Wednesday, March 15, 2017 
8:00AM - 8:12AM 
 
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K9.00001: The glass transition of supported and unsupported polymer nanorods using Flash differential scanning calorimetry 
Madhusudhan Reddy Pallaka, Sindee Simon
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 
8:12AM - 8:24AM 
 
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K9.00002: Cloaking the Effects of Strongly Interacting Substrates in Thin Polymer Films 
Wengang Zhang, Jack Douglas, Francis Starr
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 
8:24AM - 8:36AM 
 
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K9.00003: Local Glass Transition Temperature Tg(z) Profiles of Polystyrene Next to End-Grafted Substrates 
Xinru Huang, Connie Roth
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 
8:36AM - 8:48AM 
 
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K9.00004: Theory of Cooperative Activated Structural Relaxation in Polymer Nanocomposites Composed of Small and Sticky Particles 
Shijie Xie, Kenneth Schweizer
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 
8:48AM - 9:00AM 
 
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K9.00005: Impact of substrate roughness on the segmental mobility of thin polymer films. 
Anna Panagopoulou, Simone Napolitano
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 
9:00AM - 9:12AM 
 
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K9.00006: Interfacial Energy and Glass Temperature of Polymers Confined to Nanoporous Alumina 
George Floudas, Stelios Alexandris, Yang Yao, Periklis Papadopoulos, Martin Steinhart, Hans-Juergen Butt
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 
9:12AM - 9:24AM 
 
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K9.00007: Thin films of linear polymer exhibiting no Tg-confinement effect: Correlation with low bulk fragility 
John Torkelson, Lawrence Chen
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 
9:24AM - 9:36AM 
 
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K9.00008: Compositional Heterogeneity and the Role of Polystyrene Molecular Weight on the Dynamic Response of Poly(vinyl methyl ether) in Thin Film Polystyrene/Poly(vinyl methyl ether) Blends 
Ravi Sharma, Ban Dong, Peter Green
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 
9:36AM - 9:48AM 
 
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K9.00009: Prediction of the Local Glass Transition Temperature of Polystyrene and Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) Bilayer Thin Films 
David Hsu, Wenjie Xia, Jake Song, Sinan Keten
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 
9:48AM - 10:00AM 
 
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K9.00010: Local dynamics of glass-forming polystyrene thin films from atomistic simulation 
Yuxing Zhou, Scott Milner
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 
10:00AM - 10:12AM 
 
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K9.00011: Influence of Finite System Size, Cooling Rate, and Chain Interpenetration on the Local Glass Transition Temperature Tg(z) Profile in Polystyrene Next to Different Polymers 
Roman Baglay, Connie Roth
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 
10:12AM - 10:24AM 
 
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K9.00012: Location-Specific Measurements of The Glass Transition Temperature in Fluorescently Labeled Diblock Copolymers 
Dane Christie, Richard Register, Rodney Priestley
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 
10:24AM - 11:00AM 
 
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K9.00013: Theory of Spatially Heterogeneous Activated Relaxation, Vitrification and Elasticity in Confined Polymer and Molecular Liquids 
Invited Speaker: 
Kenneth Schweizer
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