Thursday, November 8, 2007: 12:30 PM-3:00 PM
Room 259 (Salt Palace Convention Center)

Polymers (08a)

#597 - Ionic Polymers and Gels (08A14)
The presence of ionogenic species within polymers gives rise to interesting phenomena with wide-ranging applications; such ion-containing polymers (polyelectrolytes and ionomers) will be the subject of this session. Papers discussing novel materials (polymers, gels, composites) and applications(batteries, photovoltaic cells, sensors, supercapacitors) as well as those devoted to improving the understanding of properties (such as but not limited to, transport mechanisms, self-assembly behavior, polymer structure and conformation, mechanical properties) will be considered. The underlying theme connecting the talks will be the influence of ions on polymeric materials in the areas mentioned above. Discussions on new perspectives and fundamental investigations are especially welcome as are both experimental and theoretical results.
Chair:Aflal M. Rahmathullah
CoChair:Rhutesh K. Shah
12:30 PM597aImaging the Lithium Distribution within Nanostructured Polymer Electrolytes
Enrique D. Gomez, Nitash P Balsara
12:48 PM597bElectrospinning Nafion® Nanofibers
Hong Chen, Joshua D. Snyder, Yossef A. Elabd
1:06 PM597cNon-Mean-Field Electrostatic Correlations in Polyelectrolyte Brushes
Tao Jiang, Jianzhong Wu
1:24 PM597dMolecular Dynamics Simulation of Inorganic Ions in Peo Aqueous Solution Using on Quantum-Chemistry-Based Force Field
Zhi Tao, Lukas Vlcek, Peter T. Cummings
1:42 PM597eNano-Structured Functional Poly(Vinyl Pyrrolidone) Hydrogels Synthesized by Ionizing Irradiation
Jung-Chul An, Dianne Poster, Wyatt N. Vreeland, Joseph Silverman, Mohamad Al-Sheikhly
2:00 PM597fStudy on the Gel Polymer Electrolyte Based on the Synthesized Copolymer of Pmma-Mah
Yun Huang, Xiaoyan Ma, Shuhui Wang, Fang Chen, Xiaohong Qu
2:18 PM597gLithium Ion Gels Containing Porous Pvdf-Hfp Matrix Filled with Crosslinked Peg
Baoku Zhu, Zhenyu Cui, Mei Zhang, Gaige Han, Youyi Xu
2:36 PM597hStructure and Properties of Nanocomposite Gel Polymethyl Methacrylate Electrolytes
Shuhua Qi, Xiaoyan Ma, Fang Chen, Xiaohong Qu, Yun Huang

See more of Materials Engineering and Sciences Division

See more of The 2007 Annual Meeting