2005 Annual Meeting

Session: Nanoscale Structure in Polymers II: Polymer Nanocomposites

Chair

John J. La Scala, Army Research Laboratory

Co-Chair

Matt J. Kipper, National Institutes of Health (NIDCR) and National Institute of Standards and Technology

Presentations

03:15 PM

Introductory Remarks

03:20 PM

(415a) Measuring and Modeling of Flow-Induced Nanostructure of Nanoclay/Polymer and Nanofiber/Polymer Melt Composites
Yingru Wang, Jianhua Xu, Christopher Kagarise, Stephen E. Bechtel, Kurt W. Koelling

03:40 PM

(415b) Measurements of Particle Orientation in Simple Shear and Channel Flows of Polypropylene/Clay Nanocomposites
Laura Dykes, Wesley Burghardt, Kosmas Kasimatis, John Torkelson

04:00 PM

(415c) Flow-Induced Crystallization of Polypropylene-Clay Nanocomposites: Clay Disorientation Kinetics and Morphology
Mark A. Treece, James P. Oberhauser

04:20 PM

(415d) Entanglement Effects in the Plastic Deformation of Filled Polymer Glasses: a Simulation Study
Cameron F. Abrams, David Richardson

04:40 PM

(415e) Styrene/Isoprene-Carbon Nanotube Composites Via Emulsion and Miniemulsion Polymerization
Brian P. Grady, Mai Ha

05:00 PM

(415f) Synthesis of Water-Based Polystyrene-Nanoclay Hybrid Via Mini-Emulsion Polymerization
Zhaohui Tong, Qunhui Sun

05:20 PM

(415g) Surfactant Degradation in Melt Processed Polyethylene-Organoclay Nanocomposites
Donald R. Paul, Rhutesh K. Shah

05:40 PM

Concluding Remarks