Preview: 2000 MRS Fall Meeting
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Preview: 2000 MRS Fall Meeting Hynes Convention Center and Sheraton Boston Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts NOVEMBER 27– DECEMBER 1, 2000 Meeting Chairs: Sungho Jin (Bell Labs-Lucent Technologies), Antonios G. Mikos (Rice University), David J. Srolovitz (Princeton University), and Bernd Stritzker (Universität Augsburg) The 2000 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting will be held November 27 through December 1 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston for the second year and the Sheraton Boston Hotel. This transition from the Marriott Hotel makes it very convenient for participants to attend different sessions because of the close proximity of the two sites. The Meeting offers 41 technical symposia that are grouped into eight distinct clusters, plus Symposium X, “Frontiers of Materials Research,” as Cluster 9, which consists of special invited talks for the nonspecialist. An esoteric blend of new areas as well as established materials-research fields, the symposia topics represent current trends in interdisciplinary materials research. The thread of nanotechnology runs through a number of symposia. Organic and biomaterials are covered under the umbrella of soft materials (Cluster 8). The use of organic and polymeric materials for electronic and photonic devices is rapidly growing in numerous applications, including light-emitting diodes, transistors, lasers, and photodiodes. Symposium JJ will address these materials and technologies, and will hold a joint session with Symposium D on molecular devices. Symposium KK will focus on filled and nanocomposite materials. Various polymer-composite materials will be covered, including filled systems, advanced nanocomposite systems, block and segmented polymer systems, and molecular composites, with an emphasis on structure-property relationships. Sessions include modeling of properties, rubber-toughened materials, materials aging, and advanced nanocomposites. Symposia LL–OO on biomaterials have been endorsed by the Society for Biomaterials. Symposium LL will address tissue engineering and dental/maxillofacial biomaterials on Monday, orthopedic and musculoskeletal materials on Tuesday, and novel materials in the Wednesdaymorning session. Cardiovascular biomaterials are the focus of Symposium MM. Symposium NN deals with the rapidly developing field of drug delivery, highlighting devices for controlled and targeted drug delivery and materials for various delivery systems. These include stimuliMRS BULLETIN/OCTOBER 2000
sensitive polymers, phase behavior, protein and peptide delivery, tissue and gene delivery, phase separation, and novel approaches to drug delivery systems. Neurologic biomaterials, covered in Symposium OO, are used to assist regeneration in the central or peripheral nervous systems as a result of injury or disease. Nanostructured materials have become an important area for study in materials science, and Cluster 1 highlights various aspects of nano- and microstructured materials. Symposium A will focus on carbon nanotubes, which hold potential for technological appli
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