

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).
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Wednesday |
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Friday |
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Morning |
Open Ceremony |
Session 2: Function to Application |
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Coffee Break |
Coffee Break |
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Session 2: Function to Application |
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Lunch |
Lunch |
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Afternoon |
Check-in |
Session 1: Design to Function |
Session 2: Function to Application |
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Meet the Editors Session |
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Coffee Break |
Coffee Break |
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Young Investigator Award |
Session 1: Design to Function |
Session 2: Function to Application |
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Welcome Cocktail |
Conference Group Photograph |
Closing Remarks & |
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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
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
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