Session 4b - Polymer Session

Co-Chairs
Prof. Jung-II Jin, PhD
CChem FRSC President, IUPAC Polymer Division Fellow
Korea Academy of Science and Technology, Professor, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
e-mail: jijin@korea.ac.kr

Prof. Beniamino Pirozzi
Associazione Italiana di Scienza e Tecnologia delle Macromolecole (AIM), President
Dipartimento di Chimica dell'Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy
e-mail: baniamino.pirozzi@unina.it

Session Topics:

  1. Self-assembling polymers
    Chairs: Prof. Christopher K. Ober - Prof. Giancarlo Galli
    • Keynote: Prof. Nicola Tirelli, University of Mancester, UK
      "Molecular design of oxidation-responsive nano-carriers"
  2. Electroactive polymers
    Chairs: Dr. Jaroslav Stejska - Dr. Marinella Catellani
    • Keynote: Prof. Gianluca M. Farinola, Chemistry Department - University of Bari, Italy
      "From synthesis to supramolecular architecture: multilevel control of properties of conjugated polymers"
  3. Biomedical polymers
    Chairs: Prof. Michel Vert - Dr. Luigi Ambrosio
    • Keynote: Prof. Etienne Schacht, Ghent University, Belgium
      "Biodegradable porous scaffolds for tissue engineering prepared from crosslinkable precursors"
  4. Nanocomposites
    Chairs: Prof. Sung Chul Kim - Dr. Maurizio Galimberti
    • Keynote: Prof. Masami Okamoto, Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya Japan
      "An innovative compounding process for nano-composite formation: Solid-state processing"
  5. Size exclusion chromatography
    Chairs: Prof. Taihyun Chang - Dr. Raniero Mendichi
    • Keynote: Dr. Harald Pasch, German Institute for Polymers, Darmstadt, Germany
      "High-temperature gradient HPLC and LC-NMR for analysis of complex polyolefines"