Symposium on Advances in Polymer Brushes at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Washington, DC; August 28 - September 1, 2005

这是一份支持ACS“聚合物刷的进展”研讨会的会议提案，该研讨会将作为2005年8月ACS全国会议的一部分举行。这是一个非常活跃的研究领域，与纳米科学密切相关。刷子(即。紧密间隔的聚合物分子（系在表面上）在微流体、表面特性的裁剪、甚至是“化学海藻酸盐”的应用中都有很大的兴趣。PI是该领域的世界领导者之一，受邀演讲者的名单确实是该领域顶级从业者的“名人录”。这份演讲者名单在人员、机构、主题领域和国际影响力方面也有很好的多样性。美国与会者无疑将从这次研讨会中获益匪浅。资金是专门用于支付参与者在其职业生涯的早期阶段或新的聚合物刷领域的费用。因此，聚合物项目相信这将是一个非常有益的机会，无论是在知识价值和更广泛的影响。我们建议提供所要求的3000美元。

This is a Conference proposal for support of an ACS Symposium on "Advances inPolymer Brushes" to be held as part of the national ACS Meeting in August 2005.This is a very active area of research, which is closely tied in to nanoscience. Brushes(i.e. closely spaced polymer molecules tethered on surfaces) are of great interest forapplications in microfluidics, tailoring of surface properties, and even as "chemicalgates". The PI is one of the world's leaders in that area, and the list of invited speakersis really a "who's who" of top practitioners in the field.This list of speakers also has very good diversity in terms of people, institutions, topicalareas, and international presence. US participants will undoubtedly benefit greatly fromthis Symposium. Funds are requested specifically to defray costs of participants in theearly stages of their careers or new to the field of polymer brushes.Therefore, the Polymers Program is convinced that this would be a very beneficialopportunity in terms of both intellectual merit and broader impacts. We recommendfunding the $3000 requested.