Symposium on Polymer Chemistry in Nanotechnology, Fall ACS Meeting, September 7-11, 2003, New York, N.Y

该提案要求从NSF为POLY/PMSE专题讨论会的演讲者旅行援助3000美元，题为“纳米技术中的聚合物化学”，将在2003年秋季在纽约州纽约市举行的国家ACS会议（2003年9月7日至11日）。 本次研讨会的共同组织者是PI（CU博尔德）和教授C。来自爱荷华州大学的艾伦·盖蒙。 该研讨会将重点讨论聚合物化学如何应用于学术界和工业界的许多学科，目前也是国家科学和技术倡议。 鉴于这种广泛的兴趣和事实，即聚合物化学和纳米技术都是重要的研究和教育目标在NSF，我们相信这次研讨会将是一个理想的候选人NSF会议的支持。这次研讨会将提供一个跨学科的论坛，介绍和讨论新的和以前未发表的关于聚合物化学如何用于实现功能性纳米结构的结果。材料，设备和系统与相关和有趣的属性。 纳米技术的成功发展依赖于化学家、高分子化学家、材料科学家、物理学家和化学工程师的跨学科合作，以创造和理解在纳米尺度尺寸范围内运行的新物理原理。 聚合物有望在纳米结构材料和器件的开发中发挥关键作用，因为它们为化学改性和器件制造提供了方便，轻便的平台。 本次研讨会将作为一种工具，帮助ACS的成员在聚合物科学和纳米技术的交叉研究的前沿，以便更重要的进展可以通过更高程度的参与来实现。在更广泛的影响方面，本次研讨会将是一个方便的，高调的场所，介绍在聚合物基纳米技术领域的学术和工业研究。 与本次研讨会相关的讲座，海报和预印本不仅可以用于教育ACS成员，还可以用于教育一般科学公众对纳米技术中聚合物的相关性。 本次研讨会也将作为一个重要的平台，让青年科学家，研究生和博士后研究员）参与并了解聚合物化学和纳米技术交叉点的令人兴奋的机会。

This proposal requests $3000 from the NSF for speaker travel assistance for a POLY/PMSE symposium titled "Polymer Chemistry in Nanotechnology", to be held at the Fall 2003 National ACS Meeting in New York City, NY (September 7-11, 2003). The co-organizers of this symposium are the PI (CU Boulder) and Prof. C. Allan Guymon from the University of Iowa. The symposium will focus on how polymer chemistry can be applied to both academia and industry across many disciplines, and it is also currently a national science and technology initiative. Given this broad interest and the fact that polymer chemistry and nanotechnology are both important research and education objectives within NSF, we believe this symposium would be an ideal candidate for NSF conference support.In terms of intellectual merit, this symposium will provide an interdisciplinary forum for the presentation and discussion of new and previously unpublished results on how polymer chemistry can be used to achieve functional nanostructured materials, devices, and systems with relevant and interesting properties. The successful development of nanotechnology relies on the interdisciplinary cooperation of chemists, polymer chemists, materials scientists, physicists, and chemical engineers to create and understand new physical principle operating on the nanometer-scale size regime. Polymers are expected to play a pivotal role in the development of nanostructured materials and devices, because they offer a convenient, lightweight platform for chemical modification and device fabrication. This symposium will act as a vehicle to help keep members of ACS at the forefront of research at the intersection of polymer science and nanotechnology, so that even more important advances can be realized via a higher degree of participation.In terms of broader impact, this symposium will be a convenient, high profile venue for the presentation of academic and industrial research in the area of polymer-based nanotechnology. The talks, posters, and preprints associated with this symposium can be used to educate not only ACS members but also the general scientific public on the relevance of polymers in nantechnology. This symposium will also serve as an important platform for allowing young scientists 9i.e., graduate students and postdoctoral fellows) to participate in and learn about the exciting opportunities at the intersection of polymer chemistry and nanotechnology.