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Session W18: Focus Session: Polymer Network Mechanics I

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Sponsoring Units: DPOLY
Chair: Catalin Picu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Room: B117


Thursday, March 18, 2010
11:15AM - 11:27AM

W18.00001: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Thursday, March 18, 2010
11:27AM - 11:39AM

W18.00002: Possible explanation of anomalous ductility in thermoset/thermoplastic polymer alloys
Debashish Mukherji , Cameron Abrams

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Thursday, March 18, 2010
11:39AM - 11:51AM

W18.00003: Toughness and Fracture Energy of PDMS Bimodal and Trimodal Elastomers
Claude Cohen , Geoffrey Genesky

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Thursday, March 18, 2010
11:51AM - 12:03PM

W18.00004: Novel Telechelic Polymer Hydrogels using Homo and Hetero-combinations of End-blocks
Rajiv R. Taribagil , Marc A. Hillmyer , Timothy P. Lodge

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Thursday, March 18, 2010
12:03PM - 12:15PM

W18.00005: Tunable Strain-Stiffening of Physically Associating Networks
Kendra A. Erk , Kenneth R. Shull

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Thursday, March 18, 2010
12:15PM - 12:27PM

W18.00006: Buckling instabilities in patterned, poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) microgels
Ryan Toomey , Samuel DuPont , Ryan Cates

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Thursday, March 18, 2010
12:27PM - 1:03PM

W18.00007: Strain hardening, fracture and toughening mechanisms in self-assembling gels
Invited Speaker: Kenneth Shull

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Thursday, March 18, 2010
1:03PM - 1:15PM

W18.00008: Wrinkling and strain softening in polymer supported networks of pristine single-wall carbon nanotubes
Erik K. Hobbie , Daneesh Simien , Jeffrey Fagan , Ji Yeon Huh , Jun Young Chung , Steven Hudson , Jan Obrzut , Christopher Stafford

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Thursday, March 18, 2010
1:15PM - 1:27PM

W18.00009: Creasing Instability of Hydrogel Surfaces: Nucleation, Growth Dynamics {\&} Hysteresis
Ryan Hayward , Jinhwan Yoon , Jungwook Kim

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Thursday, March 18, 2010
1:27PM - 1:39PM

W18.00010: Entanglement swelling in polymer glasses
Joshua McGraw , Kari Dalnoki-Veress

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Thursday, March 18, 2010
1:39PM - 1:51PM

W18.00011: Long-range correlations and solution of boundary value problems for semi-flexible polymer networks
Catalin Picu , Hamed Hatami-Marbini

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