Program - Symposium HH: Soft Condensed Matter-Fundamentals and Applications

 

April 5 - 7, 1999


Chairs

 

  • Bill Carty Alfred Univ
  • Seth Fraden Brandeis Univ
  • Terry Garino Sandia Natl Laboratories-NM
  • Robert Prud'homme Princeton Univ

SESSION HH1: GELS

 Chair: Robert K. Prud'homme
Monday Morning, April 5, 1999
Salon 13 (M) 8:30 AM *HH1.1
RHEOLOGY OF PHYSICAL GELATION. H. Henning Winter , Dept. Chemical Engineering and Dept. Polymer Science and Engr., Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

9:00 AM HH1.2
COLLOIDAL GELS OF TETHERED SILICA PARTICLES IN POLAR MEDIA: DIRECT CORRELATION BETWEEN DYNAMIC RHEOLOGY AND INTERACTION PARAMETERS. Srinivasa R. Raghavan, Saad A. Khan , North Carolina State University, Department of Chemical Engineering, Raleigh, NC; Jun Hou, Gregory L. Baker, Michigan State University, Department of Chemistry, East Lansing, MI.

9:15 AM HH1.3
MORPHOLOGICAL AND PROPERTY CHARACTERISTICS OF BLOCK COPOLYMER GELS AND MESOGELS. Jonathan Laurer, Nicole Jackson, Megan King, Saad Khan, Richard Spontak , NC State Univ, Depts of Materials Science & Engineering and Chemical Engineering, Raleigh, NC; Scott White, Becton Dickinson Technologies, Polymer Science & Technology Dept, Research Triangle Park, NC; Steven Smith, Procter & Gamble Company, Corporate Research Div, Cincinnati, OH.

9:30 AM HH1.4
GEL-LIKE MODES IN POLY(ETHYLENE OXIDE) MELTS. R. Walkenhorst, J.C. Selser , G. Piet, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Physics Department, Las Vegas, NV.

9:45 AM HH1.5
HIGHLY SWOLLEN HYDROGELS: RHEOLOGY AND PHASE BEHAVIOR. H. Jiang, Anteon Inc., Dayton, OH; W. Su, TMCI, Dayton, OH; P.T. Mather , T.J. Bunning, AFRL/MLBP and MLPJ, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, WPAFB, OH.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM HH1.6
INTERACTION POTENTIAL BETWEEN POLYAMPHOLYTE STABILIZED COLLOIDS. Christos N. Likos, Hartmut Loewen , Institut fuer Theoretische Physik II, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf, Universitaetsstrasse, Duesseldorf, GERMANY; Abe Vaynberg, Norman J. Wagner, Center for Molecular and Engineering Thermodynamics, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.

10:45 AM HH1.7
THE STRUCTURE OF ADSORBED GELATIN ON FLAT SURFACES AND COLLOIDS. K. Abraham Vaynberg , Norman J. Wagner, Heiko Ahrens, Dirk Eck, Christiane A. Helm, Christos N. Likos, Hartmut Lowen.

11:00 AM HH1.8
MICROSCOPIC AND BULK PROPERTIES OF CYANOGEL SYSTEMS: A NOVEL AQUEOUS SOL-GEL SYSTEM BASED ON THE CHEMISTRY OF TRANSITION METAL CYANOMETALATE COMPLEXES. Andrew Bocarsly , Ileana Flintoff, Jochim Gross, George Scherer, Stefanie Sharp, Jennifer Wilson, Princeton University, Dept. of Chemistry, Princeton, NJ.

11:15 AM HH1.9
LAMELLAR HYDROGELS FROM CATANIONIC SURFACTANT MIXTURES AND SIMPLE AMPHIPHILIC POLYMERS. Bret A. Coldren , Hee-Tae Jung, Joseph A. Zasadzinski, Materials Research Laboratory and Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; Hidetaka Iwai, Kao Corporation, JAPAN.

11:30 AM HH1.10
LYOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALLINE POLYMER GELS-A NEW THERMOTROPIC MATERIAL. Arno Seeboth , Hans-Rainer Holzbauer, Jörg Kriwanek, Th. Fischer, WITEGA, Dept. Adv. Mater., Berlin, GERMANY.

11:45 AM HH1.11
REVERSIBLE COLOR CHANGES IN AQUEOUS POLYMER GEL NETWORKS. Jörg Kriwanek , Arno Seeboth, WITEGA, Department Advance Materials Ltd, Berlin, GERMANY.

SESSION HH2: GELS AND SPHERICAL COLLOIDS

 Chair: Bill Carty
Monday Afternoon, April 5, 1999
Salon 13 (M) 1:30 PM HH2.1
GELS FORMED FROM ASSOCIATING POLYMERS IN SOLUTION. Subramanian Kesevan, Robert K. Prud'homme , Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

1:45 PM HH2.2
SIMULATION OF HARD PARTICLES IN A PHASE SEPARATING BINARY FLUID. Valerly V. Ginzburg, Feng Qiu, Marco Paniconi, David Jasnow and Anna C. Balazs , University of Pittsburgh, Depts of Physics and Chemical Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA.

2:00 PM HH2.3
DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING OF COMPLEX FLUIDS. Thomas A.P. Seery , Amit Sehgal, R.A. Weiss and Kaushik Chakrabarty University of Connecticut, Polymer Program, Storrs, CT.

2:15 PM HH2.4
STRUCTURAL STUDIES OF COLLOIDAL GOLD-SILICA AEROGELS. R.M. Stroud , M.L. Anderson, C.A. Morris, C.I. Merzbacher and D.R. Rolison, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC.

2:30 PM *HH2.5
VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES OF PARTICLE GELS. Lennart Bergström , Joseph A. Yanez and Eric Laarz, Institute for Surface Chemistry, Stockholm, SWEDEN.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:30 PM *HH2.6
HARD SPHERE SUSPENSION CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS. Zhengdong Cheng , Paul M. Chaikin, Princeton Univ, Dept of Physics, Princeton, NJ; William B. Russel, Princeton Univ, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Princeton, NJ.

4:00 PM HH2.7
MONODISPERSE SILICA AND ZnS PARTICLES WITH CONTINUOUSLY VARIABLE SHAPE MADE BY ION IRRADIATION OF MICRO-SPHERES. E. Snoeks ,a A. van Blaaderen,a,b M.L. Brongersma,a T. van Dillen,a C.M. van Kats,b K. Velikov,b and A. Polmana; (a) FOM-Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS; (b) Van 't Hoff Laboratorium, Debye Institute, Utrecht, THE NETHERLANDS.

4:15 PM HH2.8
X-RAY PHOTON CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY STUDY OF THE MICROSCOPIC DYNAMICS OF POLYSTYRENE LATEX SUSPENDED IN GLYCEROL: DIFFUSIVE DYNAMICS AND THE ROLE OF CONFINEMENT. D. Lumma * 1, L.B. Lurio* 1, A.R. Sandy* 1, P. Falus1, M.A. Borthwick1, S.G.J. Mochrie1, M. Sutton2, J.F. Pelletier2, A. Malik3, G.B. Stephenson3, L.J. Regan4-1Center for Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; 2Physics Department, McGill University, Montréal, CANADA; 3Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL; 4Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT. *These authors contributed equally to this work.

4:30 PM HH2.9
DETERMINATION OF PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS IN CONCENTRATED SLURRIES FROM ACOUSTIC AND OPTICAL ATTENUATION DATA. Christopher A. White, Melanie L. Carasso , Sanjay S. Patel, Jorge L. Valdes, Bell Laboratories Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ.

4:45 PM HH2.10
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SILICA AEROGELS BY DEPTH-SENSING MICRO-INDENTATION. Magda Moner-Girona, Anna Roig , Elies Molins, Carles Miravitlles, Institut de Ciència de Materials (CSIC), Barcelona, SPAIN; Elena Martínez, Joan Esteve, Univ of Barcelona, Dept of Applied Physics and Electronics, Barcelona, SPAIN; Joan Llibre, Carburos Metálicos SA, R&D, Barcelona, SPAIN.
 

SESSION HH3: MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL FLUIDS/ ELECTRORHEOLOGICAL FLUIDS

 Chair: Terry J. Garino
Tuesday Morning, April 6, 1999
Salon 13 (M) 8:30 AM *HH3.1
MR FLUID SPONGES AND DEVICES. J. David Carlson , Lord Corporation, Materials Division, Cary, NC.

9:00 AM HH3.2
AGGREGATION KINETICS AND STABILITY OF STRUCTURES FORMED BY MAGNETIC MICROSPHERE. Weijia Wen , F. Kun, K.F. Pal, D.W. Zheng and K.N. Tu.

9:15 AM HH3.3
STRUCTURES OF A MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL FLUID. Gerald Gulley , Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, NM; Rongjia Tao, Southern Illinois University, Dept of Physics, Carbondale, IL.

9:30 AM HH3.4
EFFECTS OF STRUCTURES ON RHEOLOGY IN A MODEL MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL FLUID. Mustapha Chaker , Neal Breslin and Jing Liu, Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University, Long Beach, CA.

9:45 AM HH3.5
ORIGIN OF CORROSION IN MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL FLUIDS USED FOR OPTICAL FINISHING. Irina A. Kozhinova a, Steven R. Arrasmitha, Leslie L. Gregga, Stephen D. Jacobsa,b, Univ. of Rochester, Center for Optics Manufacturinga and Laboratory for Laser Energeticsb, Rochester, NY.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM HH3.6
DESIGN AND TESTING OF A NEW MAGNETORHEOMETER. Aric B. Shorey a,b, Stephen D. Jacobsa,b,c, William I. Kordonskid, Sergei R. Gorodkine, Kevin M. Kwongb, Univ of Rochester Materials Science Programa, Center for Optics Manufacturingb and Laboratory for Laser Energeticsc, Rochester, NY; QED Technologies, LLCd, Rochester, NY; Belarus Academy of Sciences, A.V. Luikov, Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, Minsk, BELARUSe.

10:45 AM HH3.7
DYNAMICS OF A CONCENTRATED FERROFLUID EMULSION STUDIED BY DIFFUSING-WAVE SPECTROSCOPY. Serge Cutillas and Jing Liu, Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University, Long Beach, CA.

11:00 AM HH3.8
MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL MEDIUM BASED ON POLYMERIC COMPOSITIONS WITH FERROUS OXIDES. T.G. Lazareva , Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, BELARUS.

11:15 AM HH3.9
SOUND PROPAGATION IN A MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL FLUID. Yuri Nahmad, Camilo Arancibia, Carlos Ruiz , Dept of Applied Physics, CINVESTAV-IPN, Merida, Yucatan, MEXICO.

11:30 AM *HH3.10
ASPECTS OF NONLINEAR CONDUCTION IN ELECTRORHEOLOGICAL SUSPENSIONS. P.J. Rankin, Y.M. Shkel, D.J. Klingenberg , Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; J.L. Shohet, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
 

SESSION HH4: ELECTRORHEOLOGICAL FLUIDS/ SUSPENSIONS OF RODS

 Chair: J. David Carlson
Tuesday Afternoon, April 6, 1999
Salon 13 (M) 1:30 PM *HH4.1
THE NONLINEAR RHEOLOGY OF ELECTRORHEOLOGICAL FLUIDS. James E. Martin , Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM.

2:00 PM HH4.2
STRUCTURE EVOLUTION AND CORRESPONDING ELECTRORHEOLOGICAL EFFECT. Weijia Wen , D.W. Zheng and K.N. Tu, Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of California at Los Angeles, CA.

2:15 PM HH4.3
CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY STUDY OF ELECTRORHEOLOGICAL FLUIDS. Ujitha Dassanayake, Seth Fraden , Complex Fluids Group, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; Alfons van Blaaderen, FOM Inst. for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS.

2:30 PM HH4.4
A THERMODYNAMIC APPROACH TO FIELD-INDUCED STRESSES IN ELECTRO- AND MAGNETOACTIVE COMPOSITES. Yuri M. Shkel and Daniel J. Klingenberg , Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.

2:45 PM HH4.5
THE MOTION EQUATION OF ELECTRORHEOLOGICAL FLUID. Albert A. Mokeev , Vitebsk Univ, Vitebsk, Blearuss, Andrew A. Mokeev, Moscow Univ, Moscow, RUSSIA.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:30 PM *HH4.6
THE RANDOM DENSE ROD PACKING. Albert P. Philipse , Van 'tHoff Laboratory for Physical and Colloid Chemistry, Debye Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, THE NETHTERLANDS.

4:00 PM *HH4.7
MATERIALS FROM CHIRAL ROD-LIKE CELLULOSE SPECIES. Derek G. Gray , Pulp and Paper Research Centre, McGill University, Montreal, CANADA.

4:30 PM HH4.8
COLLOIDAL DYNAMICS IN A LIQUID CRYSTAL. Roan Lavery , Wilson Poon, Jason Crain, Univ of Edinburgh, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, Edinburgh, UNITED KINGDOM.

4:45 PM HH4.9
ENGINEERING ENTROPY: BUILDING ORDER WITH DISORDER. Zvonimir Dogic, Marie Adams, Seth Fraden , Complex Fluids Group, Department of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
 

SESSION HH5: PAPER, FIBER, POLYMERS

 Chair: Seth Fraden
Wednesday Morning, April 7, 1999
Salon 13 (M) 8:30 AM *HH5.1
BILATERAL COUPLING OF FIBER PROPERTIES AND PAPER STRUCTURE. Kaarlo Niskanen , KCL Paper Science Centre, Espoo, FINLAND.

9:00 AM *HH5.2
THE ROLE OF FIBRE FLOCCULATION IN PAPER STRUCTURE. R.J. Kerekes , Pulp and Paper Institute of Canada, Pulp and Paper Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CANADA.

9:30 AM *HH5.3
TENSILE STRENGTH OF WET PAPER . Andre Schroder , Djamel Bensarsa, Ludwik Leibler, CNRS/ELF Atochem, Levallois-Perret, FRANCE.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM *HH5.4
SIMULATIONS OF FLEXIBLE FIBER SUSPENSIONS. C.F. Schmid, L. Switzer, D.J. Klingenberg , Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.

11:00 AM HH5.5
ATTRACTIVE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN FILAMENTOUS BIOPOLYMERS OF LIKE CHARGES. Jay X. Tang , Paul A. Janmey, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Alexander Lyubartsev, Lars Nordenskiold, Stockholm University, Physical Chemistry, Stockholm, SWEDEN.

11:15 AM HH5.6
AVOIDANCE MODEL FOR CHARGED SPHERES AND RODS BEYOND THE DILUTE LIMIT. Judith Herzfeld , Eric M. Kramer, Jining Han, Brandeis University, Department of Chemistry, Waltham, MA.

11:30 AM *HH5.7
SHAPE-DEPENDENT COLLOIDAL SEPARATIONS. Thomas G. Mason , Exxon Research and Engineering Co., Corporate Research, Annandale, NJ.

SESSION HH6: POSTER SESSION

 Wednesday Evening, April 7, 1999
8:00 P.M.
Salon 7 (M) HH6.1
KINETICS OF AGGREGATION IN ASSOCIATING SULFONATED POLYSTYRENE IONOMER SOLUTIONS. Laura Harris , Robert A. Weiss and Thomas A.P. Seery, University of Connecticut, Chemical Engineering Department, Chemistry Department and Polymer Program, Storrs, CT.

HH6.2
ASSOCIATIVE POLYMERS BEARING n-ALKYL HYDROPHOBES: RHEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR MICROGEL-LIKE BEHAVIOR IN ALKALINE MEDIA. Srinivasa R. Raghavan, Saad A. Khan , North Carolina State University, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Raleigh, NC; Robert J. English, The University of Leeds, Dept of Color Chemistry, Leeds, UNITED KINGDOM; Richard D. Jenkins, Union Carbide Asia Pacific Inc, SINGAPORE.

HH6.3
POLYURETHANE GELS IN THE CONTROLLED ADMINISTRATION OF ANTICANCER DRUGS. Erkesh O. Batyrbekov , Rinat Iskakov, Bulat A. Zhubanov, Institute for Chemical Sciences, Almaty, KAZAKSTAN.

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