Invited Lecturers

Daniele Caretti (Dipartimento di Chimica Industriale e dei Materiali, Universitá di Bologna, Italy): “Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Polymeric Materials Bearing Triorganotin Carboxylate Moieties and their Applications”.

Yves Gnanou (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymeres Organiques, Université Bordeaux, France): "Carbenes as Versatile Catalysts for Polymerization Reactions".

Ramón González Rubio (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain): "Polyelectrolyte Multilayers: Formation Mechanism and Applications".

Ramanan Krishnamoorti (Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, USA): "Multifunctional Polymer Composites".

Alejandro J. Müller S. (Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela): "Influence of Macromolecular Architecture on the Crystallization of Block Copolymers: Myktoarm Stars versus Linear Diblock Copolymers".

Richard Register (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Princeton, USA): "Shear-Alignment of Block Copolymer Films and their Applications in Nanopatterning".

Henri Sautereau (Laboratory of Macromolecular Materials, INSA, Lyon, France):“Influence of Ageing and Formulation of Segmented Polyurethanes on Morphologies and Mechanical Properties. Consequences on Thermomechanical Fatigue Behaviour”.

Mitsuro Ueda (Department of Organic & Polymeric Materials, Graduate School of Science & Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan): "Development of High Refractive Index Polymers for CMOS Image Sensor and Optical Materials".

Francoise Winnik (Département de Chimie et Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Montréal, Canada): “Design and Function of Polymeric Micelles: the Factotum of Material Scientists”.