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2003
MRS Fall Meeting MRS Symposium O: Nanostructured Organic Materials The preparation of nanostructured organic materials is an increasingly popular scientific area which brings together researchers from many fields including chemistry, chemical engineering, and materials science. The challenge is to construct materials with dimensions from one nanometer to thousands of nanometers while retaining atomic or near-atomic precision in the placement of chemical functionality. If successful, the payoff will include a new generation of nanoscaled sensors, electronic elements, smart biomaterials, and drug delivery devices. Two approaches to this problem have become popular. In one, researchers are turning to weak intermolecular interactions such as hydrogen bonding, p-p stacking, electrostatic interactions, and van der Waals forces which have been tailored to achieve the desired structure or conformation through self assembly. In another, researchers rely on the attractive and wide-ranging properties of sp2 carbon structures synthesized at higher temperature, such as fullerenes and carbon nanotubes. The approaches are complementary to one another, and increasingly combinations of supramolecular and fullerene-based materials are being pursued. This symposium will highlight recent advances in self assembly, fullerene-based materials and applications, and approaches which combine supramolecular design with fullerene architectures. This symposium will cover, but not be limited to, the following topics: ·
Self assembly of zero-, one-, and two--dimensional materials Joint sessions are anticipated with Symposium H: Biological and Bio-Inspired Materials Assembly. Invited speakers include: Jerry L. Atwood (Univ. of Missouri-Columbia), Hongjie Dai (Stanford Univ.), Hicham Fenniri (Purdue Univ.), Reza Ghadiri (Scripps Research Inst.), Michael J. Krische (Univ. of Texas), Dominic V. McGrath (Univ. of Arizona), Tyler McQuade (Cornell Univ.), Virgil Percec (Univ. of Pennsylvania), Apparao Rao (Clemson Univ.), Vincent Rotello (Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst), Susan Sinnott (Univ. of Florida), Richard Smalley (Rice Univ.), Fraser Stoddart (Univ. of California-Los Angeles), Samuel I. Stupp (Northwestern Univ.), Timothy Swager (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.), Mathew Tirrell (Univ. of California-Santa Barbara), James Tour (Rice Univ.), Vladimir Tsukruk (Iowa State Univ.), Ulrich Wiesner (Cornell Univ.), and Steven Zimmerman (Univ. of Illinois). Symposium Organizers Jason
Hafner Jeffrey
D. Hartgerink Eugene
R. Zubarev
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