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Session K1: Poster Session II

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





K1.00001: METALS


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K1.00002: Magnetoelectric susceptibility dispersion of ferrite - piezoelectric composites
V.M. Petrov , M.I. Bichurin , O.V. Ryabkov , G. Srinivasan

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K1.00003: Semimetallic Antiferromagnetism in the Half-Heusler Structure: CuMnSb
Tae Seong Jeong , Ruben Weht , Warren Pickett

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K1.00004: Bipolar Effects in Hetero Electrodepositions in ZnSO$_4$ Solution
Seth Ross , Nicholas Loudon , G.P. Zhang , Gregory Putman

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K1.00005: Bimodal 3D islands of InGaN self-assembled on GaN
Liu Ying , Xie Maohai

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K1.00006: Calculation of the latent heat at the phase transitions in magnesium
Fernando Maga\~na , Gregorio Ruiz-Chavarria , Gerardo J. Vazquez

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K1.00007: Thermal Activation Effect on Spin-Transfer Magnetization Reversal
Toshiyuki Onogi

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K1.00008: The effect of M (M=Ti,Cr,V,Nb) on the transport and elastic properties of nanolayered ternary carbides M2AlC
J. Hettinger , P. Finkel , T. Meehan , S. Lofland , K. Harrell , M. Barsoum , A. Ganguly , S. Gupta

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K1.00009: Optical Transitions in Spherical NanoCrystalline Layer in the Presence of Homogeneous Electrical Field
Volodya Harutyunyan

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K1.00010: Ab Initio Hartree-Fock Calculation of Electronic Band Structure in Transition Metal Silicides
Alvaro Posada-Amarillas , Jos\'e Samaniego-Reyna , Margarita Franco-Ortiz , Donald Galv\'an

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K1.00011: Bound states of three- body particles (charged exciton) in a system of three perpendicular quantum wires
Marcelo del Castillo-Mussot , Jaime Besprosvany , J. Adrian Reyes

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K1.00012: Effect of Frequency and Electric Modulation on the Resistivity of a 2D Electron Gas
Godfrey Gumbs , Paula Fekete

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K1.00013: Plasma Losses to a Pair of Nanotubes from a Charged Particle
Antonios Balassis , Godfrey Gumbs

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K1.00014: Structural Dependence of the Optical Properties of Cr$_{1-x}$Cu$_{x}$ Alloy Films
J. B. Kim , Y. J. Yoo , Y. P. Lee , J. Y. Rhee , Y. V. Kudryavtsev

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K1.00015: Elasticity as a function of grain size in polycrystalline copper
Gunes Kaplan , Gunjan Mishra , T.J. Ulrich , Katherine McCall

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K1.00016: Identifying phase transitions and kinetics in cerium metal using resonant ultrasound spectroscopy
Gunjan Mishra , Gunes Kaplan , T.J. Ulrich , Katherine McCall

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K1.00017: \emph{Ab initio} Prediction of Yield-Stress Anomalies in L$1_2$ Ni$_{3}$Ge-Fe$_{3}$Ge Psuedo-Binaries
Jianbo Liu , Duane Johnson

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K1.00018: Fracture behaviour of ceramic – metal composites under impact loading.
Rynno Lohmus , Irina Hussainova

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K1.00019: Low-temperature Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy on Alpha-Pu
Sami El-Khatib , H. Nakotte , A. Migliori , H. Ledbetter , J. Betts , S. Harrington

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K1.00020: Spectroscopic ellipsometry study of optical anisotropy in Gd5Si2Ge2 and comparison with reflectance difference spectra
S.J. Lee , J.M. Park , J.E. Snyder , D.C. Jiles , T.A. Lograsso , D.L. Schlagel , A.O. Pecharsky , D.W. Lynch

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K1.00021: Atomic mechanisms of misfit dislocation nucleation in Pd/Cu and Cu/Pd heterostructures
Oleg Trushin , Tapio Ala-Nissila , Enzo Granato , See-Chen Ying

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K1.00022: CHEMICAL PHYSICS


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K1.00023: Energy Transfer in Molecular Gas-Surface Interactions
Hailemariam Ambaye , J. R. Manson

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K1.00024: Photochemical Processing of Solid Carbon Dioxide
David Cornelison , Thomas Dillingham

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K1.00025: Mechanism of Phosphine Dissociation on the Si(001) Surface
Oliver Warschkow , Hugh F. Wilson , Nigel A. Marks , David R. McKenzie , Steven R. Schofield , Neil J. Curson , Michelle Y. Simmons , Phil V. Smith , Marian W. Radny

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K1.00026: Asymptotic Linear Scaling of Adsorption Induced Stress
Raj Ganesh Pala , Feng Liu

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K1.00027: Mechanisms Leading to Single-Atom Catalysis in Oxide Surfaces
Raj Ganesh Pala , Feng Liu

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K1.00028: Full-dimensional, permutationally invariant and size-extensive potential energy surfaces for small molecules
B.J. Braams , Joel M. Bowman , Zhong Jin , Xinchuan Huang , Zhen Xie , Peng Zhang , Seung Park , John F. Stanton , Mychel Varner

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K1.00029: Relaxation time of a Brownian rotator in a periodic potential with nonparabolic barriers
Yuri Kalmykov , Roland Bastardis , Pierre-Michel D\'ejardin

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K1.00030: An Analysis of the Site-Site Cluster Diagram Series
Kippi Dyer , John Perkyns , B.M. Pettitt

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K1.00031: Polarizability anisotropy relaxation in liquid binary mixtures of benzene and hexafluorobenzene
Branka Ladanyi , Dolores Elola

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K1.00032: Laser Photodetachment Electron Spectroscopy of Zirconium Dimers
Srividya Duvvuri , Aaron Covington , Vernon Davis , Erik Emmons , Richard Kraus , Jeffrey Thompson

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K1.00033: Computer Simulations of Ice Growth from Pure and Salty Water
Marcelo Carignano , Igal Szleifer

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K1.00034: Ab Initio Study of Photocatalytic Activity of MIn2O4 (M = Ca, Sr)
Masahiko Katagiri , Taizo Sasaki , Hidehiro Onodera , Junwang Tang , Jinhua Ye , Takehiko Matsumoto

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K1.00035: A New Field Model of the Evanescent Microwave Needle Probe
James Baker-Jarvis , Pavel Kabos , Michael Janezic , Mitch Wallis

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K1.00036: Fabrication of single digit electrodes by e-beam lithography for coupled Raman spectroscopy and electrical conductivity measurements of single molecules
Neil Smith , Jan Yarrison-Rice , Archena Jaiswal , Shouzhong Zou

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K1.00037: Silver Trimer: An Interesting Coinage-Metal System with Jahn-Teller Activity
Ilias Sioutis , Russell Pitzer , Terry Miller

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K1.00038: Development of Long, Stiff DNA Tubes as Nanopatterned Substrates for Protein Binding
Ashish Kumar , Axel Ekani-Nkodo , Paul Rothemund , Eric Winfree , Deborah Fygenson

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K1.00039: Effect of Amphiphilic Geometry on Phase Separation and Micellization: A Gibbs-ensemble Monte Carlo Study
Geuorgui Bourov , Aniket Bhattacharya

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K1.00040: Cubic Phase Formation in Phospholipid and PEG-Lipid Mixtures
Kimberly Murley , Beth Cunningham , David Wolfe , Patrick Williams

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K1.00041: Self-Assembling of Polymer-Enzyme Conjugates at Oil/water Interfaces
Bi-min Zhang Newby , Lifang Wang , Ping Wang

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K1.00042: A Theoretical Investigation of the Charge Transfer System TCNQ-F4 and Alpha-Sexithiophene
Kai-Felix Braun , Saw-Wai Hla

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K1.00043: Global optimization of free and supported metallic nanoclusters
Giulia Rossi , Francesca Baletto , Christine Mottet , Arnaldo Rapallo , Riccardo Ferrando

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K1.00044: Optically active second-harmonic generation from a uniaxial fluid medium
S. H. Han , M. A. Belkin , Y. R. Shen

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K1.00045: How does thermal motion of atoms influence the rates of bridge-mediated electron transfer reactions? 2. Examination for Frank-Condon approximation.
Tustomu Kawatsu , Spyros Skourtis , Ilya Balabin , David Beratan

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K1.00046: Quantum Delocalization and STM Image Simulation of Hydrogen Atoms Adsorbed on Pd(111) Surface
Sungho Kim , Seong-Gon Kim , Steven C. Erwin

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K1.00047: Femtosecond Electron Diffraction: Direct and Real-Time Probing of Coherent and Thermal Atomic Motions
Xuan Wang , Zhao Hao , Hyuk Park , Shouhua Nie , Rick Clinite , Jim Cao

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K1.00048: SURFACE, INTERFACES & THIN FILMS


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K1.00049: Atomic Force Microscopy and Quartz Crystal Microbalance Study of Surface Roughness of Polymer Films Prepared from Solutions
Nanxia Rao , Yingzi Hao , Da-Ming Zhu

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K1.00050: Selective growth of nano-scaled islands
A.L. Chin , M.H. Lee , H.C. Wang , F.K. Men

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K1.00051: Growth of Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia (YSZ) Thin Films Deposited under Various Substrate Temperatures by Pulse Laser Ablation
EnGang Fu , Ju Gao

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K1.00052: New Candidate for FRAM Dielectric Layer—Rare Earth Europium Doped PZT Thin Films
Y.J. Yu , Y.M. Li , H.L.W. Chan

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K1.00053: Low-Energy Electron Diffraction Study of Potassium Adsorbed on Graphite
Sharon Finberg , Mellita Caragiu , Nicola Ferralis , R. D. Diehl

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K1.00054: Raman Spectroscopic Mapping of Strain Distribution in Si/SiGe Heterostructures
Y. Bao , K.A. Alim , M. Shamsa , W.L. Liu , A.A. Balandin

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K1.00055: Direct evidence on the preferable growth direction of the gold stripe on reconstructed Au(111) surface
Soohyon Phark , Zheong G. Khim , Seokwon Yoon

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K1.00056: Growth of Flat Au(111) Surfaces on Mica for Ellipsometric, AFM and X-ray Studies of Organic Films
P. Soza , V. del Campo , E. Cisternas , M. Pino , U.G. Volkmann , H. Taub , F.Y. Hansen

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K1.00057: Adsorption Behavior of Selected Aromatic Molecules on Cu(111)
Xing Lin , Ki-Young Kwon , Greg Pawin , Erick Ulin-Avila , Ludwig Bartels

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K1.00058: Studies of Dynamical Layering in Adsorbed Organic Films
A. Diama , M. Simpson , H. Taub , F.Y. Hansen , R. Dimeo , D. Neumann , K.W. Herwig , U.G. Volkmann

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K1.00059: Phonon Thermal Conductivity of the Quantum Dot Superlattices
Manu Shamsa , Weili Liu , Yun Bao , Alexander Balandin

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K1.00060: Magnetic, Optical and Magneto-optical Properties of Ni$_{2}$MnGe Alloy Films
R. J. Kim , N. N. Lee , Y. P. Lee , Y. V. Kudryavtsev , K. W. Kim

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K1.00061: Gibbs Adsorption in Binary Liquid Mixtures: Concentration Variations Beyond Surface Monolayer in BiSn alloy
Reinhard Streitel , Oleg Shpyrko , Alexei Grigoriev , Peter S. Pershan , Ben Ocko , Moshe Deutsch

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K1.00062: Probing of wavefunctions in 2D-electronic waveguides: an exact approach
Arkady Satanin , Ronald Cosby , Yong Joe

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K1.00063: Physical Adsorption of Nitrogen and Xe on Ag (111) Surface: First-principles Density Functional Theory Comparative Investigation
Shizhong Yang , James Phillips

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K1.00064: STATISTICAL AND NONLINEAR PHYSICS


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K1.00065: A quasi-dissipative and discontinuous bifurcation in an electronic circuit
Yu-mei Jiang , Yue He , Jun Dai , Da-Ren He

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K1.00066: Possible misunderstandings with different Poincare sections in a kicked rotor
Jun Dai , Da-Ren He

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K1.00067: Quantum Monte Carlo-simulation for the conductance of one-dimensional quantum-spin systems
Kim Louis , Claudius Gros

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K1.00068: Level Dynamics on a Negatively Curved Surface
Sally Koutsoliotas , David Farmer

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K1.00069: Precession of nearly circular orbits in the Newtonian 2-body problem perturbed by constant positive curvature
Daniel E. Shai , John F. Lindner

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K1.00070: Classical dynamics of the 2D hydrogen atom driven by elliptically polarized microwave field
Elena Shchekinova , Turgay Uzer

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K1.00071: Isotopic Randomness and Maxwell's Demon
Alexander A. Berezin

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K1.00072: Numerical solution for Nagumo's equation for the electron density in photorefractive materials
Fernando Maga\~na , Laura O. Palomares , J. Adrian Reyes-Cervantes , Gerardo J. Vazquez

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K1.00073: Compaction Bubbles in Sand
Xiang Cheng , Rachel Smith , Heinrich Jaeger , Sidney Nagel

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K1.00074: Experiments on Random Packings of Ellipsoids
Weining Man , Aleksandar Donev , Frank Stillinger , Matthew Sullivan , William Russel , David Heeger , Souhil Inati , Salvatore Torquato , Paul Chaikin

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K1.00075: Response to natural disturbance and attack in a trade model
Bei-Bei Su , Tian Xu , Da-Ren He

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K1.00076: Degree distribution in some non-social collaboration networks
Pei-Pei Zhang , Yue He , Bei-Bei Su , Hui Chang , Yue-ping Zhou , Da-Ren He

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K1.00077: A dynamic model explaining degree distribution in collaboration networks
Da-Ren He , Pei-Pei Zhang , Bei-Bei Su , Hui Chang , Yue-ping Zhou

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K1.00078: An investigation on Chinese actor-collaboration network
Zhi-qiang Gong , Yu-mei Jiang

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K1.00079: Reliability of Rank Order in Sampled Networks
Hawoong Jeong , Pan-Jun Kim

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K1.00080: Simulations of grafted and ungrafted polymeric films near the glass transition
Regina Barber-DeGraaff , Arlette Baljon , Rajesh Khare

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K1.00081: Correlated Single Particle Jumps In a Glass
Elizabeth A. Baker , Katharina Vollmayr-Lee

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K1.00082: Monte-Carlo rejection as a tool for measuring the energy landscape scaling of a simple liquid
Gerardo Naumis

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K1.00083: Experimental Investigation of an Electrostatic Brownian Ratchet
Brian Long , Heiner Linke

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K1.00084: Structural response in flow around vertical fault slit in a porous medium: an interacting lattice gas computer simulation
Joe Gettrust , Ras Pandey

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K1.00085: The local structural organization of metabolic networks
Hawoong Jeong , Young-Ho Eom

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K1.00086: BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS


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K1.00087: Destruction of Bacterial Biofilms Using Gas Discharge Plasma
Nina Abramzon , Jonathan C. Joaquin , Jonathan Bray , Graciela Brelles-Mari\~no

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K1.00088: Long range attraction between two different likely charged macroions
B. I. Shklovskii , Rui Zhang

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K1.00089: A survey of DNA looping and cleavage properties of different restriction enzymes using optical tweezers
Rachel Millin , Gregory J. Gemmen , Douglas E. Smith

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K1.00090: Ab initio Free Energies of Enzymatic Reactions Using Model Potentials
Edina Rosta , Arieh Warshel

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K1.00091: Diffusion of dextran inside microtubule sample
Camelia Prodan , Deborah Fygenson

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K1.00092: Effects of 3-repeat tau on taxol mobility through microtubules
Hyunjoo Park , Deborah Fygenson , Mahn Won Kim

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K1.00093: An optical microscopy study of the swelling of wet-spun films of CsDNA as a function of hydration and CsCl concentration
Megan Schwenker , Robert Marlowe , Scott Lee , Allan Rupprecht

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K1.00094: Observation of a phase transition in deoxycytidine at high pressures via infrared spectroscopy
Scott Lee , Ian Lawson , L. Lettress , A. Anderson

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K1.00095: Vibrational mode degeneracy in adenosine: A Raman and infrared study at high pressures
J. Li , S.A. Lee

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K1.00096: Brownian Motion of Hybridized DNA in the Presence of Base-Pair Mismatch
Kathryn Schallhorn , Katherine Freedman , Pu-Chun Ke

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K1.00097: Using Measurements of Mobility, Diffusion, and Dispersion to Predict Separation Resolution in DNA Electrophoresis
Roger Lo , Victor Ugaz

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K1.00098: The influence of ergosterol on the phase behaviour of phospholipid membranes
Ya-Wei Hsueh , M.-T. Chen

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K1.00099: Mathematical Structure of Electrostatic Interactions Among Biomolecules: Many Interacting Charged Dielectric Objects
Timothy P. Doerr , Yi-Kuo Yu

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K1.00100: Bovine serum albumin adsorption on passivated porous silicon layers
David Lockwood , Li-Lin Tay , Daniel Poitras , Jeff Fraser , Nelson Rowell , Rabah Boukherroub

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K1.00101: A general method for preparing DNA sequences for optical tweezers manipulation
Derek Fuller , Aurelie Dupont , Pierre Recouvreux , Gregory J. Gemmen , Rachel Millin , Douglas E. Smith

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K1.00102: Diagnosing Aorta Stiffness by Temporal Analysis of Echocardiographic Images
Yu-Hsi Cheng , Tsu-Chiang Yen , Doyal Lee

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K1.00103: A mathematical model for T-cell differentiation in Asthma episodes
David Quesada

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K1.00104: Period doubling observed in the circadian photosynthetic rhythm of the prokaryotic cyanobacterium Cyanothece RF-1
Tsu-Chiang Yen , Li-Ting Wang , Da-Long Cheng

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K1.00105: Monte Carlo simulation of actin self-assembly
Xinjiang L\"{u} , James Kindt

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K1.00106: Monte-Carlo Simulation of a Simple Biopolymer Growth Model
Jenny Son , G. Orkoulas , A. Kolomeisky

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K1.00107: A concept for an artificial single-molecular motor
Matthew Downton , Martin J Zuckermann , Michael Plischke , Erin Craig , Heiner Linke

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K1.00108: Reversal of motion induced by coupling in Brownian motors
Erin Craig , Martin J. Zuckermann , Heiner Linke

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K1.00109: Thermal Fluctuations of extended DNA single molecules
Rajalakshmi Nambiar , Ben Sonday , Jens-Christian Meiners

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K1.00110: Effect of nonlinear filters on detrended fluctuation analysis
Zhi Chen , Kun Hu , Pedro Carpena , Pedro Bernaola-Galvan , H. Eugene Stanley , Plamen Ch. Ivanov

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K1.00111: Transcriptional Regulation by the Numbers
Hernan Garcia , Lacramioara Bintu , Jane' Kondev , Rob Phillips

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K1.00112: Stochastic QM/MM Models for Proton Transport in Condensed Phase: An Empirical Valence Bond (EVB) Approach
Anton Burykin , Sonja Braun-Sand , Arieh Warshel

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K1.00113: POLYMERIC & ORGANIC MATERIALS II POSTER SESSION


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K1.00114: Intercalation Mechanism and Interlayer Structure of Hexadecylamine inside Layered $\alpha$-Zirconium Phosphates
Bongwoo Ha , Kookheon Char

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K1.00115: X-ray Standing Wave Measurements of Gold Nanoparticles of Varying Sizes Embedded in Polymer Thin Films
Aleta Hagman , Kenneth Shull , Jin Wang , Xuefa Li , Suresh Narayanan

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K1.00116: The influence of chain rigidity and the degree of sulfonation on the morphology of block copolymers as nano reactor
K. Hong , S. I. Yun , J. Mays , X. Zhang , R. M. Briber

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K1.00117: Multiscale Modeling of Viscoelastic Properties of Polymer Nanocomposites
Oleg Borodin , John Nairn , Dmitry Bedrov , Grant Smith

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K1.00118: Effects of temperature and dissolved LiClO$_{4}$ on the viscoelastic and dynamic properties of poly(ethylene oxide), (PEO) melts
Radoslav Bogoslovov , James C. Selser , Shufu Peng , Greg Piet

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K1.00119: Microwave Induced Structural Transitions in Polymers
Yuning Yang , Wei-Chi Lai , Shaw Ling Hsu

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K1.00120: Light Scattering Investigation of Dynamic and Viscoelastic Properties of Entangled Poly(ethylene oxide) Melts in the Presence of LiClO4
Shufu Peng , J. C. Selser , R. Bogoslovov , G. Piet

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K1.00121: Correlation length of a near-critical, eight-arm star polystyrene in methylcyclohexane
Angie Triplett , Nithya Venkataraman , D.T. Jacobs

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K1.00122: Coexistence curve of a near-critical, eight-arm star polystyrene in methylcyclohexane
Mark Lightfoot , D.T. Jacobs

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K1.00123: Mapping Instabilities in Polymer Friction
Charles Rand , Alfred Crosby

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K1.00124: Influence of Patterned Surfaces on Adhesion
Edwin Chan , Tina Thomas , Alfred Crosby

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K1.00125: Ordered Helices in Chiral $\sigma$-conjugated Polysilanes
Withoon Chunwachirasiri , Michael Winokur , Josef Michl , Julian Koe

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K1.00126: Segment Orientation and Optical Birefringence of Amorphous Polymers Under Tensile Deformation: Novel Computational Method applied to Different Glassy Polycarbonates
Upendra Natarajan , M.S. Sulatha

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K1.00127: Adsorption of Proteins to Cu(II)-IDA and Ni(II)-IDA Functionalized Langmuir Monolayers and Insertion Processes by Grazing Incidence Neutron and X-ray Techniques
Michael Kent , Hyun Yim , Darryl Sasaki , Sushil Satija , Young-Soo Seo , Ivan Kuzmenko , Thomas Gog , Jaroslaw Majewski

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K1.00128: Design and Synthesis of pH Sensitive Polymeric Sensor for Potential Molecular Imaging using Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer
Sung Woo Hong , Keon Hyeong Kim , June Huh , Cheol-Hee Ahn , Won Ho Jo

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K1.00129: Theory of End-Labeled Free Solution Electrophoresis: Using Branched Polymeric Labels with ssDNA
Sorin Nedelcu , Martin Kenward , Laurette McCormick , Gary W. Slater

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K1.00130: Counteracting the electrophoretic motion of a polyelectrolyte: a Molecular Dynamics study
Martin M. Bertrand , Gary W. Slater

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K1.00131: Diffusion in a system of vibrating obstacles: Exact numerical results
Smaine Bekhechi , Gary W. Slater

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K1.00132: DNA Molecules for Single Polymer Dynamics and Rheology Studies
Rae Robertson , Stephan Laib , Douglas E. Smith

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K1.00133: Charged surface Induced Diblock Copolymer Micellization
Monica Olvera de la Cruz , Hao Cheng

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K1.00134: Effect of Beta-Hairpin Peptide Strand Length on the Dynamics of Semiflexible Networks
Bulent Ozbas , Darrin Pochan , Karthikan Rajagopal , Joel Schneider

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K1.00135: Biodegradable Poly(L-Lactic Acid) (PLLA) Thin Films by Plasma Polymerization
Arnold Yang , Yi-Hsing Chang , Hsun Li , Tai-Wei Chang , Yin-Chang Liu , Cheng Kung Cheng

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K1.00136: Dielectric and a.c conductivity relaxation processes of ion conducting amorphous polymer.
Baskaran Natesan , Naba Karan , Ram Katiyar

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K1.00137: Conformation and dynamics of chained molecules in nanoscopic cylinders
Kyusoon Shin , Jiun-Tai Chen , Duyeol Ryu , Amanda Leach , Pappannan Thiyagarajan , Thomas Russell

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K1.00138: Thermal Analysis, X-ray and Electron Diffraction Studies on Crystalline Phase Transitions in Solvent-Treated Poly(hexamethylene terephthalate)
Ming-Chien Wu , Eamor M. Woo , Taiyo Yoshioka , Masaki Tsuji

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K1.00139: Electrospinning of nanocomposite fibers
Vahik Krikorian , Darrin Pochan

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K1.00140: Can short alkyl chain fold in lamellar crystals?
Jianjun Miao , Li Cui , Lei Zhu , Igors Sics , Benjamin Hsiao

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K1.00141: Stereocomplex Formation in Racemic Chiral Polylactide Block Copolymers
Lu Sun , Lei Zhu

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K1.00142: Single Crystal Engineering of Diblock Copolymer Brushes
Huiming Xiong , Joseph X. Zheng , Stephen Z.D. Cheng , Ya Guo , Roderic P. Quirk , Bernard Lotz

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K1.00143: Spectroscopic analysis of poly(lactic acid) crystals and their formation
Kaoru Aou , Shuhui Kang , Shaw Ling Hsu

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K1.00144: Equilibrium Fold Thickness in Polymer Crystals
Buckley Crist , Herve Marand

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K1.00145: Crystallization Behavior of Inter-Chain H-Linked Isotactic Poly(propylenes) from their Quiescent Melts
Anindya Ghosal , Rufina Alamo

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K1.00146: Induced PEO Crystal Orientation within the Inversed Cylindrical Morphology of PEO-b-PS Block Copolymer
Ping Huang , Stephen Z. D. Cheng , Ya Guo , Roderic P. Quirk , Benjamin S. Hsiao , Carlos A. Avila-Orta , Igors Sics

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K1.00147: SANS Study of Polyethylene Crystallization from Solution
Howard Wang , Boualem Hammouda

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K1.00148: Structure and Morphology of PEO-b-PLLA Diblock Copolymer Single Crystal
Lingyu Li , Kishore Tenneti , Christopher Li

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K1.00149: Tracer Diffusion of Polystyrene in Lightly Sulfonated Polystyrene
Chen Xu , Nancy Zhou , Wesley Burghardt , Karen Winey , Russell Composto

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K1.00150: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Liquid, Gel and Polymer Electrolytes
Oleg Borodin , Grant Smith

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K1.00151: Semicrystalline Ionomer-Metal Carboxylate Composite: Phase Behavior and Mechanical Properties
Katsuyuki Wakabayashi , Richard A. Register

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K1.00152: Effect of pH on Swelling Behavior of Polyelectrolyte Brushes Produced via Surface Confined Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization.
Amit Sankhe , Scott Husson , Michael Kilbey

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K1.00153: Can Nanorods Emulsify Immiscible Polymer Blends?
Michael J.A. Hore , Mohamed Laradji

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K1.00154: Viscoelastic Properties of PBX-9501 by Material Point Method (MPM) Simulation
Liping Xue , Oleg Borodin , Grant Smith

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K1.00155: Conformation and Dynamics of a Flexible Sheet in Solvent Media by Monte Carlo Simulations
Ras Pandey , Kelly Anderson , Hendrik Heinz , Barry Farmer

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K1.00156: Block Copolymer Surfactancy: Swollen Micelles and Interfacial Tensions in Immiscible A/B Blends with AB Copolymer
Kwanho Chang , David Morse

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K1.00157: Watching Molecules Near Surfaces: Vibrational Spectroscopy in a Confined Geometry
Shan Jiang , Jeff Turner , Sung Chul Bae , Malgorzata Graca , Steve Granick

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K1.00158: Water at a Hydrophobic Surface
Wina Tjen , Adel\'e Poynor , Steve Granick

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K1.00159: Optical interferometry and refractive index measurement at sub-angstrom resolution
Minsu Kim

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K1.00160: Spin-orbit effects on reflectance anisotropy spectroscopy of aclean CdTe(001) surface
Ra\'{u}l A. V\'{a}zquez-Nava , B.S. Mendoza , N. Arzate

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K1.00161: Formation and properties of silicon elastomer-based responsive surfaces
Julie Crowe , Kirill Efimenko , Jan Genzer , Dwight Schwark

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K1.00162: Scaling roughness and transport properties correlation in manganite thin films
Juan Ram\'irez , Maria Elena G\'omez , Wilson L\'opera , Pedro Prieto

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K1.00163: Positron annihilation induced Auger electron spectroscopic studies of oxide surfaces
Manori Nadesalingam , J.L. Fry , N. Fazleev , A.H. Weiss

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K1.00164: Formation and applications of multifunctional polymer brush gradients
Michael Tomlinson , Rajendra Bhat , Jason Stone , Jan Genzer , Tao Wu

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K1.00165: Drying Mediated Pattern Formation From a Restricted Geometry
Jun Xu , Zhiqun Lin

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K1.00166: Roughness in a kinetic film growth of hydrophobic and polar components in aqueous solution - spectroscopic studies and Monte Carlo simulations
Otts Daniel , Luis Cueva-Parra , Ras Pandey , Marek Urban

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K1.00167: Tunneling and fatigue properties of SRO/PZT/Pt structures
P. Prieto , A. Cortes , E. Delgado , J. Realpe , W. Lopera

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K1.00168: Determination of Physical Aging in Thin Polymer Films via Fluorescence: Effects of Confinement and Attractive vs. Neutral Polymer-Substrate Interactions
Rodney D. Priestley , Linda J. Broadbelt , John M. Torkelson

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K1.00169: Influence of curing temperature on properties of GPS adhesion promoter layers
Elisabeth Pavlovic , Edward J. Kramer , Shigeo Nakamura , Michael Kent , Hyun Yim

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K1.00170: Phase Transitions in Triblock Copolymer Thin Films
A. Hexemer , G.E. Stein , V. Khanna , E.J. Kramer , X. Li , J. Wang

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K1.00171: Self-folding membranes
Galen T. Pickett

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K1.00172: Chemical Functionalization of Silicone, Quartz and Mica: Soldiers Report from the Trenches
Yan Yu , Liang Hong , Adele' Poynor , Steve Granick

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K1.00173: Autophobic Dewetting of PS/dPS-\textit{b}-PVP Blend Thin Films
Huiman Kang , Bumjoon Kim , Seung-Heon Lee , Kookheon Char , Edward J. Kramer

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K1.00174: Confinement and the Glass Transition Temperature in Supported Polymer Films: Molecular Weight, Repeat Unit Modification, and Cooperativity Length Scale Investigations
Manish K. Mundra , John M. Torkelson

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K1.00175: Layered glass transition temperature in polymer thin films
Haobin Luo , Dilip Gersappe

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K1.00176: Polyelectrolyte Spin-Assembly: Effect of Ionic Strength and Spinning Rate on the Growth of Multilayered Thin Films
Christophe Lefaux , Pritesh Patel , Junhwan Jeon , Andrey Dobrynin , Patrick Mather

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K1.00177: Resonant soft x-ray reflectivity of polymer bilayers
Cheng Wang , Tohru Araki , Shane Harton , Jeff Kortright , Gary Mitchell , Harald Ade

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K1.00178: Nanoporous Polymer Films via the Self-Assembly of Triblock Copolymers
Seung Hyun Kim , Joona Bang , Eric Drockenmuller , Matthew J. Misner , Craig J. Hawker , Thomas P. Russell

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K1.00179: Orientation and Lateral Order in Block Copolymer Thin Films
Matthew J. Misner , Seung Hyun Kim , Thomas P. Russell

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K1.00180: Dynamics at a Buried Polymer Interface
Xuesong Hu , Xuesong Jiao , Zhang Jiang , Suresh Narayanan , Alec Sandy , Sunil Sinha , Laurence Lurio , Jyotsana Lal

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K1.00181: Electric Field-Induced Dewetting and Structure Formation in Thin Polymer-Polymer-Air Trilayers
K. Amanda Leach , Suresh Gupta , Thomas P. Russell , Michael D. Dickey , C. Grant Willson

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K1.00182: Self assembled monolayers of rigid thiols on Gold
Svetlana Stoycheva , Joerg Fick , Alexander Kornviakov , Avi Ulman , Michael Himmelhaus , Michael Grunze

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K1.00183: Interaction of Self-Assembled Monolayers of Oligo(ethylene glycol)-Terminated Alkanethiols with Water studied by Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation (VSFG)
Joerg Fick , Rongyao Wang , Sascha Herrwerth , Wolfgang Eck , Michael Himmelhaus , Michael Grunze

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K1.00184: The effect of substrate temperature and annealing time on the morphology of metallophthalocyanine thin films: an AFM study
Amos Sharoni , Corneliu Colesniuc , Casey Miller , Ge Liu , Bernd Fruhberger , Ivan K. Schuller

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K1.00185: Compatibilization of Immiscible Polymer Blends via Gradient Copolymer Addition during Melt Processing: Stabilization of the Dispersed Phase against Coarsening
Jungki Kim , Maisha K. Gray , John M. Torkelson

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K1.00186: New Strategy for Compatibilization of Immiscible Polymer Blends: Block Copolymer Addition during Solid-State Shear Pulverization
Ying Tao , Andrew H. Lebovitz , John M. Torkelson

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K1.00187: Influence of Copolymer Composition on Morphology Development in Blends
Jayaraman Krishanmoorthy , Young Gyu Jeong , Tomoko Hashida , Thomas J McCarthy , Shaw Ling Hsu

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K1.00188: Porod Scattering Study of Coarsening in Immiscible Polymer Blends
Kristin Brinker , Wesley Burghardt

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K1.00189: Determining the melt miscibility of commercial polyolefin blends by Small-Angle Light Scattering
Ping Peng , Yvonne Akpalu

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K1.00190: Effect of molecular architecture on the phase diagram of multi-arm acrylate and nematic liquid crystal mixture
Scott Meng , Hatice Duran , Thein Kyu

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K1.00191: Photopolymerization induced phase ordering in confined regions
Thein Kyu , Rushikesh Matkar , Scott Meng , Soojeoung Park , Greg Yandek

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K1.00192: Diffusion of low molecular polymers through tunable phase separated morphology
Jake Ferguson , Shuhui Kang , Kaoru Aou , Shaw Hsu

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K1.00193: How Chemical Reactions Take Place in Reactive Ternary Blends
Young Gyu Jeong , Tomoko Hashida , Shaw Ling Hsu

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K1.00194: Nucleation Induced Molecular and Micron-Scale Dual Ordering of Flourinated Dendron Monolayer
Farhan Ahmad , Kwanwoo Shin , Dong Ki Yoon , Hae Tae Jung

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K1.00195: Determination of the molecular parameters and studies of the aggregation behavior of polybenzimidazole in solution.
Christopher Shogbon , Jean-Luc Brousseau , Haifeng Zhang , Brian Benicewicz , Yvonne Akpalu

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