Symposium B-5: "Conducting Polymers"

Scope
This symposium will cover fundamental and applied aspects of electronically and ionically conducting polymers to discuss recent developments in this field as well as to exchange the cutting age information and friendship between the attendants.

Topics
* Electronic conduction of polymers
* Ionic conduction of polymers
* Field effective transistor
* Electroluminescence
* Polymer battery (lithium battery, fuel cell, solar cell)
* Polymer capacitor (electrolytic capacitor, double layer capacitor)
* Antistatic film
* Electromagnetic shield
* Molecular electronics
* Electrochromics
* Actuator

Invited Speakers from Overseas
Prof. C. Austen Angell (Arizona State University, U.S.A.)
Prof. Franco Cacialli (University College London, U.K.)
Dr. Maria Forsyth (Monash University, Australia)
Prof. Wei Huang (Fudan University, China)
Prof. Alex K-Y. Jen (University of Washington, U.S.A.)
Dr. Yongku Kang (Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Korea)
Dr. Klaus-Dieter Kreuer (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany)
Prof. Louis M. Leung (Hong Kong Baptist University, China)
Prof. Anne Mayes (MIT, U.S.A.)
Prof. Jung-Ki Park (KAIST, Korea)
Prof. Ben Zhong Tang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
Prof. Meixiang Wan (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Chairpersons
Prof. Kazuo Akagi¹⁾
Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, Japan
E-mail: akagi@ims.tsukuba.ac.jp
Prof. Masayoshi Watanabe²⁾
Department of Chemistry & Biotechnology, Yokohama National University, Japan
E-mail: mwatanab@ynu.ac.jp