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Symposium took place as a part of 238^th ACS National Meeting in New York (August, 16-20, 2009).  ACS PRF, ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering, and NSF Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) sponsored the symposium. The symposium was well-attended (40-110 attendees per presentation). 

7 invited foreign made presentations at the Symposium: J.-F. Gohy, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, M. Ballauff, University of Bayreuth, Germany, M. Stamm,  Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research, Dresden, Germany, L.Ionov, Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research, Dresden, Germany, N. Tirelli, University of Manchester, UK, R.V. Ulijin, University of Strathclyde, UK, M. Mueller, University of Goettingen, Germany

<>The Symposium featured 5 oral sessions: 

<>08/18/2009 Morning

<>Session 1

Stimuli-responsive hybrid particles with polymer brushes
Alla Synytska, Leonid Ionov, Sebastian Berger, Marta Horecha, Volodymyr Senkovskyy, Anton Kiriy, Manfred Stamm

Monolayers and multilayers of dually responsive micelles Svetlana A. Sukhishvili, Zhichen Zhu, Irem Erel-Unal

pH-Responsive layer-by-layer poly(methacrylic acid) hydrogels as nanoreactors for gold nanoparticles, Veronika Kozlovskaya, Eugenia Kharlampieva, Sehoon Chang, Rachel Muhlbauer, Vladimir V. Tsukruk

Multifunctional nanosystems from stimuli responsive nanoparticles coated with a reversibly switchable shell, Mikhail Motornov, Roman Sheparovych, Robert Lupitskyy, Sergiy Minko

Thermally-responsive nanogels by RAFT-mediated aqueous dispersion polymerization,
Jutta Rieger, Chloé Grazon, Chuong Bui, David Alaimo, Christine Jérôme, Bernadette Charleux

Tandem RAFT polymerization and click chemistry: An efficient approach to preparing polymer-modified nanoparticles, William J. Brittain, Rajesh Ranjan

Design rules for polymer nanocomposite materials from solutions, Alex Travesset, Joshua Anderson, Rastko Sknepnek

Quantum dot/stimuli responsive polymer hybrid platforms, Oya Tagit, Nikodem Tomczak, Dominik Janczewski, Edmondo Maria Benetti, Jennifer L. Herek, G. Julius Vancso

Functionalization of CdSe/ZnS quantum dots with stimulus responsive ligands, Denis Dorokhin, Nikodem Tomczak, Ming-Yong Han, D. N. Reinhoudt, Aldrik.H Velders, G. Julius Vancso

Chemical mapping of "smart" polymers with nanometer resolution, Marlena Filimon, Ilona Kopf, Erik Bründermann, Jürgen Rühe, Svetlana Santer, Martina Havenith

<>08/18/2009 Afternoon <>Session 2

Catalytically active Au/TiO₂ nanoparticles immobilized in colloidal nanoreactors,
Yan Lu, Salem Deeb, Sebastian Proch, Rhett Kempe, Matthias Ballauff

Modulating the domain morphology of A-B diblock copolymer brushes in selective solvents by grafting homopolymers,  Marcus Müller, Jiafang Wang

Urea containing copolymers for metal nanoparticle hybrids,
Hideki Matsumoto, Timothy E. Long

Adsorption of end-attaching oligomers and polymers in nanoporous alumina,
C. Toprakcioglu, Sotiria Karagiovanaki, Alexandros G. Koutsioubas, Nikolaos Spiliopoulos, Dimitris L. Anastassopoulos, Alexandros A. Vradis

Toroids, helices, and porous nanoparticles through charged block copolymer self-assembly, Darrin J. Pochan, Sheng Zhong, Honggang Cui, Zhibin Li, Kelly Hales, Zhiyun Chen, Ke Zhang, Karen L. Wooley

Solution behavior of amphiphilic invertible polyesters in solvents of different polarity: A ¹H NMR spectroscopic study, Ananiy M. Kohut, Ivan Hevus, Andriy S. Voronov

Effect of particle domain wall movement and characteristic length on the radio frequency magnetodielectric properties of polymer composites, Ta-I Yang, Rene N. C. Brown, Peter Kofinas

Reactive extrusion preparation of polyamide 6/magnetic (attapulgite/Fe₃O₄) nanocomposites, Liwei Tian, Songchao Tang, Tinglan Wang, Jiamin Shao

08/19/2009 Morning

<>Session 3

Actuation and self-assembly of hybrid nanostructured surfaces, Joanna Aizenberg, Philseok Kim, Lauren D. Zarzar, Alexander Sidorenko

Development of cationic shell-crosslinked knedel-like nanoparticles as highly potent transfection agents, Ke Zhang, Huafeng Fang, Gang Shen, Zhenghui Wang, John-Stephen A. Taylor, Karen L. Wooley

Hyaluronic acid-based hydrogel particles for soft tissue regeneration, Amit K. Jha, Weidong Yang, Mary C. Farach-Carson, Xinqiao Jia

Thermally responsive PM(EO)₂MA magnetic microgels via AGET ATRP in  miniemulsion for controlled targeted drug delivery, Hongchen Dong, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

Synthesis and release characteristics of rhBMP-2 protein grafted to novel self-assembled poly(lactide-co-glycolide fumarate) nanoparticles, Angel E. Mercado, Esmaiel Jabbari

Designing peptide actuators for enzyme-responsive particles, Rein V. Ulijn, Robert J. Mart, Thomas T. McDonald, Paul D. Thornton

Hybrid nanostructures via encapsulation and growth-in, Vladimir V. Tsukruk

Functionalization of Cowpea chlorotic mottle virus capsids using molecular biology techniques, Linda J. A. Hendriks, Marta Comellas-Aragonès, Andrés de la Escosura, Jan C. M. van Hest, R. J. M. Nolte, Jeroen J. L. M. Cornelissen

Compartmentalization of gold nanocrystals in anisotropic polyacrylamide particles, Dong Woo Lim, Sangyeul Hwang, Oktay Uzun, Francesco Stellacci, Joerg Lahann

08/19/2009 Afternoon

<>Section 4

Imaging of gold nanourchins, nanospheres, and nanorods in glia and neurons
Eliza Hutter, Sebastien Boridy, Simon Labrecque, Dusica Maysinger, Françoise M. Winnik

Sulphur(II)-based nanomaterials and their response to oxidation,
Paolo Carampin, Massimiliano Valentini, Nicola Tirelli

Fmoc solid phase synthesis on TiO₂ nanoparticles for covalent attachment of peptides,
Radhika P. Nagarkar, Joel P. Schneider

Controlled surface functionalization of iron-oxide nanoparticles for field responsive biomedical applications, O. Thompson Mefford IV, Steven Saville, Bin Qi

Controlling biomolecular transport by smart polymers,
Leonid Ionov, Cordual Reuther, Robert Tucker, Manfred Stamm, S. Diez

High transparent low water vapor permeability photocurable boehmite nanocomposite for device encapsulation, Sheng-Hao Hsu, Han-Ting Lin, Wei-Fang Su

Development of novel zein/chitosan-TPP nanoparticle composite films, Ji Li, Qingrong Huang

08/20/2009 Morning

<>Section 5

Hierarchical self-assembly of block copolymer micelles directed by metal-ligand complexes, Jean-François Gohy, Pierre Guillet, Clément Mugemana, Ulrich S. Schubert, Florian Stadler, Christian Bailly, Charles-André Fustin

Solvent-induced phase morphologies of well-defined mixed homopolymer brushes on silica particles, Lei Zhu, Bin Zhao

Responsive fluorescent silica nanoparticles via grafting to method,
Volodymyr Tsyalkovsky, Ruslan Burtovyy, Viktor Klep, Robert Lupitskyy, Sergiy Minko, Igor Luzinov

How does a patterned surface alter the morphology of multicomponent polymer brushes in selective solvents?, Jiafang Wang, Marcus Müller

Synthesis and characterization of solventless plasmonic fluids,
Rama Ranjan Bhattacharjee, Adrian Radocea, Ruipeng Li, Aram Amassian, Emmanuel P. Giannellis

Polymer core-shell latex systems: Prospects for molecular electronics and sensor applications, Valery N. Bliznyuk, Alexander A. Pud, Kateryna Yu. Fatyeyeva, Gururaj Neelgund, Nikolay A. Ogurtsov

Nanoscale electrical and photoelectrical characterization of thin polymer films,
Nikolai B. Zhitenev, Suyong Jung, Behrang H. Hamadani, Alexander Sidorenko

Fabrication and characterization of novel colloid-solder core-shell hybrid particles,
Suzhen Ren, Srikanth Ammu, Qingzhou Cui, Yingying Sha, Zhiyong Gu

Study on the photochemical polymerization of pyrrole, Subramanyam V. Kasisomayajula, Victoria Johnston Gelling

Redox-active ultrathin templates of silk fibroin, Eugenia Kharlampieva, Maneesh Gupta, Rajesh Naik, David Kaplan, Vladimir V. Tsukruk

Porous polymeric hydrogels made using surface modified reactive particles, Ananiy M. Kohut, Andriy S. Voronov, Ihor Tarnavchyk, Volodymyr Y. Samaryk, Nataliya Nosova, Serhiy M. Varvarenko, Stanislav A. Voronov