Preliminary Program STRUCTURED FLUIDS AND INTERFACES: TECHNICAL APPLICATIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR ORGANIZED MOLECULAR ASSEMBLIES 12-17 January, 1997 Il Ciocco Conference Center Castelvecchio Pascoli (near Lucca, Italy) Conference Co-Chairs: T. Alan Hatton MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA Andreas Bommarius Degussa, Hanau, Germany Engineering Foundation 345 E. 47th Street New York, NY 10017 1-212-705-7836; fax: 1-212-705-7441 E-mail: engfnd@aol.com World Wide Web: http://www.engfnd.org Organizing Committee Co-Chair: T. Alan Hatton (MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA) Co-Chair: Andreas Bommarius (Degussa, Hanau, Germany) Bjorn Lindman (Lund University, Lund, Sweden) John Huang (Exxon, Annandale, NJ, USA) George M. Whitesides (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA) Sunday, January 12, 1997 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm Registration 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Opening Dinner
9:00 pm - 10:00 pm Reception Monday, January 13, 1997 8:30 am - 9:00 am Welcome and Conference Overview T. Alan Hatton, Co-Chair Andreas Bommarius, Co-Chair Herman Bieber, EF Conferences Committee Barbara Hickernell, EF Conferences Director 9:00 am - 10:00 am Biosurfaces and Self-Assembly G. Whitesides Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA 10:00 am - 10:30 am 10:30 am - 11:30 am Synthesis and Applications of Nanoparticles in Microemulsions B.H. Robinson University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK 11:30 am - 12:30 pm Dendrimers D. Tomalia Michigan Molecular Institute, Midland, MI, USA 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm Ad hoc sessions and free time 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm (coffee service in rear of room) Colloids in the Petroleum Industries
J. Huang Exxon, Annandale, NJ, USA 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Environmental Restoration Using Micellar Solutions J.H. Harwell University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Dinner 10:00 pm - 11:00 pm Tuesday, January 14, 1997 8:30 am - 9:30 am Interactions of Liquid Crystals and Self-Assembled Monolayers: Chemical Sensing N.L. Abbott University of California, Davis, CA, USA 9:30 am - 10:30 am Fullerenes in Biological Membranes: The Self-Assembly of a Near-Perfect Lubrication Layer from the Dynamical Point of View T. Bayerl University of Wurtzburg, Wurtzburg, Germany 10:30 am - 11:00 am 11:00 am - 12 noon Interfacial Adsorption of Polymers TBA 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm Lunch 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Associating Colloids and Associative Thickeners
I. Illiopoulos Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Macromoleculaire, ESPCI, Paris, France 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Opportunities for the Use of Lipid and Polymer Structures in Protein and DNA Delivery J.E. Lofroth Astra Hassle, Monldal, Sweden 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Ad hoc sessions and free time 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm (coffee service in back of room) Enzymatic Catalysis in Structured Media A.S. Bommarius Degussa, Hanau, Germany 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Microemulsions in the Food Industry H. Watzke Nestec, Lausanne, Switzerland 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Dinner 10:00 pm - 11:00 pm Wednesday, January 15, 1997 8:30 am - 5:30 pm Excursion to Florence 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm (coffee service in rear of room) Mesoporous Catalysts J.Y. Ying Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Cathodes for High Performance Batteries E.L. Cussler University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Dinner 10:00 pm - 11:00 pm Thursday, January 16, 1997 8:30 am - 9:30 am Self-Assembled Monolayers in Corrosion Prevention P.E. Laibinis Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA 9:30 am - 10:30 am Molecular Multilayers by Consecutive Adsorption: Materials, Structure and Applications G. Decher Institut Charles Sadron, Strasbourg, France 10:30 am - 11:00 am 11:00 am - 12:00 noon Exploiting Biological Chemistry to Prepare Organized Molecular Assemblies D. Tirrell University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm Lunch 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm Ad hoc sessions/free time
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Conference Banquet 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm Friday, January 17, 1997 8:30 am - 9:30 am Mixed Surfactant/Polymer Systems in Bulk and at Interfaces: Organization is Signficant for Applications B. Lindman University of Lund, Lund, Sweden 9:30 am - 10:00 am 10:00 am - 11:00 am Molecular Assemblies in Compressible Supercritical Carbon Dioxide J. DeSimone University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA 11:00 am - 12:00 noon The Role of Academia, Government and Industry in Colloid and Interface Research and Development TBA 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm Lunch and Adjournment