There is a limit of two podium papers plus one poster paper per individual.

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1 INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS ON ABSTRACT AND MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION North American Thermal Analysis Society Please Follow These Guidelines For Consistency of Style The abstracts will be printed in a booklet, and manuscripts will be encoded on to compact disk. The abstracts are limited to 2 pages, and will be printed in black and white. The abstracts and manuscripts are submitted using the NATAS web portal at The guidelines for style are the same for abstract and manuscript. Submissions not in compliance with the style guidelines will be returned to the corresponding author for correction. Files must be submitted in pdf format. A.pdf converter is provided at the web portal. There is a limit of two podium papers plus one poster paper per individual. Below are detailed instructions explaining how pages should be composed. Each page should be composed as it will appear in print (i.e.,what you see is what you get), with artwork (photographs, tables, figures) embedded within the text. The use of color in manuscripts is encouraged since the proceedings will be produced on CD-ROM. Abstracts will be printed as a black and white booklet, and color is not permitted on abstracts. Please note that the presenting author must be registered for the paper to appear in the proceedings prior to the early registration cutoff date. Abstracts and manuscripts are not reviewed for technical accuracy this is the responsibility of the authors/presenters. *** ABSTRACT DUE DATE: March 31, 2009 *** *** MANUSCRIPT DUE DATE: August 7, 2009 ***

2 Below are the page specifications you must follow when preparing your electronic files: Paper size: 8.5 x 11. Set margins to: Top, Left, and Right margins are 0.75 inches, Bottom margin is 1.0 inch Text Font 12 point Times New Roman All text in black Single-spaced Title is center justified, bold, upper and lower title case Two blank lines between title and author information Title and author name and address information is center justified (name, affiliation, mailing address, city, state, zip code, address) no bolding Presenting author s name should be underlined No blank line should appear between author name(s) and address(es) The word ABSTRACT should appear on a separate line below the address and above the body of the abstract (left justified, bold and in capital letters) A blank line should appear between the ABSTRACT line and the body of the abstract Body of text even justified alignment across full width of page Paragraph indent 0.5 inch Headings should be separated by one blank line above. No underlining other than presenting author. FIRST-ORDER HEADING: Bold, 12 point, all uppercase, Times New Roman, left justified Second-Order Heading: Bold, 12 point, initial caps, Times New Roman, left justified Third-Order Heading: Italics, 12 point, initial caps, Times New Roman, left justified Fourth-order heading: Begins paragraph with regular paragraph indent (see sample) Bold, 12 point, First word only capitalized, Times New Roman, left justified MAXIMUM PAGE LENGTH: FOR ABSTRACTS 2 pages, FOR MANUSCRIPTS 12 pages including abstract cover page. DO NOT insert page numbers into the documents. MATHEMATICAL EQUATIONS Center between left and right margins and separate by one (1) line above and below. Number all equations consecutively throughout the text using Arabic numerals in parentheses along the right margin. For example: FIGURE CAPTIONS should appear below figure, flush left, using 10 point, Times New Roman. The figure number should be bold, with initial caps, no period. For example: Figure 1 Provide a description of the figure here. TABLE TITLE CAPTIONS should be above the table, flush left, using 10 point Times New Roman and Bold the table number with initial caps, no period. For example: Table 3 Parameters and their ranges.

3 ARTWORK (photographs, tables, or figures) should be planned for appearance as close to the first mention of the artwork as possible. There should be at least two blank lines between the artwork and the main text, and one blank line between artwork and caption. Artwork must be embedded within the manuscript to generate a camera ready paper. Graphics that are not properly sized are the main culprit when your document file size becomes too large. Following these guidelines will help you include good quality graphics in your document, while keeping file size to a minimum. Additionally, the following figure formatting attributes should be used as you generate your art: 1. Before placing any graphics and images into your paper, they should be sized to the actual dimensions that they will appear in the paper. For example, if the graphic or image appears in the paper 3 inches wide and 2 inches high, it should be sized to those dimensions before inserting it into the document. 2. Graphic and image files should be saved at no less that 300 dpi (dots per inch) and no more than 600 dpi. 3. Use color graphics for the manuscript and your podium and poster presentations, NOT for the abstract. The CD-ROM will include the color graphics. 4. Good slides in a presentation make good images on a CD-ROM. REFERENCES: The first time a source is cited in the text, assign it a Arabic number in parentheses, e.g., (2) and place it in a numbered list of references at the end of the paper using 10 point Times New Roman. For example: REFERENCES 1. J. Bicerano, Prediction of Polymer Properties, revised and expanded second edition, Marcel Dekker, New York (1996). 2. E. D. Crawford, A. J. Lesser, J. Polym. Sci., Polym. Phys. Ed., 36, 1371

4 An example abstract correctly formatted is listed below: Controlled Epoxy Network Structure-Property Relationships: The Effect Of Chain Termination Nikhil Verghese 1, Maurice Marks 1, Ha Pham 1, James Hrovat 2 and Anamarie Laboy-Toro 3 1 Thermosets Product R&D, The Dow Chemical Company, 2301 N. Brazosport Blvd., B-1603, Freeport TX 77541, address: mjmarks@dow.com. 2 Student currently at University of California-Berkeley, 3 Student currently at University of Minnesota, ABSTRACT While epoxy thermosets are commonly used and are best known for their high glass transition temperature (Tg), creep resistance, environmental resistance and high stiffness, they are extremely complicated and intractable to thorough investigation. This is in part due to the fact that these are curing systems and gelation marks a turning point in the system s performance as well as ability to be probed for effective structure-property relationships. In addition, practical formulations often contain multiple components that have subtle but important interactions to the final performance (1, 2, 3). In this presentation we will cover work that was performed recently to quantitatively probe the effect of one such practical yet important effect, namely chain termination. The effect of the size as well as flexibility of the chain termination group will be examined via a controlled host matrix chemistry with a fixed molecular weight between crosslinks that comprises of DERTM 332 as the epoxy, bisphenol A (BA) as extender and tris(4-hydroxyphenyl)ethane (THPE) as a crosslinker. In addition, the effects of changing the molecular weight between crosslinks of the host network and its impact on chain termination will also be examined. Data and trends pertaining to Tg, stiffness, yield strength, fracture toughness and thermal expansion coefficient will be discussed.

5 Figure 1 Effect of host epoxy network molecular weight between crosslinks and concentration of terminator (PTBP) on fracture toughness Table 1 Monomer Amounts and Mole Fractions and Calculated Mc Values Used in Controlled Epoxy Thermosets. REFERENCES 1. J. Bicerano, Prediction of Polymer Properties, revised and expanded second edition, Marcel Dekker, New York (1996). 2. E. D. Crawford, A. J. Lesser, J. Polym. Sci., Polym. Phys. Ed., 36, 1371 (1998). 3. A. J. Lesser, E. D. Crawford, J. Appl. Polym. Sci., 66, 387 (1997).