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Message from the Past Chair
In this SPRING
issue:
Message from
Division Past Chair
Trenary
From the Editors
Division Officers
Newly Elected ACS
Fellows
COLL Poster
Sessions: Award
Winners from the
Dallas and San
Francisco meetings
ACS
Award
in
Colloid and Surface
Chemistry
Arthur W. Adamson
Award for
Distinguished Service
in the Advancement
of Surface Chemistry
Langmuir Lecturers
Victor K. LaMer
Award
Unilever Award
COLL Programming
for Denver
COLL Programming
for Boston
2015 CSSS
Upcoming CSSS
Other upcoming
conferences
Free ACS programs
for graduate students
and postdocs
A message from our
Membership
Secretary
Dear Division Members,
As 2014 Chair of the ACS Division of Colloid and Surface
Chemistry, I am pleased to introduce this issue of our
newsletter. Here you will find information on the current
Division Officers and on events from recent ACS National
Meetings and recent Colloid and Surface Science Symposia.
I would like to thank William Ducker for his leadership in
2013. William helped smooth my transition to Chair and he
continued to serve the Division with typical good cheer as
Past Chair. I would also like to thank Howard Fairbrother for his dedicated service as
Division Secretary, having served from 2005 to 2013. Howard has worked hard to pass
on his intricate knowledge of divisional matters to Lorena Tribe, who is tackling her new
job as Secretary with great enthusiasm. Robert Ofoli continued his tireless service to the
division as newsletter editor, then passed the baton to Lorena Tribe; please send items
for the next newsletter to lut1@psu.edu.
The two ACS National Meetings in 2014 were in Dallas and in San Francisco. Highlights
of those meetings were the Tuesday Award Symposia. In Dallas, lectures were given by
Kenneth B. Eisenthal, Melissa A. Hines, and A. Paul Alivisatos, winners of the ACS Award
in Colloid and Surface Chemistry, the Adamson Award for Surface Chemistry, and the
ACS Award in Materials Chemistry, respectively. Starting this year, Colgate-Palmolive will
be the sponsor of the Colloid and Surface Chemistry Award. The Adamson Award will lie
fallow for 2015 and 2016, but we hope it will be offered again in 2017. In San Francisco,
Langmuir Lectures, jointly sponsored by COLL and the journal Langmuir, were given by
Anna C. Balazs and Helmuth Möhwald. They were followed by Ali Javey, winner of the
Nano Letters Young Investigator Award, sponsored by the journal Nano Letters. Also in
San Francisco, the Kavli Emerging Leader lecture was given by Ali Khademhosseini, who
was nominated from COLL and was selected from among nominees from 11 ACS
technical divisions. In June, the 88th Colloid and Surface Science Symposium was held at
the University of Pennsylvania and featured lectures by Daeyeon Lee and Daniel J.
Beltrán-Villegas, recipients of the Unilever and Victor K. LaMer Awards, respectively.
Technical programming remains a core function of our division and organizing a
symposium at a national meeting is great way to get involved. If you have an idea for a
symposium, please contact Ramanathan Nagarajan (Nagu) (ramanathan.nagarajan.civ
@mail.mil), our Program Chair. The San Francisco meeting was Nagu’s 25th as Program
Chair, and we are all grateful to him for his many years of dedicated service. COLL and
ACS can provide support in various ways for symposium organizers. Divisional open
business meetings take place at the spring and fall ACS meetings immediately before the
poster sessions. Information on various aspects of the division is available on our website
(www.colloidssurfaces.org), and any requests for updates or additions to what is posted
there can be sent to our webmaster, Eddy Tysoe (wtt@uwm.edu).
Sincerely,
Mike Trenary, 2014 Chair (mtrenary@uic.edu)
A note from your editors
This edition of the newsletter contains some of the activities of the Division for 2014, along with the winners and
pictures of the poster sessions from several national meetings. Due to some family issues, I was not able to
compile either of the two issues planned for 2013. With Lorena Tribe offering to work with me on the 2014 issue,
and taking over as Editor in 2015, we will hopefully be able to avoid such breaks in the future. Thank you all for
your patience. If you have suggestions for future editions of the newsletter, please send them to Lorena
(lut1@psu.edu). Look forward to a message from the Chair, Robert Hamers, and updates from the spring
conference in our fall edition of the newsletter.
Robert Ofoli
Division Officers
Below are the 2014 Division officers. More information on each officer can be found on the Division website,
www.colloidssurfaces.org.
Elected officers:
Chair:
Chair Elect:
Vice Chair:
Past Chair:
Program Chair:
Secretary:
Treasurer:
Councilors:
Alternate Councilors:
Membership Secretary:
Member-at-Large:
Appointed officers:
Chair, Nominations Committee:
MPPG Representative:
Newsletter Editors:
Regional Meetings Coordinator:
Symposium Chair:
Webmaster:
Robert Hamers
Daniel Schwartz
Howard Fairbrother
Mike Trenary
Ramanathan Nagarajan
Lorena Tribe (2014-2017)
Sarah Larsen (2013-2015)
Eric Furst (2014-2016), Tina Nenoff (2013-2015), Maria Santore
(2015-2017), Robert Tilton (2013-2015)
Gail Blaustein, John Russell, Steve Tait (2015-2017), Paul Shiller
(2015-2017)
Marina Ruths
Eric Borguet (2013-2015), Robert Lockheed (2013-2015),
Paschalis Alexandridis (2014-2016)
Mike Trenary
Paul Van Tassel
Robert Ofoli (2014), Lorena Tribe (2015)
Eric Borguet
Michael Bevan
Eddy Tysoe
Newly-Elected ACS Fellows from the Division
The ACS Fellows Program was created by the ACS Board of Directors in December 2008 “to recognize members
of ACS for outstanding achievements in and contributions to Science, the Profession, and the Society.” Nominees
must be current members in good standing with ACS, and selection is based on demonstrated excellence in two
defined areas: (1) excellence in science/profession, and (2) outstanding service to ACS. The Executive Committee
is pleased to announce that the following Division Members have been named to the 2014 class of ACS Fellows.
The new fellows and their citations as found on the ACS website http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/fundingand-awards/fellows/list-of-2014-acs-fellows.html#P179_13145 are given below.
Dadyburjor, Dady
catalyst deactivation by coking and sintering, and
fuels/chemicals from coal and natural gas.
Contribution to the ACS community: Served as Chair
and held other offices in the Division of Petroleum
Chemistry (now Energy and Fuels) and served as
Director-at-Large of the Division of Energy and Fuels.
West Virginia University
Also served as a Governing Board member of the
Contribution to the science/profession: Conducted
Council for Chemical Research.
research in catalysis and fuel production, including
Emrick, Todd
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Contribution to the science/profession: Recognized
for creative new syntheses of functional polymers,
nanoparticles, and nanocomposite materials.
Contribution to the ACS community: Provided
dedicated service and leadership in the Polymeric
Materials: Science and Engineering Division and to the
broader materials chemistry community.
Furst, Eric M.
matter science, including research that has advanced
the areas of colloidal self- and directed-assembly,
microrheology, and interfacial phenomena.
Contribution to the ACS community: Served as Chair
of the ACS Colloid & Surface Science Symposium, as
an Executive Committee member of the Division of
University of Delaware
Contribution to the science/profession: Recognized
for scholarship and education in colloid and soft
Colloid and Surface Chemistry, and currently as a
Councilor of the Division.
Levinger, Nancy E.
interfaces and in confined environments, and for
development of undergraduate research
opportunities.
Contribution to the ACS community: Recognized for
commitment as a Division of Physical Chemistry
Executive Officer, especially as Program Chair; as a
Colorado State University
Contribution to the science/profession: Recognized
for pioneering work on spectroscopy and dynamics in
mentor and panelist in the Postdoc to Faculty
Workshop program; and to equity in national awards.
condensed phases, especially molecules at liquid
Richards, Ryan M.
Provided fundamental understanding of nanoscale
materials and their application in green and
renewable energy technologies.
Contribution to the ACS community: Served as Chair
of the Nanoscience Subdivision of the Division of
Inorganic Chemistry; Colorado Local Section Chair;
Colorado School of Mines
Renewable Energy Laboratory
and
National
Contribution to the science/profession: Contributed
to the areas of nanoparticle preparations, in situ
spectroscopy, porous materials, and catalysis.
Schwartz, Daniel K.
Co-Organizer and Program Chair of the Rocky
Mountain Regional Meeting; and Co-Organizer of the
ACS Summer School on Green Chemistry and
Sustainable Energy. Organized nanoscience
programming for National Meetings.
single-molecule tracking, to advance the fundamental
understanding of the interfacial dynamics and selfassembly of surfactants and biomolecules.
Contribution to the ACS community: Recognized for
leadership in the Division of Colloid and Surface
Chemistry, service as a Senior Editor of Langmuir, and
University of Colorado Boulder
Contribution to the science/profession: Developed
and applied advanced microscopy methods, including
ACS symposium organization.
Stine, Keith J.
nanoporous gold as a material for analytical
applications and for supported synthesis.
Contribution to the ACS community: Impacted
students through career presentations, chemical
demonstration shows, science outreach fairs, Project
SEED, and encouragement of a Younger Chemists
University of Missouri–Saint Louis
Contribution to the science/profession: Important
Committee in the St. Louis Local Section.
contributions include recent work to develop
Willson, Richard C.
level, and developed novel applications in separations
and diagnostics. Developed widely used methods for
high-throughput screening of catalysts and affinity
separations ligands.
Contribution to the ACS community: Led the
Division of Biochemical Technology and served as
University of Houston
Contribution to the
science/profession: Characterized biomolecular
recognition and chromatography at the fundamental
Xia, Younan
Program Co-Chair, Area Coordinator, Webmaster,
Awards Organizer, and as a Councilor. Also led the
International Society for Molecular Recognition.
many important new forms of nanocrystals and the
mechanistic understanding and elegant experimental
control of their chemical syntheses.
Contribution to the ACS community: Recognized for
serving as an Associate Editor of Nano Letters since
2002 and on the Advisory Boards of many chemistry
Georgia Institute of Technology
Contribution to the science/profession: Recognized
for groundbreaking contributions to the invention of
.
journals.
Poster Award Winners
During each COLL poster session, professional members of the Division select the best posters by graduate and
undergraduate students. Each winner is presented with a $250 award during the COLL Division luncheon. The
award winners for Dallas (Spring 2014), and San Francisco (Fall 2014) are listed below.
Dallas Award Winners
Andrea d’Aquino, Western Washington University
Becca Putans, University of Wisconsin Madison
Ellen Robertson, University of Oregon
Jessica Spear, Texas A&M University
Hannah Wayment-Steele, Pomona College
San Francisco Award Winners
From left to right:
David Renard, University of Michigan - Dearborn
Sabrina Menhase, Technische Universitat Darmstodt
Michael Trenary, Chair
Jennifer Logie, University of Toronto
Tobias Kaposi, Technical University Munich
The 2014 ACS Award in Colloid and Surface Chemistry
Kenneth B. Eisenthal, Columbia University
Professor Kenneth B. Eisenthal, PhD. is the Mark
Hyman Professor of Chemistry at Columbia
University. After his undergraduate work at Brooklyn
College, he obtained an MA in Physics and a Ph.D. in
Chemical Physics from Harvard University, the latter
with Marshall Fixman. Prof. Eisenthal carried out
research with Bill McMillan as a postdoc funded by
NIH and then advanced his knowledge of molecular
spectroscopy with Mostafa El-Sayed at UCLA. After
some time with Aerospace Corporation followed by
work at the chemical physics group at the IBM
Almaden (then in San Jose) Research Division
Laboratory, Prof. Eisenthal started his research group
at Columbia University. He was awarded the 2014
ACS Award in Colloid and Surface Chemistry for
pioneering the development and application of
nonlinear optical methods and for carrying out the
first experiments on equilibrium and ultrafast
processes at liquid and colloid interfaces.
Sources: Biography of Kenneth B. Eisenthal, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 111 (25) 8699-8702 (2007) and
http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/funding-and-awards/awards/national/recipients/2014-recipient-citations.html
The 2014 Arthur W. Adamson Award for Distinguished Service
in the Advancement of Surface Chemistry
Melissa A. Hines, Cornell University (left)
and Michael Trenary, Chair (right).
Prof. Melissa A. Hines, PhD. is a Professor at the
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. She was a
chemistry undergraduate at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, where
she did research with Sylvia Ceyer. Prof. Hines went
on to get a PhD in chemistry at Stanford University.
Her subsequent postdoc at Bell Labs in Murray Hill,
New Jersey, allowed her to develop her interest in
and understanding of material science. Her
appreciation of applied research combined with her
zeal for basic science were manifest in her position
as Director of the Center for Material Research at
Cornell. Prof. Hines received the 2014 Arthur W.
Adamson Award for Distinguished Service in the
Advancement of Surface Chemistry for her
fundamental delineation of the mechanism of sitespecific silicon etching reactions, and the surface
chemical control of mechanical properties of silicon.
Sources: http://chemistry.cornell.edu/faculty/detail.cfm?netid=mah11 and http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/fundingand-awards/awards/national/recipients/2014-recipient-citations.html
The 2014 Langmuir Lecturers
Since 1979, the Colloid and Surface Chemistry Division (COLL) has presented the Langmuir Lecturer Award to
two outstanding researchers at the Fall ACS Meeting. Since 2010, the lectures have been co-sponsored by the
COLL Division and the ACS journal Langmuir. The 2014 Langmuir Lecturers are Anna C. Balazs and Helmuth
Möhwald. The excerpts below were extracted from the award announcements, which are available at
http://pubs.acs.org/page/langd5/2014/lecture.html. A list of previous Langmuir lecturers is also available at
http://colloidssurfaces.org/awards/langmuir.php.
Anna C. Balazs : Dr. Anna Balazs is a Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and the Robert v. d. Luft
Professor, Department of Chemical & Petroleum
Engineering, University of Pittsburgh. She also serves
as an Adjunct Professor in Pitt’s Department of
Chemistry. Dr. Balazs received a MS from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and
went on to earn her PhD from the same university.
Her postdoctoral research was completed at Brandeis
University, MIT, and the University of Massachusetts.
She has also held the position of visiting professor at
the Scripps Research Institute in Southern California,
the University of Texas at Austin, and Oxford
University in the United Kingdom. The research
interests of Dr. Balazs center on statistical, mechanical, and computer modeling of complex chemical systems
and developing theories for the properties of polymer blends and the behavior of polymers at surfaces and
interfaces. The title of Dr. Balazs’s lecture was “Designing biomimetic capsules and gels that undergo directed
movement.”
Sources: http://pubs.acs.org/page/langd5/2014/lecture.html and http://www.mirm.pitt.edu/people/bios/Balazs1.asp
Helmuth Möhwald: Since his retirement in February
2014 Prof. Dr. Helmuth Möhwald directs the
emeritus working group "Interfaces" at the Max
Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. Originally
from Goldenöls (Czechoslovakia), Prof. Möhwald
earned his degree in physics from Göttingen
University, and a PhD at the Max Planck Institute of
Biophysical Chemistry/Göttingen. He was a postdoc
at IBM San Jose and then went on to get a German
Habilitation in physics at Ulm University. He has been
a scientific staff member at Dornier/Friedrichshafen,
an Associate Professor of Experimental Physics
(Biophysics) at TU Munich and of Physical Chemistry
at Mainz University. He is the Director and a Scientific
Member at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and
Interfaces (since 1993) and an Honorary Professor at
Potsdam University (since 1995).
The title of Prof. Möhwald’s lecture was “From
Langmuir monolayers to layer by layer assembly”.
Sources: http://pubs.acs.org/page/langd5/2014/lecture.html and http://www.mpg.de/389979/kolloid_grenzflaechen_wissM2
2014 Victor K. LaMer Award
The Victor K. LaMer Award is presented each year to the top Ph.D. thesis in the field of colloid and interfacial
science in the United States and Canada. The winner receives $3,000 and the opportunity to present his/her
work at the summer ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium.
Dr. Daniel J. Beltrán-Villegas received his Ph.D. in 2012 in Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University with Michael A. Bevan, and is currently a
postdoctoral fellow in Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan with Ronald
Larson. His research interests revolve around techniques for measuring colloidal particle
conservative and dissipative forces and modeling of dynamic assembly processes. He
was the second place awardee in the Langmuir Student Award competition held during
the 86th Colloids and Surface Science Symposium. His Ph.D. research accomplishments
include 14 publications in Langmuir, the Journal of Chemical Physics and Soft Matter.
2014 Unilever Award
Dr. Daeyeon Lee, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biomolecular
Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania is the recipient of the 2014 Unilever Award
for Outstanding Young Investigators in Colloid and Surfactant science. Daeyeon received
his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from MIT in 2007 under Professors R.E. Cohen and M.F.
Rubner. Prior to joining the University of Pennsylvania in 2009, Daeyeon was a post-doctoral
fellow at Harvard University with David A. Weitz. Daeyeon has won several awards and
recognitions, including the 2010 Victor K LaMer Award and the NSF Career Award in 2011.
Daeyeon’s Unilever award is in recognition of his outstanding work that merges two
important types of materials – surfactants and colloids; i.e., Janus particles. The fact that
Janus particles can be synthesized now in large quantities and that their behavior emulates the properties and
funtionality of molecular surfactants is both fundamentally and practically important.
The 2014 Kavli Emerging Leader Award
Dr. Ali Khademhosseini, Associate Professor at Harvard-MIT's Division of Health Sciences
and Technology (HST), Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School
(HMS), as well as an Associate Faculty at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired
engineering. He received his Ph.D. in bioengineering from MIT (2005), and MASc (2001) and
BASc (1999) degrees from University of Toronto both in chemical engineering. His research
is based on developing micro- and nanoscale technologies to control cellular behavior with
particular emphasis in developing microscale biomaterials and engineering systems for
tissue engineering. Dr. Khademhosseini’s interdisciplinary research has been recognized by
over 30 major national and international awards. He is also the recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award
for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor given by the US government for early career
investigators.
Sources: http://www3.aiche.org/speakerscorner/speaker.aspx?ID=1a9a3ce6-2f8d-4b53-ab4c-b7050e3479c7,
http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/meetings/fall-2014/program/kavli-lecture-series.html, and
http://www.tissueeng.net/lab/peopleDetail.php?id=424
COLL Programming for the Denver ACS Meeting
249th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, March 22-26, 2015, Denver, CO
ACS Meeting Theme: Chemistry of Natural Resources
Symposium Organizer
Symposium Title
Matthew Tirrell, Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of
Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637; Tel: 773-834-2001; Fax: 773-8347756; Cell: 773-569-9495; E-mail: mtirrell@uchicago.edu
Honggang Cui, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218
Tel: 410-516-6878; Fax: 410-516-7710; Cell: 302-562-3216; Email: hcui6@jhu.edu
Molecular Engineering of Peptide
Assembly
Aditya (Ashi) Savara, Bldg 4100, MS 6201, RM A205, Chemical
Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Lab, 1 Bethel Valley
Road, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA; 865-576-6311;
savaraa@ornl.gov;
Elucidation of Mechanisms
Kinetics on Surfaces
Subra Muralidharan and Narayanan Srividya, School of
Molecular Biosciences, Washington State University, Pullman,
WA 99164. subra.murali@wsu.edu; nsrividya@gmail.com
Atul N. Parikh, Department of Biomedical Engineering and
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of
California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616; (530)-304-7523; Fax: 530752-2444; anparikh@ucdavis.edu
Mu-ping Nieh, mu-ping.nieh@ims.uconn.edu
Biomembrane synthesis, structure,
mechanics, and dynamics
Ramanathan Nagarajan (NAGU), Molecular Sciences and
Engineering Team, Natick Soldier Research, Development &
Engineering Center, Kansas Street, Natick MA 01760; 508-2336445; Ramanathan.Nagarajan@us.army.mil
Basic
Research
in
Colloids,
Surfactants and Nanomaterials
Wolfgang Parak, Biophotonics Group, University of Marburg, D35037 Marburg, Germany, and Biofunctional Materials
Laboratory, CIC biomaGUNE, Paseo de Miramón 182, 20009
Donostia – San Sebastián, Spain. Tel: 49‐ 6421 28-24161.
Email: wolfgang.parak@physik.uni-marburg.de
Luis M. Liz-Marzán, Bionanoplasmonics Laboratory, CIC
biomaGUNE, Paseo de Miramón 182, 20009 Donostia – San
Sebastián, Spain. Tel: 34‐943-005-300.
Email: llizmarzan@cicbiomagune.es
Functionalization
Nanosurfaces
Jingbo L. Liu, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M UniversityKingsville, USA. Tel: 1‐361-593-2914. Email: kfjll00@tamuk.edu
or jingbo.liu@chem.tamu.edu
Sajid Bashir, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M UniversityKingsville, USA. Tel: 1‐361-593-4253. Email: br9@tamuk.edu
Natural Resource Capture, Storage
and Energy Conversion
Shanlin Pan, Department of Chemistry, The University of
Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35478,
Tel: (205) 348‐6381; Fax: (205)348‐9104; E‐mail:
span1@bama.ua.edu
Jie Zhen, Department of Chemistry, University of Texas in
Dallas, USA. Tel: 1-972-883-5768. Email:
jiezheng@utdallas.edu
Metallic Nanostructures for Optical
and Electrochemical Sensing and
Alternative Energy Conversion
of
and
Complex
Mark Kastantin, Department of Chemical and Biological
Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, USA. Tel: 1-303492-1629. Email: mark.kastantin@colorado.edu
Bruce Bowler, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Montana, USA. Tel: 1-406-243-6114. Email:
bruce.bowler@umontana.edu
J.B. Alexander (Sandy) Ross, Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry, University of Montana, USA. Tel: 1-406-243-6026.
Email: sandy.ross@umontana.edu
Interfacial Biomolecular Recognition
Joelle Frechette, Dept. of Chemical & Biomolec. Engr.,
Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD 21218, ph: 410.516.0113,
jfrechette@jhu.edu
Michael A. Bevan, Dept. of Chemical & Biomolec. Engr.
Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD 21218, ph: 410.516.7907,
mabevan@jhu.edu
Particles at Fluid Interfaces
Johns
email:
Johns
email:
Eric Borguet, Department of Chemistry, Temple University,
Philadelphia, PA 19122; Ph: (215) 204-9696;Fax:(215) 2049530; eborguet@temple.edu
Christopher Matranga, Molecular Science Division, National
Energy Technology Laboratory, US Dept of Energy, 626
Cochrans Mill Road, Pittsburgh PA 15236; 412 386 4114;
matranga@netl.doe.gov
Plasmonic Catalysis and Sensing
Robert Y. Lochhead, The School of Polymers & High
Performance Materials, The University of Southern Mississippi,
Hattiesburg
MS
39406;
(601)
266
5945;
Robert.Lochhead@usm.edu
Advances in Formulations Science
and Technology
Ramanathan Nagarajan (NAGU), Molecular Sciences and
Engineering Team, Natick Soldier Research, Development &
Engineering Center, Kansas Street, Natick MA 01760; 508-2336445; Ramanathan.Nagarajan@us.army.mil
ACS Award Lectures (Invited)
Ramanathan Nagarajan (NAGU), Molecular Sciences and
Engineering Team, Natick Soldier Research, Development &
Engineering Center, Kansas Street, Natick MA 01760; 508-2336445; Ramanathan.Nagarajan@us.army.mil
Symposium in honor of Paul S. Weiss
– Recipient of ACS Award in Colloid
and Surface Chemistry (Invited)
Ramanathan Nagarajan (NAGU), Molecular Sciences and
Engineering Team, Natick Soldier Research, Development &
Engineering Center, Kansas Street, Natick MA 01760; 508-2336445; Ramanathan.Nagarajan@us.army.mil
Fundamental Research in Colloids,
Surfaces
and
Nanomaterials
(POSTER SESSION)
Cosponsored Symposia (Primary Sponsor Indicated)
Sara E. Mason, Department of Chemistry, University of Iowa,
Iowa City, Iowa 52242; Ph: 319-335-2761; saramason@uiowa.edu
Anastasia Ilgen, Geochemistry Department, Sandia National
Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Tel: (505) 284-1393
agilgen@sandia.gov
Sang Soo Lee (PNNL).
Molecular scale processes controlling
the reactivity at the mineral-water
Interfaces (GEOC)
Hind A. Al-Abadleh, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5 CANADA;
halabadleh@wlu.ca
Chemical Processes at Environmental
Interfaces (ENVR)
COLL Programming for Boston ACS Meeting
250th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, August 16-20, 2015, Boston, MA
ACS Meeting Theme: A History of Innovation: From Discovery to Application
Program Chair: Ramanathan Nagarajan
Deadline for abstracts submission online: March 30, 2015
Submit abstracts at: http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/meetings/boston---fall-2015.html
Symposium Organizer
Suzanne Balko, Biofunctional Polymer Materials, Leibniz-Institut für
Polymerforschung, Dresden e.V., P. O. Box 120 411, D- 01005 Dresden,
Germany; +49 (0)351 4658 633; Fax +49 (0)351 4658 533; balko@ipfdd.de
Torsten Kreer, Theory of Polymers, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung,
Dresden e.V., P. O. Box 120 411, D-01005 Dresden, Germany; +49 (0)351 4658
657; Fax +49 (0)351 4658 752; kreer@ipfdd.de
Dmitri Kilin, Department of Chemistry, University of South Dakota, Vermillion,
SD 57069. 605-677-7283; Fax: 605-677- 6397; Dmitri.Kilin@usd.edu
Mu-Ping Nieh, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Institute of
Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269; 860-486-8708;
muping.nieh@ims.uconn.edu John Katsaras (at ORNL); katsarasj@ornl.gov
Ramanathan Nagarajan (NAGU), Molecular Sciences and Engineering Team,
Natick Soldier Research, Development & Engineering Center, Kansas Street,
Natick MA 01760; 508- 233-6445; Ramanathan.Nagarajan@us.army.mil
Meenakshi Dutt, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers
The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854;
meenakshi.dutt@rutgers.edu Yaroslava Yingling, Department of Materials
Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695;
yara_yingling@ncsu.edu
Prakash R. Rai, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of
Massachusetts, Lowell, MA 01854; 978-934-4971; Prakash_Rai@uml.edu
Stephanie A. Morris, Program Manager, Office of Cancer Nanotechnology
Research, Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives, National Cancer
Institute/NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20892; (301)-594-6876; morriss2@mail.nih.gov
Ramanathan Nagarajan (NAGU), Molecular Sciences and Engineering Team,
Natick Soldier Research, Development & Engineering Center, Kansas Street,
Natick MA 01760; 508- 233-6445; Ramanathan.Nagarajan@us.army.mil
Christopher J. Karwacki, Protection and Decontamination Sciences Division, U.
S. Army, Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD
21010; 410-436-5704; christopher.j.karwacki.civ@mail.mil John N. Russell, Jr.,
Surface Chemistry Branch, Chemistry Division, Naval Research Laboratory,
Washington DC 20375; 202-767-5879; john.russell@nrl.navy.mil
Helmuth Möhwald, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, 14476
Potsdam-Golm, Germany; +49 331 567-9201; Fax: +49 331 567-9202;
moehwald@mpikg.mpg.de Amy Peterson, Department of Chemical
Symposium Title
Colloid-Polymer Architectures and
Mixtures
Experimental and computational
approached to reactions at the
surface of colloidal nano materials,
facilitated by photo excitation and
charge transfer
Metrology of characterization,
simulation and theory of
biomembranes
Basic Research in Colloids,
Surfactants and Nanomaterials
Theory and Modeling of
nanoparticles interactions with
biomolecules and polymers
Nanotheranostics for Cancer
Applications
Nanomaterials for Defense and
Homeland Security Applications
Operando Spectroscopic Approach
to Quantifying Structure-Activity
Relationships of Real Catalysts
under Ambient Conditions
Surface Modification to Control
Cell/Surface Interactions
Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609; 508-8316029; Fax: 508-831-5853; ampeterson@wpi.edu
Tao Ye, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, School of Natural Sciences, University
of California, Merced, California 95343; 209-228-4094; tao.ye@ucmerced.edu
Gang-Yi Liu, Department of Chemistry, UC Davis, Davis, CA 95616,
gyliu@ucdavis.edu
David Britt, Department of Biological Engineering, Utah State University; 435797-2158; david.britt@usu.edu
Richard M. Crooks, Department of Chemistry The University of Texas at Austin,
Austin, TX; 512-475-8674; crooks@cm.utexas.edu Francoise M. Winnik,
Universite de Montreal, Faculte de Pharmacie et Departement de Chimie,
Montreal QC H3C 3J7 Canada; 1 514 340 5179; francoise.winnik@umontreal.ca
Bhanu P. S. Chauhan, Department of Chemistry, William Paterson University,
Wayne, New Jersey 07470; 973-720-2470; Fax: 973-720-2972;
chauhanbps@wpunj.edu
Ramanathan Nagarajan (NAGU), Molecular Sciences and Engineering Team,
Natick Soldier Research, Development & Engineering Center, Kansas Street,
Natick MA 01760; 508- 233-6445; Ramanathan.Nagarajan@us.army.mil
Ramanathan Nagarajan (NAGU), Molecular Sciences and Engineering Team,
Natick Soldier Research, Development & Engineering Center, Kansas Street,
Natick MA 01760; 508- 233-6445; Ramanathan.Nagarajan@us.army.mil
Biochemical ligands at interfaces:
from molecular scale
characterization to devices
Nanoparticles in food, agricultural,
and environmental settings
Thirty Years of Langmuir
Polymer and Biopolymer Based
Nanomaterials-Oral
Langmuir Lectures, NanoLetters
Award Lecture, ACS Materials and
Interfaces Award Lecture (Invited)
Fundamental Research in Colloids,
Surfaces and Nanomaterials
(POSTER SESSION)
Future ACS National Meetings and Themes
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251st ACS National Meeting & Exposition, March 13 - 17, 2016, San Diego, CA
Meeting Theme: Computers in Chemistry;
 252nd ACS National Meeting & Exposition, August 21 - 25, 2016, Philadelphia, PA
Meeting Theme: Chemistry of the People, by the People and for the People [Tentative];
 253rd ACS National Meeting & Exposition, April 2-6, 2017, San Francisco, CA
Meeting Theme: Undecided
The American Chemical Society Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry (COLL) invites you to organize a
symposium on any theme relevant to colloids, surfaces and nanomaterials, at one of the future ACS national
meetings.
If you want to organize a symposium, please e-mail a short proposal to the COLL Program Chair:
Dr. Ramanathan Nagarajan (NAGU)
Molecular Sciences and Engineering Team
Natick Soldier Research, Development & Engineering Center
15 Kansas Street, Natick MA 01760
Ph: 508-233-6445; Fax: 508-233-4469
E-mail: Ramanathan.Nagarajan.Civ@mail.mil
The Program Committee of the Division will act quickly to decide on the suitability of the symposium and the best
meeting to schedule it.
The proposal should contain the following information (see a sample below):
Tentative title of the symposium
Proposed organizers, with complete contact information
(Inclusion of at least two organizers is recommended)
Proposed national meeting to schedule the symposium
(Select from the list of future meetings below)
Number of half-day sessions planned
(Each half-day session is approximately 210 min long and can accommodate 7 to 10 papers depending upon
the time duration assigned for the talks. The default time is 20 min for a talk).
Brief outline of the symposium including a listing of topics that would be covered
List of possible speakers
(Include at least 20 names to ensure that a three-session symposium will be possible. Keep in mind that
there will also be unsolicited contributions).
The 2015 Colloid and Surface Science Symposium (CSSS)
The 89th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium will take place at Carnegie Mellon University from June
15-17, 2015. For more information go to www.colloids2015.org. For additional information, contact the coChairs: Steve Garoff (sg2e@andrew.cmu.edu), Jim Schneider (Schneider@cmu.edu) or Bob Tilton
(tilton@cmu.edu).
Upcoming CSSS meetings
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2016: Harvard University
2017: City College of New York
2018: Pennsylvania State University
Other Conferences of interest
Pacifichem 2015 December 15 - 20, 2015. Attend Pacifichem 2015 as a presenter of cutting-edge research!
Submit a paper during the Call for Abstracts, January 1 – April 5, 2015. http://www.pacifichem.org/

Safety and Sustainability of Nanotechnology (Symposium #404) Deadline April 3, 2015
www.pacifichem.org/symposiadesc2015/c_symp_404.htm . Contacts: Yi Zuo, James Ferri, Joachim Loo,
Chunying Chen, Steve Mylon, Sijin Liu.
GRC on Physics and Chemistry of Microfluidics May 31 - June 5, 2015, Mount Snow Resort in West Dover, VT.
We have an exciting program planned and we hope you will consider attending. Follow this link to apply:
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?id=13021 Applications received BEFORE March 15, 2015 will be eligible for
partial scholarship/award funding. Contact: Shelley L. Anna.
5th International Colloids Conference June 21-24, 2015, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
http://www.colloidsconference.com/
2nd International Conference on Bioinspired and Zwitterionic Materials August 13-14, 2015, University of
Washington, Seattle, WA, USA http://icbzm2015.com Contact: Shaoyi Jiang.
Free ACS programs for graduate and postdoctoral students
For information on opportunities for graduate students and postdocs, including the ACS Preparing for Life After
Graduate School Workshop www.acs.org/gradworkshop, please contact GradEd@acs.org or visit
www.acs.org/grad.
A message from our Membership Secretary
I would like to invite you to become a member of the
Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry (COLL)
of the ACS.
If you are already a COLL Division member, I would
like to request that you encourage your coauthors and
coworkers to become members of the Division.
Why join the Division?
The Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry (COLL) is one of the most active Divisions in the American
Chemical Society with approximately 2500 members throughout the world. Scientists like yourself join the
Division to benefit professionally from the exchange of scientific information between its members. Attendance
and presentations at the Division’s conference symposia provide excellent opportunities for professional
networking and for enhanced visibility of your research. Every year, nearly 2000 research presentations are made
in the COLL Division at the two ACS National Meetings and the unique summer symposium of the COLL
Division. As a Division member, you can also volunteer to organize a thematic technical symposium on a topic
of your interest at the ACS National Meetings.
The field of Colloid and Surface Chemistry is highly interdisciplinary. This is reflected in the background of the
Division’s members, who come from a variety of fields such as physical chemistry, nanoscience, materials
science, biochemistry, electrochemistry, tribology, environmental science, nanomedicine and chemical
engineering. The COLL Division also has a strong international participation. To learn more about our activities,
fellowships, and awards, visit our webpage at http://colloidssurfaces.org/ .
To join the Division, go to http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content . If you are not an ACS member, first join
the ACS. If you are an ACS member, log in and then select “Membership & Networks”, “Technical Divisions”
and “Join a Division”. On the application form, fill in the code 509 for the COLL division. The Division
Membership Fees are: $15 (ACS member), $16 (ACS non-member, COLL affiliate), or $5 (ACS student member)
Sincerely,
Marina Ruths
Membership Secretary of the ACS COLL Division