17:00-21:00

Registration

from 18:30

Buffet Supper/ Informal get together

08:45-09:00

Opening/Introduction

J.-U. Sommer

09:00-09:40

Microscopic Theory of the Structure and Phase Behavior of Polymer Nanocomposites

K. S. Schweizer

09:40-10:20

Insertion into Brushes: From Proteins to AFM

A. Halperin

10:20-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-11:40

Interaction and complex formation between branched polyelectrolytes and multivalent/macro-ions and globular proteins

O. V. Borisov

11:40-12:20

Proteins and Polyelectrolytes: A charged relationship

M. Ballauff

12:20-13:00

Structured nanoparticles for material science and medicine

K. Landfester

13:00-15:00

Lunch Break/Lunch

15:00-15:40

Mixtures of nanoparticles and polymers: from interactions to phase diagrams

H. Löwen

15:40-16:20

Surface-tethered polymers to influence protein adsorption and microbial adhesion

W. Norde

16:20-17:00

Coffee Break

17:00-18:30

Poster Session I

18:30

Dinner

09:00-09:40

Polymer - particle interactions at the nanoscale

M. E. Mackay

09:40-10:20

Polymer coated Nanoparticles with reversibly switchable wettability

H. Möhwald

10:20-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-11:40

Polymer Nanocomposites: Theory and Simulations

A. R. Khokhlov

11:40-12:20

Interaction between solid surfaces in a polymer melts

H.-J. Butt

12:20-12:50

Stability of hydrophobic nanoparticle in bilayer membrane

K. Daoulas

13:00-15:00

Lunch Break/Lunch

15:00-15:40

Polymer Nanocomposites: Polymer Diffusion and Electrical Conductivity

K. I. Winey

15:40-16:20

Dynamics of Filled Elastomers: A Theoretical and Computational Approach

G. Allegra

16:20-17:00

Coffee Break

17:00-17:40

Forces of interaction between polymer-grafted colloids as measured by optical tweezers

F. Kremer

17:40-18:10

Polyelectrolyte complex nanoparticles: Preparation, simulation and applications

M. Müller

18:10-18:25

About the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation

E. Dreisigacker

18:30

Dinner/Heraeus-Evening

20:00-21:30

Poster Session II

09:00-09:40

Effects of Nanoscale Confinement on Glass Transition Temperature, Physical Aging, and Diffusion in Confined Polymer Films and Nanocomposites

J. M. Torkelson

09:40-10:20

Modeling Bulk and Interfacial Phase Behavior in Polymer Nanocomposites

A. L. Frischknecht

10:20-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-11:30

Critical Adsorption of Polyelectrolytes onto Charged Spherical Colloids

R. G. Winkler

11:30-12:10

Dynamic heterogeneities and local structure near the 2D-glass transition

G. Maret

12:10-12:50

Templated Nanoparticle Assembly through Polymer or Peptides

D. Pochan

12:50-13:00

Closing Remarks

M. Stamm

13:00

Lunch/Departure