2006 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Nanoscale Structure in Polymers I: Self-organization of Polymers at Surfaces and Interfaces

We seek papers dealing with interfacial phenomena in nanoscopic systems containing polymers. Experimental and theoretical contributions are welcomed.

Chair

Gerassimos Orkoulas, University of California, Los Angeles

Co-Chair

Carson Meredith, GeorgiaTech

Presentations

08:30 AM

(511a) Double Network Hydrogels, Structure and Response to Applied Stress

Vijay R. Tirumala, Taiki Tominaga, Eric K. Lin, Wen-li Wu, Hidemitsu Furukawa, Jian Ping Gong, Yoshihito Osada

08:50 AM

(511b) Thermal Spraying of Nylon-11 and Nylon-11/Silica Coatings: Modeling and Characterization of Coating Microstructure

Richard Cairncross, Milan Ivosevic, Prateek Gupta, Stephen Niezgoda, Eric M. Knight, Thomas E. Twardowski

09:10 AM

(511c) Photopolymerization Kinetics, Crosslinking, and the Resulting Properties of Polymerizable Lyotropic Liquid Crystals

Lucas Sievens-Figueroa, Allan Guymon

09:30 AM

(511d) Sulfonate Functional Nano-Porous Membranes Templated from Ordered Block Copolymers

Milan Maric, Andres Graffe

09:50 AM

(511e) Nanometer-Scale Polymeric Structures on Surfaces: Pillars and Honeycombs

Brian Grady, Maricel Marquez, Krupa Patel, David W. Schmidtke

10:10 AM

(511f) Directed Polymer - Nanoparticle Self Assembly to Manufacture Layered, Nanostructured Materials

Michael E. Mackay, R. S. Krishnan, Alicia Pastor, Craig Hawker, Michael S. Wong, Subashini Asokan

10:30 AM

(511g) Influence of Strongly Interacting Hompolymers on the Long-Range Order in Semi-Crystalline, Amphiphilic Block Copolymer Templates

Vijay R. Tirumala, Bryan D. Vogt, Eric K. Lin, James J. Watkins