XEROX RESEARCH CENTRE

Xerox Research Centre of Canada, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada I Introduction... 

Many contributed to the success of the symposium. The executive and members of the Macromolecular Science Division thank the following firms for fiscal support Polysar Limited Abitibi Paper Company Reichhold Limited Xerox Research Centre of Canada Limited Varian Associates of Canada Glidden Company Domtar Limited DuPont of Canada Shell Canada Gulf Oil Canada and the Dunlop Research Centre. A special vote of thanks is extended to the speakers at the symposium and to the authors for their excellent presentations and for their cooperation in putting it together. J. Comstock of the American Chemical Society showed understanding and patience in bringing this volume to print. 

We thank Dr. R. H. Marchessault of Xerox Research Centre of Canada and Professor A. Sarko of State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry for their useful suggestions on analyzing x-ray fiber patterns. The sample of Streptococcus mutans was kindly given by Dr. M. Sudo of Kanonji Institute, Research Foundation for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, to whom we are indebted. 

Funding for the conference came from the divisions of inorganic chemistry of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Chemical Institute of Canada, the Petroleum Research Fund (ACS), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, York University, and eight industrial companies Strem Chemicals Inc. Merck Frosst Canada Inc. Union Carbide Canada Limited EG G Canada Limited Xerox Research Centre of Canada Tasman Scientific Inc. Guided Wave, Inc. and Lumonics Inc. 

Materials Design Integration Laboratory Xerox Research Centre of Canada 2660 Speakman Drive Mississauga, OT L5K 2L1 Canada... 

Xerox Research Centre of Canada, Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1J9, Canada Department of Chemistry, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec H3C 3 VI, Canada... 

The work described here was supported by NSERC Canada and by the Xerox Research Centre of Canada. All experiments were carried out in close collaboration with Dr. M.D. Croucher of XRCC. 1 am pleased to acknowledge his contribution. Most of the credit for this work belongs to my coworkers who actually carried out the experiments. They are cited in the references. Particular credit is due to Dr. Luke Egan and Dr. Onder Pekcan. 

Crossley, G., Queen s University (Kingston, Ontario, Canada) and Xerox Research Centre of Canada, personal conununication of unpublished data, 1997. 

The authors are indebted to Dr. R. H. Marchessault, Xerox Research Centre of Canada, for valuable suggestions, and to Dr. T. Yoshida, Government Industrial Development Laboratory, Hokkaido, for his aid in obtaining some of the I C NMR spectra. The preliminary study of the IR spectra by Dr. A. Sueoka provided valuable assistance in this work. The work was supported by a grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Japan. 

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