and Prof. Shen Ye (Hokkaido University). Their excellent presentations covered four of the five sessions.

The symposium was very successful. Thirty-six oral presentations including thirty invited oral presentations have been givens in the five sessions. About forty to sixty people attended each session. As planned, this symposium included the following topics:

Sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy

Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

Reflection infrared spectroscopy

Vibrational spectroscopic studies on polymer surfaces

Vibrational spectroscopic studies on buried polymer interfaces

Structures of organic molecules on surfaces and at interfaces

Self-assembled monolayers studied using vibrational spectroscopy

Surface structures of lipid-bilayers studied using vibrational spectroscopy

Vibrational spectroscopic studies on cell membranes

Vibrational spectroscopic studies on protein adsorption

Vibrational spectroscopic studies on thin films used in microelectronic devices

Infrared imaging of surfaces and interfaces

Raman imaging of surfaces and interfaces

Theoretical simulation of surface vibrational spectra

The speakers discussed the contemporary research in the vibrational spectroscopic studies on organic, polymer and biological surfaces. We believe that this symposium greatly advanced scientific education in molecular spectroscopy and its application in fundamental and advanced research. The support from ACS-PRF for this symposium was vital for the success for the symposium.

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