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THE GOLDEN GATE POLYMER FORUM
Monthly Dinner Meeting
October 23, 2000

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"ADVANCED MATERIALS BASED ON DENDRITIC ARCHITECTURES
FOR NEXT GENERATION MICROELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS"

James L. Hedrick

Center for Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular Assemblies,
IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose
hedrick@almaden.ibm.com

ABSTRACT

The macromolecular engineering of complex molecular
architectures through the introduction of controlled
branching or block copolymerization has continued to
assume an increasingly important theme in polymer science.
We have used a combination of different polymerization
techniques to prepare branched polymers with narrow
polydispersities and controlled molecular weights and
end-groups. Further elaboration has been demonstrated
through the use of libraries of new multifunctional
orthogonal initiators and functional dendrons together
with controlled polymerization processes. For example,
dendrimer-like star polymers are a new class of
macromolecules that allow the preparation of radial
block copolymers as well as the preparation of
topological isomers(1,2). The prepared isomers permitted
a unique opportunity to study physical and chemical
properties as a function of the molecular structure
for polymers with molecular weights of around 70,000
g/mol. Moreover, by varying the size of the dendrimer-
like star polymers they have been used to understand
differences and similarities between dendrimers and
star polymers. In the case of the dendrimer-like star
block copolymers the molecular architecture was shown
to have a pronounced affect of the morphology and
interfacial activity. These new polymers have been used
as macromolecular templates for the generation of
nanoporous low dielectric constant materials.(3)

Refs:

1) Trollsås, M.; Hedrick, J. L. J. Am. Chem. Soc.
1998, 120, 4644.
2) Trollsås, M.; Claesson, H.; Atthoff, B.; Hedrick,
J. L. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 1998, 37, 3132.
3) Hedrick, J. L.; Miller, R. D.; Hawker, C. J.;
Carter, K. R.; Volksen, W.; Yoon, D. Y.; Trollsås,
M. Adv. Mater. 1998, 10, 1049.

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PRACTICAL DETAILS:

Cost: $30 ($15 for unemployed/retired/students)

Social Hour: 6:00 PM
Dinner: 7:00 PM
Talk: 8:00 PM

Location: Michael's at Shoreline, Mountain View

DIRECTIONS:

From 101 in Mountain View, take the Shoreline Boulevard
Exit, turning toward the bay. Drive past the Shoreline
Amphitheater and go straight ahead into Shoreline
Park. After a mile or so in to the park, a sign for Michael's
will direct you to turn left into the parking lot.
Address: 2960 N Shoreline Blvd.
Restaurant phone: 650-962-1014
(do not call restaurant for reservations)

RESERVATIONS:

- Make reservations by 5PM Thursday Oct. 19

- Please provide contact information (email or phone),
affiliation, and your dinner selection.

- You should receive confirmation of your registration;
if not, please try again.

- Register through the web site (preferred),
www.ggpf.org
or contact:
Hilary Lackritz
lackritz@home.com

- We must ask you to be liable for the cost of
your dinner if you register and do not attend;
cancellations may be made up to the registration
deadline.

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Other events of possible interest to the
GGPF audience:

Oct. 6-7, Stanford
15th Annual William S. Johnson Symposium in
Organic Chemistry, 8-5 both days.
Attendance by pre-registration only.
Contact Ms. Lindi Press at (650) 723-0153.
http://chemeng.stanford.edu/html/johnson_symposium.html

Oct.10, Hayward
Society for Applied Spectroscopy Dinner Mtg.
"Application of MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry in Analyses
of Proteins from Whole Bacterial Cells and its Potential
for Species Identification", Les Harden, United States
Dept. of Agriculture. Reserve by October 6 to Steve Rabin,
650-564-5315 or steve.rabin@alza.com

Oct. 11-12, Foster City
Waters Corporation 2-day seminar:
"Practical Method Development &
Validation for HPLC"
www.waters.com

Oct. 17, Berkeley
AIChE North Bay Dinner Meeting
"Using Membranes to Recover Hydrocarbons in the
Process and Petrochemical Industries"
Marc Jacobs, Membrane Technology and Research, Inc.
http://www.aiche-norcal.org/Meetings/oct00.htm

Oct. 19, Dublin
The SPI will tour National Food Labs (free tour).
To RSVP, contact John LaFountain at bp4john@aol.com
or 510-490-1791. For background on NFL, see:
http://www.thenfl.com

Oct. 19, Palo Alto
Molecular Simulations, Inc. (Powder Solve software)
Seminar on "Crystal structure determination from
powder diffraction data on the PC"
free; to register or for more info, contact Deb Kelso
at 859-799-5538, dak@msi.com

Oct. 19-20, Santa Clara
NorCal American Vaccum Society:
Chemical Mechanical Polishing and Thin Films 2000 Symposium
http://chapters.vacuum.org/nccavs/cmptf2000.html

Oct. 21-25, Las Vegas
Oct. 21-22 GPC short course
Oct. 23-25 International GPC Symposium 2000
http://www.waters.com/gpcsymposium2000/

October 23-24, Sunnyvale
Short Course on "Practical Design and
Production of Optical Thin Films"
http://epdweb.engr.wisc.edu/courses/index.html

Oct. 25-28, San Francisco
Western Regional ACS meeting
http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~wwwchem/Western.html

Nov. 1-3, Palo Alto
Analytical Laboratory Manager's Association
21st Annual Conference
http://labmanagers.org/index.html

Nov. 2-3, San Francisco
Novel Materials for Electronics Miniaturization
http://www.knowledgefoundation.com

Nov. 8, Sunnyvale
ASM Dinner Meeting
"Metallic Glasses"
Bill Johnson
http://www.asm-scv.org/

Nov. 10, Milpitas
AIChE SouthBay Tour & Dinner Meeting
Tour of Elantec Semiconductor
http://www.aiche-norcal.org/Meetings/nov00south.htm

Nov. 15
NCCAVS Thin Film User's Group monthly meeting
November topic: Low-k Dielectrics
http://chapters.vacuum.org/nccavs/tfug.html

Dec. 7, Santa Clara
SPE sponsored tour of INTEL
http://www.spe-ggs.org/

Dec. 13, UC Extension, Sunnyvale
Noon-5 PM short course:
"Materials Issues in Semiconductor Packaging"
by Prof. Guna Selvaduray, SJSU
http://www.cpmt.org/scv/

Dec. 13, Sunnyvale
IEEE/CPMT Dinner Meeting:
"IC Packaging Roadmaps" --
Dave Tovar, IPAC
http://www.cpmt.org/scv/meetings/cpmt0012.html

Dec. 13, Sunnyvale
ASM Dinner Meeting
"Recovery of the Challenger Shuttle Data Tapes"
Rick Brackshaw
http://www.asm-scv.org/

---- 2001 -----

Jan. 10, Sunnyvale
ASM dinner meeting
"Beyond Silicon: Microfabrication with Metals,
Plastics, and Ceramics"
Alfredo Morales, Sandia National Laboratories
http://www.asm-scv.org/

Feb. 2-3, 2001 Stanford
4th Annual Paul Flory Conference
on Physical and Macromolecular Chemistry
http://chemeng.stanford.edu/html/flory_conference.html

Feb. 4-6, 2001, Stanford
Stanford Polymer Short Course
(right after the Flory Symposium)
http://scpd.stanford.edu/pd/polymer/

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