Functionalized and Sensing Materials

Review from Ringgold Inc., ProtoView: This first such conference drew local and international materials scientists, engineers, and technologists to discuss functionalized and modified polymers, functionalized and modified technical textiles, functionalized and modified rubbers, petrochemicals, catalysis, semiconductors, advanced ceramic materials, biomaterials, pharmaceutical materials, and sensor and actuator materials. Over 150 selected and peer-reviewed papers focus on such topics as a stimulation study of using polymer electrolyte membranes as media for cultural fractals, the photocatalytic degradation of geosmin by titanium dioxide powder synthesized by the hydrothermal route, novel modified aromatic polyamides and polyamides derived from a dyphenyl ether-based diamine containing laterally-attached phenoxy phenylene groups, altering thermal characteristics of polymer to create a two-state shape-memory polymer, developing a transdermal patch comprising Centella asiatica extract, preparing highly monodisperse polymeric particles incorporating polymerizable perylene-bisimide fluorophore, all-solid-state pH sensors based on conducting polymer, and the anti-tumor effects of chitosan delivery system for doxorubicin.