Gels and Elastomers

Presentations

• Large strain deformation of hydrophobically modified polyelectrolyte hydrogels

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 1:30 PM – March 12, 2008, 1:42 PM

  Authors

  • Guillaume Miquelard-Garnier

    • ESPCI

  • Costantino Creton

    • ESPCI

  • Dominique Hourdet

    • ESPCI

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• Creasing instability of surface-attached hydrogels

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 1:42 PM – March 12, 2008, 1:54 PM

  Authors

  • Ryan Hayward

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

  • Veronica Trujillo

    • University of Massachusetts, Amherst

  • Jungwook Kim

    • University of Massachusetts, Amherst

  • Anesia Burns

    • University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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• Swelling-Induced Deformation of Nanopatterned Polymer Lines

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 1:54 PM – March 12, 2008, 2:06 PM

  Authors

  • Vijay Tirumala

    • Polymers Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology

  • Christopher Stafford

  • Rui Huang

  • Leonidas Ocola

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• Drop spreading and resorbtion on gel surfaces

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 2:06 PM – March 12, 2008, 2:18 PM

  Authors

  • Mehdi Banaha

    • MSC*, Denis-Diderot-University of Paris

  • Adrian Daerr

    • MSC*, Denis-Diderot-University of Paris

  • Laurent Limat

    • MSC*, CNRS \& Denis-Diderot-University of Paris

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• Anomalous Composition-Dependent Swelling Behavior of Photocrosslinked VP/AA Copolymeric Hydrogels

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 2:18 PM – March 12, 2008, 2:30 PM

  Authors

  • J. Hannah Lee

    • School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • David Bucknall

    • School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

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• Organogels from Polypeptide-based Block Copolymers

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 2:30 PM – March 12, 2008, 2:42 PM

  Authors

  • Daniel Savin

    • Department of Chemistry, University of Vermont
    • University of Vermont

  • Daniel Bercovici

    • Department of Chemistry, University of Vermont

  • Sandeep Naik

    • Department of Chemistry, University of Vermont

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• Soft random solids and their spatial elastic heterogeneity

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 2:42 PM – March 12, 2008, 2:54 PM

  Authors

  • Xiaoming Mao

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Paul Goldbart

    • Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801-3080, USA
    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • UIUC

  • X. Xing

    • Syracuse University

  • Annette Zippelius

    • University of Goettingen

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• Effective removal of entanglement points by network dilution

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 2:54 PM – March 12, 2008, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • Joshua D. McGraw

    • Department of Physics \& Astronomy and the Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research, McMaster University

  • Kari Dalnoki-Veress

    • Department of Physics \& Astronomy and the Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research, McMaster University
    • McMaster University

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• Advances in elastomer reinforcement: slow dynamics

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 3:06 PM – March 12, 2008, 3:18 PM

  Authors

  • Paul Sotta

    • CNRS/Rhodia Research and Technology, France

  • St\'ephane Dupres

    • CNRS/University Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

  • Pierre-Antoine Albouy

    • CNRS/university Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

  • Didier Long

    • CNRS/Universit\'e de Paris Sud
    • CNRS/Rhodia Research and Technology, France

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• Polydomain-Monodomain Transition of Randomly Disordered Nematic Elastomers with Different Crosslinking Histories

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 3:18 PM – March 12, 2008, 3:30 PM

  Authors

  • Kenji Urayama

    • Kyoto University

  • Etsuko Kohmon

    • Kyoto University

  • Ryo Mashita

    • Kyoto University

  • Toshikazu Takigawa

    • Kyoto University

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• New Insights Regarding the Polydomain-to-Monodomain Transition in Smectic Elastomers

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 3:30 PM – March 12, 2008, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • Ronald Hedden

    • Pennsylvania State University
    • Penn State University

  • Harshad Patil

    • Penn State University

  • Daniel Lentz

    • Penn State University

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• Nematic elastomers: From a microscopic model to macroscopic elasticity theory

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 3:42 PM – March 12, 2008, 3:54 PM

  Authors

  • Paul Goldbart

    • Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801-3080, USA
    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • UIUC

  • X. Xing

    • Syracuse University

  • Stephan Pfahl

    • University of Mainz

  • Swagatam Mukhopadhyay

    • Rutgers University

  • Annette Zippelius

    • University of Goettingen

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• Elasticity of a Chiral elastomer

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 3:54 PM – March 12, 2008, 4:06 PM

  Authors

  • Aparna Baskaran

    • Syracuse University

  • X. Xing

    • Syracuse University

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• Determination of the refractive indices of liquid crystal elastomers

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 4:06 PM – March 12, 2008, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • Israel Lazo

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, KSU

  • Peter Palffy-Muhoray

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, KSU

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• Magnetoactive Liquid Crystal Elastomers

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 4:18 PM – March 12, 2008, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • Moritz Winkler

    • Heinrich Heine Universitaet Duesseldorf

  • Andreas Kaiser

    • Heinrich Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf

  • Simon Krause

    • Albert Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg

  • Heino Finkelmann

    • Albert Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg

  • Annette Schmidt

    • Heinrich Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf
    • Heinrich Heine-Universitraet Duesseldorf

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• Calamitic liquid crystal elastomers swollen with bent-core liquid crystals

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 4:30 PM – March 12, 2008, 4:42 PM

  Authors

  • M. Chambers

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH

  • J.T. Gleeson

    • Kent State University
    • Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent OH

  • S. Sprunt

    • Kent State University
    • Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent OH

  • A. Jakli

    • Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University
    • Kent State University
    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent OH.

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