Wednesday, March 12, 2008 
11:15AM - 11:27AM 
 
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Q31.00001: Possible Precursors for Boron Nanotubes: A Novel Bonding Picture in Boron Sheets and Nanotubes 
Hui Tang, Sohrab Ismail-Beigi
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 
11:27AM - 11:39AM 
 
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Q31.00002: Boron Nanotubes: Characterization Through Theory 
Abhishek Singh, Arta Sadrzadeh, Boris Yakobson
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 
11:39AM - 11:51AM 
 
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Q31.00003: On the Electronic and Geometric Structures of Armchair GeC Nanotubes: A Hybrid Density Functional Study 
Somilkumar Rathi, Asok Ray
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 
11:51AM - 12:03PM 
 
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Q31.00004: Water in nanoscale confinement: Insights into structure, dynamics, and $^{1}$H-NMR chemical shifts from first-principles theory 
Patrick Huang, Eric Schwegler, Giulia Galli
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 
12:03PM - 12:15PM 
 
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Q31.00005: First-Principles Studies of Metal-Graphene and Metal-Nanotube Heterostructures 
Alejandro Lugo-Solis, Igor Vasiliev
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 
12:15PM - 12:27PM 
 
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Q31.00006: Linear plasmon dispersion in graphene and single-wall carbon nanotubes and the influence of interlayer interactions 
R. Hambach, C. Giorgetti, F. Sottile, L. Reining, C. Kramberger, M.H. R{\"u}mmeli, M. Knupfer, J. Fink, B. B{\"u}chner, T. Pichler, E. Einarsson, S. Maruyama, K. Hannewald, V. Olevano, A.G. Marinopoulos
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 
12:27PM - 12:39PM 
 
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Q31.00007: Tuning Field-Induced Energy Gap of Bilayer Graphene via Interlayer Spacing 
Yufeng Guo, Wanlin Guo, Changfeng Chen
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 
12:39PM - 12:51PM 
 
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Q31.00008: Role of Surface Defects in the Carboxylation of Carbon Nanotubes: An \textit{Ab Initio} Study 
Nabil Al Aqtash, Igor Vasiliev
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 
12:51PM - 1:03PM 
 
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Q31.00009: An ab initio description of cleaning of SWNT with UV light 
Abram Van Der Geest, Kathrine Hurst, Mark T. Lusk
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 
1:03PM - 1:15PM 
 
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Q31.00010: Modeling and simulation of adhesion between carbon nanotubes and surfaces 
Alper Buldum, Naba Raj Paudel, Toshiyuki Ohashi, Liming Dai
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 
1:15PM - 1:27PM 
 
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Q31.00011: Monte Carlo simulations of the effect of nanotube length distribution on the percolation resistivity in single-walled carbon nanotube films 
Jeremy Hicks, Ashkan Behnam, Ant Ural
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 
1:27PM - 1:39PM 
 
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Q31.00012: Mechanism for Superelongation of Carbon Nanotubes at High Temperature 
Chun Tang, Wanlin Guo, Changfeng Chen
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 
1:39PM - 1:51PM 
 
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Q31.00013: Mesoscopic model for CNT-based materials 
Alexey Volkov, Kiril Simov, Leonid Zhigilei
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 
1:51PM - 2:03PM 
 
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Q31.00014: First-principles studies of the switching performance of [2]rotaxane molecules and monolayers 
Kinyip Phoa, J.B. Neaton, Vivek Subramanian
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 
2:03PM - 2:15PM 
 
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Q31.00015: Structure-property relations in electronic switches based on the rotaxane and catenane supramolecular family 
Yong-Hoon Kim
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