Bulletin of the American Physical Society

2008 APS March Meeting

Volume 53, Number 2

Monday–Friday, March 10–14, 2008; New Orleans, Louisiana

Session Index

Session S25: Gels and Elastomers	Show Abstracts
Sponsoring Units: DPOLY Chair: Hiroshi Watanabe, University of Kyoto Room: Morial Convention Center 217

Wednesday, March 12, 2008 2:30PM - 2:42PM		S25.00001: Large strain deformation of hydrophobically modified polyelectrolyte hydrogels Guillaume Miquelard-Garnier, Costantino Creton, Dominique Hourdet Preview Abstract
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 2:42PM - 2:54PM		S25.00002: Creasing instability of surface-attached hydrogels Ryan C. Hayward, Veronica Trujillo, Jungwook Kim, Anesia Burns Preview Abstract
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 2:54PM - 3:06PM		S25.00003: Swelling-Induced Deformation of Nanopatterned Polymer Lines Vijay Tirumala, Christopher Stafford, Rui Huang, Leonidas Ocola Preview Abstract
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:06PM - 3:18PM		S25.00004: Drop spreading and resorbtion on gel surfaces Mehdi Banaha, Adrian Daerr, Laurent Limat Preview Abstract
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:18PM - 3:30PM		S25.00005: Anomalous Composition-Dependent Swelling Behavior of Photocrosslinked VP/AA Copolymeric Hydrogels J. Hannah Lee, David Bucknall Preview Abstract
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:30PM - 3:42PM		S25.00006: Organogels from Polypeptide-based Block Copolymers Daniel Savin, Daniel Bercovici, Sandeep Naik Preview Abstract
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:42PM - 3:54PM		S25.00007: Soft random solids and their spatial elastic heterogeneity Xiaoming Mao, Paul Goldbart, Xiangjun Xing, Annette Zippelius Preview Abstract
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:54PM - 4:06PM		S25.00008: Effective removal of entanglement points by network dilution Joshua D. McGraw, Kari Dalnoki-Veress Preview Abstract
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:06PM - 4:18PM		S25.00009: Advances in elastomer reinforcement: slow dynamics Paul Sotta, St\'ephane Dupres, Pierre-Antoine Albouy, Didier Long Preview Abstract
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:18PM - 4:30PM		S25.00010: Polydomain-Monodomain Transition of Randomly Disordered Nematic Elastomers with Different Crosslinking Histories Kenji Urayama, Etsuko Kohmon, Ryo Mashita, Toshikazu Takigawa Preview Abstract
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:30PM - 4:42PM		S25.00011: New Insights Regarding the Polydomain-to-Monodomain Transition in Smectic Elastomers Ronald Hedden, Harshad Patil, Daniel Lentz Preview Abstract
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:42PM - 4:54PM		S25.00012: Nematic elastomers: From a microscopic model to macroscopic elasticity theory Paul Goldbart, Xiangjun Xing, Stephan Pfahl, Swagatam Mukhopadhyay, Annette Zippelius Preview Abstract
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:54PM - 5:06PM		S25.00013: Elasticity of a Chiral elastomer Aparna Baskaran, Xiangjun Xing Preview Abstract
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 5:06PM - 5:18PM		S25.00014: Determination of the refractive indices of liquid crystal elastomers Israel Lazo, Peter Palffy-Muhoray Preview Abstract
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 5:18PM - 5:30PM		S25.00015: Magnetoactive Liquid Crystal Elastomers Moritz Winkler, Andreas Kaiser, Simon Krause, Heino Finkelmann, Annette Schmidt Preview Abstract
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 5:30PM - 5:42PM		S25.00016: Calamitic liquid crystal elastomers swollen with bent-core liquid crystals M. Chambers, J.T. Gleeson, S. Sprunt, A. Jakli Preview Abstract

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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

2008 APS March Meeting

Volume 53, Number 2

Monday–Friday, March 10–14, 2008; New Orleans, Louisiana

Session Index

Session S25: Gels and Elastomers

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