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Symposium C: Smart Dielectric Polymer Properties, Characterization, and Their Devices

November 27 - 29, 2006

Chairs

Vivek Bharti		3M Company
Zhongyang Cheng		Auburn University
Qiming M. Zhang		The Pennsylvania State University
Yoseph Bar-Cohen		Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Gerhard M. Sessler		Darmstadt University of Technology

Symposium Support
3M Company	Trek Inc. Visit Exhibit Booth 719

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Monday Sessions | Tuesday Sessions | Wednesday Sessions

* Invited paper

SESSION C1: Piezoelectric and Electrets
Chairs: Vivek Bharti and Danilo De Rossi
Monday Morning, November 27, 2006
Room 201 (Hynes)
8:30 AM *C1.1
Maxwell-Wagner Piezo-electrets: A Concept for "man-made" Dipoles with Bipolar Interface Charges on "hard" Platelets in a "soft" Polymer Matrix. Reimund Gerhard-Multhaupt¹, Werner Wirges¹, Ruy Alberto Correa Altafim² and Ruy Alberto Pisani Altafim²; ¹Department of Physics, University of Potsdam, D-14469 Potsdam, Germany; ²Engineering School of São Carlos, University of São Paulo, CEP 13.560 São Carlos (SP), Brazil.

9:00 AM *C1.2
New Biopolymer Composite With Piezoelectric Properties. Dawnielle Farrar, Michael Yu, James E. West and Ilene Busch-Vishniac; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

9:30 AM C1.3
Finite Element Modeling of Smart Polymer Based Piezoelectric Composites. Ronit Kar-Gupta, Christian Marcheselli and T. A. Venkatesh; Mechanical Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.

9:45 AM C1.4
Domain Imaging of LB PVDF Copolymers by Piezoresponse Force Microscopy. Brian J Rodriguez¹, Stephen Jesse¹, Sergei V Kalinin¹, Jihee Kim² and Stephen Ducharme²; ¹Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; ²Department of Physics and Astronomy, Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM *C1.5
From Dielectric Elastomers to Piezo- and Ferroelectrets - Electromechanically Active Soft Matter Materials. Siegfried Bauer, Soft Matter Physics, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria.

11:00 AM *C1.6
Poling of Thermally Stable Ferroelectrets Heinz von Seggern, Zhongming Hu and Sergej Zhukov; Institute of Materials Science, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany.

11:30 AM C1.7
Electroactive Behavior of a New Nanostructured Polymer Ravi Shankar^1,2, Tushar K. K. Ghosh² and Richard J. Spontak^1,3; ¹Materials Science & Engineering, North Carolina State Un iversity, Raleigh, North Carolina; ²Fiber and Polymer Science Program, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina; ³Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.

11:45 AM C1.8
Simultaneous Stretching and Static Electric Poling of PVDF-HFP Copolymer Films. Huan Yan^1,2, Liu Yayan¹, Yang Yifei^1,2 and Wu Yanan³; ¹Green Chemistry And Process Labratory, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, China; ²Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; ³Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun, China.

SESSION C2: New Concepts/Materials and Optics
Chairs: Jeffrey Calame and Mohsen Shahinpoor
Monday Afternoon, November 27, 2006
Room 201 (Hynes)
1:30 PM *C2.1
Strain Amplification for Artificial Muscles and Sensors Using Giant Poisson Ratios and Giant Linear Compressibilities. L. J. Hall¹, V. R. Coluci², D. S. Galvao², M. Zhang¹, M. Kozlov¹, A. A. Zakhidov¹, S. R. Shah³, R. Raj³, A. B. Dalton⁴, J. D.W. Madden⁵, T. Mirfakhrai⁵, G. M. Spinks⁶, G. G. Wallace⁶, J. N. Barisci⁶, S. O. Dantas⁷, E. Munoz⁸ and Ray H. Baughman¹; ¹The NanoTech Institute, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas; ²Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas SP, Brazil; ³University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado; ⁴Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom; ⁵University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; ⁶University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia; ⁷Departmento de Fisica UFJF CEP, Minas Gerais, Brazil; ⁸Instituto de Carboquimica, Zaragoza, Saint Kitts and Nevis.

2:00 PM C2.2
Chemo-electrical energy conversion of Adenosine triphosphate in a Biological Ion Transporter. Vishnu Baba Sundaresan, Donald Leo and Brian Goode; Mechanical Engineering Department, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia.

2:15 PM C2.3
Two-phase Core/Polymer Shell Microcapsules Prepared by In Situ Polymerization for Electrophoretic Image Displays. Ru Qiao and Young Soo Kang; Department of Chemistry, Pukyong National Univ., Pusan, South Korea.

2:30 PM BREAK

3:30 PM C2.4
Nanocomposite with Very Large Electro-optic Effect and Widely Tunable Refractive Index. Qin Chen¹, Minren Lin², Jonathan E Lee¹, Qiming Zhang¹ and Shizhuo Yin¹; ¹Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; ²Materials Research Lab, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.

3:45 PM C2.5
Thermally Tunable Bandgap in Polymer Photonic Crystal Magdalena S Nawrocka, Tao Liu and Roberto R Panepucci; Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, Florida.

4:00 PM C2.6
Fundamental Understanding of the van der Waals - London Dispersive Interactions Of Polymers From Optical Properties Determined Using Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectroscopy Roger H. French^1,2, K. I. Winey², M. K. Yang¹ and Weiming Qiu¹; ¹DuPont Central Research, Wilmington, Delaware; ²Materials Science, University of Pennslyvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

4:15 PM C2.7
Highly Ordered Polymer Films of an Amphiphilic, Regioregular Polythiophene Derivative Jusroop Mattu, Thomas Johansson, Steven Holdcroft and Gary Leach; Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

4:30 PM C2.8
Ionic Self-Assembled Organic Nonlinear Optical Films for Electro-optic Devices. Cemil Durak¹, Akhilesh Garg², Kai Chen¹, Hans Robinson¹, Rick Davis², Harry Gibson³ and James R Heflin¹; ¹Dept. of Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia; ²Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia; ³Dept. of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia.

4:45 PM C2.9
Abstract Withdrawn

SESSION C3: Poster Session: Smart Dielectric Polymers
Chair: Qing Wang
Monday Evening, November 27, 2006
8:00 PM
Exhibition Hall D (Hynes)
C3.1
Radiation Dose Dependence of the Relaxor Ferroelectric P(VDF-TrFE) Copolymers Exposed to UV Radiation. Cezar Welter², Roberto Luiz Moreira² and Luiz Oliveira de Faria¹; ¹Materiais e Combustivel Nuclear, Centro de Desenvolvimento da Tecnologia Nuclear, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil; ²Física, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.

C3.2
Electrical and Microstructural Changes of β-PVDF under Different Processing Conditions by Scanning Force Microscopy Senentxu Lanceros-Mendez¹, J. Serrado Nunes¹, V. Sencadas¹, M. Belsley¹, H. Beige², A. Kouvatov², P. Vilarinho³ and A. Wu³; ¹Physics, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal; ²Physics, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany; ³Ceramic and Glass Engineering, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal.

C3.3
High Piezoelectric d31 Coefficient in Poly(vinylidene fluoride - hexafluoropropylene) Copolymers and its Nanocomposites. Bret Neese^1,3, Baojin Chu^1,3, Xin Zhou^2,3, Sheng Liu^2,3, Kailiang Ren^2,3, Qing Wang^1,3, Qiming Zhang^2,1,3, Cheng Huang⁴ and Howard Katz⁴; ¹Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; ²Department of Electrical Engineering, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; ³Materials Research Institute, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; ⁴Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

C3.4
Dielectric Breakdown Properties of Organic-Inorganic Polymer Nanocomposites. Lei Zhu^1,2, Li Cui^1,2, Amanda Feldman¹, Gobinda Saha^1,3, Alexandru D. Asandei^1,3, Chunchuan Xu¹ and Steven A. Boggs¹; ¹Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut; ²Department of Chemical, Materials, and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut; ³Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut.

C3.5
Melt Crystallization of Nanocomposites of Poly(Vinylidene Fluoride) with OMS. Bedriye Seyhan Gunduz¹, Peggy Cebe¹, Debeshu Amare², Robert Alpern⁴, Jennifer Crawford¹, Breanna Dolan³, Stacey Jones², Ryan Kobylarz² and Matthew Reveley¹; ¹Physics, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts; ²Chemistry, Gallaudet University, Washington, District of Columbia; ³Biotechnology, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York; ⁴Mechanical Eng., Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York.

C3.6
Dielectric Properties of PVDF-based Polymer/ZrO2 Nanocomposites Baojin Chu¹, Bret Neese¹, Xin Zhou^2,1, Minren Lin¹ and Qiming Zhang^2,1; ¹Materials Research Institute, The Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; ²Electrical Engineering Department, The Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.

C3.7
Influence of Particle Size and Thickness of Material on Anti-voltage Strength of Energy-storage Composite. Dabing Luo, Yan Guo and Hanxing Liu; State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials’ Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.

C3.8
Cyclolinear Polycarbosilane Graft Copolymers as Potential Low Dielectric Materials. Jaeyong Hyun, Junwon Han, Chang Y. Ryu and Leonard V. Interrante; Chemistry, Rensselare polytechnic institute, Troy, New York.

C3.9
Effect of Molecular Structure of Scavengers on Copper Diffusion Deterrence in Low k Film. Yutaka Nomura¹, Daisuke Ryuzaki² and Mitsumasa Koyanagi³; ¹Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd., Hitachi-shi, Ibaraki, Japan; ²Hitachi, Ltd., Kokubunji-shi, Tokyo, Japan; ³Tohoku University, Sendai-shi, Miyagi, Japan.

C3.10
Energetics of a Wavy Crack in a low-k Dielectric Film Confined by Elastic Substrates. Jae-Hyun Kim^1,2, Youbo Lin¹ and Joost J. Vlassak¹; ¹DEAS, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ²Nano-mechanical system research center, Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials, Daejeon, South Korea.

C3.11
Compact Polymer Actuators applied in Refreshable Braille Display Using P(VDF-TrFE-CFE) terpolymers Sheng Liu^1,2, Kailiang Ren^1,2, Minren Lin², Donald J Natale¹ and Qiming Zhang^1,2; ¹Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; ²Materials Research Inititute, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.

C3.12
Femtosecond Laser Micromachining in Azopolymer Films. Loren R. Cerami¹, Cleber R. Mendonca^1,2, Tommaso Baldacchini¹ and Eric Mazur¹; ¹Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ²Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil.

C3.13
Non-volatile Memory Based on Organic Field-Effect Transistors Using Chargeable Polymeric Gate Dielectrics Kang-Jun Baeg¹, Yong-Young Noh², Jieun Ghim¹, Seok-Ju Kang¹, Hyemi Lee¹ and Dong-Yu Kim¹; ¹Heeger Center for Advanced Materials (HCAM), Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju, South Korea; ²OE Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J J Thompson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.

C3.14
Abstract Withdrawn

C3.15
Novel Branched Structures for Optical and Electronic applications. Meng Guo and Theodore Goodson; University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

C3.16
Cylindrical Optical Waveguide Based Detection And Characterization Of Protein-Anti Protein Binding Events. Vijay Sekhar Reddy Kovvuri¹, Shalini Prasad¹, Sudhaprasanna Kumar Padigi¹, Ravi Kiran Kondama Reddy¹, Andres LaRosa² and Kofi Asaante²; ¹Electrical and Computer Science, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon; ²Department of Physics, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon.

C3.17
Enzymatic Synthesis of Polypyrrole Films and Colloids. Edgar Amaro¹, Layza Arizmendi^2,1, Maria E. Nicho¹, Jorge Romero-Garcia² and Rodolfo Cruz-Silva¹; ¹Laboratorio de Polimeros, Centro de Investigacion en Ingenieria y Ciencias Aplicadas, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico; ²Materiales Avanzados, Centro de Investigacion en Quimica Aplicada, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico.

C3.18
Manufacturing and Performance Evaluation of Organized Carbon Nanotube-Parylene Multi-Functional Active Thin-Films. MyungGwan Hahm¹, Selvapraba Selvarasah², Ernesto Lopez¹, Chia-Ling Chen², Yung Joon Jung¹, Mehmet Dokmeci² and Sinan Muftu¹; ¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts; ²Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts.

C3.19
Influence of CNT on the Crystallization Behavior of P(VDF-CTFE) Copolymers Xiaobing Shan, Suiqiong Li, Xin Yang and Zhongyang Cheng; Materials Research and Education Center, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama.

C3.20
Multiple Relaxations in Poly (p-hydroxybenzoic acid-CO-ethylene terepthalate) Liquid Crystal Polymer: TSD Current Investigations. Jitendra kumar Quamara, Sridharbabu Yarramaneni and Geetika Goyal; Physics, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India.

C3.21
Influence of the Crystallisation Kinetics on the Microstructural Properties of α-PVDF. Marco P Silva¹, Vitor Sencadas¹, Anabela G. Rolo¹, Ana Vera Machado² and Senentxu Lanceros-Mendéz¹; ¹Physics, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Braga, Portugal; ²IPC, IPC - Instituto de Polímeros e Compósitos, Universidade do Minho, Guimarães, Portugal.

SESSION C4: High-K and Low-K Materials
Chairs: Zhongyang Cheng and Reimund Gerhard-Multhaupt
Tuesday Morning, November 28, 2006
Room 201 (Hynes)
8:30 AM *C4.1
Ferroelectric Polymers with Chemically Tunable Dielectric Constants. YingYing Lu, Jason Claude, Qiming Zhang and Qing Wang; Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.

9:00 AM C4.2
Abstract Withdrawn

9:15 AM C4.3
Novel Fluorinated Low-Dielectric Constant Photodefinable Polymers for Low-Temperature Polymer Processing Michael Romeo¹, Kazuhiro Yamanaka^1,2, Kazuhiko Maeda² and Clifford Lee Henderson¹; ¹School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia; ²Central Glass Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.

9:30 AM C4.4
"Green" Processing for Creating Low-k Metalizable Polymer Films using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide. Tadanori Koga¹, John Jerome¹, Chelsea Gordon², Maya Endoh¹ and Miriam Rafailovich¹; ¹Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York; ²Half Hollow Hills High School, Dix Hills, New York.

9:45 AM C4.5
Abstract Withdrawn

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM C4.6
Diagnostic of the Self-healing Effect in P(VDF-TrFE-CFE) Terpolymer Coated with PEDOT Conducting Polymer Electrode. Kailiang Ren^1,2, Sheng Liu^1,2, Minren Lin² and Qiming Zhang^1,2; ¹Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; ²Material Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.

10:45 AM C4.7
Polymeric Electret Nanostructures and Biomaterials for Advanced Electronics and Biomedicine Cheng Huang¹, James E. West², Shawn Lim³ and Howard E. Katz¹; ¹Materials Science and Engineering Department, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; ²Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; ³Biomedical Engineering Department, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

11:00 AM C4.8
Dielectric Properties of CuPc Based Composites: A First Principles Computational Study. Ning Shi and Rampi Ramprasad; Institue of Materials Science, Department of Chemical, Materials and Biomolecular engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut.

11:15 AM C4.9
Parylene C used as Insulating Hydrophobic Layer for Liquid Lenses based on Electrowetting. Julien Legrand, Mathieu Maillard, Jérôme Peseux, Gaetan Liogier, Franck Amiot, Jean-Christophe Robert and Bruno Berge; VARIOPTIC, Lyon, France.

11:30 AM C4.10
Study of High-K Dielectric Layers on Porphyrin Polymers for Multi-state Charge Storage. Srivardhan Gowda, Guru Mathur, Zhong Chen and Veena Misra; Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.

11:45 AM C4.11
Synthesis and Dielectric Characterization of Poly Chloro-para-xylene Thin Films. Pratyush Tewari and Michael T. Lanagan; Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Pennsyalvania State University, University, University Park, Pennsylvania.

SESSION C5: Dielectric Composites
Chairs: Takeo Furukawa and T.J. Marks
Tuesday Afternoon, November 28, 2006
Room 201 (Hynes)
1:30 PM *C5.1
Microstructure-Based Simulation of the Dielectric Properties of Polymer-Ceramic Composites for Capacitor Applications. Jeffrey Calame, Electronics Science and Technology Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, District of Columbia.

2:00 PM *C5.2
High-dielectric Constant Polymer Composites. Ce-Wen Nan, Materials Science & Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

2:30 PM C5.3
A Study of the Microwave Dielectric Behavior and Microstucture of Electrically Lossy Al2O3-Precursor-Derived-SiC Composites. Jacob Battat and Jeffrey P. Calame; Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, District of Columbia.

2:45 PM C5.4
Fabrication of Energy Storage Media BST/PVDF-PAn Dabing Luo¹, Yan Guo¹ and Hanxing Liu¹; ¹State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials’ Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China; ²State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials’ Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:30 PM C5.5
Double-percolating Ferrite-Ni-polymer Composites with Enhanced Permittivity and Permeability. Yang Shen, Bao-Wen Li and Ce-Wen Nan; materials science and engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, Beijing, China.

3:45 PM C5.6
Hydrophobic Dielectrics of Fluoropolymer / BaTiO3 Nanocomposites for Low-Voltage and Charge-Storing Electrowetting Devices. Murali K. Kilaru, Gui Lin, James E. Mark and Jason Heikenfeld; Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.

4:00 PM C5.7
Dielectric Properties of CaCu3Ti4O12-P(VDF-TrFE) Composite Xiaobing Shan, Xin Yang, Kewei Zhang and Zhongyang Cheng; Materials Research and Education Center, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama.

4:15 PM C5.8
Observation of High-density Charge Storage in Hybrid Silicon/Molecular Electronic Devices with Organic Polymers. Srivardhan Gowda, Zhong Chen, Guru Mathur and Veena Misra; Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.

4:30 PM C5.9
Dielectric Relaxation Studies of Nanoscopically Confined PEO/Li⁺ Complexes. Georgios Polizos¹, Andreas Schönhals² and Evangelos Manias¹; ¹Materials Science & Engineering, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; ²Federal Institute of Materials Research and Testing, Berlin, Germany.

4:45 PM C5.10
Assembly of Oxidic Nanoparticles and Polymethylmethacrylate Beads. Simone Herth, Faculty of Physics, University Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany; Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.

SESSION C6: Devices
Chairs: Siegfried Bauer and Qiming Zhang
Wednesday Morning, November 29, 2006
Room 201 (Hynes)
8:30 AM *C6.1
ERPs Based Wearable Haptic Systems. Danilo DeRossi, Interdepartmental Research, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.

9:00 AM *C6.2
Pyroelectric Detection of Ferroelectric Heating in a VDF/TrFE Copolymer Film. Takeo Furukawa, Yuuji Ikezaki, Takashi Nakajima and Yoshiyuki Takahashi; Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan.

9:30 AM C6.3
Fabrication and Use of Electroactive Polymer Ribbon Actuators. Tim Fofonoff and Ian Hunter; BioInstrumentation Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

9:45 AM C6.4
Design and Characterization of Electroactive Polymer Based Composites for Mechanosensors. Jin Wang¹, Chunye Xu², Minoru Taya^2,1 and Yasuo Kuga³; ¹Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; ²Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; ³Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM C6.5
Spray Cast Silicone and Polyurethane Dielectric Actuators. Jeffrey P. Szabo¹, John A. Hiltz¹, Jacob Leidner² and Jason Massey²; ¹Emerging Materials Section, DRDC Atlantic, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; ²Bodycote Materials Testing Canada, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

10:45 AM C6.6
Dynamic Behavior Investigation of the Piezoelectric PVDF for Flexible Finger Printing. Wen Yang Chang^1,2, Ying-Hui Cheng¹, Chun-Hsun Chu¹ and Ying-Chiang Hu¹; ¹Industrial Technology Research Institute, Tainan, Taiwan; ²Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.

11:00 AM C6.7
Dielectric Polymer with High Electric Energy Density and Fast Discharge Speed Xin Zhou¹, Baojin Chu^2,3, Kailiang Ren¹, Bret Neese^2,3, Minren Lin³, Qing Wang^2,3 and Qiming Zhang^1,2,3; ¹Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; ²Materials Science and Engineering Department, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; ³Materials Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.

11:15 AM C6.8
Actuation of Self Assembled, Porous Films of Poly(3-hexylthiophene). Priam Vasudevan Pillai, Patrick Anquetil and Ian Hunter; Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

11:30 AM C6.9
Novel Highly Fluorinated Poly(Arylene Ether-1,3,4-Oxadiazole)s, Their Preparation and Sensory Properties to Fluoride Anion. Jianfu Ding and Michael Day; Institute for Chemical Process and Environmental Technology, Natioanl Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

11:45 AM C6.10
Actuation Based on Π-stacking Intermolecular Interactions Miklos Kertesz¹, Gyoosoon Park^2,1 and Jingsong Huang¹; ¹Chemistry, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia; ²Chemistry, Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea.

SESSION C7: CNT and EAP
Chairs: Ray Baughman and Ce-Wen Nan
Wednesday Afternoon, November 29, 2006
Room 201 (Hynes)
1:30 PM *C7.1
Ionic Polymer Conductor Nano-Composites as Distributed Nanosensors, Nanoactuators and Artificial Muscles - A Review. Mohsen Shahinpoor, Environmental Robots, Inc., Biomedical Products Division, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

2:00 PM *C7.2
Hybrid Organic Dielectrics for Flexible, Low Voltage Thin-Film Transistors and Charge Storage Applications. Tobin Marks, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

2:30 PM C7.3
The Direct Correlation of Electrical and Mechanical Properties of Electrically Conducting Polymers by Conductive-Nanoindentation. Ryan C. Major, David J. Vodnick, Oden L. Warren and Syed Asif; Hysitron Inc, Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

2:45 PM C7.4
Conductive Polymer Driven Catheter. Tina Shoa Hassani Lashidani¹, Victor X. Yang² and John D. Madden¹; ¹AMPEL, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; ²Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:30 PM C7.5
A Study on Formation of Needle-like Polyanilines. Woo-Hyuk Jung¹, Dong-Young Kim², Young-Moo Kim³ and Stephen P. McCarthy¹; ¹Plastics Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts; ²Photo Electronic Materials Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, South Korea; ³Department of Industrial Chemistry, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea.

3:45 PM C7.6
Polarization Induced Surface Chemical Kinetics of Kapton-H Polyimide. Satish Kummar Mahna, Pushkar Raj and Balbhadra Kummar Kaushik; Physics, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India.

4:00 PM C7.7
Native Domain Orientation and Local, Reversible Polarisation Switching in Ferroelectric Polymer Nanotubes. Markus Geuss^1,4, Martin Steinhart¹, Yun Luo¹, Petra Goering¹, Andreas von Rhein³, Ralf Boris Wehrsphon³, Thomas Thurn-Albrecht², Klaus Rademann⁴ and Ulrich Goesele¹; ¹Max-Plank-Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle (Saale), Germany; ²Institute of Physics, Martin Luther University, Halle (Saale), Germany; ³Institute of Physics, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany; ⁴Institute of Chemistry, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.

4:15 PM C7.8
Multi-Scale Modeling of Ferroelectric Polymers Rajeev Ahluwalia¹, Michael B Sullivan², Jianwei Zheng², David J Srolovitz³, Alfred Huan¹, Ping Wu², Takehisa Ishida⁴, Kanzo Okada⁴ and Sunil M Bhangale⁴; ¹Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore, Singapore; ²Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore, Singapore; ³Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; ⁴SONY ELECTRONICS (Singapore), Singapore, Singapore.

4:30 PM C7.9
Effect of DC Glow Discharge Treatment on Surface Resistivity of Thin Films of Polypropylene (PP) and Polystyrene (PS). Rajesh Kumar and Vineet Sharma; Physics, Jaypee University Of Information Technology, Solan, H.P, India.

4:45 PM C7.10
Nano-Structural Control of Molecular-Pore Stacked (MPS) SiOCH Films Using Plasma Copolymerization Reaction. Hironori Yamamoto, Fuminori Ito, Munehiro Tada, Tsuneo Takeuchi, Naoya Furutake and Yoshihiro Hayashi; NEC Corporation, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan.