<< July 1 (Monday) >>

09:00-10:20

Registration

10:20-10:30

Opening Address

Kanaya

Toshiji

Session 1 Theory, Simulation & Modeling　（Chair: S. Cheng)

10:30-11:00

Molecular dynamics simulation of fiber formation and large deformation of the fiber

Yamamoto

Takashi

11:00-11:30

Theory of Polymer Crystallization

Muthukumar

Murugappan

11:30-12:00

Reconsideration of Over-All Crystallization Behavior based on Avrami Equation

Okui

Norimasa

Lunch (12:00-13:30)　　――――――――――――――――――――――――――

Session 2 Kinetics (Chair: B. Lotz)

13:30-14:00

P(EcO)-crystallization: Nature of first order kinetics with memory effect

Strobl

Gert

14:00-14:30

Crystal Nucleation in Polyethylene Melts

Rutledge

Gregory C.

14:30-15:00

Specific Kinetic Pathway from Mesophase to Large Single Crystal of Isotactic Polypropylene

Nishida

Koji

Coffee Break (15:00-15:30) 　　―――――――――――――――――――――――

Session 3 Structure & Morphology (Chair: S. Rastogi)

15:30-16:00

Tracing the crystallization processes from the crystal structures details

Lotz

Bernard

16:00-16:30

Polymer Crystallization at Curved Liquid-Liquid Interface

Li

Christopher Y.

16:30-17:00

Disorder in Crystals of Aliphatic Polyesters and Copolyesters

Ungar

Goran

Coffee Break (17:00-17:30) 　　―――――――――――――――――――――――

Session 4 Materials (Chair: G. Rutledge)

17:30-18:00

Giant Molecules Based on “Nano-Atoms”: A New Platform for Engineering Structures at Nanometer Feature Sizes

Cheng

Stephen Z. D.

18:00-18:30

Precision Substituted Polyethylenes as Models to Enable Sub-Lamellar Crystalline Nano-Structures via Chain Folding

Alamo

Rufina G.

18:30-19:00

Confined Crystallization in Polymer Nanocomposite

Kawai

Takahiko

Dinner at Restaurant ASUHENOTOBIRA (19:30-21:30) 　　―――――――――――

<< July 2 (Tuesday) >>

Session 5 Flow & Deformation Induced Crystallization (Chair: Baltá-Calleja)

09:00-09:30

Molecular Simulations of Strain-induced Polymer Crystallization

Hu

Wenbing

09:30-10:00

Shear-induced conformational fluctuations of polystyrene probed by 2D infrared microspectroscopy

Matsuba

Go

10:00-10:30

Kinetics of Strain-induced Crystallization in Crosslinked Natural Rubber

Tosaka

Masatoshi

Coffee Break (10:30-11:00) 　　―――――――――――――――――――――――

11:00-12:00

Poster Short Presentation (2 min for each)

Lunch (12:00-13:30) 　　――――――――――――――――――――――――――

13:30-15:00

Poster Session

Coffee Break (15:00-15:30)

Session 6 Flow & Deformation Inducd Crystallization (Chair: T. Kyu)

15:30-16:00

Extensional Flow-induced Crystallization of Polymer

Li

Liangbin

16:00-16:30

Formation mechanism of nano-oriented crystals (NOCs) of iPP in elongational crystallization from the melt

Hikosaka

Masamichi

16:30-17:00

The re-undersdanding molecular mechanism of plastic deformation for i-PP during Pressure-induced-flow processing

Yu

Muhuo

Coffee Break (17:00-17:30) 　　―――――――――――――――――――――――

Session 7 Flow & Deformation Inuced Crystallization (Chair: J. Hobbs)

17:30-18:00

Crystallization of Polymers of Low Crystallizability in Polymer Processing

Kikutani

Takeshi

18:00-18:30

Stress Induced Meting and Recrystallization in Semicrystalline Polymers

Men

Yongfeng

18:30-19:00

Polymer crystallization as open-nonequilibrium phenomena: Various dissipative structures leading to shish-kebabs and extended chain crystals

Hashimto

Takeji

Dinner at Restaurant AKARI (19:30-21:30) 　　――――――――――――――――

<< July 3 (Wednesday) >>

Session 8 Semicrystalline Phases (Chair: G. Ungar)

09:00-09:30

Shielding and de-shielding of hydrogen bonding motifs; from synthetic to biopolymers

Rastogi

Sanjay

09:30-10:00

Extraordinary Phase Transitions Involving Helix-sense Inversion of Polyaspartates

Abe

Akihiro

10:00-10:30

Structural Evolution in Isothermal Crystallization and Phase Transition Processes of Crystalline Polymers as Studied by the Simultaneous and Time-resolved FTIR/WAXD/SAXS Measurements

Tashiro

Kohji

Coffee Break (10:30-11:00) 　　―――――――――――――――――――――――

Session 9 Sructure and Morphology (Chair: C. Schick)

11:00-11:30

Confined crystallization of polymers in nanolayered compacting structures using synchrotron radiation techniques

Baltá-Calleja

Francisco  J.

11:30-12:00

Formation Mechanism of Polymer Spherulites (Review)

Kaji

Keisuke

12:00-12:30

Polymorphism, cascading nucleation and self-propelled motion of azobenzene single crystals in heterogeneous media

Kyu

Thein

Free Time (12:30-19:00) 　　――――――――――――――――――――――――

Banquet at COOP-INN KYOTO (19:00-21:00) 　　―――――――――――――――

<< July 4 (Thursday) >>

Session 10 Avanced Experiments (Chair: G. Strobl)

09:00-09:30

Using atomic force microscopy to understand polymer crystallization

Hobbs

Jamie K.

09:30-10:00

Substrate induced molecular order and nucleation in thin films of crystalline polymers

Thurn-Albrecht

Thomas

10:00-10:30

High-Resolution Atomic Force Microscopy of Two-Dimensional Folded Chain Crystals of Isotactic Poly(methyl methacrylate)s  -Melting Behavior -

Kumaki

Jiro

Coffee Break (10:30-11:00)　 　―――――――――――――――――――――――

Session 11 Advanced Experiments (Chair:R. Alamo)

11:00-11:30

Influence of Prehistory on Crystal Nucleation and Growth

Schick

Christoph

11:30-12:00

Chain-Folding Structure of Semi-crystalline Polymer Determined by 13C-13C Double Quantum NMR

Miyoshi

Toshikazu

Lunch (12:00-13:30) 　　――――――――――――――――――――――――――

Session 12 Structure and Morphology (Chair: W. Hu)

13:30-14:00

Epitaxial crystallization process of polymers from different initial states

Yan

Shouke

14:00-14:30

Crystallization Behaviors of Polymers on Si Substrates in Spin-coating Film-forming Processes

Sasaki

Sono

14:30-15:00

Crystallization of Polybutylene terephthalate from the melt with lamellar thickening

Koinshi

Takashi

15:00-15:10

Closing Address

Toda

Akihiko