Program of IDMPC 2017

9:15 am – 9:45 am

Klaus Schmidt-Rohr – Avoidance of Density Anomalies as a Structural Principle for Semicrystalline Polymers

9:45 am – 10:15 am

Jens-Uwe Sommer – The role of entanglements for polymer crystallisation

Break (30 min)

10:45 am – 11:15 am

Toshikazu Miyoshi – Chain Folding of Semicrystalline Polymers

11:15 am – 11:35 am

Wolfgang Paul – Crystallization in melts of semi-flexible hard polymer chains: An interplay of entropies and dimensions

1:15 pm – 1:45 pm

Alberto Salleo – Kinetics of crystallization in a model poly(thiophene)

1:45 pm – 2:15 pm

Günter Reiter – Model Experiments for the Crystallization of Conjugated Polymers

2:15 pm – 2:45 pm

Martin Brinkmann – Highly oriented and crystalline semi-conducting and conducting polymer films prepared by high-temperature rubbing

2:45 pm – 3:15 pm

Erqiang Chen – Multi-Shape Memory Effect of Columnar Side-Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymer

3:45 pm – 4:15 pm

Liangbin Li – The non-equilibrium phase diagrams of flow-induced crystallization and melting of polymer

4:15 pm – 4:45 pm

Gerrit W.M. Peters – Full characterization of multi-phase, multi-morphological kinetics in flow-induced crystallization of isotactic Polypropylene at elevated pressure

4:45 pm – 5:15 pm

Julie Kornfield – Multiplicity of Morphologies in Poly (L-lactide) Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffolds

5:15 pm – 5:45 pm

Roland Riek – Amyloids from the origin to the end of life

The following topics will be discussed during the poster session

• Connectivity and chain architecture as constraints for polymer crystallisation – abstracts
• Crystallization under external control (flow, surfaces, nucleation, confinement) – abstracts
• Functional semicrystalline polymers – abstracts
• Partially crystalline order in biological macromolecules – abstracts

A list of all poster presentations can be found here.

8:30 am – 9:00 am

Jochen Balbach – NMR investigations of amyloid formation

9:00 am – 9:20 am

Ulrich H.E. Hansmann – Enhanced-Sampling Simulations of Amyloids

9:20 am – 9:50 am

Peggy Cebe – Thermal Behavior of Silk Protein

9:50 am – 10:10 am

Markus Anton – The functional role of nanocrystals in native and artificial spider silk

11:00 am -11:30 am

Wenbing Hu – Effect of Solvent Affinity on Crystallization-driven Fibril Growth Kinetics in Diblock Copolymer Solutions

11:30 am – 12:00 pm

Gregory Rutledge – Surface Nucleation and the Design of Nucleating Agents by Molecular Simulation

1:30 pm – 2:00 pm

Jiro Kumaki – Crystallization Behavior of Polymer Langmuir Monolayers Observed by High-Resolution Atomic Force Microscopy

2:00 pm – 2:20 pm

Ann-Krisitin Flieger – Interface-induced crystallization via prefreezing: A first order prewetting transition

2:20 pm – 14:50 pm

Shouke Yan – Oriented Recrystallization of Carbon-Coated Pre-oriented Ultrathin Polymer Films

The following topics will be discussed during the poster session:

• Connectivity and chain architecture as constraints for polymer crystallisation – abstracts
• Crystallization under external control (flow, surfaces, nucleation, confinement) – abstracts
• Functional semicrystalline polymers – abstracts
• Partially crystalline order in biological macromolecules – abstracts

A list of all poster presentations can be found here.

8:30 am – 9:00 am

Christoph Schick – Interplay between the Relaxation of the Glass of Random L/D Lactide Copolymers and Homogeneous Crystal Nucleation: Evidence for Segregation of Chain Defects

9:00 am – 9:20 am

Bart Goderis – The Isothermal Crystallization of Polyamide 11 Investigated from Low to High Supercooling by Simultaneous Fast Scanning (Chip) Calorimetry (FSC) and Synchrotron SAXS/WAXD

9:20 am – 9:50 am

Alejandro J. Müller – Isothermal Crystallization of Triple Crystalline Biodegradable PEO-b-PCL-b-PLLA Triblock Terpolymers

10:30 am – 11:00 am

Tuomas Knowles – Nucleation processes in protein aggregation

11:00 am – 11:20 am

Pengju Pan – Crystallization of Supramolecular Polymers Linked by Multiple Hydrogen Bonds

11:20 am – 11:50 am

Yongfeng Men – Polymorphs Selection in Random Copolymers

11:50 am – 12:20 am

Dario Cavallo – Rheology of self-nucleated poly(ε-caprolactone) melts