2006 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Diffusion in Polymers I

Papers in the general area of diffusion in polymers are sought. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, gas, vapor and liquid diffusion in polymers; multicomponent diffusion in polymers; membrane-based separations; molecular simulations, continuum modeling, and theory of diffusion in polymers; novel experimental techniques for measuring diffusion phenomena; physics of macromolecular dynamics.

Chair

Yossef A. Elabd, Department of Chemical Engineering, Drexel University

Co-Chair

Douglass S. Kalika, University of Kentucky

Presentations

12:30 PM

(384a) Diffusion Enhancements in Mineral Nanoparticle Filled Superglassy Polymers

Scott T. Matteucci, Victor Kusuma, Benny D. Freeman

12:50 PM

(384b) Reverse Selectivity in Poly Dimethyl Siloxane/Au Nanocomposite Membrane in Co2/Ch4 Separation

Ramya Vedaiyan, Jag Sankar, Jianzhong Lou

01:10 PM

(384c) Material Point Method Simulation of Enhanced Penetrant Diffusion in Nanoparticle-Polymer Composite Membranes

Liping Xue, Oleg Borodin, Jessica M Smith

01:30 PM

(384d) Penetrant Transport in Well-Characterized Glassy Polymers as Revealed by High-Resolution X-Ray Computed Tomography

Adam Ekenseair, Nicholas Peppas

01:50 PM

(384e) Modeling Sorption Kinetics of Carbon Dioxide in Initially Glassy Polymers Using Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics

Vito Carlà, Yazan Hussain, Ruben G. Carbonell, Ferruccio Doghieri

02:10 PM

(384f) Fundamental Diffusion Behavior of Polymer Ultrathin Films: Effect of Film Thickness, Molecular Weight, and Aging

Richard A. Lawson, Ivan Ordaz, Clifford L. Henderson

02:30 PM

(384g) Role of the Diffusion in the Transport of Gas Species through Polymer Membranes

Gabriele Clarizia, Patrizia Salerno, Enrico Drioli