Session D1: Polymer Thin Films

Chair: Sasa Dordevic, The University of Akron
Wayne College - A107


Saturday, October 14, 2006
9:30AM - 9:42AM

D1.00001: Surface and Interface Structure of Diblock Copolymer Brushes
Gokce Ugur , Bulent Akgun , William J. Brittain , Mark D. Foster , Xuefa Li , Jin Wang

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Saturday, October 14, 2006
9:42AM - 9:54AM

D1.00002: Determination of the Internal Structure of Plasma Polymerized Films via X-ray Reflectometry
Holley Wickwire , Dan Dreyer , Mark Foster

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Saturday, October 14, 2006
9:54AM - 10:06AM

D1.00003: Internal Structure of Ultrathin Diblock Copolymer Brushes
Bulent Akgun , William J. Brittain , Mark D. Foster , Charles F. Majkrzak , Xuefa Li , Jin Wang

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Saturday, October 14, 2006
10:06AM - 10:18AM

D1.00004: Structure of Copolymer Films Created by Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD)
Someshwara Peri , Hyeonjae Kim , Mark Foster

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Session D2: Nanostructures

Chair: Adil Wadia, The University of Akron Wayne College
Wayne College - C109


Saturday, October 14, 2006
9:30AM - 9:42AM

D2.00001: Glancing Angle Deposition of Cu on Si
Dustin Kern , Lenu Zaman , Sean Gephart , Anura Goonewardene , Dongdong Jia

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Saturday, October 14, 2006
9:42AM - 9:54AM

D2.00002: Polyethylene films doped with nanophosphors for green house
Justin Wilhelm , David Hunter , Tyler Laudenslager , Dongdong Jia

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Saturday, October 14, 2006
9:54AM - 10:06AM

D2.00003: Nano Motor Construction
Craig Shaffer , Shawn Pickering , Dongdong Jia , Anura U. Goonewardene

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Saturday, October 14, 2006
10:06AM - 10:18AM

D2.00004: Observation of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT) in an Atomic Vapor using the Hanle Effect
Yuhong Zhang , Sam Bish , Benjamin Agyare , Samir Bali

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Session D3: Elastomeric Materials

Chair: Jutta Luettmer-Strathmann, The University of Akron
Wayne College - A106


Saturday, October 14, 2006
9:30AM - 9:42AM

D3.00001: How Does Rubber Crystallize Upon Application of Strain
Mindaugas Rackaitis , Xiaorong Wang

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Saturday, October 14, 2006
9:42AM - 9:54AM

D3.00002: Fluctuations and critical phenomena of a filled elastomer under deformation
Mindaugas Rackaitis , Xiaorong Wang

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Saturday, October 14, 2006
9:54AM - 10:06AM

D3.00003: Ultrasound Treatment of Polyisoprene Rubber, Studied by NMR Relaxation and Diffusion.
E. von Meerwall , X.M. Sun , T. Joshi , A.I. Isayev

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Session D4: Biological Applications

Chair: Forrest Smith, The University of Akron
Wayne College - C113


Saturday, October 14, 2006
9:30AM - 9:42AM

D4.00001: Phase Separation in Asymmetric Lipid Bilayers: Cubic and Quartic Interaction Terms
Fanindra Bhatta , David Allender

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Saturday, October 14, 2006
9:42AM - 9:54AM

D4.00002: Simulations of Triblock Copolymer Interactions with Biomimetic Membranes
Shashishekar Adiga , Peter Zapol , Millicent Firestone

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Saturday, October 14, 2006
9:54AM - 10:06AM

D4.00003: Calculation of folding rates of two-state proteins supports enhanced structural cooperativity
Xianghong Qi , John Portman

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Saturday, October 14, 2006
10:06AM - 10:18AM

D4.00004: Getting DNA by using Silver Spears
Samantha Selgraph , Tyler Laudenslager , Dongdong Jia

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