2009 Annual Meeting

Session: Structure and Properties of Polymers III: Networks and Gels

Chair

Joseph Lenhart, US Army Research Laboratory

Co-Chair

Keisha B. Walters, Mississippi State University

Presentations

03:15 PM

(327a) pH-Dependent and Photoresponsive Swelling of Hydrogels Containing PAMAM Dendrimers
Ronald C. Hedden, Burcu Unal

03:33 PM

(327b) Cavitation Rheology and Fracture Behavior of Polyacrylamide Hydrogels
Santanu Kundu

03:51 PM

(327c) Structure of Equilibrium-Swollen Gels
Gregory Beaucage, Sathish Sukumaran

04:09 PM

(327d) Enhanced Mucoadhesive Capacity of Novel Copolymers for Oral Protein Delivery
F. Michael Marks, Anthony Lowman

04:27 PM

(327e) Development of Thermally-Responsive Composite Poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate)-Hydroxypropyl Cellulose Hydrogels
John M. Melnyczuk, Christopher S. Brazel

04:45 PM

(327f) Photochemical Adaptable Networks
Timothy F. Scott

05:03 PM

(327g) Well-Defined Polymeric Structures Bearing Degradable Branching Points: Synthesis, Characterization and Stability
Efrosyni Themistou, Costas S. Patrickios

05:21 PM

(327h) Strain Hardening in Highly Cross-Linked Polymer Networks: An Explanation Based On Microvoid Formation
Debashish Mukherji, Cameron F. Abrams