Focus Session: Polymer Network Mechanics I

Presentations

• ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

  March 18, 2010, 11:15 AM – March 18, 2010, 11:27 AM

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• Possible explanation of anomalous ductility in thermoset/thermoplastic polymer alloys

  ORAL

  March 18, 2010, 11:27 AM – March 18, 2010, 11:39 AM

  Authors

  • Debashish Mukherji

    • Drexel University

  • Cameron Abrams

    • Drexel University

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• Toughness and Fracture Energy of PDMS Bimodal and Trimodal Elastomers

  ORAL

  March 18, 2010, 11:39 AM – March 18, 2010, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Claude Cohen

    • Cornell University

  • Geoffrey Genesky

    • Cornell University

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• Novel Telechelic Polymer Hydrogels using Homo and Hetero-combinations of End-blocks

  ORAL

  March 18, 2010, 11:51 AM – March 18, 2010, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Rajiv R. Taribagil

  • Marc Hillmyer

    • Department of Chemistry - University of Minnesota
    • University of Minnesota

  • Timothy Lodge

    • University of Minnesota
    • Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota

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• Tunable Strain-Stiffening of Physically Associating Networks

  ORAL

  March 18, 2010, 12:03 PM – March 18, 2010, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Kendra A. Erk

    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University

  • Kenneth Shull

    • Northwestern University
    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University

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• Buckling instabilities in patterned, poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) microgels

  ORAL

  March 18, 2010, 12:15 PM – March 18, 2010, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Ryan Toomey

    • Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620

  • Samuel DuPont

    • Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620

  • Ryan Cates

    • Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620

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• Strain hardening, fracture and toughening mechanisms in self-assembling gels

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 18, 2010, 12:27 PM – March 18, 2010, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Kenneth Shull

    • Northwestern University
    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University

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• Wrinkling and strain softening in polymer supported networks of pristine single-wall carbon nanotubes

  ORAL

  March 18, 2010, 1:03 PM – March 18, 2010, 1:15 PM

  Authors

  • Erik Hobbie

    • North Dakota State University
    • North Dakota State Univ.

  • Daneesh Simien

    • NIST

  • Jeffrey Fagan

    • NIST

  • Ji Yeon Huh

    • NIST

  • Jun Young Chung

    • NIST

  • Steven Hudson

    • NIST

  • Jan Obrzut

    • NIST

  • Christopher Stafford

    • NIST

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• Creasing Instability of Hydrogel Surfaces: Nucleation, Growth Dynamics {\&} Hysteresis

  ORAL

  March 18, 2010, 1:15 PM – March 18, 2010, 1:27 PM

  Authors

  • Ryan Hayward

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

  • Jinhwan Yoon

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Jungwook Kim

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst
    • UMass Amherst, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering

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• Entanglement swelling in polymer glasses

  ORAL

  March 18, 2010, 1:27 PM – March 18, 2010, 1:39 PM

  Authors

  • Joshua McGraw

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, L8S 4M1

  • Kari Dalnoki-Veress

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, L8S 4M1
    • Department of Physics \& Astronomy and the Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, L8S 4M1

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• Long-range correlations and solution of boundary value problems for semi-flexible polymer networks

  ORAL

  March 18, 2010, 1:39 PM – March 18, 2010, 1:51 PM

  Authors

  • Catalin Picu

    • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  • Hamed Hatami-Marbini

    • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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