The 219th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society will take place in a little over two weeks in San Francisco. More than 8000 papers will be presented in about 800 technical sessions. The Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry is offering a variety of symposia showing off the enormous variety of the Science and Technology of Surfactants. The theme symposium is entitled: Colloid and Surface Chemistry in the Service of the 21st-Century Society. It includes presentations by D.G.Whitten on Novel Materials from Self-Assembly; D.Langevin on the Dynamic Properties of Liquid Interfaces; by J.H. Fendler on the Colloid Chemical Approach to Advanced Materials Fabrication; by K.A. Fichthorn on Molecular Modeling.
Alvin W. Czanderma will be honored in the Adamson Award Symposium, dealing with the chemistry of metal/polymer interfaces.
The development of molecular surface science on catalysts at Berkeley and elsewhere will be presented in a symposium honoring Gabor A.Somorjai.
Another symposium deals extensively with Novel Catalyst Synthesis and Characterization Techniques. It lasts from Monday Evening until Thursday afternoon and covers the waterfront, i.e. the frontiers of catalysis research. It is preceded by another symposium: Catalysis for the Future, which includes papers, such as “New catalytic chemistry for industrial needs” and “Catalysis: From surface science to the “real world””.
D.T.Wasan presides over a symposium on Emulsion Stability with such applications as a study of the micro-structure of dermatological oil-in-water emulsions; Fractal-dimension particles for drug delivery; colloid chemical fabrication of electronic devices; molecular mechanisms to control foaming and antifoaming; colloid chemistry in subsea petroleum and gas processing.
J.N.Russell Jr. has organized Surface Chemistry of Polymers and Organic Monolayers with sessions on:
J.B. Sclenoff and G.Decher have assembled Polyelectrolyte Multilayers
J.E. Crowell has concentrated on Semiconductor Surface Chemistry, including Dielectrics, Reactions Involving Metals, Role of Hydrogen in Group 4 Chemistry, Reactivity of Group 4 Surfaces, Compound Semiconductors and Quantum Dots.
There are also symposia on the Gel State in Polymer Gels and the Combinatorial Approach to Materials Development, such as catalysts and polymer coatings.
While planning your schedule include time to visit the ACS National Exposition. The first 7000 visitors will receive a sports briefcase. There is free internet access through 45 terminals.