Message from the Past Chair 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)

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

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:

Robert Hamers

Daniel Schwartz

Vice Chair: Howard Fairbrother

Past Chair:

Program Chair:

Mike Trenary

Ramanathan Nagarajan

Secretary: Lorena Tribe (2014-2017)

Treasurer: Sarah Larsen (2013-2015)

Councilors: Eric Furst (2014-2016), Tina Nenoff (2013-2015), Maria Santore

(2015-2017), Robert Tilton (2013-2015)

Alternate Councilors: Gail Blaustein, John Russell, Steve Tait (2015-2017), Paul Shiller

(2015-2017)

Membership Secretary:

Member-at-Large:

Marina Ruths

Eric Borguet (2013-2015), Robert Lockheed (2013-2015),

Paschalis Alexandridis (2014-2016)

Appointed officers:

Chair, Nominations Committee:

MPPG Representative:

Newsletter Editors:

Regional Meetings Coordinator:

Mike Trenary

Paul Van Tassel

Robert Ofoli (2014), Lorena Tribe (2015)

Eric Borguet

Symposium Chair: Michael Bevan

Webmaster: 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/funding-

and-awards/fellows/list-of-2014-acs-fellows.html#P179_13145 are given below.

Dadyburjor, Dady

West Virginia University

Contribution to the science/profession: Conducted

research in catalysis and fuel production, including

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.

Also served as a Governing Board member of the

Council for Chemical Research.

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.

University of Delaware

Contribution to the science/profession: Recognized

for scholarship and education in colloid and soft

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

Colloid and Surface Chemistry, and currently as a

Councilor of the Division.

Levinger, Nancy E.

Colorado State University

Contribution to the science/profession: Recognized

for pioneering work on spectroscopy and dynamics in

condensed phases, especially molecules at liquid

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

mentor and panelist in the Postdoc to Faculty

Workshop program; and to equity in national awards.

Richards, Ryan M.

Colorado School of Mines and National

Renewable Energy Laboratory

Contribution to the science/profession: Contributed

to the areas of nanoparticle preparations, in situ

spectroscopy, porous materials, and catalysis.

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;

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.

Schwartz, Daniel K.

University of Colorado Boulder

Contribution to the science/profession: Developed

and applied advanced microscopy methods, including

single-molecule tracking, to advance the fundamental

understanding of the interfacial dynamics and self-

assembly 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

ACS symposium organization.

Stine, Keith J.

University of Missouri–Saint Louis

Contribution to the science/profession: Important

contributions include recent work to develop

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

Committee in the St. Louis Local Section.

Willson, Richard C.

University of Houston

Contribution to the

science/profession: Characterized biomolecular

recognition and chromatography at the fundamental

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

Program Co-Chair, Area Coordinator, Webmaster,

Awards Organizer, and as a Councilor. Also led the

International Society for Molecular Recognition.

Xia, Younan

Georgia Institute of Technology

Contribution to the science/profession: Recognized

for groundbreaking contributions to the invention of

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

journals.

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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 site-

specific 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/funding-

and-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: 773-834-7756; 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; E-mail: 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 and 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: 530- 752-2444; 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; 508-233-6445; Ramanathan.Nagarajan@us.army.mil

Basic Research in Colloids, Surfactants and Nanomaterials

Wolfgang Parak, Biophotonics Group, University of Marburg, D-35037 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 of Complex Nanosurfaces

Jingbo L. Liu, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University-

Kingsville, USA. Tel: 1‐361-593-2914. Email: kfjll00@tamuk.edu or jingbo.liu@chem.tamu.edu Sajid Bashir, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University-

Kingsville, 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

Mark Kastantin, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, USA. Tel: 1-303-492-1629. 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., Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD 21218, ph: 410.516.0113, email: jfrechette@jhu.edu Michael A. Bevan, Dept. of Chemical & Biomolec. Engr. Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD 21218, ph: 410.516.7907, email: mabevan@jhu.edu

Particles at Fluid Interfaces

Eric Borguet, Department of Chemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122; Ph: (215) 204-9696;Fax:(215) 204-9530; 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; 508-233-6445; 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; 508-233-6445; 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; 508-233-6445; 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; sara-mason@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 Symposium Title

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

Colloid-Polymer Architectures and Mixtures

Dmitri Kilin, Department of Chemistry, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 57069. 605-677-7283; Fax: 605-677- 6397; Dmitri.Kilin@usd.edu

Experimental and computational approached to reactions at the surface of colloidal nano materials, facilitated by photo excitation and charge transfer

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

Metrology of characterization, simulation and theory of biomembranes

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

Basic Research in Colloids, Surfactants and Nanomaterials

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

Theory and Modeling of nanoparticles interactions with biomolecules and polymers

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

Nanotheranostics for Cancer Applications

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

Nanomaterials for Defense and Homeland Security Applications

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

Operando Spectroscopic Approach to Quantifying Structure-Activity Relationships of Real Catalysts under Ambient Conditions

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

Surface Modification to Control Cell/Surface Interactions

Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609; 508-831-6029; 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

Biochemical ligands at interfaces: from molecular scale characterization to devices

David Britt, Department of Biological Engineering, Utah State University; 435-797-2158; david.britt@usu.edu

Nanoparticles in food, agricultural, and environmental settings

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

Thirty Years of Langmuir

Bhanu P. S. Chauhan, Department of Chemistry, William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey 07470; 973-720-2470; Fax: 973-720-2972; chauhanbps@wpunj.edu

Polymer and Biopolymer Based Nanomaterials-Oral

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

Langmuir Lectures, NanoLetters Award Lecture, ACS Materials and Interfaces Award Lecture (Invited)

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

Fundamental Research in Colloids, Surfaces and Nanomaterials (POSTER SESSION)

Future ACS National Meetings and Themes 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 co-

Chairs: Steve Garoff (sg2e@andrew.cmu.edu), Jim Schneider (Schneider@cmu.edu) or Bob Tilton

(tilton@cmu.edu).

Upcoming CSSS meetings 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