Synchrotron Radiation in Polymer Science (SRPS 4)

Final Program

 

 

Tuesday 8 September

 

 

16.00-21.00

 

Registration open

 

18.00-21.00

 

Buffet

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 9 September

 

 

8.50-9.00

 

Han Goossens

 Opening

       

Morning

 

Subject: SAXS/WAXD I

Chairman: Shinichi Sakurai

9.00-9.30

Invited

Tony Ryan

Synchrotron SAXS of responsive diffraction gratings

9.30-10.00

Invited

Jules Harings

Crossing borders between natural and synthetic peptides;

Shielding and mediating of hydrogen bonding in amide-based (macro)molecules

10.00-10.20

Contributed

Brian Pauw

Nano pores in micro filaments: structures of high-performance polymers

 

 

 

 

10.20-10.50

 

Coffee/tea break

 

 

 

 

 

 

Subject: SAXS/WAXD II

Chairman: Gerrit Peters

10.50-11.20

Invited

Julia Kornfield

Real-time depth sectioning: Isolating the effect of stress on

structure development in pressure-driven flow

11.20-11.50 

Invited

Luigi Balzano

The nucleating effect of shear flow: origin of shish-kebabs in semicrystalline polyolefins 

11.50-12.10

Contributed

Dario Cavallo

Flow memory in polymer crystallization: probing stability of shear induced structures with Small-Angle X-ray Scattering

12.10-12.40

Invited

Oleksander Mykhaylyk

Control of structural morphology in flow-induced crystallization of polymers: SAXS and polarized light imaging studies

 

 

 

 

12.40-14.00

 

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

Afternoon

 

Subject: Spectroscopy/microscopy I

Chairman: Wim Bras

14.00-14.30 

Invited

Harald Ade

The case for soft X-rays: Improved compositional contrast for the structure and morphology determination in real and reciprocal space

14.30-14.50 

Contributed

Adam Leontowich

The scanning transmission X-ray microscope as a lithographic tool

14.50-15.10 

 

Stephan Förster

Software developments :A demonstration

15.10-15.20   Bart Goderis Information on IoP conference proceedings

 

 

 

 

15.20-15.50

 

Coffee/tea break

 

 

 

 

 

 

Subject: Spectroscopy/microscopy II

Chairman: Tiberio Ezquerra

15.50-16.20

Invited

Rainer Fink

STXM studies of polymer blends and hybrid materials

16.20-16.40 

Contributed

Hsaio-Chi Lu

Investigation of the morphology of a conducting polymer by XPS

16.40-17.10 

Invited

Lynn Loo

Elucidation of structure in electrically active layers of organic thin-film transistors and solar cells via synchrotron radiation techniques

17.10-17.40 

Invited

Giuseppe Portale

Resonant soft x-ray scattering application to triblock copolymers 

 

     

18.00-19.30

 

Dinner

 

 

 

 

19.30-22.00

 

Poster session with drinks with prize for best poster of 250 euro

 

 

 

 

Thursday 10 September

 

 

Morning

 

Subject: Microfocus

Chairman: Dimitri Ivanov

9.00-9.30

Invited

Christian Riekel

Progress in micro- and nano-diffraction  

9.30-9.50

Contributed

Valeriy Luchnikov

Micro-beam X-ray Diffraction from twisted lamellar crystals: Theory and computer simulation

9.50-10.10

Contributed

Mari Cruz Garcia Gutierrez

Confinement-induced one-dimensional ferroelectric polymer arrays as revealed by X-ray microdiffraction

 

 

 

 

10.10-10.40

 

Coffee/tea break

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Subject: Hyphenated techniques I

Chairman: Kohji Tashiro

10.40-11.10

Invited

Tiberio Ezquerra

Lamellar crystal orientation in ultrathin films of aliphatic polyesters

11.10-11.40 

Invited

Dimitri Ivanov

Elucidating the mechanisms of synchronous lamellar twist in semicrystalline polymers

11.40-12.00

Contributed

Martin Wolffs

Elucidation of the internal structure of thiophene assemblies

12.00-12.20

Contributed

Sergei Chvalun

Role of partially ordered state in crystallization of syndiotactic polystyrene

 

 

 

 

12.20-13.50

 

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

Afternoon

 

Subject: Hyphenated techniques II

Chairman: Bart Goderis

14.00-14.30 

Invited

Kohji Tashiro

Structural evolution in isothermal crystallization process of crystalline polymers as investigated by simultaneous measurements of synchrotron WAXD/SAXS and vibrational spectroscopic data

14.30-14.50 

Contributed

Shigeru Okamoto

Formation and fixation of microdomain structures in semi-dilute solutions of ultra-high-molecular weight block copolymers and its application for photonic crystals

14.50-15.10 

Contributed

Aurora Nogales

Interplay between amorphous and crystalline domains during isothermal and no isothermal crystallization of a polymers by simultaneous SAXS, WAXS and Dielectric Spectroscopy

15.10-15.40

Invited

Gary Ellis

Synchrotron IR microspectroscopy: Opportunities in polymer science

 

 

 

 

15.40-16.10

 

Coffee and tea-break

 

 

 

 

 

 

Subject: SAXS/WAXD III

Chairman: Harry Reynaers

16.10-16.40

Invited

Stephan Förster

Analyzing the structure of highly ordered mesoscale superlattices

16.40-17.00 

Contributed

Eleni Pavlopoulou

A SAXS characterization of complex nanohybrid systems: Metal nanoparticle incorporation within pH-responsive polymers

17.00-17.30 

Invited

Bart Goderis

Shape Memory Materials based on Multi-Block Copolymers: Structure and Properties

17.30-18.00 

Invited

Shinichi Sakurai

Spontaneous perpendicular orientation of cylindrical microdomains in a thick film of block copolymers

 

 

 

 

19.30-22.00

 

Conference Dinner

 

 

 

 

 

Friday 11 September

 

 

Morning

 

Subject: (GI)SAXS

Chairman: Steven Weigand

9.00-9.20

Contributed

Souren Grigorian

Temperature-dependent structural properties and mobility of P3HT films

9.20-9.40

Contributed

Kazuo Sakurai

Contrast Variation Technique in SAXS to Explore Wormlike Micelles

9.40-10.00

Contributed

Koji Sumi

Microphase separation induced by highly-selective-solvent in a semi-dilute solution studied by rheometry and SANS

 

 

 

 

10.00-10.30

 

Coffee and tea-break

 

 

 

 

 

 

Subject: SAXS/WAXD IV

Chairman: Giancarlo Alfonso

10.30-11.00 

Invited

Norbert Stribeck

Advanced X-ray scattering methods for the study of structure and its evolution in soft materials with fiber symmetry

11.00-11.20 

Contributed

Andrzej Pawlak

Changes of morphology during plastic deformation of cavitating semicrystalline polymers

11.20-11.40

Contributed

Maria Eriksson

The influence of soft and hard nanoparticles on the crystallization behaviour and the local deformation mechanism of poly(e-caprolactone) 

11.40-12.10

Invited

Himadri Gupta

Investigating the nanostructural origins of inelastic and time-dependent deformation behavior in hierarchical biological systems using in-situ synchrotron SAXS/WAXD  

       

12.10-12.30

 

Wim Bras

 Closing words

 

 

 

 

12.30-13.30

 

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

Afternoon

 

 

 

14.00-15.30 

 

Farewell drinks