Preliminary Program subject to change
01A08 Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale
OverviewThe session welcomes contributions on experimental, theoretical, and computational studies of systems and phenomena where a nanoscale characteristic length explicitly affects thermodynamic and transport properties. Fundamentals of nanoscale thermodynamics, such as finite-size and fluctuation thermodynamics, non-equilibrium and equilibrium thermodynamics of micro phase separation, phase transitions in nano-confined systems, nonequilibrium thermodynamics of pattern formation and fractals at nanoscale are examples of the topics to be considered for this session.
Primary SponsorThermodynamics and Transport Properties (01a)

Chair

Cynthia S. Lo
Assistant Professor
Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering
Washington University in St. Louis
1 Brookings Drive
Campus Box 1180
St. Louis, MO 63130
Phone Number: 314-935-8055
Fax Number: 314-935-7211
Email: clo@wustl.edu

CoChair

Dilip Asthagiri
Assistant Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD 21218
Phone Number: 410-516-3475
Fax Number: 410-516-7170
Email: dilipa@jhu.edu
A Theoretical Study of Tethered Nanoparticles as Novel Fillers In Polymer Nanocomposites
Arthi Jayaraman, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309 and Kenneth S. Schweizer, Department of Material Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1304 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801
Asymmetric Charge Patterning on Surfaces and Interfaces
Sharon Loverde, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19103 and Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208
Available States Versus Available Space: Which Predicts the Self-Diffusivity of Dense Confined Fluids?
Gaurav Goel1, Jeetain Mittal2, Mark Pond1, Vincent K. Shen3, Jeffrey R. Errington4 and Thomas M. Truskett5, (1)Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station, C0400, Austin, TX 78705, (2)Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institutes of Health, 5 Memorial dr, Room 114, Bethesda, MD 20892, (3)Phyiscal and Chemical Properties Division, NIST, 100 Bureau Dr. MS 8380, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8380, (4)Chemical and Biological Engineering, University at Buffalo, 303 Furnas Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260, (5)Department of Chemical Engineering and Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station, C0400, Austin, TX 78712
Brownian Dynamics Simulations to Determine Anisotropy In Diffusion Constants of Nonmagnetic Particle In Magnetic Fluids
Saurabh Tejwani, Kenneth A. Smith and T. Alan Hatton, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
Cavitation In Metastable Nanoconfined Fluids
Alexander V. Neimark, Christopher Rasmussen and Aleksey Vishnyakov, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University, 98 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058
Effects of Confinement on Small Water Clusters Structure and Proton Transport
Pussana Hirunsit and Perla B. Balbuena, Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 3122, TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-3122
Geometry and Phase Behavior of Cell Membranes In Response to Curvature Inducing Proteins Investigated Using Field Theoretic as Well as Hybrid Particle-Field Simulation Methodologies
Neeraj Agrawal, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 210 South 33rd Street, 240 Skirkanich Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19104, Jonathan Nukpezah, Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, 210 South 33rd Street, 240 Skirkanich Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19104 and Ravi Radhakrishnan, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, 210 South 33rd Street, 240 Skirkanich Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Graphene Sheets-Oil Nanocomposites: Equilibrium and Transport Properties from Molecular Simulation
Deepthi Konatham, School of Chemical Biological and Materials Engineering, The University of Oklahoma, 100 East Boyd St, Sarkeys Energy Center T-335, Norman, OK 73019 and Alberto Striolo, School of Chemical Biological and Materials Engineering, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019
Multi-Scale Modelling Efforts for Diblock Copolymers
Sharon Loverde1, Vanessa Ortiz2, Dennis Discher2 and Michael Klein3, (1)Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19103, (2)University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19103, (3)Center for Molecular Modeling, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19103
Structural and Mechanical Properties of Glassy Water In Nanoscale Confinement
Thomas G. Lombardo1, Nicolas Giovambattista1 and Pablo G. Debenedetti2, (1)Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, (2)Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, Engineering Quadrangle, Princeton, NJ 08544
Structure Characteristics of Hydration Layer Confined to Slab Geometry of Rutile(110)
Xin Feng, Mingjie Wei, Qing Shao, Linghong Lu and Xiaohua Lu, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing, 210009, China
The Role of Phase Separated Nanodomains In the Solubility of Mixed-Monolayer-Protected Metal Nanoparticles
Andrea Centrone, Erika Penzo, Alicia M. Jackson and Francesco Stellacci, Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
When Nano-Confined Between Mica Sheets, Does Dodecane Undergo a Phase Transition?
Hugh Docherty and Peter T. Cummings, Department of Chemical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235-1604

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