Editors:
Edited by B.C. Kim, K.D. Ahn
WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH, 2007
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doi:10.1002/masy.200790023
Preface
The
polymers are most versatile materials whose properties
and functionalities can be easily manipulated. Owing to
these advantages, polymers are covering a wider range
of properties to find their new applications in electronic,
photonic, biomedical, and energy industries. The desired
properties of polymers may be obtained by various methods:
some by designing new polymer molecules and molecular
architecture, some by blending or hybridizing with other
functional materials, and some by regulating micro-and
nano-structures by adopting specialized processing techniques.
The
IUPAC International
Symposium of the ''Advanced Polymers for Emerging Technologies''
took place in Busan, South Korea, on October 10-13, 2006
to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the Polymer Society
of Korea [named as IUPAC Symposium (PSK30). In the PSK30
Symposium, more than 1200 oral and poster papers from
20 countries, including 4 esteemed plenary speakers and
more than 150 invited speakers, were presented and more
than 1920 participants attended from all over the world.
The symposium was organized to be an open forum for the
participants who are engaged in polymer chemistry, physics,
materials, and engineering. The symposium was composed
of two parts: ''Advanced Polymers for Emerging Technologies''
and ''Contemporary Polymer Science and Technology.'' The
first part, which focused on the specialty polymers for
new applications and their manipulation, contained the
following sessions:
- Polymers for electronics and photonics
- Smart polymers for sensors and intelligent systems
- Biomedical polymers
- Polymers for energy conversion and storage
- Polymer nanomaterials and nanotechnology
The
second part, which dealt with the general-purpose polymers
along with newly designed polymers and their engineering
and processing, contained the following sessions:
- Polymer syntheses and reactions
- Polymer physics, properties, and characterization
- Environmental and green polymers
- Polymer engineering and processing
- Industrial polymers
Experts
in diverse research and development fields exchanged their
ideas and experiences about the latest research results
and developments to make contribution to the advancement
of polymer science and technology. We have collected some
of the excellent research papers presented in the symposium
and edited them in two volumes: ''Advanced Polymer Science
and Technology'' and ''Contemporary Polymer Science and
Technology'' in accordance with the IUPAC Symposium PSK30
program. The first volume offers some innovative ideas
for future-oriented specialty polymers and the second
volume may give solutions to the problems frequently encountered
in current polymer industry. An effective combination
of these volumes would produce synergistic effects and
cover a wide range of knowledge of polymer science and
technology. We anticipate that the readers will share
creative ideas and rich experiences with other distinguished
scientists and engineers of polymers through these books.
We
would like to express our deepest gratitude to the authors
for their timely contribution and review of the papers.
We would also like, on behalf of the authors, to express
our gratitude to Wiley-VCH for publishing these volumes
of Macromolecular Symposia. In particular, our
heartfelt thanks go to Dr. Ingrid Meisel and Ms. Sibylle
Meyer (Editor of Macromolecular Symposia) of Wiley-VCH
for their efficiency and wholehearted support to complete
these books in time.
B.
C. Kim
K. D. Ahn