U.S.-Germany Workshop on New Polymer Synthesis and Properties; Leipzig, Germany; September 8-15, 1996

该奖项支持来自11所不同大学的11名美国材料科学家参加一个美国-德国研讨会，研究聚合物特性和如何合成它们的知识前沿。会议由加州理工学院的Julia Kornfeld、马萨诸塞大学的Bruce Novak、莱比锡大学的Friedrich Kremer和美因茨大学的Rudolf Zentel共同组织。这将是自东德和西德统一以来首次在德国举办此类讲习班；在莱比锡举办研讨会的目的是强调自那时以来两个研究团体的融合对这一领域的贡献。美国和德国是聚合物科学领域的两个领先国家，这次会议将促进有才华的参与者之间的合作，使两国都受益，他们都处于科学事业的早期阶段。通过世界级科学家的合作，聚合物非常值得特别关注。对分子工程材料的要求要求使用具有预定性质和行为的聚合物。许多性质在很大程度上取决于精细结构特征的微小变化。结构明确的聚合物材料将在推进现有材料和开发新兴技术（包括光纤、电子材料和生物医学聚合物）方面发挥关键作用。本次研讨会将探讨几类聚合物的制备、表征和应用领域的最新技术以及富有成效的合作领域。

This award supports the participation of eleven US materials scientists from eleven different universities in a US-Germany workshop examining the frontiers of knowledge about the properties of polymers and how to synthesize them. The meeting was co-organized by Julia Kornfeld of Caltech, Bruce Novak of University of Massachusetts, Friedrich Kremer of the University of Leipzig and Rudolf Zentel of the University of Mainz. This will be the first such workshop held in Germany since the unification of East and West Germany; the siting of the workshop in Leipzig was intended to emphasize the contributions to this field that were stimulated by the blending of the two research communities since that time. The US and Germany are two leading countries in the field of polymer science, and this meeting will benefit both countries by fostering cooperation among the talented participants who are all at early stages in their scientific careers. Polymers are highly deserving of special attention through collaboration between world class scientists. The demands placed on molecularly engineered materials requires the use of polymers possessing predetermined properties and behaviors. Many properties depend strongly on small variations in fine structural features. Architecturally well-defined polymeric materials will play key roles in advancing existing materials and in developing emerging technologies including optical fibers, electronic materials and biomedical polymers. This workshop will examine the state of the art as well as areas for fruitful collaboration in the areas of preparation, characterization and applications of several classes of polymers.