Session B18: Focus Session: Mechanical Properties of Polymers: Fracture and Adhesion

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Sponsoring Units: DPOLY FIAP
Chair: Theresa Hermel-Davidock, Dow Chemical Company
Morial Convention Center - 210


Monday, March 10, 2008
11:15AM - 11:51AM

B18.00001: High Strain Deformation and Fracture of Self-Assembled Polymer Gels
Invited Speaker: Kenneth Shull

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Monday, March 10, 2008
11:51AM - 12:03PM

B18.00002: Reinforcement of Epoxies Using Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Ramanan Krishnamoorti , Jitendra Sharma , Tirtha Chatterjee

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Monday, March 10, 2008
12:03PM - 12:15PM

B18.00003: Mechanical and Electrical Properties of Organogels with Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes
Mohammad Moniruzzaman , Karen Winey

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Monday, March 10, 2008
12:15PM - 12:27PM

B18.00004: Identification of key deformation mechanisms of polyethylene materials via in-situ x-ray scattering
Theresa Hermel-Davidock , Brian Landes , Mehmet Demirors

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Monday, March 10, 2008
12:27PM - 1:03PM

B18.00005: Brittle-tough transitions during crack growth in toughened adhesives
Invited Speaker: Michael Thoules

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Monday, March 10, 2008
1:03PM - 1:15PM

B18.00006: Controlling polymer adhesion with surface wrinkles
Edwin Chan , Erica Smith , Ryan Hayward , Alfred Crosby

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Monday, March 10, 2008
1:15PM - 1:27PM

B18.00007: Soft-soft nanocomposite adhesives made from colloidal particles
Costantino Creton , Fanny Deplace , Michael Rabjohns , Andrew Foster , Peter Lovell , Chunghong Lei , Joseph Keddie , Keltoum Ouzineb , Jeanne Marchal

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Monday, March 10, 2008
1:27PM - 1:39PM

B18.00008: Dangling chain effect on the modulus of polyurethane networks
Bruno Fayolle , Julie Diani , Pierre Gilormini

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Monday, March 10, 2008
1:39PM - 1:51PM

B18.00009: Morphological Determinants of Yield Stress for Semicrystalline Ethylene / Methacrylic Acid Copolymers
Robert Scogna , Richard Register

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Monday, March 10, 2008
1:51PM - 2:03PM

B18.00010: On the statistics of Gaussian two and three-dimensional networks: Fluctuations of junctions and collapse driven by structure.
Michael Lang , Sergey Panyukov , Michael Rubinstein , Jens-Uwe Sommer

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Monday, March 10, 2008
2:03PM - 2:15PM

B18.00011: Physical understanding of the bulk modulus of polyisoprene by molecular dynamics simulations
Julie Diani , Bruno Fayolle , Pierre Gilormini

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