Spring 2017 Meeting of the APS New England Section, held jointly with NanoWorcester
Volume 62, Number 5
Friday–Saturday, April 14–15, 2017;
Worcester, Massachusetts
Session Index
Session D2: Applied Physics and Physics History
Chair: Richard Price, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room: Olin Hall 107
Saturday, April 15, 2017
10:15AM - 10:20AM
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D2.00001: Opening Remarks
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
10:20AM - 10:40AM
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D2.00002: Anthony Philip French (1920-2017) Physics Teacher
Charles H Holbrow
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
10:40AM - 11:00AM
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D2.00003: Estimation of Atmospheric Aerosol Extent
William Tuxbury, Chris Oville, Jalal Butt, James Kulowiec, Nimmi Sharma
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
11:00AM - 11:20AM
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D2.00004: Laser Measurements of Air-Entrained Asian Dust
Jalal Butt, Nimmi C.P. Sharma, John E. Barnes
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
11:20AM - 11:40AM
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D2.00005: A Unified Proposal for Intervals between Events in Space-time
Douglas Sweetser
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Session D3: Computational Methods
Chair: Nima Rahbar, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Room: Olin Hall 109
Saturday, April 15, 2017
10:15AM - 10:27AM
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D3.00001: Opening Remarks
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
10:27AM - 10:47AM
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D3.00002: Chain Exchange Kinetics in Tadpole, Linear {\&} Mixed Linear/Tadpole Diblock Copolymer Micelles
Prhashanna Ammu, Elena Dormidontova
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
10:47AM - 11:07AM
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D3.00003: Self-assembly of Gold Nanoparticles Directed by Lipid Nanodiscs: Molecular Dynamics Study.
Hari Sharma, Elena E. Dormidontova
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
11:07AM - 11:27AM
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D3.00004: Boundary effects in FRAP recovery in the confined geometries of animal, plant and fungal cells
J. Kingsley
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
11:27AM - 11:47AM
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D3.00005: Molecular dynamics simulations of coil-helix transition of polyethylene oxide in solution and in presence of carbon nanotube.
Udaya Dahal, Elena Dormidontova
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
11:47AM - 12:07PM
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D3.00006: Thin film deposition using rarefied gas jet
Dr. Sahadev Pradhan
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Session D4: Biophysics
Chair: Erkan Tuzel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Room: Olin Hall 126
Saturday, April 15, 2017
10:15AM - 10:20AM
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D4.00001: Opening Remarks
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
10:20AM - 10:40AM
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D4.00002: Self-Assembly of End-to-Tail Associating Liquid Crystalline Polymers
Michael Richter, Elena Dormidontova
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
10:40AM - 11:00AM
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D4.00003: Collagen-inspired design rules for the self-assembly of twisted filaments
Martin Falk, Lucy Colwell, Michael Brenner
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
11:00AM - 11:20AM
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D4.00004: Measurement of the Persistence Length of Cytoskeletal Filaments using Curvature Distributions
Pattipong Wisanpitayakorn, Keith J. Mickolajczyk, William O. Hancock, Luis Vidali, Erkan Tuzel
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
11:20AM - 11:40AM
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D4.00005: Retardation of Bulk Water Dynamics by Disaccharide Osmolytes
Nimesh Shukla, Enrico Pomarico, Majed Chergui, Christina Othon
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
11:40AM - 12:00PM
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D4.00006: Role of Adhesion of Functionalized Biosynthesized Magnetite Nanoparticles for the specific Targeting of Breast Cancer
J. D. Obayemi
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Session D5: Experiment and Instrumentation
Chair: Bryan Huey, University of Connecticut
Room: Olin Hall 218
Saturday, April 15, 2017
10:15AM - 10:20AM
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D5.00001: Opening Remarks
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
10:20AM - 10:40AM
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D5.00002: Calorimetric Study of Se90In8Ag2 Glassy Alloy
D Sharma, R K Shukla, A Kumar, J C MacDonald
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
10:40AM - 11:00AM
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D5.00003: Ultrasonic characterization of human colon carcinoma cells in the 5-25 MHz frequency range
Amy Longstreth, Judene Thomas, Yaa Kwakwa, Janae Davis, Maria-Teresa Herd
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
11:00AM - 11:20AM
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D5.00004: Novel high-speed AFM modes to study mechanical properties of cells and soft materials at the nanoscale
Maxim Dokukin, Igor Sokolov
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
11:20AM - 11:40AM
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D5.00005: Recent advances in AFM based nanoscale infrared spectroscopy.
Jay Anderson, Eoghan Dillon, Kevin Kjoller, Anirban Roy
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
11:40AM - 12:00PM
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D5.00006: Nanoscale Chemical Analysis with Photo-induced Force Microscopy
Sung Park
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Session D6: Nanomaterials and Nanoparticles
Chair: Gang Han, UMass Medical School
Room: Olin Hall 223
Saturday, April 15, 2017
10:15AM - 10:20AM
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D6.00001: Opening Remarks
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
10:20AM - 10:40AM
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D6.00002: Mapping the Modulus of Organic Matter in Stiff Nano-Composites across the Thermal Maturity Scale
Nancy Burnham, Shannon Eichmann, David Jacobi, Mohammad Haque
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
10:40AM - 11:00AM
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D6.00003: Gas and vapor dependent photoluminescence changes of zinc oxide nanoparticles
Sol Kim, R. M. Dulanga S. Somaratne, Sandip K. Sengupta, James E. Whitten
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
11:00AM - 11:20AM
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D6.00004: Developing Iridium-based Alloys as Effective Catalysts for Direct Ethanol Fuel Cells
Lida Namin, Aaron Deskins, Koretaka Yuge
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
11:20AM - 11:40AM
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D6.00005: Electrospun separators for structural battery applications
Wisawat Keaswejjareansuk, Jianyu Liang
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
11:40AM - 12:00PM
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D6.00006: Photoanode with enhanced performance achieved by coating BiVO4 onto ZnO-templated Sb-doped SnO2 nanotube scaffold
Lite Zhou, Yang Yang, Jing Zhang, Pratap Rao
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