Session A18: Focus Session: Multiscale Modeling: Polymers, Nanocomposites, and Biomacromolecules

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Sponsoring Units: DPOLY DCOMP DBP
Chair: John Curro, University of New Mexico
Morial Convention Center - 210


Monday, March 10, 2008
8:00AM - 8:36AM

A18.00001: Aneesur Rahman Prize Talk: Dynamics of Entangled Polymer Melts: Perceptive from Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Invited Speaker: Gary S. Grest

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Monday, March 10, 2008
8:36AM - 8:48AM

A18.00002: Microrheology of Nanospheres in Rod Suspensions
Victor Pryamitsyn , Venkat Ganesan

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Monday, March 10, 2008
8:48AM - 9:00AM

A18.00003: Peptide binding to sheet silicate and metal nanoparticles: Insight from atomistic simulation
Hendrik Heinz , Ras B. Pandey , Lawrence Drummy , Richard A. Vaia , Rajesh R. Naik , Barry L. Farmer

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Monday, March 10, 2008
9:00AM - 9:12AM

A18.00004: Adsorption-desorption of peptide chains on Au surface by a coarse-grained Monte Carlo simulation
Ras B. Pandey , Hendrik Heinz , Lawrence R. Drummy , Richard A. Vaia , Rajesh R. Naik , Barry L. Farmer

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Monday, March 10, 2008
9:12AM - 9:24AM

A18.00005: Characterization of the translocation of polymers driven through nanopores using molecular dynamics simulations
Hendrick de Haan , Gary W. Slater

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Monday, March 10, 2008
9:24AM - 9:36AM

A18.00006: Coupling of atomistic and mesoscopic scales: visualizing the translocation of biopolymers through nanopores
Maria Fyta , Simone Melchionna , Massimo Bernaschi , Efthimios Kaxiras , Sauro Succi

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Monday, March 10, 2008
9:36AM - 9:48AM

A18.00007: Coarse-Grained Kinetic Modeling of Polymer Networks with Non-Affine Slip-Tube Behavior and Heterogeneous Microstructure
Brian Pasquini , Fernando Escobedo , Yong Lak Joo

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Monday, March 10, 2008
9:48AM - 10:00AM

A18.00008: Simulating thermal transport in high contrast composite media
Harshadewa S. Gunawardana , Kieran Mullen , Dimitrios V. Papavassiliou

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Monday, March 10, 2008
10:00AM - 10:12AM

A18.00009: Predictive Morphology Models for Crystalline Polymers
Jacob Harvey , Zhicheng Xiao , Yvonne Akpalu

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Monday, March 10, 2008
10:12AM - 10:24AM

A18.00010: Coarse-grained Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Analysis of Poly(L-lactic Acid) (PLLA) Melt
Gaurav Manik , Hemant Nanavati , Upendra Natarajan

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Monday, March 10, 2008
10:24AM - 10:36AM

A18.00011: Modeling the Thermodynamics of the Interaction of Nanoparticles with Cell Membranes
Valeriy Ginzburg , Sudhakar Balijepalli

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Monday, March 10, 2008
10:36AM - 10:48AM

A18.00012: Structure and dynamics of a model polymer nanocomposites
Monojoy Goswami , Bobby Sumpter

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Monday, March 10, 2008
10:48AM - 11:00AM

A18.00013: Strategies for design of polymeric nanoparticles
Jiwu Liu , Michael Mackay , Phillip Duxbury

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