Theory and Simulation I

Presentations

• Design of Thermoplastic Elastomers with Self-Consistent Mean Field Theory: Radial (ABA)$_n$ and A(BA)$_n$ Miktoarm Architectures

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 11:15 AM – March 18, 2009, 11:27 AM

  Authors

  • Nathaniel Lynd

    • UCSB - MC CAM
    • Department of Chemical Engineering and the Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Folusho Oyerokun

    • Department of Chemical Engineering and the Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Donal O'Donoghue

    • Department of Chemical Engineering and the Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Dale Handlin

  • Glenn Fredrickson

    • UCSB - MC CAM
    • Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara
    • University of California, Santa Barbara
    • Materials Research Lab, UCSB
    • Department of Chemical Engineering and the Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara
    • UCSB, USA
    • UC Santa Barbara
    • UCSB

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• Unified mathematical model for linear viscoelastic predictions of linear monodisperse and polydisperse and branched polymers.

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 11:27 AM – March 18, 2009, 11:39 AM

  Authors

  • Renat Khaliullin

  • Jay Schieber

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• Self-assembly of rod coil block copolymers under confinement

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 11:39 AM – March 18, 2009, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Manas Shah

    • The University of Texas at Austin

  • Venkat Ganesan

    • Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
    • The University of Texas at Austin

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• Theoretically Informed Particle-Based Simulations of Polymers in Arbitrary Ensembles

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 11:51 AM – March 18, 2009, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Darin Pike

    • University of Wisconsin

  • Francois Detcheverry

    • University of Wisconsin

  • Marcus Mueller

    • University of Goettingen

  • Juan de Pablo

    • Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    • Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • University of Wisconsin
    • University of Wisconsin, Madison

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• Fields Help Particles -- Fast Off-Lattice Monte Carlo Simulations of Soft Materials

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 12:03 PM – March 18, 2009, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Yuhua Yin

    • Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University
    • Colorado State University

  • Qiang Wang

    • Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University
    • Colorado State University
    • Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State

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• Particles vs. Fields -- Finite-Range Interactions in Polymer Field Theories

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 12:15 PM – March 18, 2009, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Qiang Wang

    • Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University
    • Colorado State University
    • Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State

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• Mean Field Theory for Ionomer Melts

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 12:27 PM – March 18, 2009, 12:39 PM

  Authors

  • Erica Saltzman

    • Columbia University

  • Sanat K. Kumar

    • Columbia University
    • Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY

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• Equilibrium and Beyond Equilibrium Properties of Polyelectrolytes - Ewald-Like Approach for Fluctuating Hydrodynamic and Electrostatic Interactions

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 12:39 PM – March 18, 2009, 12:51 PM

  Authors

  • Juan Hernadez-Ortiz

    • Department of Materials, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellin
    • Universidad Nacional de Colombia

  • Michael D. Graham

    • Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Juan de Pablo

    • Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    • Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • University of Wisconsin
    • University of Wisconsin, Madison

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• Self Consistent Field Theory Study of the Effect of Grafting Density on the Height of a Weak Polyelectrolyte Brush

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 12:51 PM – March 18, 2009, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Kevin Witte

    • Purdue University

  • You-Yeon Won

    • Purdue University

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• Adsorption and depletion of polyelectrolytes in charged

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 1:03 PM – March 18, 2009, 1:15 PM

  Authors

  • Dadong Yan

    • State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • Xingkun Man

    • State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • An-Chang Shi

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

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• Field-Based Modeling and Simulation of Interfacial Fluctuations in Block Copolymers

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 1:15 PM – March 18, 2009, 1:27 PM

  Authors

  • August Bosse

    • Polymers Division, NIST
    • National Institute of Standards and Technology

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• Variational Coarse-Graining of Discretized Field Theories of Fluids

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 1:27 PM – March 18, 2009, 1:39 PM

  Authors

  • Michael Villet

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Glenn Fredrickson

    • UCSB - MC CAM
    • Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara
    • University of California, Santa Barbara
    • Materials Research Lab, UCSB
    • Department of Chemical Engineering and the Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara
    • UCSB, USA
    • UC Santa Barbara
    • UCSB

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• Simulation of Fluctuations in Diblock Copolymer Melts: Testing an Alternative to the Fredrickson-Helfand Theory

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 1:39 PM – March 18, 2009, 1:51 PM

  Authors

  • Jian Qin

    • CEMS at Univerisyt of Minnesota

  • David Morse

    • CEMS at University of Minnesota

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• Microphase Separation Induced by the Differential Monomer-Monomer Interactions in Diblock Copolymer/Homopolymer Blends

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 1:51 PM – March 18, 2009, 2:03 PM

  Authors

  • Jiajia Zhou

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University

  • An-Chang Shi

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University

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• Study on the strength of intermonomer interactions for PS-b-PMMA using compressible RPA

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 2:03 PM – March 18, 2009, 2:15 PM

  Authors

  • Hyungju Ahn

    • Yonsei University

  • Du Yeol Ryu

    • Yonsei University

  • Youngmin Kim

    • Hongik University

  • Kwang Hyun Song

    • Dankook University

  • Kyung Wook Kwon

    • Dankook University

  • Junhan Cho

    • Dankook University
    • Dankook University, Korea

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