Symposium
Editors: P. Supaphol and S. Tantayanon
Wiley-VCH, 2004, pp. 1-306
ISBN 3-527-31049-5
Preface
The
biennial
Pacific Polymer Conference is the official conference
co-hosted by the Pacific Polymer Federation (PPF) and
the polymer organization of the host country. The PPF
was founded in 1987 to encourage and facilitate interactions
among polymer organizations of the country members along
the Pacific. Current country members are Australia, Canada,
Chile, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia,
Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, the
United States (ACS and APS) and Vietnam. Since the establishment
of the PPF, the Pacific Polymer Conference has already
taken place on eight occasions.
On
this occasion, the Pacific Polymer Conference was held
in the city of Bangkok from November 24 to 27, 2003. The
8th Pacific Polymer Conference (PPC-8) was a tremendous
success both in terms of the number of scientific contributions
of around 440 contributions including both oral and poster
presentations and the number of international participants
of around 350 from 31 countries. The scientific programs
of the conference consisted of one symposium on hydrogels
and nine sessions on functional and synthetic polymers,
natural and green polymers, polymer blends and composites,
polymer colloids and interfaces, polymer engineering,
processing, and characterization, polymer crystallization
and structural development during processing, elastomers
and rubbers, macromolecular architecture, and industrial
and imaging polymers.
All
of the selected contributions that are present in this
special volume of Macromolecular Symposia are good representatives
for manifesting the quality and scientific merit of all
of the contributions to the PPC-8. On behalf of the organizing
committee, we hope that readers find the information published
herein is of use to some extent.
P.
Supaphol
S.
Tantayanon