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Session Y42: Focus Session: Dynamics of Polymers--Phenomena due to Confinement--Theory, Wrinkling, and Glass Transitions

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Sponsoring Units: DPOLY
Chair: Connie Roth, Emory University
Room: A302/303


Friday, March 25, 2011
8:00AM - 8:12AM

Y42.00001: Twinkling Fractal Analysis of Confinement Effects on the Glass Transition of Thin Films
Richard Wool , Joseph Stanzione III

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Friday, March 25, 2011
8:12AM - 8:24AM

Y42.00002: Mechanical properties of thin polymer films close to the glass transition: a mesoscale model
Didier R. Long , Alain Dequidt , Paul Sotta

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Friday, March 25, 2011
8:24AM - 8:36AM

Y42.00003: A Simple Approach to Free Volume Transport in Molten/Glassy Material
Jane Lipson , Scott Milner , Nicholas Tito

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Friday, March 25, 2011
8:36AM - 9:12AM

Y42.00004: Deviations in mechanical properties of ultrathin polymer films via surface wrinkling
Invited Speaker: Christopher M. Stafford

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Friday, March 25, 2011
9:12AM - 9:24AM

Y42.00005: Calorimetry of Thin Films -- From Single Layer Glass Transitions to Inter-layer Diffusion in Double Layers
Christoph Schick , Dongshan Zhou , Heiko Huth , Mathias Ahrenberg

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Friday, March 25, 2011
9:24AM - 9:36AM

Y42.00006: $T_{g}$ depression and segmental dynamics of polystyrene thin films
Daniele Cangialosi , Virginie M. Boucher , Angel Alegria , Juan Colmenero

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Friday, March 25, 2011
9:36AM - 9:48AM

Y42.00007: Evidence for Two Simultaneous Mechanisms Causing Tg Reductions in High Molecular-Weight Free-Standing Films Observed as Dual Glass Transitions More Than 30 K Apart in a Single Film
Justin Pye , Connie Roth

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Friday, March 25, 2011
9:48AM - 10:00AM

Y42.00008: Demonstration of Glass Transition Temperature Depression in Thin Supported Polystyrene Films Using Internal Standard
Mikhail Efremov , Paul Nealey

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Friday, March 25, 2011
10:00AM - 10:12AM

Y42.00009: Effect of Packing Density on the Measurement of Glass Transition Temperatures in Thin Film
Gi Xue

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Friday, March 25, 2011
10:12AM - 10:24AM

Y42.00010: The Effect of Molecular Weight on the Glass Transition Temperature of Polymer Thin Films
Qiang Gu , Dongshan Zhou , Gi Xue

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Friday, March 25, 2011
10:24AM - 10:36AM

Y42.00011: Glassy dynamics within surface-bound molecular monolayers
L.I. Clarke , M.P. Roman , D.R. Stevens , M.C. Scott , J.R. Bochinski

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Friday, March 25, 2011
10:36AM - 10:48AM

Y42.00012: Interchain Coupling in Thin Polymer Film Studied by Fluorescence Nonradiative Energy Transfer
Jie Xu , Gi Xue

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Friday, March 25, 2011
10:48AM - 11:00AM

Y42.00013: Impact of annealing and adsorption on the distribution of segmental mobility and tracer diffusivity of ultrathin films of polystyrene
Simone Napolitano , Cinzia Rotella , Michael Wubbenhorst

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