PhD.candidate Lin Xiao participated in the 2nd International Symposium Frontiers in Polymer Science-Guang Yang

The 2nd International Symposium Frontiers in Polymer Science was held in Lyon, France from May 29 to May 31, 2011. PhD.candidate Lin Xiao was invited to give the poster presentation " High performance biobased composites from poly (lactic acid) and microcrystalline cellulose ". This symposium was a scientifically inspiring meeting, attracting about 600 participants from 54 countries. 15 top-level plenary speakers from three continents covered the spectrum of modern fundamental polymer science. 480 posters were selected to be presented in three sessions.

· Zhenan Bao, Stanford University, USA
Polymers for Flexible Electronics

· George M. Whitesides, Harvard University, USA
New Applications for Polymers, and New Needs

· Alan H. Windle, University of Cambridge, UK
Making Fibers from Carbon Nanotubes: The Ultimate Polymer Material?

· Bernadette Charleux, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
New synthetic routes toward polymer colloids

· Geoffrey W. Coates, Cornell University, USA
Development of New Catalysts for the Synthesis of Biodegradable Polymeric Materials from Epoxides

· Patrick Couvreur, Université de Paris-Sud, France
Polymer nanoparticles for cancer treatment and brain delivery

· Joseph De Simone, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Co-opting Moore’s Law: Advances in Imprint Lithography for the Design of Vaccines and Therapeutics

· Glenn H. Fredrickson, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Frontiers of Computational Polymer Field Theory

· Jean Frechet, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Functional Polymer: from Design to Application

· Craig Hawker, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Applications of Orthogonal, “Click” Chemistries in the Synthesis of Functional Soft Materials

· Susumu Kitagawa, Kyoto University, Japan
Polymer Chemistry in Coordination Nanospaces

· Eugenia Kumacheva, University of Toronto, Canada
Polymer Microgels: Microenvironments for Cell Studies

· Axel H.E. Müller, Universität Bayreuth, Germany
Self-Organized Multi-Compartment Nanostructures From New Triblock Terpolymers

· Anthony J. Ryan, University of Sheffield, UK
Making Polymers Swim

Samuel I. Stupp, Northwestern University, USA
Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Supramolecular

Co-chair Prof. Stephen Z. D. Cheng

Prof. Eugenia Kumacheva from University of Toronto, Canada

Prof. George M. Whitesides from Harvard University, USA

Prof. Zhenan Bao from Stanford University, USA

Prof. Alan H. Windle from University of Cambridge, UK

PhD.candidate Lin Xiao

Prof. Stephen Z. D. Cheng (left), Prof. Zhenan Bao (middle), and Lin Xiao (right)

Prof. Charles C. Han (middle), Lin Xiao (right)