Focus Session: Mechanical Properties of Polymers: Fracture and Adhesion

Presentations

• High Strain Deformation and Fracture of Self-Assembled Polymer Gels

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 10, 2008, 10:15 AM – March 10, 2008, 10:51 AM

  Authors

  • Ken Shull

    • MSE, Northwestern University
    • Northwestern University

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• Reinforcement of Epoxies Using Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 10:51 AM – March 10, 2008, 11:03 AM

  Authors

  • Ramanan Krishnamoorti

    • U. of Houston
    • Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston
    • University of Houston
    • Dept of Chemical and Biomolecular Engg., Univ of Houston

  • Jitendra Sharma

    • University of Houston

  • Tirtha Chatterjee

    • University of Houston

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• Mechanical and Electrical Properties of Organogels with Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 11:03 AM – March 10, 2008, 11:15 AM

  Authors

  • Mohammad Moniruzzaman

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Karen Winey

    • Department of Material Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
    • University of Pennsylvania
    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6272

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• Identification of key deformation mechanisms of polyethylene materials via in-situ x-ray scattering

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 11:15 AM – March 10, 2008, 11:27 AM

  Authors

  • Theresa Hermel-Davidock

    • The Dow Chemical Company
    • Dow Chemical Company

  • Brian Landes

    • The Dow Chemical Company

  • Mehmet Demirors

    • The Dow Chemical Company

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• Brittle-tough transitions during crack growth in toughened adhesives

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 10, 2008, 11:27 AM – March 10, 2008, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Michael Thoules

    • University of Michigan

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• Controlling polymer adhesion with surface wrinkles

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 12:03 PM – March 10, 2008, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Edwin Chan

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Erica Smith

    • Trinity College

  • Ryan Hayward

    • University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts-Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Alfred Crosby

    • Polymer Science and Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts
    • Dept. of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts
    • University of Massachusetts Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts - Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts-Amherst

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• Soft-soft nanocomposite adhesives made from colloidal particles

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 12:15 PM – March 10, 2008, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Costantino Creton

    • ESPCI

  • Fanny Deplace

    • ESPCI

  • Michael Rabjohns

    • University of Manchester

  • Andrew Foster

    • University of Manchester

  • Peter Lovell

    • University of Manchester

  • Chunghong Lei

    • University of Surrey

  • Joseph Keddie

    • University of Surrey

  • Keltoum Ouzineb

    • Cytec

  • Jeanne Marchal

    • ESPCI

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• Dangling chain effect on the modulus of polyurethane networks

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 12:27 PM – March 10, 2008, 12:39 PM

  Authors

  • Bruno Fayolle

    • Arts et M\'etiers ParisTech

  • Julie Diani

    • LIM, ENSAM Paris
    • Arts et M\'etiers ParisTech

  • Pierre Gilormini

    • Arts et M\'etiers ParisTech

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• Morphological Determinants of Yield Stress for Semicrystalline Ethylene / Methacrylic Acid Copolymers

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 12:39 PM – March 10, 2008, 12:51 PM

  Authors

  • Robert Scogna

  • Richard Register

    • Princeton University

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• On the statistics of Gaussian two and three-dimensional networks: Fluctuations of junctions and collapse driven by structure.

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 12:51 PM – March 10, 2008, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Michael Lang

    • Leibniz-Institute for Polymer Research
    • Leibniz-Institute for Polymer Research, Hohe Str. 6, 01069 Dresden, Germany

  • Sergey Panyukov

    • P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation

  • Michael Rubinstein

    • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
    • University of North Carolina
    • Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, USA
    • Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, 27599 Chapel Hill, N.C., USA

  • Jens-Uwe Sommer

    • Leibniz-Institute for Polymer Research, Hohe Str. 6, 01069 Dresden, Germany

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• Physical understanding of the bulk modulus of polyisoprene by molecular dynamics simulations

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 1:03 PM – March 10, 2008, 1:15 PM

  Authors

  • Julie Diani

    • LIM, ENSAM Paris
    • Arts et M\'etiers ParisTech

  • Bruno Fayolle

  • Pierre Gilormini

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