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Session Q40: Metals: Nanoparticles, Compounds and Thermodynamics

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Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: William H. Butler, University of Alabama
Room: Morial Convention Center 232


Wednesday, March 12, 2008
11:15AM - 11:27AM

Q40.00001: Sintering Behavior of Metallic Nanoparticles
Martin Fendrich , Ralf Meyer , Ruslan Zinetullin , Dietrich E. Wolf , Peter Entel

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
11:27AM - 11:39AM

Q40.00002: Molecular Dynamics Study of Phase Transitions of Transition Metal Alloy Nanoparticles
Lijun Meng , Kaiwang Zhang , Lizhong Sui , Chao Tang , Huaping Xiao , G. Malcolm Stocks , Jianxin Zhong

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
11:39AM - 11:51AM

Q40.00003: Computer simulation of nanoparticle aggregate fracture
Brian Henz , Takumi Hawa , Michael Zachariah

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
11:51AM - 12:03PM

Q40.00004: Preparation and Characterization of Chemically Prepared Fe-Ag Nanocomposites
Thomas Ekiert , Gerald Poirier , Karl Unruh

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
12:03PM - 12:15PM

Q40.00005: Creation of low-energy twin lamellae for thermal stability in nanostructured materials
Christopher Saldana , Tejas Murthy , Ravi Shankar , Srinivasan Chandrasekar , Eric Stach

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
12:15PM - 12:27PM

Q40.00006: Electron-Phonon Interaction and High-Temperature Thermodynamics in Vanadium Alloys and Compounds
Olivier Delaire , Max Kresch , Matthew Lucas , Jorge Munoz , Jiao Lin , Brent Fultz

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
12:27PM - 12:39PM

Q40.00007: Remarkably large field dependences of the thermodynamic and transport properties of PtSn$_{4}$
P.C. Canfield , S.L. Bud'ko , E.D. Mun , H. Ko , G.D. Samolyuk

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
12:39PM - 12:51PM

Q40.00008: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Atomic Resolution of Uranium Compound
Marilyn Hawley , Shao-Ping Chen , Phillip Van Stockum

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
12:51PM - 1:03PM

Q40.00009: Ab initio thermodynamics of LaB$_{6}$ and CeB$_{6}$
Tanju Gurel , Resul Eryigit

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
1:03PM - 1:15PM

Q40.00010: Structure of Boron Carbide: Where's the Carbon?
David Marx , Gerald Seidler , Timothy Fister , Kenneth Nagle , Carlo Segre

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
1:15PM - 1:27PM

Q40.00011: Electronic structure and properties of lanthanum
Lane Nixon , Dimitrios Papaconstantopoulos

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
1:27PM - 1:39PM

Q40.00012: High-Level Correlated Approach to the Jellium Surface Energy, Without Uniform-Electron-Gas Input
Lucian Constantin

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
1:39PM - 1:51PM

Q40.00013: Magnetic, thermodynamic and transport properties of GdFe$_{2}$(Al$_{x}$Zn$_{1-x})_{20}$
M. Lampe , N. Ni , S. Jia , G.D. Samolyuk , A.S. Sefat , S.L. Bud'ko , P.C. Canfield

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
1:51PM - 2:03PM

Q40.00014: Magnetic properties of RT$_2$Al$_{20}$ (R = Gd, Eu and Yb, T = Ti, V and Cr)
J. Frederick , Shuang Jia , S.L. Bud'ko , P.C. Canfield

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