Full Schedule of Polymers and Surface Coatings presentations

Organized by:
      Theodore Provder, Ph.D
      ted.provder@emich.edu
      Coatings Research Institute
      Eastern Michigan University
      430 W. Forest Ave.
      Ypsilanti, MI 48197
      Phone: 734.487.2203, Fax: 734.483.0085

Speakers:

      Chunyan Chen
      University of Michigan, Department of Chemistry
MOLECULAR-LEVEL STRUCTURE AND CONFORMATION OF POLYMERS AT "BURIED" POLYMER-POLYMER INTERFACES STUDIED BY SFG VIBERATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY

      Krzysztof Kruczala
      University of Detroit Mercy, Department of Chemistry
ESR AND ESR IMAGING OF THERMAL AGING IN HETEROPHASIC PROPYLENE-ETHYLENE COPOLYMERS (HPEC) CONTAINING A HINDERED AMINE STABILIZER

      Jayesh Bokria
      University of Detroit Mercy, Department of Chemistry
ATR-FTIR INVESTIGATION OF PHOTODEGRADATION IN POLY(ACRYLONITRILE-BUTADIENE-STYRENE) (ABS)

      Theodore Provder
      Eastern Michigan University, Coatings Research Institute
MEASURING COATINGS CURE THROUGH THERMAL ANALYSIS METHODS

      David Nordstrom
      Eastern Michigan University, Coatings Research Institute
AZO INITIATORS FOR ACRYLIC RESINS IN HIGH SOLIDS COATINGS

      Weidian Shen
      Eastern Michigan University, Department of Physics and Astronomy
CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYMERIC COATINGS WITH NANO-INDENTER AND SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPE

      Brad Haskell
      Eastern Michigan University, Coatings Research Institute
SYNTHESIS OF WATER REDUCIBLE PHENOL-TERMINATED RESINS FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COATINGS

      Jamil Baghdachi
      Eastern Michigan University
ISOCYANATE-FREE MOISTURE CURE COATINGS

      Faith Wyzgoski
      Ohio State University
MECHANISTIC STUDIES OF FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION INVOLVING ACYLPHOSPHINE OXIDE PHOTOINITIATORS

      Gary Harp
      University of Akron, Department of Polymer Science
PROBING POLYMER/POLYMER INTERFACES

      Donald Snyder
      Eastern Michigan University, Department of Chemistry
LASER MODIFIED SURFACE REFLECTIVITY OF TRANSPARENT POLYMERS: CORRELATIONS WITH THERMOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES

      Sai Kumar
      MERS, LLC
LIGHTWEIGHT NANOCOMPOSITES FOR AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS

More work on this topic will be presented in the General Posters Session.