Proceedings of Asilomar Conference on Polymeric Materials (23rd) Held in Pacific Grove, California on 6-9 February 2000

摘要

At the 2000 Asilomar Conference on Polymeric Materials, emphasis was on tunable properties in polymeric materials. The conference included such topics as tunable optical polymers, assembly of intelligent molecules, biomolecular recognition of semiconductor and magnetic systems, smart surfaces, and molecular machines. Both synthetic polymeric materials and biological systems were considered. Special emphasis was on such issues as the integration with inorganic, polymeric, and biological compounds. As in previous years, this conference addressed the problems and opportunities that are arising with the emergence of an hierarchical approach to the design of new materials systems. This conference also focused on the newly emerging tunable systems. The Twenty- Third Asilomar Conference was organized along multidisciplinary lines in order to accommodate the perceived needs for the translation of the existing knowledge between disciplines. Since this conference addressed the most advanced polymeric systems of today, selected examples from other disciplines including naturally occurring organic and inorganic systems were chosen.