Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association

Chemical Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; Department of Chemical &
Biomolecular Engineering, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX
2:45pm PCP-3.2 Functional Polymer Thin Films Based on Block Copolymers; Kookheon Char, Jeong
Gon Son; and Hyoseon Suh; School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National Univ.
3:15pm PCP-3.3 Transition Behavior of Diblock Copolymer Thin Films; Changhak Shin, Hyungju Ahn,
Eunhye Kim, Du Yeol Ryu, June Huh and Kwang-Woo Kim; Department of Chemical Engineering,
Yonsei Univ., School of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National Univ., Pohang
Accelerator Laboratory
3:45 pm
4:00pm PCP-4.1 Temperature- and pH-responsive Hydrogels Derived from Model Amphiphilic Block
Copolymers; Kyle Guice and Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo; Department of Chemical Engineering, Univ. of
Texas at Austin and Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton Univ.
4:30pm PCP-4.2 Self-Assembly of Rigid-Flexible Block Molecules toward Organic Nanostructures;
Myongsoo Lee; Center for Supramolecular Nano-Assembly and Department of Chemistry, Yonsei
Univ.
5:00pm PCP-4.3 Free Radical Polymerization of Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Block Copolymers for Study
of Their Thin Film Morphological Behavior; Kevin Cavicchi; Department of Polymer Engineering,
Univ. of Akron
5:45pm
Saturday (8/16/2008) Morning Session: Polymer Surfaces and Architecturally
Tailored Polymers
Session Chairs: Sangmin Jeon (POSTECH) and Kevin Cavicchi (Univ. of Akron)
8:00 am PCP-5.1 Wrinkling, Crumpling, and Snapping Polymer Surfaces; A.J. Crosby, E.P. Chan, D.
Holmes and D. Breid, C. Davis Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Univ. of
Massachusetts
8:30 am PCP-5.2 Superhydrophobic/Superhydrophilic Switchable Wettability on Nanostructured
Surfaces; Kilwon Cho, Department of Chemical Engineering, POSTECH
9:00 am PCP-5.3 Creasing of Surface-Attached Hydrogels: Harnessing an Elastic Instability to Create
Active Surfaces; Jungwook Kim, Veronica Trujillo, Anesia Burns and Ryan C. Hayward;
Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Univ. of Massachusetts
9:30 am < coffee break>
9:45 am PCP-6.1 Comparison of Linear and Ring Polymers from Atomistic Molecular Dynamics
simulations; Do Yeung Yoon; Department of Chemistry, Seoul National Univ.
10:15am PCP-6.2 Characterization of Branched Polymers by HPLC; Kyunhyun Im, Sunyoung Ahn,
Taihyun Chang; Department of Chemistry, Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology
10:45am PCP-6.3 From Flat thin films to Curved Nanopores; Kyusoon Shin; School of Chemical and
Biological Engineering, Seoul Nati’l Univ.
Saturday (8/16/2008) 11:30am-1:30pm Poster and Box Lunch
1:45pm
49