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Session X25: Liquid Crystalline And Amorphous Polymers

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Sponsoring Units: DPOLY
Chair: Andrey Dobrynin, University of Connecticut
Room: Colorado Convention Center 203


Friday, March 9, 2007
8:00AM - 8:12AM

X25.00001: Swelling and Shrinking Dynamics of Monodomain Nematic Elastomers
Kenji Urayama , Ryo Mashita , Yuko Arai , Toshikazu Takigawa

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Friday, March 9, 2007
8:12AM - 8:24AM

X25.00002: Effects of Long Wave-length Thermal Fluctuations on the Elasticity of Nematic Elastomers
Xiangjun Xing , Aparna Baskaran

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Friday, March 9, 2007
8:24AM - 8:36AM

X25.00003: Synthesis of Optimal and Imperfect Main Chain Smectic Elastomers
Harshad Patil , Ronald Hedden

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Friday, March 9, 2007
8:36AM - 8:48AM

X25.00004: Construction of Chiral Propeller Architectures from Achiral Molecules
Kwang-Un Jeong , Deng-Ke Yang , Matthew J. Graham , Brian S. Knapp , Frank W. Harris , Stephen Z.D. Cheng

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Friday, March 9, 2007
8:48AM - 9:00AM

X25.00005: Small angle X-ray scattering studies of side chain liquid crystalline block copolymers.
Eric Verploegen , Lu Tian , Paula Hammond

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Friday, March 9, 2007
9:00AM - 9:12AM

X25.00006: Solvent induced shape changes in liquid crystal elastomers
Attilio Golemme , Tibor Toth-Katona , Jeremy Neal , Peter Palffy-Muhoray

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Friday, March 9, 2007
9:12AM - 9:24AM

X25.00007: Bloch wall defects in nematic thin films: experiments and simulations
Mohan Srinivasarao , Jian Zhou , Jung O. Park , Gino De Luca , Alejandro D. Rey

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Friday, March 9, 2007
9:24AM - 9:36AM

X25.00008: Abnormal Slowdown of Longitudinal Diffusion of F-actin across Isotropic to Nematic Phase Transition
Jun He , Jorge Viamontes , Jay Tang

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Friday, March 9, 2007
9:36AM - 9:48AM

X25.00009: Dynamic Fragility and the Glass Transition: Is there a relationship?
Gregory McKenna , Qian Qin

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Friday, March 9, 2007
9:48AM - 10:00AM

X25.00010: Prediction of Creep Behavior in PMMA
James Caruthers , Rebecca Martin , Grigori Medvedev

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Friday, March 9, 2007
10:00AM - 10:12AM

X25.00011: Strain Hardening and Plastic Deformation in Polymer Glasses
Robert S. Hoy , Mark O. Robbins

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Friday, March 9, 2007
10:12AM - 10:24AM

X25.00012: The influence of nonlinearity on the timescale of volume relaxation
Prashanth Badrinarayanan , Sindee Simon

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Friday, March 9, 2007
10:24AM - 10:36AM

X25.00013: Photothermal studies of polymers using polarized light
Marshall Thomsen , Daeha Joung , Don Snyder

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Friday, March 9, 2007
10:36AM - 10:48AM

X25.00014: Gradient Copolymers Yield Uniquely Broad Glass Transition Temperatures in Comparison with Block Copolymers and Polymer Blends
Jungki Kim , Michelle M. Mok , Christopher L.H. Wong , Robert W. Sandoval , John M. Torkelson

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Friday, March 9, 2007
10:48AM - 11:00AM

X25.00015: Utilizing Nanoparticle Surface Plasmons for Surface-Initiated Polymerization and Conformational Switching of Polymers
Nelson Nunalee , Jack Mock , Ashutosh Chilkoti , Stefan Zauscher

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