Session C1: Poster Session I

LACC - Exhibit Hall 2:00-5:00pm




C1.00001: PHYSICS EDUCATION


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C1.00002: Restructuring Introductory Laboratories to Include Investigations at the Nanoscale
Kurt Vandervoort , Asif Hyder

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C1.00003: An analysis of the effect of activity based instruction on the persistent misconceptions of physics students
Emily Reiser , Mark Markes

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C1.00004: Physics Education: Getting Out of Our Comfort Zone
Peter Muhoro , Ken Cecire , O. Keith Baker

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C1.00005: GENERAL I POSTER SESSION


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C1.00006: Phase equilibrium predicted by the Soave-Redlich-Kwong equation at low temperatures
Kimberly Wadelton , Michael Misovich

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C1.00007: Ferroelectric switching simultaneously studied by the epr and Mertz methods
Francisco Rodriguez , Marisela Aparicio , Kennith Ulibarri , Monica Marcial-Armenta , Timothy Usher

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C1.00008: Experimental and Computer analyses of Thunder Actuators.
Jacob Salazar , Gilberto Camargo , Gevale Ashford , Timothy Usher

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C1.00009: ARTIFICIALLY STRUCTURED MATERIALS


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C1.00010: Evanescent Photon Induced Surface Plasmons in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes
Qi Lu , Rahul Rao , Apparao Rao , Pu-Chun Ke

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C1.00011: Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with Single Quantum Dots in Microcavities
Matthew Rakher , Stefan Strauf , Nick Stolz , Kevin Hennessy , Antonio Badolato , Evelyn Hu , Larry Coldren , Pierre Petroff , Dirk Bouwmeester

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C1.00012: Anisotropic Spin Exchange in Coupled Quantum Dots
Kerwin Foster , Layla Hormozi , Dimitrije Stepanenko , Nicholas Bonesteel

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C1.00013: Enhanced transmission through a periodic array of subwavelength apertures controlled by a semiconductor-metal phase transition
Eugenii Donev , Jae Yong Suh , Rene Lopez , Leonard Feldman , Richard Haglund

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C1.00014: Detection and Analysis of Quantum Dots from Atomic Force Microscope Images
Stephen Poprocki , Leann Erbsen , Susan Lehman

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C1.00015: Film Formation of Ag Nanoparticles at the Organic-Aqueous Liquid Interface
John Vigorita , Jill Sakata , Andrew Dwoskin , Eileen M. Spain

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C1.00016: Photoluminescence from Colloidal CdS/CdSe/CdS Quantum Wells
Jianfeng Xu , David Battaglia , Xiaogang Peng , Min Xiao

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C1.00017: Terahertz Photoresistance in Laterally Modulated 2D Electron Layers
Gregory Aizin , Lev Mourokh

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C1.00018: Photoluminescence characterization of InAs quantum dots grown on variable stoichiometry InxAlyGa1-x-yAs layers lattice-matched to InP
J.G. Mendoza-Alvarez , M.P. Pires , S.M. Landi , A.S. Lopes , P.L. Souza

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C1.00019: The Ordering of Energy in Si-24 Clusters
J. Rufinus , K.A. Jackson

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C1.00020: Colloidal gold nanorods: from reduction to growth
Kyoungweon Park , Mostafa El-Sayed , Mohan Srinivasarao

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C1.00021: Effects of a Parallel Magnetic Field on Double-Quantum-Well Electron Dynamics
Norman Horing , Bing Dong , Hong-Liang Cui

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C1.00022: QUANTUM INFORMATION, CONCEPTS AND COMPUTATION


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C1.00023: Entanglement and Quantum Phase Transition Revisited
Yang Min-Fong

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C1.00024: Quantum qubit measurement using a quantum point contact with a quantum Langevin equation approach
Bing Dong , Norman Horing , Hong-Liang Cui

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C1.00025: Dynamic Nuclear Polarization at high field of the $^{31}$P spins in phosphorus-doped silicon
Johan van Tol , Louis-Claude Brunel

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C1.00026: Realisation of Hardy's Thought Experiment
William Irvine , Juan Hodelin , Christoph Simon , Dirk Bouwmeester

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C1.00027: INSULATORS AND DIELECTRICS


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C1.00028: Ferroelectricity in SrTiO$_3$ Ceramics and Thin Films Induced by Pr Doping
A. Duran , M. Cruz , J. Heiras , J. Siqueiros

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C1.00029: Surface wave effect on light scattering from a one-dimensional photonic crystal
Aldo Santiago Ramirez Duverger , Raul Garcia Llamas , Jorge Gaspar Armenta

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C1.00030: Irreversible electric and magnetic effects in manganese perovskites
Empress Etheridge , Feng Chen , Natalia Noginova

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C1.00031: Comparison of the electronic structures of four crystalline forms of FePO$_{4}$.
Ping Tang , N. A. W. Holzwarth

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C1.00032: Diffuse scattering and low-energy phonons in superionic conductor Cu$_{1.8S}$Se
Sergey Danilkin , Andreas Hoser , Werner Schweika

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C1.00033: Mössbauer evaluation of aerogel-prepared Fe2(MoO4)3
H.H. Hamdeh , J.C. Ho , R.J. Willey

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C1.00034: The role of the symmetry on the luminescent properties of Zr5Ti7O24:Eu3+
Federico Gonzalez , Antonio Muñoz-Flores , Jorge Garcia-Macedo , Manuel Aguilar

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C1.00035: Time-Resolved Transient Absorption Spectroscopy and Luminescence in Undoped YVO$_{4}
H.M. Yochum , L. Grigorjeva , D. Millers , V. Pankratov , M.C.S. Yochum , K.T. Stevens

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C1.00036: INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENTS


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C1.00037: Hysteresis And Magnetoelastic Domain Wall Behavior of Two
Jacob Hoberg , Jason Orris , Gregory Sollenberger , Doug Franklin , Mark Boley

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C1.00038: Large-Scale and Small-Scale Torque Sensors From a Magnetoelastic Heat-Treated 14\% Chromium Stainless Steel
Christopher Jurs , Jason Orris , Doug Franklin , Mark Boley

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C1.00039: The Dependence of Sensitivity, Axial Coercivity, and Domain Wall Height on Chromium Concentration in Polarized Steel Alloy Torque Transducers
Ryan Gordon , Jason Orris , Jason Wilson , Doug Franklin , Mark Boley

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C1.00040: Performance of a fast scan mobility based particulate spectrometer
Donald Hagen , Philip Whitefield

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C1.00041: An Electrically Tunable Barium Strontium Titanate Phase Shifter
S.F. Karmanenko , A.A. Semenov , B.A. Kalinikos , A.N. Slavin , G. Srinivasan , J.V. Mantese

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C1.00042: Holographic Visualization of Vibration in a Moist Clarinet Reed
Jason Bostron , Mark Sharnoff

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C1.00043: Determination of the p-n Junction Built-in Voltage using Quantitative Dopant Mapping in the FEG-SEM
Payam Kazemian , Colin J. Humphreys , Sjoerd A.M. Mentink

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C1.00044: A 3-D Finite Element Method Analysis for Microwave Imaging of Complex Permittivity
Shuogang Huang , Mark Reeves

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C1.00045: Atomically resolved studies of reactions at industrial settings - novel design of an ultra high pressure, high temperature scanning tunneling microscope system for probing catalytic conversions
David Tang , Miquel Salmeron , Gabor Somorjai

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C1.00046: Integrated Cantilever Loop Probe for Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy
Douglas Lagally , Abdolreza Karbassi , Charles Paulson , Daniel van der Weide

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C1.00047: Long-range order of defects revealed by Mossbauer powder diffracometry
Jiao Lin , Ryan Monson , Brent Fultz

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C1.00048: A novel capillary electrophoresis microchip with amperometric detection using a Prussian blue-modified indium tin oxide electrode
Ju-Ho Kim , In-Je Yi , C. J. Kang , Yong-Sang Kim

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C1.00049: Piezoresistive characteristic of microcantilever-based biosensor according to doping level of polysilicon resistor
Kwang-Ho Na , Hyung-Do Kim , Sung-Hwak Park , C.J. Kang , Yong-Sang Kim

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C1.00050: PHASE TRANSITIONS AND STRONGLY CORRELATED SYSTEMS


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C1.00051: Projection operator method CPA to single-particle excitation spectra
Yoshiro Kakehashi , Peter Fulde

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C1.00052: High Resolution NMR $^{15}$N and $^{31}$P NMR Of Antiferroelectric Phase Transition in Ammonium Dihydrogen Arsenate and Ammonium Dihydrogen Phosphate
Ozge Gunaydin-Sen , Randall Achey , Riqiang Fu , Naresh Dalal

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C1.00053: Diffuse X-Ray Scattering from the Liquid-Vapor Interfaces of Dilute Ga:Bi and Ga:Tl alloys
Dongxu Li , Xu Jiang , Stuart A. Rice , Binhua Lin , Mati Meron

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C1.00054: The alpha-Ga (010) Surface Investigated by Room and Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Natalya Pertaya , Kai-Felix Braun , K.-H. Rieder

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C1.00055: Quantum phase transitions in the transverse 1-D Ising model with four-spin interactions
O. F. de Alcantara Bonfim , J. Florencio

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C1.00056: X-ray absorption study of the electronic structures of quasi-one-dimensional Co oxides Ca$_3$Co$Y$O$_6$ ($Y$ = Co, Rh, Ir, Mn)
J. Okamoto , D.J. Huang , H.-J. Lin , C.T. Chen , A. Fujimori , E.V. Sampathkumaran

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C1.00057: Quantum Critical Behavior of Disordered Hardcore Bosons
Anand Priyadarshee , Ji-Woo Lee , Shailesh Chandrasekharan , Harold U. Baranger

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C1.00058: Ultrasonic dispersion due to the rattling motion in the filled skutterudite La(Os$_{0.5}$Ru$_{0.5})_{4}$Sb$_{12}$
Tatsuya Yanagisawa , W.M. Yuhasz , M.B. Maple , Y. Nemoto , T. Goto

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C1.00059: Effects of Lattice Anisotropy on Bipolaron Symmetry
Jun Zhou , Erica Carlson , David Campbell

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C1.00060: Coexistence of `Charge Order' Modulation, Tweed Microstructure and Needle Twins in La1-xCaxMnO3 (x=0.67 and 0.71)
James Loudon , Paul Midgley

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C1.00061: FLUIDS


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C1.00062: Static and Dynamic Anomalies in a Repulsive Spherical Ramp Liquid: Theory and Simulation
Pradeep Kumar , Sergey V. Buldyrev , Francesco Sciortino , Emanuela Zaccarelli , H.E. Stanley

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C1.00063: Optical Response of a Nematic Sample Submitted To a Periodic External Electric Field: Role of the Ionic Impurities
Laura Olivia Palomares , Juan Adrian Reyes , Giovanni Barbero

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C1.00064: Spatial Solitons in Chiral Media
Carlos Gabriel Avendano , Juan Adrian Reyes

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C1.00065: Crystallization and micro-structure in high charged colloids
Efrain Urrutia-Ba\~nuelos , Helim Aranda-Espiniza , Alvaro Posada-Amarillas , Mart\'In Chavez-Paez

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C1.00066: Stability of an iodate arsenous-acid reaction front in the presence of Poiseuille flow
Robert S. Spangler , Boyd F. Edwards

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C1.00067: A thermopneumatic-actuated PDMS microfluidic system integrated with micropump amd microvalve
Jong-Chul Yoo , Min-Chul Moon , C. J. Kang , Yong-Sang Kim

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C1.00068: Nonlinear Motion of Optically Torqued Nanorods
Keith Bonin , W. Andrew Shelton , Thad Walker

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C1.00069: The sedimentation of a sphere in a vertical cylinder with periodically varying radius
Watson L. Vargas , Lyda M. Pineda , Carlos A. Riano

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C1.00070: Continuous separation of human blood components through deterministic lateral displacement
John Davis , David Inglis , James Sturm , Robert Austin

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C1.00071: Optical Manipulation and Chaotic Mixing in Micro-droplets: Theory and Experiment
Vivek Sharma , Mohan Srinivasarao , Roman Grigoriev , Michael Schatz

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C1.00072: Measurements piezoelectricity and electromechanical effects of ferroelectric liquid crystals
Antal Jakli , Clinton Braganza

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C1.00073: MULTIFUNCTIONAL OXIDES [THIN FILMS]


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C1.00074: Low Frequency Magnetoelectric Coupling in Bilayers of Lead Zirconate Titanate and Sol-gel Derived Lanthanum Strontium Manganite
Wei Yang , Ning Zhang , G. Srinivasan

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C1.00075: Growth of ZnO/Zn1-xMgxO multilayer thin films by pulsed laser ablation
Toshihiko Maemoto , Nobuyasu Ichiba , Shigehiko Sasa , Masataka Inoue

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C1.00076: Photoinduced resistivity changes in Bi1-xCaxMnO3 thin films
V.N. Smolyaninova , M. Rajeswari , R. Kennedy , M. Overby , S.E. Lofland , L.Z. Chen , R.L. Greene

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C1.00077: RuO$_{2}$/Pt Energy Harvesting Cells as Rechargeable Micropower Sources
C. Marcel Buford

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C1.00078: SEMICONDUCTORS


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C1.00079: Study of morphological optical and bactericide properties of ZnO-CuO.
Enrique Sanchez-Mora , Rutilo Silva-Gonzalez , Patricia Gutierrez-Morales , Estela Gomez-Barojas

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C1.00080: Drift Instability of Double Quantum Wire Plasmons Coupled to Optical Phonons
Vassilios Fessatidis , Norman Horing

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C1.00081: Ground and excited state properties of CaB$_{6}$ determined byLDA and screened--exchange LDA investigations
Y.C. Hsue , J.E. Medvedeva , A.J. Freeman

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C1.00082: Self-Consistent Approach for Calculations of Exciton Binding Energy in Quantum Wells
Vladimir Shuvayev , Lev Deych , Alexander Lisyansky , Ilya Ponomarev

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C1.00083: Influence of SiGe buffer layer on the optical properties of Ge quantum dots grown on Si substrates by molecular beam epitaxy
Yong-Hoon Cho , Sun-Mo Kim , Anisha Gokarna , Ho-Sang Kwack , H. J. Kim , R. Ostroumov , K. L. Wang , Y. H. Kwon , T. W. Kang

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C1.00084: First principles calculations of nanodots formation in high performance thermoelectrics AgPbmSbTem+2
Hirofumi Hazama , Ryoji Asahi , Uichiro Mizutani

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C1.00085: Anomalous effective charge of hypervalent chalcogenide As$_2$Te$_3$: First-principles study
Kazuma Nakamura , Shinji Tsuneyuki , Masafuyu Matsui

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C1.00086: Optical characterization of TiO2 thin films grown by sol-gel and r.f. sputtering methods for photocatalysis applications
J.G. Mendoza-Alvarez , O. Zelaya-Angel , G. Torres-Delgado , R. Castanedo-Perez , S.A. Mayen-Hernandez , J. Marquez-Marin , A. Florido-Cuellar

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C1.00087: Effects of dopant states on the electronic structures in tungsten doped TiO$_2$
Hao Wang , James Lewis

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C1.00088: STS and BEES Study of Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Jianfei Shao , Sameh Dardona , Alexander Schill , Qusai Darugar , Mostafa El-Sayed , Phillip First

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C1.00089: Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Sameh Dardona , Jianfei Shao , Alexander Schill , Qusai Darugar , Mostafa El-Sayed , Phillip N. First

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C1.00090: Ab Initio Calculation of Electronic Properties in Si:H
Alvaro Posada-Amarillas , Roberto Nunez-Gonzalez

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C1.00091: Light induced electrostatic force microscopy in InN epifilms
Wei Sheng Su , C. W. Lu , Yang Fang Chen , E.H. Lin , T.Y. Lin , N.C. Chen , C.F. Shih , K.S. Liu

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C1.00092: Characterization of Inx Ga1-x As-GaAs heterostructures via electron beam techniques
Estela Gomez-Barojas , Rutilo Silva-Gonzalez , Rosa Maria Serrano-Rojas , Miguel Angel Vidal-Borbolla

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C1.00093: Multiple double donors of magnesium-related impurities in silicon
L.T. Ho

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C1.00094: Atomic Force Microscopy Study of Viscoelastic Response of Polymer Films near Their Glass Transitions
Guanwen Yang , Nanxia Rao , Da-Ming Zhu , Zejie Yin

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C1.00095: Structural Determination of the Low-coverage Phase of Al on Si(001) Surface
J. Y. Park , J. H. Seo , C. N. Whang , S. S. Kim , D. S. Choi , K. H. Chae

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C1.00096: P-T phase diagram for Rh(III) oxides from first principles
Shuping Zhuo , Karl Sohlberg

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C1.00097: Phasor-like interpretation of tight-binding electronic motion in the single-band approximation
Jean-Pierre Gallinar

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C1.00098: Experimental studies of low-field Landau quantization in two-dimensional GaAs electron systems
D.R. Hang , H.D. Yeh , Y.W. Zhang , J.C. Hsiao , H.L. Pang , C.F. Huang

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C1.00099: Drag and Drift of Excitons Induced by the Current in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas
S. K. Lyo

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C1.00100: Phase diagram of a Wigner crystal
Keshav Shrivastava

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C1.00101: Coupled Energy-Drift and Force-Balance Equations for High-Field Hot-Carrier Transport
Danhong Huang , Paul M. Alsing , Tzveta Apostolova , Dave A. Cardimona

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C1.00102: Growth and characterization of AlGaN/GaN heterostructures by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy
Ming-Hong Gau , Chia-Ho Hsieh , Chun-Fan Chen , Kung-Yao Chen , Jenn-Kai Tsai , Wan-Tsang Wang , Jih-Chen Chiang , Ikai Lo

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C1.00103: GaN/InGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistor fabricated by RF-MBE
Chia Ho Hsieh , Ming Hom Gau , Kuang Yao Chen

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C1.00104: Room temperature ferromagnetism in transition metal (Fe, CO) doped TiO$_2$ spin-coated films
P. Kharel , P. Talagala , G. Lawes , R. Naik , G.W. Auner , V.M. Naik , R. Suryanarayanan

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C1.00105: Shot Noise Suppression at Non-integer Conductance Plateaus in a Quantum Point Contact
Na Young Kim , William Oliver , Yoshihisa Yamamoto , Yoshiro Hirayama

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C1.00106: Bandgap engineering of rutile with substitutional nitrogen
John Jaffe , Michael Henderson

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C1.00107: Surface States of The Wirtzite Type Nanowires
Natalia Malkova , Cun-Zheng Ning

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C1.00108: Optical Characteristics of Dislocation Free InGaN/GaN Multiple Quantum Wells Embedded in GaN Nanorod Arrays
Yong-Hoon Cho , S.M. Yoon , A. Gokarna , Y.P. Sun , H.M. Kim , T.W. Kang , K.L. Wang

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C1.00109: Heat Capacity and Thermal conductivity of Ge nanocrystals
Shang-Fen Ren , Wei Cheng , Peter Y. Yu

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C1.00110: SUPERCONDUCTIVITY


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C1.00111: Magnetic Flux Trapping Behavior Due to Oxygen Disorder in Y-Ba-Cu-O
Melodie Nguyen , Kurt Vandervoort

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C1.00112: Magnetism in Superconducting Tl2223: a Flux-Trapping study
L. Robledo , B. Launspach , K. Prudchenko , J.C. Lee , C. Boekema

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C1.00113: Mechanism of vortex pinning by graded triangular arrays of submicrometric defects in a superconducting Nb film
T. C. Wu , Lance Horng , J. C. Wu , Jan Kolacek , C. W. Hsiao , T. J. Yang

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C1.00114: Study of the universal behavior of the vortex phase diagram in proton irradiated YBCO single crystals
Lucian Undreiu , Lisa Paulius , Christoph Marcenat , Valentina Tobos , Wai Kwok

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C1.00115: $^{11}$B NMR Study of Vortex Motion in MgB$_2$
Moohee Lee , Kyuhong Lee , K. H. Kang , B. J. Mean , J. S. Rhee , B. K. Cho

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C1.00116: Boron excess and external pressure effects on NbB2
Richard Falconi , Raul Escamilla , Alejandro Duran , Francisco Morales , Roberto Escudero

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C1.00117: Grain-boundary doping dependence of irreversible magnetization in $\rm Bi_{2}Sr_{2}CaCu_{2}O_{8+\delta}$ : Evidence for pseudogap correlation as a competing order on superconductivity
G.C. Kim , M. Cheon , J.H. Lee , Y.C. Kim , D.Y. Jeong

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C1.00118: The Specific Heat of Na$_{0.3}$CoO$_{2}$\cdot1.3H$_{2}$O: Two Superconducting Gaps
R.A. Fisher , N. Oeschler , N.E. Phillips , J.E. Gordon , M.L. Foo , R.J. Cava

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C1.00119: Role of cyclic four-spin exchange in doped two-leg ladders
Guillaume Roux , Steve R. White , Didier Poilblanc , Sylvain Capponi , Andreas M. Laeuchli

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C1.00120: The effects of negative dynamic resistance of DC SQUIDs
Sing-Lin Wu , Ming-Jye Wang , Cheng-Chung Chi

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C1.00121: Dependence of the intrinsic noise properties of Nb/AlOx/Nb-junctions on the manufacturing geometry
Pasi Kivinen , Sorin Paraoanu , Ari Halvari , Paivi Torma

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C1.00122: Magnetic, Transport, and Optical Properties of LaGa1-xMnxO3 Alloys
Natalia Noginova , Feng Chen , Geoffrey Chelule , Vladimir Gavrilenko

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C1.00123: Local edge modes in doped cuprates with stripes and periodic polarons
E. Kaneshita , I. Martin , A.R. Bishop , Z.G. Yu , R.J. McQueeney

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C1.00124: Anisotropy breaking and superconductivity in MgB$_{2}$
Sabina Ruiz , Pablo de la Mora

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C1.00125: Optical properties of YBa2Cu3O7 films deposited on SrTiO3 bi-crystal substrate
Mar\'ia A. Navacerrada , Juana V. Acrivos , Hizam Sahibudeen , Jeffrey Kortright , Pannu Nachimuthu

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C1.00126: Cu L3,2 and Ba M4,5 electro-optic effects in 50 nm YBa2Cu3O7 (YBCO) films on SrTiO3 (STO) bi-crystals with a 24 DEG ab-grain boundary
J.V. Acrivos , H.S. Sahibudeen , M.A. Navacerrada , J.B. Kortright , P. Nachimuthu

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C1.00127: Nuclear relaxation rate in d+s wave superconductor
Keshav Shrivastava

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C1.00128: POLYMERIC AND ORGANIC MATERIALS


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C1.00129: NEXAFS Determina\-tions of ``Skin'' Orient\-a\-tion of Injection-Molded Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Copolyesters
Robert Bubeck , Lowell Thomas , Stanley Rendon , Wesley Burghardt , Alexander Hexemer , Daniel Fischer

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C1.00130: Self-assembly in conjugated diblock copolymer in melt
Myungae Lee , David Cookson , Binhua Lin , Mati Meron , Tananori Koga , Hengbin Wang , Luping Yu

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C1.00131: Thermotropic Side Chain Liquid Crystalline Polypeptides
Kathleen Schaefer , Edward Kramer , Patrick Keller , Timothy Deming

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C1.00132: The Phase Transition Behavior of Side Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymers Containing Sulfone Group
Daewon Lee , Jong-Chan Lee , Kookheon Char

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C1.00133: Transition of Hexagonal to Lamellar Packing in a Discotic Liquid Crystal
Chenchen Xue , Faysal Ilhan , Shi Ji , Stephen Z .D. Cheng , Michael A. Meador , Mary Ann. B. Meador , R. K. Eby

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C1.00134: Control of Anchoring of Nematic Fluids at Polymer Interfaces and Switchable Diffraction Devices
Jian Zhou , David Collard , Jung Park , Mohan Srinivasarao

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C1.00135: Synthesis through Continuous-Wave Plasma of High Quantum Efficiency Light-Emitting Polymers from 1-Naphthaldehyde
Arnold Yang , Chun-Chih Chang , Yi-Hsing Chang , Ling-Yu Cheng , Kuo Chu Hwang , Cheng-Hsuan Lai

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C1.00136: High Refractive Index Poly(thiophene) for 3-D Organic Photonic Crystals
Matthew Graham , Stephen Cheng , Shi Jin , Timothy Bunning

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C1.00137: Electrospun liquid silk from the gland of Bombyx mori silk/ Green Fluorescent Proteins (GFP)/ poly(ethylene oxide)
Sirina Putthanarat , Woraphon Kataphinan , Ron Eby , Darrell Reneker , Sharon Jones , Rajesh Naik , Barry Farmer

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C1.00138: Phase coherence upon heating in diblock copolymer films
Junhan Cho , Kwanwoo Shin , Kwang Soo Cho , Young-Soo Seo , Sushil K. Satija

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C1.00139: Electric Field induced alignment and morphological transitions of triblock copolymers.
Akinbode Isaacs-Sodeye , Shujun Chen , Samuel Gido

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C1.00140: Investigation of the Unique Phase Behavior of Amphiphilic Triblock Copolymers (PAA-PMA-PS) in Solvent-Nonsolvent Mixtures
Kelly Hales , Honggang Cui , Darrin Pochan , Zhiyun Chen , Qai Ki , Karen Wooley

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C1.00141: Phase behaviour of a diblock copolymer melt under cylindrical confinement
Weihua Li , Robert Wickham

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C1.00142: The Influence of Polydispersity on the Thermodynamics of Diblock Copolymers
Nathaniel Lynd , Marc Hillmyer

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C1.00143: Phase ordering mechanism of triblock copolymers. A dynamic density functional study
Jianfeng Xia , Feng Qiu , Hongdong Zhang , Yuliang Yang

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C1.00144: A TEM, SFM and GISAXS investigation of the ordering behavior of a cylinder forming block copolymer
V. Khanna , G.E. Stein , A. Hexemer , E.J. Kramer , X. Li , J. Wang , S.H. Hahn

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C1.00145: Graphoepitaxy of Block Copolymer as a Route to Patterning Macroscopic Length Scales with a Single Long-Range Grain Orientation
G.E. Stein , H. Cota , A. Hexemer , E.J. Kramer

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C1.00146: Effect of Chemical Oxidation on the Self-Assembly of Organometallic Block Copolymers
Hany Eitouni , Nitash Balsara

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C1.00147: Toroid formation by the co-assembly of charged triblock copolymers with divalent organic counterions
Honggang Cui , Kelly Hales , Darrin Pochan , Zhiyun Chen , Qi Kai , Karen Wooley

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C1.00148: Solution Characterization of pH-Sensitive Polypeptide Based Block Copolymer Assemblies
Kay Gebhardt , Daniel Savin , Manikandan Jayaraman , Jean Frechet

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C1.00149: Catalysts from Self-Assembled Organometallic Block Copolymers
David Durkee , Mark Ellsworth , Nitash Balsara

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C1.00150: Graphoepitaxy of triblock and diblock copolymer blend thin films.
K.E. Sohn , G.E. Stein , E.J. Kramer

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C1.00151: Morphological Transitions in a Triblock Copolymer and Its Sulfonated Ionomer: Thermal Annealing and Solvent Effects
Shujun Chen , Samuel P. Gido

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C1.00152: The Order-to-Disorder Transition of A Symmetric Polystyrene-block-Poly(2-vinyl pyridine) Copolymers with various amounts of Cadnium Chloride
Dong Hyun Lee , Du Yeol Ryu , Jin Kon Kim

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C1.00153: Solvent Annealing Block Copolymer Thin Films of Poly(isoprene-b-lactide)
Kevin Cavicchi , Thomas Russell

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C1.00154: Phase Behavior of Amphiphilic Block Copolymers in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide
William Edmonds , Timothy Lodge , Marc Hillmyer

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C1.00155: Combinatorial Investigation of Crazes in Polymer Nanocomposites
Jong-Young Lee , Alfred Crosby

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C1.00156: 3-Dimensional Imaging of Evolving Block Copolymer Microstructure using Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy
Wonmok Lee , Jongseung Yoon , Hyunjung Lee , Edwin L. Thomas

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C1.00157: Baroplastic Block copolymers
Sheldon A. Hewlett , Juan A. Gonzalez Leon , Jeffrey A. Borowitz , Anne M. Mayes

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C1.00158: Phase behavior of cross-linked block copolymers
Hyeok Hahn , Enrique Gomez , Jayajit Das , Arup Chakraborty , Nitash Balsara , Mark Ellsworth

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C1.00159: The effect of temperature gradient on block copolymer thin film under non-neutral surface condition: simulation and experiment
June Huh , Won Ho Jo , Hui Joon Jung , Cheolmin Park

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C1.00160: Compositional and monomer sequence distribution analysis of monodisperse brominated-polystyrenes using interaction chromatography
Junwon Han , Chang Yeol Ryu , James J. Semler , Jan Genzer

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C1.00161: Templated growth of sub-20nm GaN nanostructures using Block Copolymer Lithography
Kasiraman Krishnan , Azar Alizadeh , Christopher Keimel , Seth Taylor , Steven Leboeuf , Suryaprakash Ganti

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C1.00162: Prediction and characterization of biodegradable baroplastics with low temperature processability
Nathan Lovell , Ikuo Taniguchi , Anne M. Mayes

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C1.00163: Effect of PE on the structural evolution of iPP : analysis of a series of iPP-PE copolymers
Kishore Tenneti , Lingyu Li , Chung Tso , Christopher Li

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C1.00164: Ceramic electrospun nanofibers as selective emitters for thermophotovoltaic energy conversion
Woraphon Kataphinan , Vivek Tomer , George Chase , Edward Evans , Rex Ramsier , Daniel Smith , Darrell Reneker

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C1.00165: Effect of Organic Modifier and Preparation Method on the Morphology and Crystalline Structure of Poly(vinylideneflouride)-Montmorillonite Nanocomposites
Douglas Dillon , Kishore Tenneti , Christopher Li

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C1.00166: Spherical nanoparticle ordering in block copolymer systems
John Papalia , Mary Galvin

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C1.00167: Pathway Dependent Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Diblock Copolypeptides
Lisa Pakstis , Andrew Nowak , Eric Holowka , Jeffery Thompson , Timothy Deming , Darrin Pochan

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C1.00168: Disc Micelle Formation of Polystyrene-b-Polymethacrylate-b-Polyacrylic acid Triblock Copolymer
Zhibin Li , Zhiyun Chen , Kelly Hales , Honggang Cui , Kai Qi , Karen Wooley , Darrin Pochan

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C1.00169: Langmuir structure of poly (2-vinylpyridine-b-hexyl isocyanate) rod-coil diblock copolymers at the air/water Interface
Farhan Ahmad , Kwanwoo Shin , S.H. Han , J.S. Lee

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C1.00170: Coarse Grain Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Deformation of Polymer Nanocomposites
Barry Farmer , Richard Vaia , Kelly Anderson

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C1.00171: A Theoretical Study of the Use of Electroosmotic Flow to Extend the Read-Length of DNA Sequencing by End Labeled Free Solution Electrophoresis
Laurette McCormick , Gary Slater

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C1.00172: Single clay sheets inside electrospun polymer nanofibers
Zhaohui Sun , Darrell Reneker

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C1.00173: Equilibrium configurations of self-assembling polymers: An extended parallel tempering approach
Chakravarthy Ayyagari , Dmitry Bedrov , Grant Smith

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C1.00174: Brush formation at the reactive surface from end-functionalized polymer
Ye Zhang , Fang Yin , Dmitry Bedrov , Grant Smith

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C1.00175: Linear Viscoelastic Response of PBX-9501 Binder using Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Hemali Davande , Oleg Borodin , Grant Smith

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C1.00176: Monte Carlo study of reversibly associated polymers
Chun-Chung Chen , Elena E. Dormidontova

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C1.00177: Molecular Dynamics simulations of polymer translocation through a nanoscopic pore
Michel G. Gauthier , Gary W. Slater

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C1.00178: Universal function for the diffusion coefficient of DNA fragment
Jean-Francois Mercier , Gary W. Sltater

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C1.00179: Molecular Assembly for Hybrid Electronics
Bansal Juhi , Dilip Gersappe

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C1.00180: Short Time Dynamics in Melts Near the Glass Transition
Aaron Wilson , John McCoy , Joanne Budzien , Douglas Adolf

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C1.00181: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Protein-Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Assembly
Venkateswarlu Panchagnula , Junhwan Jeon , Andrey Dobrynin

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C1.00182: The Equilibrium Partitioning of SAW Chains into Pores with Heterogeneous Surfaces
Jesse Ziebarth , Yongmei Wang

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C1.00183: A Hybrid Theoretical and Computational Approach to Study Polymer Induced Interaction between Two Parallel Plates
Wenhua Jiang , Yongmei Wang , Iwao Teraoka

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C1.00184: The influence of surface chemistry on interfacial moisture and adhesion
Emmett O'Brien , Bryan Vogt , Christopher White

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C1.00185: Ordered structural evolution and relaxation behaviors of a series microphase separated
Alexander Jiaokai Jing , Zhihao Shen , Shi Jin , Huabin Wang , Frank W. Harris , Stephen Z. D. Cheng

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C1.00186: Soft X-ray Resonant Scattering of Polymers: A Complement to NEXAFS Microscopy
Tohru Araki , Shane Harton , Ying Zou , Harald Ade , Gary Mitchell , Jeffrey Stubbs , Jeffrey Kortright

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C1.00187: Studying Polymer Solutions using Light Scattering Spectroscopy
Kiril A. Streletzky , George D.J. Phillies

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C1.00188: Ballistic Resistance of Polymeric Materials
Chad Snyder , Gale Holmes , Kathleen Flynn , Steven Roth , Walter McDonough , Da-Wei Liu

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C1.00189: Local mobility of polymer chains with specific interactions
Jutta Luettmer-Strathmann

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C1.00190: Shear flow behavior of a dynamically symmetric polymeric bicontinuous microemulsion
Ning Zhou , Timothy Lodge , Frank Bates

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C1.00191: Enhanced Mechanical Properties in PVA/SWNT Composite Fibers
William Sampson , Joselito Razal , Steve Collins , Ray Baughman , Alan Dalton

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C1.00192: Polymer Nanocomposites Made by Solid-State Shear Pulverization: Achievement of Well-Dispersed Nanofiller Sheets, Nanotubes, and Nanoparticles
Kosmas G. Kasimatis , Laura M. Dykes , Wesley D. Burghardt , Ramanathan Thillaiyan , L. Catherine Brinson , Rodney Andrews , John M. Torkelson

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C1.00193: Molecular-Level Insulation: An Approach to Controlling Interfacial Charge Transfer
Jong Seung Park , Mohan Srinivasarao , Saif A. Haque , James R. Durrant

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C1.00194: Diblock copolymer-incorporation onto Polystyrene Colloidal Beads
Jong-Man Lee , Kwanwoo Shin

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C1.00195: Femtosecond Two-Photon Photopolymerization
Nayer Eradat , Ian Mitchell Mitchell , Chelsea Bond , Yeon Rim

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C1.00196: Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Nanocomposite with Controlled CNT Dispersion
Lingyu Li , Wenwen Cai , Stephen Kodjie , Kishore Tenneti , Christopher Li

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C1.00197: Encapsulation of ZnS:Mn2+ Nanoclusters with PS-PVP Diblock Copolymer
Sangcheol Kim , Fr\'ed\'eric S. Diana , Pierre M. Petroff , Edward J. Kramer , Takeshi Otsu , Tomohide Murase

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C1.00198: Optical Properties of Rhodamine 6G Laser Dye and Ag-Nanoparticle Aggregates
M.A. Noginov , M. Vondrova , S.M. Williams , M. Bahoura , V.I. Gavrilenko , S.M. Black , A. Sykes , V.P. Drachev , V.M. Shalaev

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C1.00199: Characterization of Inorganic/Organic Interfaces by Ab Initio Methods
Rajeev Pandey , Nicolas Bruque , Roger Lake

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C1.00200: Self-Healing of a Polyurethane-based Polymer Composite
Melissa Considine , Erin Dreyer , S. Paul Freese , Paul Ledwith , Joanna Meador

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C1.00201: The Nano-mechanical Properties of Polystyrene Thin Films Embedded with Surface Grafted Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes
Arnold Yang , Chih-Chun Hsiao , Tian Shyng Lin , Ling Yu Cheng , Chen-Chi Mar

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C1.00202: Structural Effects on the Interfacial Strength of Silane Coupling Agent Layers
Shigeo Nakamura , Elizabeth Pavlovic , Edward Kramer

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C1.00203: Grafting and Loop Formation of Telechelic Polymers at Interfaces Monitored by Fluorescence Labeling
Zhenyu Huang , Haining Ji , Jimmy Mays , Mark Dadmun

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C1.00204: Nonlinear optical Spectroscopy of Polyimide Surface for homeotropic liquid crystal alignment
Masahito Oh-e , Hiroshi Yokoyama , Doseok Kim

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C1.00205: An explicit 3D chain and node mesoscale network model for silica-filled polydimethylsiloxane
David Hanson

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C1.00206: Stacking of conjugated oligomers and polymers in solution from first-principles
Damian Scherlis , Jean-Luc Fattebert , Francois Gygi , Nicola Marzari

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C1.00207: A reassessment of entropic factors influencing molecular weight dependence of surface tension
Venkat Minnikanti , Lynden Archer

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C1.00208: The effect of temperature heterogeneities on the dynamics of reactive ternary systems
Christopher Pooley , Anna Balazs

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