POLYSunday, April 6, 2008

8:00 AM-12:05 PM Hilton New Orleans Riverside -- Grand Salon 18, Oral
Entrepreneurship in Polymers for Energy and the Environment
Tutorial
Organizers:Kathleen O. Havelka
Brian P. Grady
Dennis W. Smith Jr.
Peter Zarras
8:00 AMIntroductory Remarks
8:05 AMRenewable energy and resources: Technical and commercial opportunities
Kathleen O'Leary Havelka
8:30 AMGetting a good patent in the current antipatent climate
John K. Pike
8:55 AMUniversity entrepreneurship and commercialization: A developing model featuring renewable resource based polymeric materials
Leslie Goff
9:20 AMIdentification and creation of a rubber recycling industry
Anthony M. Cialone
9:45 AMPerspectives on doing research and development in smart coatings
Rigoberto C. Advincula
10:10 AMIntermission
10:25 AMEnvironmental issues: Disgruntled employees and local politics: What does science have to do with it?
Bernard Gordon III
10:50 AMUntold promise and unknown risks: Science-based decision-making for nanotechnology
Eric J. Amis
11:15 AMUniversity-small business collaboration in development of nanostructured materials
Sarah E. Morgan
11:40 AMCapturing antimicrobial peptide activity in simpler molecules
Gregory Tew

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The 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008