Program Overview
Program

Schedule

The detailed program of PDFA, Polymers: Design, Function and Application conference in Barcelona is now available, please see below. Moreover, you can also download the Polymers 2018 Book of Abstracts (last update 14 March 2018).

Program Structure

Wednesday
21 March 2018

Thursday
22 March 2018

Friday
23 March 2018

Morning


Open Ceremony
Session 1: Design to Function

Session 2: Function to Application

Coffee Break
&
Poster Session (Even Numbers)

Coffee Break
&
Poster Session (Odd Numbers)

Session 1: Design to Function

Session 2: Function to Application

Lunch

Lunch

Afternoon

Check-in

Session 1: Design to Function

Session 2: Function to Application

Meet the Editors Session

Coffee Break
&
Poster Session (Even Numbers)

Coffee Break
&
Poster Session (Odd Numbers)

Young Investigator Award
Session

Session 1: Design to Function

Session 2: Function to Application

Welcome Cocktail
&
Poster Session
(All Numbers)

Conference Group Photograph

Closing Remarks &
Award Ceremony

Session Start

Wednesday 21 March 2018: 14:30 - 17:30 / Welcome Cocktail & Poster Session 17:30
Thursday 22 March 2018: 08:30 - 12:30 / 14:00 - 18:00
Friday 23 March 2018: 08:30 - 12:30 / 14:00 - 18:00

Detailed Program

Day 1: Wednesday 21 March 2018

14:30 Registration Desk Open (Check-in)
15:00 – 16:00 Meet the Editors Session
16:00 – 17:30 Young Investigator Award (YIA) Session (Bernhard Schmidt, Haritz Sardon, Joseph Patterson, Lei Fang)
17:30 – 19:00 Welcome Cocktail and Poster Session (All Numbers)

Day 2: Thursday 22 March 2018

Session 1: Design to Function

08:30 – 08:45 Opening Ceremony
08:45 – 09:25 Ulrich S. Schubert: “New Battery Systems Based on Polymers as Active Materials”
09:25 – 09:40 Seema Agarwal: “Non-ionic polymers and gels with UCST-type transitions and thermophilicity in water”
09:40 – 10:20 Josef R. Wünsch: “High Performance Materials for Mobility”
10:20 – 10.35 Dirk Kuckling: “Light-triggered degradation in aliphatic poly(carbonate)s via intramolecular cyclization”

10:35 – 11:05 Coffee Break and Poster Session (Even Numbers)

11:05 – 11:20 Cesar Petzhold: “Synthesis and characterization of hydrophobically modified polyacrylamide having oligo(lactic acid) as hydrophobic macromonomer”
11:20 – 12:00 Klaus Müllen: “A Polymer Chemistry of Graphenes and Graphene Nanoribbons”
12:00 – 12:15 Patxi Garra: “Unprecedented photopolymerization of very thick films and access to composites: low optical densities vs. latent species strategies”
12:15 – 12:30 Svetlana Santer: “Light responsive objects: from active manipulation to self-propulsion of small particles at solid liquid interfaces”

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 – 14:40 Richard Hoogenboom: “From the Chemistry of Poly(2-oxazoline)s to Their Use as Biomaterials”
14:40 – 14:55 Philipp Marx: “Influence of surface interactions on the dielectric properties in poly(2-oxazoline)-co-polyester nanocomposites”
14:55 – 15:35 Yao Lin: “Revisiting the Helix-Coil Transition and Helical Chain Growth of Polypeptides”

15:35 – 16:05 Coffee Break and Poster Session (Even Numbers)

16:05 – 16:20 Niels ten Brummelhuis: “Controlling Monomer Sequence Using (Supramolecular) Cyclopolymerization”
16:20 – 17:00 Helmut Schlaad: “Polymers from Amino Acids”
17:00 – 17:15 Yeseren Saylan: “Molecularly Imprinted Bacterial Cellulose Nanofibers for Selective Recognition of Proteins”
17:15 – 17:30 Stefan Reinicke: “New immobilization protocols for the embedding of enzymes in ultrathin polymeric films”
17:30 – 17:45 Ian Teasdale: “Design of inorganic polymers with stimuli responsive cleavage and/or degradation in biological environments”
17:45 – 18:00 Sarah Glaß: “Poly(ethylene glycol) Diacrylate Hydrogels Used as Carriers for Photodynamic Therapy Photosensitizers”

18:00 Conference Group Photograph

Day 3: Friday 23 March 2018

Session 2: Function to Application

08:30 – 09:10 Ulrich Neuhausen: "Hybrid 3D Manufacturing of Smart Systems”
09:10 – 09:25 Harald Brünig: "Advances and challenges in poly(lactic acid) fiber design for biomedical applications"
09:25 – 10:05 Andreas Greiner: “New Biobased Polycarbonates as Functional Materials”
10:05 – 10:20 Dániel Vadas: "Application of Melt-Blown Poly(Lactic Acid) Filaments in Self-Reinforced Composites"
10:20 – 10:35 Mª Asunción Illarramendi: "Progress in Doped Polymer Optical Fibers for Photonic Applications"

10:35 – 11:05 Coffee Break and Poster Session (Odd Numbers)

11:05 – 11:20 Patrick van Rijn: "Mechanics, Topography, and Chemistry: How to determine multi-parameter influences on cell behavior"
11:20 – 11:35 Christophe Tribet: "Mixed polymer adllayers allowing remote control of cell adhesion and polarization via click, temperature, or redox triggers"
11:35 – 12:15 Roy Shenhar: “Nano-Patterned Polyelectrolyte Multilayers: A Non-Lithographic Approach”
12:15– 12:30 Eleanor Dougherty: "Radial Dependence of Film Formation During the Spin-Coating of an Immiscible Polymer Blend"

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 – 14:40 Katja Loos “Enzymatic Polymerizations – Novel Ways to (New) Polymer Systems”
14:40 – 14:55 Felix Plamper: "Electrochemically-Active Microgel Systems"
14:55 – 15:10 Simone Haslinger: "Tailoring Ioncell Fibers with Noble Metal Nanoparticles"
15:10 – 15:25 Tino Töpper: "Electrospraying of nanometer-sized droplets for sub-micrometer-thin dielectric elastomer transducers"
15:25 – 15:40 Teresa Poerio: "Sustainable preparation of PVDF-based membranes with tailored properties"

15:40 – 16:10 Coffee Break and Poster Session (Odd Numbers)

16:10 – 16:50 Greg Tew: “Building Simple Mimics of Natural Proteins Provides New Opportunities from T-Cell Delivery to Novel Amphiphilic Networks ”
16:50 – 17:05 Filippo Rossi: "Three dimensional biomimetic hydrogel to deliver factors secreted by human mesenchymal stem cells in spinal cord injury"
17:05 – 17:20 Robert Luxenhofer: "Ultra-high loaded polymer micelles for drug delivery"
17:20 – 17:35 Pavel Semenyuk: "Thermoresponsive polymers exhibit chaperone-like activity and recognize unfolded state of the protein"
17:35 – 17:50 Ulrich Glebe "Mimicking natural membranes utilizing transmembrane protein-polymer conjugates"

17:50 Closing Remarks and Awards Ceremony


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