2006 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Diffusion in Polymers II

Papers in the area of diffusion in polymers and membranes are sought. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, gas, vapor and liquid diffusion in polymers and membranes; multicomponent diffusion in polymers; and membrane-based separations.

Chair

G. Glenn Lipscomb, University of Toledo

Co-Chair

Presentations

03:15 PM

(437a) Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Structure, Thermodynamic, Dynamic and Hydrocarbon Permeability Properties of Silicon-Containing Elastomers with Promising Membrane Material Behavior
Ioannis G. Economou, Zoi A. Makrodimitri, Vasilios E. Raptis

03:35 PM

(437b) Determination of Oxygen Diffusivity(D) and Solubility(k) of a Highly Oxygen-Permeable Soft Contact Lens
Mahendra Chhabra, Michael W. Tsiang, Clayton Radke, John M. Prausnitz

03:55 PM

(437c) Multicomponent Transport of Water and Methanol in Nafion®
Daniel T. Hallinan, Yossef A. Elabd

04:15 PM

(437d) Computational Study of Water and Toxins Permeability in Sulfonated Sibs Copolymers
Jan Andzelm, James Sloan, Eugene Napadensky, Dawn Crawford, David Rigby

04:35 PM

(437e) Translational and Rotational Diffusion of Globular Protein in Concentrated Polymer Solutions
Lin Fu, Brian Pethica, Carlos R. N. Pacheco, Robert Prud'homme

04:55 PM

(437f) A Novel Universal Diffusion Model for Gas and Solvent Molecules in Polymer
Hidenori Ohashi, Takeo Yamaguchi

05:15 PM

(437g) Increased Mobility in Polypropylene at Intermediate Stereochemical Compositions by Dynamical Monte Carlo
Numan Waheed, Wayne L. Mattice