Selected Topics in Polymer Science in the Pacific Rim: 7th Pacific Polymer Conference, Oaxaca, Mexico, 3-7, 2001(No. 192 Macromolecular Symposia)

The Pacific Polymer Conference has been one of the most important international events on polymer science and technology since the first meeting was held in Hawaii in 1989. This seventh meeting at Oaxaca in Mexico received high quality papers presented by active scientists from the Pacific Basin Countries, especially from Japan, Korea, and China, covering novel functional polymers, polymerization chemistry, and the physical properties of polymers. This volume comprises selected papers presented by invited speakers of different disciplines of polymer science.

Table of Contents:
Preface (T. Ogawa). 1. Synthesis of Novel Architectures by Radical Polymerization with Reversible Addition Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT Polymerization) (Graeme Moad, et al.). 2. Styrene Copolymerization Using Diphenylzinc--Additive Initiator Systems: Styrene/p--Substituted Styrenes (Franco M. Rabagliati, et al.). 3. Living Ring--Opening Polymerization of Cyclic Thiocarbonate (Takeshi Endo, et al.). 4. Synthesis of Brnached Polymers by Means of Anionic Polymerization. 11. Anionic Synthesis of Densely Branched Polystyrenes Carrying Double Branches in each Repeating Unit (Akira Hirao and Sang Wong Ryu). 5. Synthesis, Properties and Molecular Modeling of Functional Hyperbranched Polymers and Dendrimers (S. Fomine, et al.). 6. Amphiphilic and Mesomorphic Fullerene--Based Dendrimers (Daniel Guillon, et al.). 7. PI--Conjugated Colmnar Polyacetylenes Prepared with Rh Complex Catalysts (Tabata Masayoshi, et al.). 8. Approaches to Conjugated Polymers via Solid State Polymerization (Daniel J. Sandman, et al.). 9. New Poly (silanes--siloxanes) via Hydrosilation in Supercritical CO2 and Subsequent Crosslinking (Hui Zhou, et al.). 10. Novel Diacetylene--Containing Polymers for Second Order NLO Applications: Effect of Main Chains and Structure Property Relationships (Susana Hernandez, et al.). 11. Novel Silicon--Based Alternating Copolymers: Synthesis, Photophysical Properties, and Tunable El Colors (Hwan Kyu Kim, et al.). 12. Suppression of Secondary PL Emission by Indirect Photoexcitation (H.Y. Byun, et al.). 13. Conducting Polymers, Electrochemical Actuators and Strain Sensors (Geoffrey M. Spinks, et al.). 14. Durable Chiral Sensor Based on Quartz Crystal Microbalance Using Self--Assembled Monolayer of Permethylated s--Cyclodextrin (Siu--Choon Ng, et al.). 15. Formation of Intragap States and Achieving Balance in Carrier Mobilities for a PPV Derivative Bearing the Carbazole Pendants (Kyungkon Kim, et al.). 16. Core--Shell Particles: Buidling Blocks for Advanced Polymer Materials (Hung H. Pham and Eugenia Kumacheva). 17. Effects of External Fields on Macromolecular Cholesteric Phase (Linge Wang and Yong Huang). 18. Topological Polymer Chemistry: Classification and Construction of Nonlinear Polymer Architectures (Yasuyuki Tezuka). 19. Structural Evidence of Grafting in Electron Beam Irradiated Starch--Allylurea Blends (A. Olivier, et al.). 20. Nematic Conformation of Oxyethylene Spacers Involved in Main--Chain Liquid Crystals (Hidemine Furuya, et al.). 21. Fluorescence Study for the Electrostatic Interaction and Aggregation in Dilute Polar Solution of Polyelectrolytes (Qilong Sun, et al.). 22. Surface Thermal Molecular Motion of Chain End--Modified Polystyrenes (Tisato Kajiyama, et al.). 23. Real--Time AFM Study of Lamellar Growth of Semi--Crystalline Polymers (Yang--Hong Luo, et al.). 24. Production of Nanocomposites of PET--Montmorillonite Clay by an Extrusion Process (A. Sanchez--Solis, et al.).