Frontiers of Polymers and Advanced Materials

An Overview.- Globalization and Development of New Materials.- Emerging Materials.- Advanced Materials for Future Aerospace Programmes.- Commercial Uses of Liquid Crystalline Polymers.- Polymer Education in Singapore.- Novel Polymeric Composite Materials for Photonics.- Properties and Applications of Polymers in Optics and Electrooptics.- Polymeric Electro-optic Materials and Devices: Meeting the Challenges of Practical Applications.- Liquid Crystal Nonlinear Optics.- Third Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of Functionalized Polymers.- Effective Excited States for x(3) in a Symmetric Conjugated Molecule.- Second-Harmonic Blue Light Generation in Langmuir-Blodgett Film Waveguides by Mode Conversion and by Use of the Cerenkov-Type Configuration.- Techniques for Ultrastructure Synthesis: Preparation of Second Order Nonlinear Optical Materials.- Plastics as Novel Optical Materials.- Photoexcitations in Polydiacetylenes.- Incorporation of Ladder Polymer Subunits in Formal Copolymers for Third Order NLO Applications.- Polymers with Special Optical Properties.- Third Order Nonlinear Optical Interactions in Some Bioengineered Polymers.- Semi- and Full Interpenetrating Polymer Networks as Stable Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Materials.- Photo-polymerization and Photo-crosslinking in the Graphic Arts.- Conducting Polymers: Science and Technology.- Control of the Mesoscopic Organization of Conjugated Thiophene Oligomers, Induced by Self-Assembly Properties.- Functionalization of Conducting Polymer for Advanced Materials.- Polymeric Materials Based on Azomethine Moieties for the Preparation of Organic One-Dimensional Superlattices.- Theoretical Analysis of the Vibrational Spectra of Conducting Polymers: A Model Compound Approach.- A Modified Pariser-Parr-Pople Formulation for theStudy of Low-Lying Excitation Energies of Polyenes.- Dopant and Charge Carriers Correlation in Polyaniline Prepared by Potentiostatic Method.- Understanding the Novolak Synthesis Reaction.- Synthesis and Polymerization of 3,3’-Difunctionalized-2,2’-Bithiophenes.- Immobilization of Glucose Oxidase in Poly(2,2’-Bithiophene).- Molecular Arrangement of Perconjugated Systems.- Synthesis, Characterization and Application of Poly(7-oxabicyclo[2.2.1]hept- 5-ene-2,3-diacetate).- Carbon Clusters and Carbon Polymers: Advanced Materials with Exciting Properties.- Experimental and Theoretical Studies of the Interaction of Metals with Polymer Surfaces: A Case Study of the Use of a Model Molecular System to Study the Nature of Charge Storage in Short Polyenes.- High Resolution XPS Study of the Electronic Structure of Polyaniline.- Expanding the Polyolefin Property Envelope: From Spheripol to Spherilene Technology.- Organic-Inorganic Composites.- Thermoplastic Geomembranes for Water Barriers.- Effects of the Preparing Conditions on the Physical Properties of Surface Grown UHMW PE Fibers.- Surface Characterization and Platelet Adhesion Studies of Plasma-Sulfonated Polyethylene.- Development of Long-Fibre Prepreg via Pultrusion Process.- Synthesis and Properties of p-Aromatic Polyamide Having Benzoxazinone Unit in the Main Chain.- Rigid-Rod Polymers with Flexible n-Alkoxymethyl Side Branches.- Aromatic-Heterocyclic Polymers Research at United States Air Force Wright Laboratory: Recent Developments.- A Review of Stabilization Requirements of Post Consumer Recycled Polyolefins.- Biocompatible Polymers and Their Applications.- Supra-Biomolecular Architectures at Functionalized Surfaces.- Optical Properties of Polyaniline Synthesized by Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions in Organic Solvents.-Polynucleotide Analogues: Synthesis and Physicochemical Properties.- Systematically Varying Compatibility of Styrene Containing Copolymers with Poly(vinyl methyl ether).- Thermodynamics and Interfaces of Polymer Blends.- Effect of Specific Interaction on Miscibility Windows of PVC/SAN’s Copolymer Blends.- Molecular and Physical Structure’s Designs of High Performance Polymeric Membranes.- Design of Functionality of Polymers by the Use of the Property of Siloxane Linkage.- Intelligent Polymer Membranes.- Biosynthesis of Poly(3-Hydroxyalkanoates) by Pseudomonas Putida.- Progress of Research and Development in Modification of Polymeric Materials Using Radiation Technique in Indonesia.- Trial Production of Condoms from Irradiated Natural Rubber Latex on a Factory Scale.- The Study of Composite Reinforced with Natural Fibres.- Trial Production of Examination Gloves from Irradiated Natural Rubber Latex on a Factory Scale.- Sol-Gel Synthesis of Transition Metal Oxopolymers.- Research on Sol-Gel Optical-Coatings for a Megajoule Laser at CEL-V.- New Directions in Organosilicon Surface Science.- Low-Pressure Membranes: New Developments and Applications.- Ultra-Thin Films of Tricosanoyl and Pentacosanoyl-10:12-Diynoic Acids and the Resultant Polymers.- Program Committee.- Advisory Committee.