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Session X18: Focus Session: Polymer Network Mechanics II

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Sponsoring Units: DPOLY
Chair: Al Crosby, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Room: B117


Thursday, March 18, 2010
2:30PM - 2:42PM

X18.00001: Cavitation, Elasticity and Fracture in Strong Hydrogels
Jun Cui , Ahmad Madkour , Gregory Tew , Alfred Crosby

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Thursday, March 18, 2010
2:42PM - 2:54PM

X18.00002: Mechanics of Polymer Networks Subjected to Photochemically-Induced Rearrangement
Kevin Long , Timothy Scott , Jerry Qi , Martin Dunn

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Thursday, March 18, 2010
2:54PM - 3:06PM

X18.00003: Simulations of Self-Healing Polymer Networks
Arun Kumar N , Evgeny Stukalin , Ludwik Leibler , Michael Rubinstein

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Thursday, March 18, 2010
3:06PM - 3:42PM

X18.00004: Toughening Mechanism of Double Network Hydrogels
Invited Speaker: Jian Ping Gong

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Thursday, March 18, 2010
3:42PM - 3:54PM

X18.00005: Self-healing in dually crosslinked nanogels: Computational modeling
Solomon Duki , Victor Yashin , German Kolmakov , Anna Balazs

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Thursday, March 18, 2010
3:54PM - 4:06PM

X18.00006: Viscosity-Based Constitutive Model for the Nonlinear Deformations of Shape Memory Network Polymers
Kristofer Westbrook , Francisco Castro , H. Jerry Qi

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Thursday, March 18, 2010
4:06PM - 4:18PM

X18.00007: Investigation of the Non-Linear Viscoelastic Behavior of Lightly Cross-linked SBR: The Need for a New Modeling Perspective
James Caruthers , Aparajita Bhattacharya , Grigori Medvedev

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Thursday, March 18, 2010
4:18PM - 4:30PM

X18.00008: Modeling the BZ reaction in gels with chemo-responsive crosslinks
Victor V. Yashin , Olga Kuksenok , Anna C. Balazs

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Thursday, March 18, 2010
4:30PM - 4:42PM

X18.00009: Controlling bending of chemo-responsive gels with gradient in cross-link density
Olga Kuksenok , Victor V. Yashin , Anna C. Balazs

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Thursday, March 18, 2010
4:42PM - 4:54PM

X18.00010: Prediction of Gel Modulus using the Gel-Tensile Blob (GTB) Model for Network Structure
Gregory Beaucage , Sathish K. Sukumaran

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Thursday, March 18, 2010
4:54PM - 5:06PM

X18.00011: Polymeric Microgels as Potential Drug Delivery Vesicles
Ryan McDonough , Kiril Streletzky , Mekki Bayachou , Pubudu Peiris

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Thursday, March 18, 2010
5:06PM - 5:18PM

X18.00012: Effect of heating rate, polymer concentration, and cross-linking density on volume phase transition of microgels
Kiril A. Streletzky , John T. McKenna , Imaan Benmerzouga

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Thursday, March 18, 2010
5:18PM - 5:30PM

X18.00013: Ultraslow Stretching of Polymer Gels in Solvents
Kenji Urayama , Akihiro Konda , Toshikazu Takigawa

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