New Experimental, Theoretical, and Computational Methods in Polymer and Soft Matter Physics

Presentations

• Coherent States Formulation of Polymer Field Theory

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 11:15 AM – March 1, 2012, 11:27 AM

  Authors

  • Xingkun Man

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

  • Kris Delaney

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

  • Glenn Fredrickson

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

  • Henri Orland

    • Institut de Physique Theorique, CEA-Saclay, France

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• How Reliable Are Soft Potentials? Ensuring Thermodynamic Consistency Between Hierarchical Models of Polymer Melts

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 11:27 AM – March 1, 2012, 11:39 AM

  Authors

  • James McCarty

    • University of Oregon

  • Marina Guenza

    • University of Oregon

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• Simulation of Stress Induced Polymer-Polymer Interfacial Slip

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 11:39 AM – March 1, 2012, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Andrew Gustafson

    • University of Minnesota

  • David Morse

    • University of Minnesota
    • Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota
    • Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

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• Tumbling dynamics of isolated polymer chains in strong shear flows and the effects of chain resolution

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 11:51 AM – March 1, 2012, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Ronald Larson

    • University of Michigan

  • Indranil Saha Dalal

    • University of Michigan

  • Alex Albaugh

    • University of Michigan

  • Nazish Hoda

    • ExxonMobil Upstream Research

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• ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

  March 1, 2012, 12:03 PM – March 1, 2012, 12:15 PM

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• A Mesoscale Simulation Method for High Salt Concentrations

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 12:15 PM – March 1, 2012, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Stefan Medina

    • Caltech, USA / University of Mainz, Germany

  • Friederike Schmid

    • University of Mainz, Germany

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• Molten Salt Eutectics from Atomistic Alchemical Simulations

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 12:27 PM – March 1, 2012, 12:39 PM

  Authors

  • Saivenkataraman Jayaraman

    • Advanced Device Technologies department, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM

  • Aidan Thompson

    • Advanced Device Technologies department, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
    • Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185

  • Anatole von Lilienfeld

    • Leadership Computing Facility, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
    • Argonne National Laboratory

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• ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

  March 1, 2012, 12:39 PM – March 1, 2012, 12:51 PM

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• An [N]PT Ensemble for Studying the Intricate Thermodynamics of Cluster Crystals

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 12:51 PM – March 1, 2012, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Kai Zhang

    • Duke University

  • Patrick Charbonneau

    • Duke University

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• From nucleus to phase: Growing dynamics of critical nucleus in polymer blends

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 1:03 PM – March 1, 2012, 1:15 PM

  Authors

  • Dadong Yan

    • Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875

  • Xinghua Zhang

    • Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875

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• An Interactive 3D Interface to Model Complex Surfaces and Simulate Grazing Incidence X-ray Scatter Patterns

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 1:15 PM – March 1, 2012, 1:27 PM

  Authors

  • Eliot Gann

    • North Carolina State University, Jema Science Inc.
    • North Carolina State University

  • Slim Chourou

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Abhinav Sarje

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Harald Ade

    • North Carolina State University
    • NC State University

  • Cheng Wang

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Elaine Chan

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Xiaodong Ding

    • Jema Science Inc.

  • Alexander Hexemer

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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• Numerical Computation of Diffusion Properties in Molecular Systems on a Topology-Conforming Grid

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 1:27 PM – March 1, 2012, 1:39 PM

  Authors

  • Ivan Teo

    • Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

  • Klaus Schulten

    • Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

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• Fluorescent excitation transfer as a tool for the phase transition studies

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 1:39 PM – March 1, 2012, 1:51 PM

  Authors

  • Alexei Goun

    • Postdoctoral researcher

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• The Physics of Phase-Separation Fronts

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 1:51 PM – March 1, 2012, 2:03 PM

  Authors

  • Alexander Wagner

    • Department of Physics, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108

  • Eric Foard

    • Department of Physics, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108

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• Protected TERS Probes for the Study of Polymer Surfaces

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 2:03 PM – March 1, 2012, 2:15 PM

  Authors

  • Rebecca Agapov

    • The University of Akron, Dept. of Polymer Science, Akron, OH

  • Alexei Sokolov

    • Chemical Sciences Division, ORNL and Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
    • Oak Ridge National Lab
    • Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee
    • University of Tennessee

  • Mark Foster

    • The University of Akron, Dept. of Polymer Science, Akron, OH
    • The University of Akron

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