History of the OUMS

Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie et Physique de Bordeaux
Scattering by Brush-like Polymer Solutions

National University of Singapore
Pseudo-semi-interpenetrating polymer networks based on double-C60-end-capped polymers

Osaka University
Folding and amyloid fibril formation of beta2-microglobulin

Universita di Salerno
Host-guest interactions, guest dynamics and morphology and in syndiotactic polystyrene nanoporous and clathrate crystalline phases

Osaka University
Self-Organization Behavior of Poly(methacrylamides) Bearing Amino Acid Residues

Ochanomizu University
Inter-Membrane Interaction Modified by Addition of Polymer and Colloidal Particles

Kyoto University
Polymer crystallization under shear flow

Osaka University
Structure and melting behavior of dialkyleicosanedioate

Moscow State University
Water Solutions of Amphiphilic Polymers: Nanostructure Formation and Possibilities for Catalysis

Tohoku University
Direct Demonstration of Specific Interactions in Biological Systems: DNA-Protein Interactions and Enzyme Reactions

Institut Charles Sadron
Chiral polyolefins: crystallization, melting and structural consequences of a macromolecular amplification of chirality

Osaka University
Three-Segment Interactions in Polymer Solutions

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Axial stagger induced by surface interaction between triple-helices of Collagen model peptides

Pennsylvania State University
Dynamics of Complex Polymer Systems Exhibiting Strong Intermolecular Associations

University of Tokyo
Heat-Induced vs Solvent-Induced Microphase Separations of Block Copolymer Solutions

University of Chicago
Chain Collapse and Hydrogen Bond Formation in Protein Folding

South China University of Technology
Traces of Polyelectrolyte Association in Dilute Polar Solvents Observed with Fluorescence Methods.

Osaka University
Effect of intermolecular interaction on the dynamic heterogeneity in miscible polymer blends

Chinese University of Hong Kong
Viscoelastic effect on the formation of mesoglobular phase of amphiphilic copolymers in dilute solution

OUMS' 01

Nano-Structured Macromolecular Materials

(November 5 - 7, 2001)

Osaka University
Syntheses of Stimuli-Responsive Block Copolymers by Living Cationic Polymerization and Their Self-Association

Kyoto University
New Preparative Methods for Organic-Inorganic Polymer Hybrids

Freie Universitat Berlin
Non-Covalent Polymers

Nagoya University&CREST
Cavity-Directed Synthesis within Self-Assembled Coordination Cages

Shinshu University
Development of Organogelators Based on Supramolecular Chemistry

Osaka University
Supramolecular Polymers Containing Cyclodextrin

Osaka University
Macromolecular Conjugated Complexes

National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Synthesis and Characterization of New Highly Organic-Soluble Poly(ether imide)s Bearing Noncoplanar 2,2'-Dimethyl-4,4-Biphenyl Unit and Kink Diphenylmethylene Linkage

Waseda University
A Nanometer-Sized High-Spin Macromolecule and its Magnetic Force Microscopic Images

University of Tokyo
Protonation-Induced Intramolecular Electron Transfer in the Ferrocene-Quinone Conjugated System

Osaka University
Non-Natural Peptide Containing Metal Complexes in the Main Chain

Leiden University
Macromolecular Metal Complexes

Kyoto University
Transition Metal Complexes as Catalysts for Precision Radical Polymerization

Kyushu University
”Inorganic” Combinatorial Chemistry Utilizing Sol-Gel Transcription of Gelatinous Organic Superstructures

Imperial Collage of Science,Technology,and Medicine
Cucurbituril:A Versatile “Bead” for Polyrotaxane Synthesis

University of California, Los Angeles
An Integrated Systems-Oriented Approach to Molecular Electronics

Science University of Tokyo in Yamaguchi
Polymer-Capped Bimetallic Nanoclusters as Active and Selective Catalysts

Osaka University
Direct Observation of Supramolecular Structures of Biorelated Materials by Atomic Force Microscopy

Osaka University
Analyses of Nano-Structure of Calcium Carbonate Composite in Biominerals of Pinctada fucata

OUMS' 98

Molecular Interactions and Time-Space Organization in Macromolecular Systems

(June 3 - 6, 1998)

Osaka University
Dielectric Studies of Order-Disorder Transition in Solutions of Styrene-Isoprene Block Copolymers

Kyoto University
Controlled Association of Macromolecules in Water:Hydrophobized Polymers and Protein

Florida State University
Crystallization Behavior and Properties of Polyolefins

State University of New York
Static and Time-Resolved Synchrotron SAXS and WAXD Study of Polymer Crystallization in Confined Microphases

Indiana University
Interactions between Polyelectrolytes and Proteins,Micelles,and Dendrimers

University of Virginia
Molecular Modeling of Side-Chain Liquid Crystal Polysiloxanes

FORTH
Dynamic Structure Factor of Diblock Copolymers

University of Louis Pasteur
Polymer-Solvent Organization in Relation to Chain Microstructure

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dynamics of Block Copolymer Self-Assembly

Hiroshima University
What Controls the Molecular Weight Dependence of Crystal Growth Rates of Polymers?

University of Tokyo
Fluorescence Studies on Molecular Interaction and Dynamics of Liquid Crystals and Liquid Crystalline Polymers

Osaka University
Polymorphic and Polytypic Transformations During Crystallization of Long-Chain Compounds

University of Southern Mississippi
Ordering of Synthetic and Biosynthetic Macromolecules in Aqueous Media

Osaka University
Solution Properties of Polymacromonomers Consisting of Polystyrene”

Tokyo Institute of Technology
Structure and Ordering Processes of Diblock Copolymer Associates in Solution

Kyoto University
Molecular Rheology of Glassy Polymers

University of Illinois
Structure,Thermodynamics and Phase Transitions in Polymer-Particle Mixtures

Osaka University
Macro to Microdynamics of Threadlike Micelles

Kyoto University
Polymer-Surfactant Interaction in Thermoreversible Gels

University of Tokyo
Viscoelastic Phase Separation: Is It a Universal Model of Phase Separation?

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Influence of a Liquid Crystalline Block on Block Copolymer Morphology

University of Minnesota
Manipulating Interactions at Interfaces with Polymeric Amphiphiles

McMaster University
The Interactions of Hydrophobically-Modifined Poly(N-isopropylacrylamides) with Liposomes

Kyoto University
Self-Organized Nanostructures with a Single Polymer Chain

OUMS' 95

New Macromolecular Architecture and Functions

(June 2 - 5, 1995)

University of Tokyo
Controlled Polymerization by Metal Complexes

Osaka University
A Rapid and Facile Synthetic Method of Protein Using Partially Protected Peptide Thioesters as Building Blocks

University of North Carolina
Polymer Synthesis and Processing in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide

Osaka University
New Macromolecular Architectures and Functions through Macromolecular Recognition by Cyclodextrins

Scripps Research Institute
Self-Assembling Molecular Systems

Osaka University
Structure of Synthetic Nucleic Acid Analogs and Interaction with DNA

Kyoto University
Optical Characterization of Ultra-thin Polymer Films Prepared by the Langmuir-Blodgett Technique

Tokyo Institute of Technology
Precursor Method for Polymeric LB Films

Osaka University
Stereospecific Living Polymerization of Methacrylate

Tohoku University
Enzymatic Synthesis of Polysaccharides: New Concept in Polymerization Chemistry

Kyoto University
Design and Synthesis of New Substituted Polyacetylenes

Carnegie Mellon University
Controlled Radical Polymerization

Eindhoven University of Technology
Dendrimers and Supramolecular Polymer Chemistry

Osaka University
Molecular Information and Its Expression by Oligomeric Carbon-Chain Compounds; What Steroidal Molecules Tell Us

Osaka University
Novel Unimolecular Micelles of Hydrophobically Modified Polyelectrolytes: Synthesis, Characterization and Functions

Tokyo Institute of Technology
Synthesis of Amphiphilic Block Copolymers and Characterization of Their Architectures

University of Massachusetts
Architectural Design in Polymer Synthesis Using Living Transition Metal Complexes

Nagoya University
Helical Polymers: Synthesis,Conformation and Function

University of North Carolina
Supramolecular Architectures Using Polypeptides

Kyoto University
Living Radical Polymerization via Reversible Homolytic Activation of Carbon-Halogen Bonds with Metal Complexes

University of Massachusetts
Artificial Proteins from Natural and Artificial Amino Acids

Osaka University
Chemical Functions of Chelating Peptide Fragments in Electron Transfer Iron-Sulfur Protein Model Complexes

Hiroshima University
High Molecular Weight Polymers with Extremely Low Polydispersity Initiated by Rare Earth Metal Complexes

University of Texas
Excited State Electron-Transfer from Polyelectrolyte-Bound Chromophores

University of Florida
Advances in Acyclic Diene Metathesis(ADMET) Polymerization

OUMS' 93

Ordering in Macromolecular Systems

(June 3 - 6, 1993)

Tokyo Institute of Technology
Molecular Ordering of Flexible Chains Incorporated in Liquid Crystals

Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology
Polymorphism and Structures of Polymers and Their Molecular Compounds with Organic and Inorganic Compounds

Nagoya University
Rheology of Polymeric Materials with Mesoscopic Domain Structures

Kyoto University
Self-assembly in Polymer Blends

University of Bristol
A Combined Thermodynamics and Kinetics Based Unifying Scheme for Polymer Crystallisation Based on Recent Experiments with Wider Implications for Phase Transformations

Nagoya University
Statistical Theory of Liquid Crystalline Orderings in Hard Rod Fluids -Nematic, Cholesteric, Smectic, and Coolumnar Phase-

Weizmann Institute of Science
Critical Point Wetting from Binary Polymer Mixtures

Max-Planck Institute
Collective and Molecular Relaxation in Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals: From Low Molecular Weight to Polymeric and Elastomeric Systems

AT&T Bell Laboratories
The Rheology of PBLG Liquid Crystalline Polymers at High Concentrations

E.S.P.C.I.
Spreading of Homopolymers on Copolymer Modified Surfaces

Brandeis University
X-Ray and Optical Studies of Polymer Nematic Liquid Crystals

Nagoya University
Microdomain Structures of Triblock Copolymers of the ABC Type

IBM
Block Copolymers at Surfaces and Interfaces

Osaka University
Phase Equilibria in Liquid Crystalline Polymer Solutions: Theory and Experiment

Osaka University
Order-Disorder Phase Transitions in Crystalline Polymers with Characteristic Mechanical and Electric Properties

University of Wisconsin
Polymer Monolayer Dynamics

Osaka University
Rheology, Dielectric Relaxation, and Adhesion of Thermodynamically Confined Diblock Copolymer Chains

Tokyo Institute of Technology
Thermotropic Liquid Crystals in α-Helical Polypeptides

University of Tennessee
Computer Simulation of Macromolecular Crystals and Their Defects