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Session L20: Focus Session: Computational Design of New Materials -- Nanostructure Design

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Sponsoring Units: DMP DCOMP
Chair: Sergey Stolbov, University of Central Florida
Room: C120-122


Tuesday, March 16, 2010
2:30PM - 2:42PM

L20.00001: Global structure optimization of complex systems
Cai-zhuang Wang , Min Ji , Kai-ming Ho

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
2:42PM - 2:54PM

L20.00002: Molecular Dynamic Studies on Controlled Synthesis of Carbon Nanotube Junctions
Jun-Qiang Lu , Lan He , Hanqing Jiang

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
2:54PM - 3:06PM

L20.00003: Quantum Boundary Effect on Electronic Structures of Nanomaterials
Y.Y. Sun , Kyuho Lee , D. West , S.B. Zhang

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
3:06PM - 3:42PM

L20.00004: Design of Nanostructured Materials for Electronic, Thermoelectric, and Optoelectronic Applications
Invited Speaker: Irena Knezevic

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
3:42PM - 3:54PM

L20.00005: Tailoring the Electronic Structure by Alloying: Ag$_{n}$Cu$_{34-n}$ Nanoparticle Family
Handan Yildirim , Abdelkader Kara , Talat S. Rahman

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
3:54PM - 4:06PM

L20.00006: \textit{Ab initio} calculations of pre-exponential factors for the diffusion of CO on Ag(001): importance of the full phonon dispersion.
Marisol Alcantara Ortigoza , Rolf Heid , Klaus-Peter Bohnen , Talat S. Rahman

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
4:06PM - 4:18PM

L20.00007: Towards Nano-Materials with Precise Control over Properties via Cluster-Assemblies
Meichun Qian , Arthur Reber , Shiv Khanna , Angel Ugrinov , Nirmalya Chaki , Sukhendu Mandal , H\'{e}ctor Saavedra , Ayusman Sen , Paul Weiss

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
4:18PM - 4:30PM

L20.00008: A mechanistic density functional study of partial oxidation of propene on supported subnanometer silver clusters
Jeffery P. Greeley , Faisal Mehmood , Stefan Vajda , Larry A. Curtiss

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
4:30PM - 4:42PM

L20.00009: Molecular dynamics study of phase transition in substrate-supported nanoparticles of bcc metals
Yasushi Shibuta , Toshio Suzuki

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
4:42PM - 4:54PM

L20.00010: Enhanced Static Approximations for Efficient Calculation of Electronic Excitation Energies
Wei Kang , Mark S. Hybertsen

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
4:54PM - 5:06PM

L20.00011: From Microstructures to Predict Properties of Materials
Ke-Gang Wang

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
5:06PM - 5:18PM

L20.00012: First-Principles Studies of the Electronic and Vibrational Properties of \textit{sila-}Diamondoids
Steven Richardson , Uros Novakovski

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