16:00 ‒ 19:00

Registration and Welcome Buffet
IMC, Prague 6, Heyrovského nám. 2

9:05 ‒ 9:50

Opening lecture OL-01
Katharina Landfester (Germany)
Catalytical reactions in nanocapsules for biomedical applications and synthetic biology

9:50 ‒ 10:25

Keynote lecture KL-01
Craig J. Hawker (USA)
Polymer assemblies and nanoparticles through stereocomplexation

10:25 ‒ 10:55

Main lecture ML-01
José M. Asua (Spain)
Particle morphology of polymer colloids. From reactor to film

11:15 ‒ 11:45

Main lecture ML-02
Michael Cunningham (Canada)
Graft modification of starch nanoparticles via nitroxide mediated polymerization

11:45 ‒ 12:00

Special lecture SL-01
Mauricio Balarezo (France)
Design of biobased (co)polymers and nanoparticles through emulsion/dispersion polymerization of biosourced monomers in green solvent

12:00 ‒ 12:15

Special lecture SL-02
Marie Raffin (France)
Design of new macromolecular stabilizers incorporating vinyl alcohol units for the emulsion (co)polymerization of vinyl acetate

12:15 ‒ 12:30

Special lecture SL-03
Takaichi Watanabe (Japan)
Microfluidic formation of multilayer microcapsules by sequential liquid–liquid phase separation

14:00 ‒ 14:30

Main lecture ML-03
Patrick Lacroix-Desmazes (France)
Synthesis of biobased latexes from renewable aromatic building blocks by (mini)emulsion polymerizations

14:30 ‒ 14:45

Special lecture SL-04
Jan Labuta (Japan)
Phase separation and pH-dependent behavior of star-shaped porphyrin-PNIPAM4 conjugates

14:45 ‒ 15:00

Special lecture SL-05
Jutta Rieger (France)
Exploring the synthesis of polymeric nanofibers by templated polymerization-induced self-assembly

15:00 ‒ 15:15

Special lecture SL-06
Clément Debrie (France)
Are unimer exchanges necessary to form higher order morphologies in PISA?

15:15 ‒ 15:30

Special lecture SL-07
Bas van Ravensteijn (Netherlands)
Polymerization-induced assembly of polyelectrolytes and colloidal particles

15:30 ‒ 15:45

Special lecture SL-08
M. Ali Aboudzadeh (France)
Cyclic polyethylene glycol as gold nanoparticle surface ligand: Synthesis and colloidal stability

16:05 ‒ 16:35

Main lecture ML-04
Elodie Bourgeat-Lami (France)
Visible light-induced photopolymerization in dispersed media: Synthesis of conventional and inorganic-armored latexes

16:35 ‒ 16:50

Special lecture SL-09
Peter Krajnc (Slovenia)
Poly(thiol-enes) through colloidal templating

16:50 ‒ 17:05

Special lecture SL-10
Sandra Smeltzer (Canada)
Self-assembly of amphiphilic block-random copolymers in aqueous solutions

17:05 ‒ 17:20

Special lecture SL-11
Stephen Foulger (USA)
Manipulating the intraparticle Förster resonance energy transfer of organized radioluminescent particles

17:20 ‒ 17:35

Special lecture SL-12
Jonghwi Lee (Republic of Korea)
Water flow generated by thermo-responsive volume change of hydrogels powered by diurnal temperature variation

17:35 ‒ 19:00

Poster Session

19:00 ‒ 22:00

Dinner at Institute premises

9:00 ‒ 9:40

Keynote lecture ML-05
Brigitte Voit (Germany)
Responsive polymeric nanocapsules and multi‑compartments as cellular mimics

9:40 ‒ 10:10

Main lecture ML-06
Dietmar Appelhans (Germany)
Colloidal systems for the fabrication of cell mimics and protocells

10:10 ‒ 10:25

Special lecture SL-34
Gabor Ersek (Netherlands)
Influence of solvent exposure on clear, soft polyurethane and polyacrylate@polyurethane coatings

10:45 ‒ 11:15

Main lecture ML-07
Per Bo Zetterlund (Australia)
Multiblock copolymer synthesis and nanoparticle engineering using RAFT emulsion polymerization

11:15 ‒ 11:45

Main lecture ML-08
Olivier Sandre (France)
Copolymers with pH-sensitive polypeptide block: Synthesis and self-assembly into polymersomes

11:45 ‒ 12:00

Special lecture SL-14
Ognen Pop-Georgievski (Czech Republic)
Biofunctional polymer brush coatings on the nanoscale

14:00 ‒ 14:30

Main lecture SL-27
H. Daniel Ou-Yang (USA)
Visualizing diffusiophoresis and particle-size-segregation in a drying colloidal droplet containing mixed-sized particles

14:30 ‒ 14:45

Special lecture SL-15
Lénaïc Lartigue (France)
Superferrimagnetic curcumin derivatives nanodispersion for magnetic fluid hyperthermia

14:45 ‒ 15:00

Special lecture SL-16
Cornelia G. Palivan (Switzerland)
Amphiphilic block copolymers: From synthesis towards biomimetic polymer membranes

15:00 ‒ 15:15

Special lecture SL-17
Elisabeth Trinh (United Kingdom)
Using bridging flocculation for the development of a polymer-based point-of-care diagnostic for targeted detection of DNA

15:15 ‒ 15:30

Special lecture SL-18
Rafael Piñol (Spain)
Luminescence nanothermometry technology for intracellular temperature imaging

15:30 ‒ 15:45

Special lecture SL-19
Yubing Hu (United Kingdom)
Optical biosensors via holographic lithography

16:05 ‒ 16:35

Main lecture ML-10
Hideto Minami (Japan)
Preparation of non-spherical polymer particles by mechanical process

16:35 ‒ 16:50

Special lecture SL-20
Sam Li (Singapore)
Nanoparticle-imprinted hydrogel for selective recognition of nanoparticles in water samples

16:50 ‒ 17:05

Special lecture SL-21
Daewon Sohn (Republic of Korea)
Structures and properties of hydrogels controlled by coordination bond geometries

17:05 ‒ 17:20

Special lecture SL-22
Friederike Dehli (Germany)
Hydrogel foams based on biotinylated gelatin methacryloyl for improved enzyme substrate conversion

17:20 ‒ 17:35

Special lecture SL-23
Iva Rezić (Croatia)
Modification of polymers with powerful antimicrobial coatings

9:00 ‒ 9:45

Keynote lecture KL-03
Karen Wooley (USA)
Natural product-based polymers that address health-food-energy-water challenges

9:45 ‒ 10:20

Main lecture ML-11
Abdelhamid Elaissari (France)
Sponge like biodegradable microparticles for cosmeto-therapy textile

10:20 ‒ 10:35

Special lecture SL-25
Tomasz Panczyk (Poland)
Interaction of non canonical telomeric DNA fragments with carbon nanotubes in aqueous solutions. Insights from molecular simulations

10:35 ‒ 10:50

Special lecture SL-26
Edurne Gonzalez (Spain)
Novel composite nanofibers by green electrospinning

11:10 ‒ 11:40

Main lecture ML-12
Matthias Ballauff (Germany)
Polymer colloids interacting with proteins

11:40 ‒ 12:10

Main lecture ML-13
Teresa Basinska (Poland)
Hydrophilic prolate spheroids: Preparation, properties and formation of structured materials

12:10 – 12:25

Special lecture SL-28
Kamil Awsiuk (Poland)
Poly(tert-butyl methacrylate) film interactions with peptides, proteins, and bacteria: Effect of polymer stereoregularity

12:25 – 12:40

Special lecture SL-29
Miren Aguirre (Spain)
Waterborne degradable polyester nanoparticles

14:00 ‒ 17:00

Social program (Guided tours in Prague)

19:00 ‒ 22:00

Conference dinner

9:00 ‒ 9:35

Keynote lecture KL-04
Yukio Nagasaki (Japan)
Pharmacologically active polymer micelles for novel therapeutics

9:35 ‒ 9:50

Special lecture SL-30
Babita Shashni (Japan)
Enzyme metabolizable PEG-b-poly(vinyl butyrate) nanomedicine sensitizes cancer to the radiotherapy

9:50 ‒ 10:20

Main lecture ML-14
Alex van Herk (Netherlands)
Cool coatings; application of core-shell latex particles in functional coatings

10:20 ‒ 10:50

Main lecture ML-15
Bernd Reck (Germany)
Acrylic polymer dispersions – from colloidal structure to application properties

10:50 ‒ 11:05

Special lecture SL-31
Arthur Werner (Canada)
Latexes stabilized by amphiphilic block-random copolymers

11:25 ‒ 11:55

Main lecture ML-16
John Tsavalas (USA)
Patience is a virtue in the design of anisotropic particle morphology

11:55 ‒ 12:10

Special lecture SL-32
Yang Liu (Canada)
Mechanistic studies of latex film formation of low VOC waterborne coatings

12:10 ‒ 12:25

Special lecture SL-33
Chi Hoong Chan (Malaysia)
Reprocessable and tunable nitrile elastomers enabled by covalent adaptable networks using a reactive epoxy polymeric crosslinker prepared via emulsion polymerization

14:00 ‒ 14:30

Main lecture ML-17
Stepan Podzimek (Germany)
Light scattering for structural studies of colloidal materials

14:30 ‒ 14:45

Special lecture SL-35
Pei Li (People's Republic of China)
Synthesis of multi-carbon dots crosslinked polyethyleneimine particles for biological application

14:45 ‒ 15:00

Special lecture SL-36
Edina Rusen (Romania)
Core-shell particles with thermo-responsive wetting characteristics obtained by photo-mediated suspension polymerization

15:00 ‒ 15:15

Special lecture SL-37
Djamal Tahtat (Algeria)
Study of the encapsulation efficiency of vitamin B1 in alginate beads: Application of an experimental design