The following regular meetings of PNG have taken place:
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1975 Strasbourg, F - Freiburg, FRG (Benoit, Hild - Burchard, Cantow) |
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1977 London, UK (Allen) |
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1978 Breisach, near Freiburg, FRG (Burchard) |
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1979 Jablonna, PL (Ziabicki) |
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1980 Karlovy Vary, CS (Dusek) |
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1982 Strasbourg, F (Hild) |
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1984 Manchester, UK (Stepto, Stanford, Still, Ross-Murphy) |
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1986 Elsinore, DK (Kramer) |
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1988 Freiburg, FRG (Burchard) |
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1990 Jerusalem, IL (Gottlieb) |
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1992 San Diego, USA (Eichinger) |
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1994 Prague, CZ (Dusek) |
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1996 Doorn, NL (te Nijenhuis) |
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1998 Trondheim, Norway (Stokke) |
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2000 Krakow, PL (Galina) |
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2002 Autrans, F (Geissler) |
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2004 Bethesda, USA (Amis/Horkay) |
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2006 Sheffield, UK (Stanford/Ross-Murphy/Ryan) |
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2008 Larnaca, Cyprus (Patrickios) |
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2010 Goslar, Germany (Oppermann) |
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2012 Jackson Hole, WY, USA |
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2014 Tokyo, Japan |
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2016 Stockholm, Sweden |
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2018 Prague, Czech Republic |
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2020 Potomac, Maryland, USA |
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2022 Rome, ITALY |
The programmes of the meetings include contributions in all areas relevant to the formation, structure, properties and applications of polymer networks, but usually a special emphasis is put on certain topics, which vary from meeting to meeting.
The most recent PNG Meetings Publications
Selected papers from the PNG meetings have been published as Special Issues in Macromolecular Symposia for the past few years. The latest of those publications are shown below:
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Title: Polymer Gels: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications Editor: Ferenc Horkay and Eva Malmström Jonsson PNG Meeting: Stockholm, Sweden, 2016, Published: April 2017, vol. 372, 153 pages.
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Title: Networks and Biopolymer Assemblies Editor: Ferenc Horkay and Mitsuhiro Shibayama PNG Meeting: Tokyo, Japan, 2014 Published: December 2015, vol. 358, 238 pages.
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Title: Polymer Gels: Formation, Structure, Properties and Applications Editor: Christopher N. Bowman and Ferenc Horkay PNG Meeting: Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA, 2012 Published: July 2013, vol. 329, 201 pages.
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Special Issue: Polymer Networks Issue edited by: Wilhelm Oppermann, Diethelm Johannsmann, Arne Langhoff, Gert Heinrich Volume 306-307, Issue 1. Pages v–ix, 1–165 Published: September 2011
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