Conference Call ICCT-2010 provided an open, collaborative environ- Supramolecular Systems” ment for researchers from a wide range of fields of sci- Gaetano Guerra, Universita di Salerno, Italy ence and engineering. ICCT-2012 will be held in August “Polymer Co-crystalline Phase” 2012 in Búzios, Brazil. Akira Harada, Osaka University, Japan “From Supramolecular Chemistry to Polymer Science” Kazuya Saito <
[email protected]>, a professor at the University of Wim E. Hennink, Utrecht University, The Tsukuba, Japan, was executive secretary of the conference. Mary Anne White, a Netherlands “Self-Assembling Hydrogels for professor at Dalhousie University, Canada, was a member of the international advi- Proteins Release” sory board, a presenter of a public lecture, and co-chair of a workshop at ICCT-2010. Erdogan Kiran, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA “Polymorphic Transformations and Morphological Modifications of Polymers in Polymer-Solvent Complexes Dense Fluids” Jean-François Luz, Fraunhofer Institute, and Intercalates Potsdam, Germany “Design of Synthetic by Jean-Michel Guenet Hydrogels with a Sol-Gel or a Gel-Sol Thermoreversible Transition in Aqueous The 8th International Conference on Polymer-Solvent Medium” Complexes and Intercalates, held in Strasbourg, Yasushi Maeda, Fukui University, Japan France, from 5 to 8 July 2010, was the first of the series “Hydration of Temperature-Responsive to be granted IUPAC sponsorship. Polymers Observed by IR Spectroscopy” The topic of this series of international confer- Ulrich Maschke, Université de Lille, France ences was originally centered on polymer systems “Dispersions of Liquid Crystals in Polymers: that are obtained through the co-crystallization, or in Investigation of Thermo-Physical, Morph- a broader sense through the co-organization, of poly- ological, and Electro-Optical Properties” mer chains or macromolecules with solvent molecules.