ISPAC Conferences
ISPAC 2015 Scientific Program
Chairman: A. Willem deGroot
Co-Chairs: Jimmy Mays, HN Cheng, Rafael Verduzco, Pat Brant
Characterization of Polyolefins
Joao Soares (Dow Chemical Invited Lecture) - University of Alberta
Contributions of polyolefin characterization techniques to polymer catalysis development and reaction engineering
Benjamin Monrabal - Polymer Char Spain
Characterization of complex polyolefins by cross-fractionation techniques
Scott Milner - Penn State University
Flow-induced crystallization and nucleation in isotactic polypropylenes
Characterization of Biopolymers
Lloyd Smith - Wisconsin
A New Frontier in Proteomics: Identifying Proteoforms and Elucidating Proteoform Families from Measurements of Intact Mass and Lysine Count
Dan Savin - University of Florida
Self-assembly and Responsiveness of Polypeptide-based Star and Triblock Copolymers: Design, Characterization and Function
Petra Mischnick - TU Braunschweig
Analysis of the Substituent Distribution in Cellulose Ethers
Characterization of Polymers Using Scattering Techniques
Ron Jones (Chevron Phillips Invited Lecture) - NIST
Probing Semi-crystalline and Amorphous Structure in Polymer Systems using Neutron Scattering, Neutron Imaging and Neutron Spectroscopy
Alexander Hexemer - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
In situ Thin Film processing characterization using X-rays
Gila Stein - University of Houston
Characterizing Block Copolymer Thin Films with Grazing-Incidence Small Angle X-ray Scattering
Characterization of Polymers using Spectroscopy and Microscopy
Roberto Simonutti - Univ. of Milan Bicocca
Understanding the inner morphology of polymeric nanoparticles: expect the unexpected
Greg Meyers - Dow Chemical Company
Nanoscale Molecular Imaging in Polymer Systems
Rigoberto Advincula - Case Western Reserve University
FT-IR Imaging Advances in Polymer Characterization
Alexei Sokolov - University of Tennessee
An interfacial layer - the key to properties of polymer nanocomposites
Polymer Surface and Interface Characterization
Mahesh Mahanthappa (ExxonMobil Invited Lecture) - University of Wisconsin
Block Copolymer Bottlebrushes: New Routes to Ever Smaller Microdomain Sizes
Ned Thomas - Rice University
Microstructured Polymers
Chris Ellison - University of Texas
Manipulating Polymers with Light Activated Interfacial Chemistries