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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Announcement<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>International Symposium for Polymer Electrolytes-13, ISPE-13<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Late registrations are still being accepted until July 15, 2012 for the ISE Sponsored International Symposium for Polymer Electrolytes 13, to be held from August 26th to 31, 2012 in Selfoss Iceland. Conference proceedings will be published in Electrochimica Acta and the International Journal for Hydrogen Energy. More information can be found at <a href="http://www.ispe13.org">www.ispe13.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Yours sincerely <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Eugene S. Smotkin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>On behalf of the organizing committee<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Daniel Brandell, Uppsala University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Joseph Dura, NIST Center for Neutron Research<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Steve G. Greenbaum, Hunter College<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Michael Hickner, Penn State <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Vito di Noto, University of Padova<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>**************<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Thank you<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Joe Dura<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif"'>Joseph Dura<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif"'>NIST Center for Neutron Research<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif"'>100 Bureau Dr.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif"'>MS 6102<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif"'>Bldg. 235 A126<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif"'>Gaithersburg, MD 20899-6102<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#444444'>Phone: 301-975-6251<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#444444'>Fax: 301-921-9847<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#444444'>email: <a href="mailto:dura@nist.gov"><span style='color:#0066CC;text-decoration:none'>dura@nist.gov</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>