Theory and Modeling of Polymer Nanocomposites, Interfaces, and Surfaces

Presentations

• Physical gelation in polymer-nanofiller systems

  ORAL

  March 6, 2015, 11:15 AM – March 6, 2015, 11:27 AM

  Authors

  • Di Xu

    • Materials Science and Engineering Department, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11790, USA

  • Dilip Gersappe

    • Materials Science and Engineering Department, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11790, USA
    • Stony Brook University
    • Materials Science and Engineering Department, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794, USA
    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794, USA

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• Polymer Crowding and Depletion-Induced Interactions in Polymer-Nanoparticle Mixtures

  ORAL

  March 6, 2015, 11:27 AM – March 6, 2015, 11:39 AM

  Authors

  • Wei Kang Lim

    • Dept. of Physics, North Dakota State University

  • Alan R. Denton

    • Dept. of Physics, North Dakota State University
    • Department of Physics, North Dakota State University

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• Depletion potential between nanoparticles: From small molecule liquids to dense polymer melts

  ORAL

  March 6, 2015, 11:39 AM – March 6, 2015, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Debapriya Banerjee

    • University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

  • Kenneth Schweizer

    • University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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• Self-assembled chains of polymer-grafted nanorods in homopolymer films

  ORAL

  March 6, 2015, 11:51 AM – March 6, 2015, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Christina Ting

    • Sandia Natl Labs

  • Boris Rasin

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Russell Composto

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Amalie Frischknecht

    • Sandia Natl Labs

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• Field-theoretic study on polymer-depletion interaction between colloids in solution

  ORAL

  March 6, 2015, 12:03 PM – March 6, 2015, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Wei Li

    • Univ of California - Santa Barbara

  • Kris Delaney

    • Univ of California - Santa Barbara
    • UC Santa Barbara

  • Glenn Fredrickson

    • Univ of California - Santa Barbara
    • UC Santa Barbara

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• Field Theoretic Simulations of Polymer Nanocomposites in the Presence of Adsorbing Block Copolymers

  ORAL

  March 6, 2015, 12:15 PM – March 6, 2015, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Jason Koski

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Robert Riggleman

    • University of Pennsylvania
    • Univ of Pennsylvania

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• Theory and Simulation Studies of Effect of Entropic and Enthalpic Driving Forces on Morphology in Polymer Grafted Particle Filled Nanocomposites

  ORAL

  March 6, 2015, 12:27 PM – March 6, 2015, 12:39 PM

  Authors

  • Tyler Martin

    • Chemical and Biological Engineering - University of Colorado at Boulder, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering - University of Delaware

  • Arthi Jayaraman

    • Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering - University of Delaware, Materials Science and Engineering - University of Delaware
    • Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark Delaware 19716
    • University of Delaware

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• Disentanglement in polymer-star mixtures

  ORAL

  March 6, 2015, 12:39 PM – March 6, 2015, 12:51 PM

  Authors

  • Hendrik Meyer

    • Institut Charles Sadron, CNRS UPR22, Strasbourg, France

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• Strong Selective Adsorption of Polymers

  ORAL

  March 6, 2015, 12:51 PM – March 6, 2015, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Ting Ge

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    • University of North Carolina

  • Michael Rubinstein

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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• Detailed atomistic simulations of functionalized graphene/polymer systems

  ORAL

  March 6, 2015, 1:03 PM – March 6, 2015, 1:15 PM

  Authors

  • Petra Bacova

    • Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics (IACM), Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), GR-70013, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

  • Anastassia Rissanou

    • Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics (IACM), Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), GR-70013, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
    • Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics (IACM), Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), GR-71110 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

  • Vagelis Harmandaris

    • Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Crete, GR-70013, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
    • Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Crete, GR-71409, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

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• Surface Tension of Nano-Confined Lattice Polymers

  ORAL

  March 6, 2015, 1:15 PM – March 6, 2015, 1:27 PM

  Authors

  • Pengfei Zhang

    • Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University

  • Qiang Wang

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

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• Polymer adsorption transition: Applications of the Wang-Landau and partition function zeros methods

  ORAL

  March 6, 2015, 1:27 PM – March 6, 2015, 1:39 PM

  Authors

  • Mark Taylor

    • Dept. of Physics, Hiram College

  • Samip Basnet

    • Dept. of Physics, Hiram College

  • Jutta Luettmer-Strathmann

    • Dept. of Physics, University of Akron
    • Departments of Physics and Chemistry
    • Departments of Physics and Chemistry, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-4001
    • The University of Akron

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• Molecular Simulation studies of adsorption of polymers on non-planar surfaces: Influence of surface characteristics

  ORAL

  March 6, 2015, 1:39 PM – March 6, 2015, 1:51 PM

  Authors

  • Abishek Venkatakrishnan

    • University of Cincinnati

  • Anne Shim

    • Ohio State University

  • Aquil Frost

    • Central State University

  • John Lewnard

    • University of Cincinnati

  • Vikram K. Kuppa

    • University of Cincinnati

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• Molecular structure of poly(methyl methacrylate) surface: Combination of interface-sensitive infrared-visible sum frequency generation, molecular dynamics simulations, and ab initio calculations

  ORAL

  March 6, 2015, 1:51 PM – March 6, 2015, 2:03 PM

  Authors

  • He Zhu

    • Univ of Akron

  • Kshitij C. Jha

    • Univ of Akron

  • Ram S. Bhatta

    • Univ of Akron

  • Mesfin Tsige

    • Univ of Akron

  • Ali Dhinojwala

    • Univ of Akron

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• Molecular-dynamics study of the Case-II diffusion of methanol in PMMA

  ORAL

  March 6, 2015, 2:03 PM – March 6, 2015, 2:15 PM

  Authors

  • Jiayuan Miao

    • Case Western Reserve University

  • Mesfin Tsige

    • The University of Akron

  • Philip Taylor

    • Case Western Reserve University

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