2003 Gordon Research Conference on Ion Containing Polymers; Holyoke, MA; July 13-18, 2003

这项建议要求美国国家科学基金会提供3000美元的资金，以资助有价值的相关研究生和博士后参加2003年戈登含离子聚合物研究会议的会议费/旅费。本次会议将于7月13日至18日在马萨诸塞州南哈德利的曼荷莲学院举行。会议的共同主席是肯尼斯·A·莫里茨教授。南密西西比大学聚合物科学系；法国巴黎高等专科学校有机流体实验室克劳丁·E·威廉姆斯博士。这些会议将包括由不同的国际杰出科学家就以下一系列主题进行的基础科学演讲：具有量身定制的传输性能的纳米多相离聚体、具有疏水/亲水结构和胶束的聚电解质、聚电解质多层膜和刷子、两亲性共聚物、带电大分子自组装和超分子络合物。向国家科学基金会提出的这项请求特别是财政援助，将用于适当的有需要的博士后助理或高级研究生每人约500美元的会议费和/或旅费。这项援助的目标是为高等教育中正在重要的含离子聚合物领域从事科学事业的年轻研究人员的专业发展提供一个教育论坛和机会。

This proposal requests funding from the National Science Foundation in the amount of $3000 to assist in the conference fees/travel expenses of worthy and relevant graduate students and postdoctorals to the 2003 Gordon Research Conference on Ion Containing Polymers. This conference will be held July 13-18 at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Conference co-chairpersons are Dr. Kenneth A. Mauritz, Professor. Department of Polymer Science, University of Southern Mississippi, and Dr. Claudine E. Williams, Laboratoire des Fluides Organis s, Coll ge de France. The sessions will include fundamental scientific presentations by a diverse collection of outstanding international scientists over the following range of topics: nanoscopically heterogeneous ionomers having tailored transport properties, polyelectrolytes having hydrophobic/hydrophilic sub-structuting and micelles, polyelectrolyte multilayers and brushes, amphiphilic copolymers, charged macromolecular self-assembly and supramolecular complexes. This request to the NSF is particularly for financial assistance that will be applied toward the conference fees and/or travel expenses of appropriate needy postdoctoral associates, or senior graduate students, in the amount of approximately $500 each. The goal of this assistance is to provide an educational forum and opportunily for the professional development of young researchers in higher education who are pursuing scientific careers in the important arena of ion containing polymers.