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A. Kahn, in Organic Electroluminescent Materials and Devices, edited by S.-T. Lee, Proc. of the International Union of Materials Research Societies 6th International Conference in Asia, and J. Mat. Sci. Eng. B (in press). 

C N. R. Rao obtained his PhD degree from Purdue University and DSc degree from the University of Mysore He is the Linus Pauling Research Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research and Honorary Professor at the Indian Institute of Science (both at Bangalore). His research interests are in the chemistry of materials. He has authored nearly 1000 research papers and edited or written 30 books in materials chemistry. A member of several academies including the Royal Society and the US National Academy of Sciences, he is the recipient of the Einstein Gold Medal of UNESCO, Hughes Medal of the Royal Society, and the Somiya Award of the International Union of Materials Research Societies (lUMRS). In 2005, he received the Dan David Prize for materials research from Israel and the first India Science Prize. 

Films of natural rubber latex were chlorinated with chlorine gas generated in situ from acidified hypochlorite solution at room temperature and characterised by FTIR/ ATR, SEM/EDX and contact angle measurements. The mechanism of the surface chlorination process of the films in aqueous solution is considered and the effect of chlorination on such properties as tackiness and hydrophilicity is discussed. (4th International Union of Materials Research Societies International Conference in Asia 97, Makuhari, Japan, 16-18 Sept.1997). 16 refs. 

International Union of Materials Research Societies (lUMRS) http //www.iumrs.org (accessed August 16, 2010). The International Union of Materials Research Societies was established in 1991 as an international association of technical groups or societies that have an interest in promoting interdisciplinary materials research (from Web page). 

An ACS member since 1973, Reichmanis is also a member of the American Physical Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Materials Research Society, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Society of Women Engineers. She recently chaired the ACS Committee on Science and is an associate editor of the ACS journal Chemistry of Materials. She serves on the U.S. National Committee for the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and the National Research Council Panel for Materials and Science Engineering. 

Prof. Rao is Chairman, Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, past President of The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), Member of the Atomic Energy Commission of India and Chairman, Indo-Japan Science Council. He is Founder-President of both the Chemical Research Society of India and of the Materials Research Society of India. Prof. Rao was President of the Indian National Science Academy (1985-86), the Indian Academy of Sciences (1989-91), the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (1985-97), the Indian Science Congress Association (1987-88), and Chairman, Advisory Board of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (India). He was the Director of the Indian Institute of Science (1984-94), Chairman of the Science Advisory Council to Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi (1985-89) and Chairman, Scientific Advisory Committee to the Union Cabinet (1997-98) and Albert Einstein Research Professor (1995-99). 

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Klaus Wandelt is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Bonn, Germany, where he was also Director of the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry until 2010. He is a Guest Professor at the Universities of Wroclaw, Poland, and Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy. He received his Ph.D. on electron spectroscopy of alloy surfaces in 1975, spent a postdoctoral period at the IBM Research Laboratory in San Jose, Cahfornia, from 1976 to 1977, and qualified as a professor in 1981. Since then his research focuses on fundamental aspects of the physics and chemistry of metal surfaces under ultrahigh vacuum conditions and in electrolytes, on the atomic structure of amorphous materials, and, more recently, on processes at surfaces of plants. Professor Wandelt has chaired the Surface Physics divisions of the German and the European Physical Societies as well as of the International Union ofVacuum Science, Techniques, and Applications, has organized numerous national and international conferences and workshops, was editor of journals, conference proceedings and books. 

I express my appreciation to those who participated in the New Orleans Symposium and to the numerous contributions made by the reviewers of the material contained in this book. Financial support of the international contributors is greatly acknowledged. In addition to support from the Division of Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering and the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society. I extend thanks for corporate contributions from American Cyanamid, Aqualon, Calgon, Dow Chemical, and Union Carbide. An especially generous contribution by the S. C. Johnson Company also is acknowledged. Their contribution to the success of the meeting in the Cajun Crescent city contributed substantially to the success of the symposium. 

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