Plenary Speakers
- Shinoi Sakata (Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.)
Active Involvement of the Chemical Industry in Implementation of "Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) - Seiji Shinkai (Kyushu Univ.)
From Design of Molecular Nano-machines to Bio-inspired Polymer Recognition Systems - Masaki Takata (Tohoku Univ.)
Building a New Range of the State of the Art in SR Materials Science
Invited Speakers as of this moment (Name, Affiliation, Tentatitive Title)
S-1: Recent Trends in Polymer Synthesis
- Eiji Ihara (Ehime Univ., Japan)
Pd-initiated Polymerization of Diazoacetates: New Synthetic Strategy for C-C Main Chain Polymers - E. Bryan Coughlin (Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
Exploring the Continuum between Three-Arm Star and Linear A-B-C Triblock Copolymers - Ian Manners (Univ. of Bristol, UK)
Crystallization-Driven, Seeded Growth Approaches to Functional Supramolecular Materials - Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA)
Polyacrylonitrile - from Synthesis to Nanocarbons - Kensuke Naka (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan)
Synthesis of Element Block Polymers Based on T8-caged Silsesquoxanes - Greg G. Qiao (Univ. of Melbourne, Australia)
Polypeptide Architectures Made by Synthetic Polymer Chemistry - Takashi Uemura (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
Controlled Polymerizations in Coordination Nanospaces - Kenneth B. Wagener (Univ. of Florida, USA)
Increasing High Density Polyethylene's Melting Point By 40 C
- Tsutomu Yokozawa (Kanagawa Univ., Japan)
Alternating Intramolecular and Intermolecular Catalyst-Transfer Condensation Polymerization
- Hsin-Lung Chen (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan)
Composition Field of Weakly Interacting Block Copolymer - Costantino Creton (ESPCI, France)
Designing Non-Linear Properties of Elastomers with an Internal Network Architecture - Takayuki Kurokawa (Hokkaido Univ., Japan)
Function and Mechanical Property of Polyampholyte Gel Based on Polymer Dynamics - Daigo Miyajima (RIKEN, Japan)
Chain-Growth Supramolecular Polymerization: Its Scope and Potential - Murugappan Muthukumar (Univ. of Massachusetts, USA)
Concepts of Electrostatic Assemblies of Macro- and Supra-molecules - Atsushi Noro (Nagoya Univ., Japan)
Design and Properties of Functional Soft Materials Based on Polymer Self-Assembly and Supramolecular Interactions - Albert P.H.J. Schenning (Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands)
Stimuli-Responsive Polymer Materials - Kenji Urayama (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan)
Cross-Effect in Nonlinear Elasticity of Elastomers Revealed by Unequal Biaxial Deformation
- Katsuhiko Ariga (NIMS, Japan)
Hang-Operating Nanotechnology: Interfacial Magic for Molecular Manipulation - Joona Bang (Korea Univ., Korea)
Controlling the Morphologies of Block Copolymer Nanocomposites via Thermally Processable Nanoparticles - Russell J. Composto (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA)
- Christopher J. Ellison (Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA)
Nano- and Micro-patterning by Photoswitching Surface Energy - Daisuke Kawaguchi (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
Photo-Carrier Generation and Molecular Dynamics in Thin Poly (3-Alkylthiophene) Films - Sang Ouk Kim (KAIST, Korea)
Directed Nanoscale Assembly of Graphene Based Materials - Takahiro Seki (Nagoya Univ., Japan)
New Strategies for the Photoalignment of Liquid Crystalline Polymers - Christopher L. Soles (NIST, USA)
- Franҫoise M. Winnik (Univ. de Montreal, Canada)
Tri-responsive nanogels: from design to applications - Kenneth J. Wynne (Virginia Commonwealth Univ., USA)
A Nanostructured Approach for Coatings with Antimicrobial and Cytocompatible Surfaces - Zhenzhong Yang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Janus Composites and Interfacial Engineering
- YoungRo Byun (Seoul National Univ., Korea)
Polymeric nanoshielding of transplanted pancreatic islets for the prevention of immune reactions
- Mitsuhiro Ebara (NIMS, Japan)
Smart Nanofiber Technology Holds Promise for Future Medicine - Eva Marie Harth (Vanderbilt Univ., USA)
- Wim E. Hennink (Univ. Utrecht, Netherlands)
- Phillip B Messersmith (Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA)
- Yuichi Ohya (Kansai Univ., Japan)
Biodegradable Injectable Polymers Exhibiting Temperature-Responsive Sol-Gel Transition for Biomedical Application - Kensuke Osada (The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
pDNA Packaging as Essential Process in Development of Gene Delivery System - In-Kyu Park (Chonnam National Univ., Korea)
Biocompatible Polymeric Nanoparticle for Efficient Delivery of Therapeutic Materials - Kazuo Sakurai (The Univ. of Kitakyushu, Japan)
- Molly S. Shoichet (Univ. of Toronto, Canada)
Drug Screening and Drug Delivery with Novel Polymers
- Tetsuji Yamaoka (National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Japan)
Strategic Design and Preclinical POC of Tissue-Regenerating Material Surfaces for Biological Scaffolds - Keitaro Yoshimoto (The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Selection of DNA Aptamers Targeting to Cell Surface Proteins
- Michael Arnold (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Overcoming Materials Science Challenges in Carbon Nanotube and Graphene Nanostructure Electronics and Optoelectronics - C. Daniel Frisbie (Univ. of Minnesota, USA)
The Effect of Strain on the Work Function of Organic Semiconductors - Klaus Dieter Kreuer (MPI for Solid State Research, Germany)
Ion Conducting Polymer Membranes for Fuel Cells and Batteries: Where Polymer-Chemistry meets Electrochemistry - Naotoshi Nakashima (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
Creation of Highly Durable Fuel Cells based on Double-Polymer Coated Nanocarbon - Hidenori Okuzaki (Univ. of Yamanashi, Japan)
Highly Conductive PEDOT/PSS: A Key Material for Organic Electronics - Moon Jeong Park (POSTECH, Korea)
High-Conductivity Self-Assembled Polymers - Hiroshi Segawa (The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Hybrid Solar Cells for Next Generation Photovoltaics - Masayoshi Watanabe (Yokohama National Univ., Japan)
Advanced Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion Based on Block Copolymer Self-assembly in Ionic Liquids - Takeo Yamaguchi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Systematic Material Design for Polymer Electrolyte Base Fuel Cells
- Osamu Hayakawa (Du Pont-Mitsui Fluorochemicals Co., Ltd., Japan)
TEFLONTM Fluoropolymers: Leading-Edge Material to Open up New World of Automotive Performance - Chaobin HE (Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore)
Overcome the Conflict between Strength and Toughness in Composites and Nanocomposites
- Frank Henning (Fraunhofer ICT, Germany)
Automated processing of thermoset composite structures - Hiroshi Ito (Yamagata Univ., Japan)
Structure-Physical Properties of Novel Polymer Blends and Composites - Kenji Miura (Mitsubishi Chemical Corp., Japan)
"DURABIO", New Possibility for Automotive Parts - Yoshihiro Yamamoto (Mitsui Chemicals, Inc., Japan)
Introduction of Mitsui Chemicals’ Metal/Resin Integrated Technology (POLYMETAC ®)
- Suwabun Chirachanchai (Chulalongkorn Univ., Thailand)
Decorating Chitosan via Water-based Chitosan for Biomedical Applications - Zhibin Guan (Univ. of California, USA)
Bioinspired Design of Dynamic and Self-Healing Polymers - Tadahisa Iwata (The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
High Performance Polysaccharide: From Synthesis to Property Control - Tatsuo Kaneko (JAIST, Japan)
High-Performance Bioplastics with Heterocycles from Multifunctional Amino Acids - Stephen Albert Miller (Univ. of Florida, USA)
Programming the Properties and Degradation of Sustainable Polymers - Takashi Nishino (Kobe Univ., Japan)
All-Cellulose Eco- & Nanocomposites - Stuart Rowan (Case Western Reserve Univ., USA)
Investigating Uses For Cellulose Nanocrystals