Preliminary Program subject to change
08A17 Multiscale Modeling and Characterization of Polymers
OverviewThis session focuses on multiscale simulation to characterize the behavior of polymeric materials and produce insight into structure property relationships. The appropriate simulation protocols span or connect two or more scales of time, size or detail in the polymeric materials.
Primary SponsorPolymers (08a)

Chair

Coray M. Colina
Dr.
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
121 Steidle Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone Number: 814-865-3351
Fax Number: 814-865-2917
Email: colina@matse.psu.edu

CoChair

Ahmed E. Ismail
Performance Assessment and Decisions Analysis Department
Sandia National Laboratories
4100 National Parks Hwy
Carlsbad, NM 88220
Phone Number: 575-887-9388
Email: aei@alum.mit.edu
Molecular Dynamics Studies on the Dispersion of Silica Nanoparticles In Polyethylene Melt Using a Coarse-Grained Model
Yangyang Shen, Chemical and Biochemcial Engineering, Rutgers University, 98 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, Aleksey Vishnyakov, Chemical and Biochemcial Engineering, Rutgers University, 98 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058 and M. Silvina Tomassone, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University, 98 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854
Nanoparticle Formation by Amphiphilic Block Copolymer Directed Assembly: A Model Study Using Molecular/brownian Dynamics Simulations
Chungyin Cheng, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, Monica H. Lamm, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State University/DOE Ames Laboratory, A510 Zaffarano Hall, Ames, IA 50011, R. O. Fox, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Iowa State University, 2114 Sweeney Hall, Ames, IA 50011-2230 and R. Dennis Vigil, Iowa State University, 2114 Sweeney Hall, Ames, IA 50011
Multi-Scale Modelling Efforts for Diblock Copolymers
Sharon Loverde, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19103, Vanessa Ortiz, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19103, Dennis E. Discher, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Room 129 Towne Building, 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6393 and Michael Klein, Center for Molecular Modeling, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19103
Numerical Study of Polymer-Silica Nanocomposites :Molecular Weight Effect on Their Mechanical Properties
Thomas R. Roussel, Joshua Moore and Keith Gubbins, North Carolina State University, Engineering Building I, Box 7905, Raleigh, NC 27695-7905
A Multiscale Approach to Predicting Barrier Properties of Polymer Nanocomposites
Youthachack Landry Khounlavong, Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station, Code C0400, Austin, TX 78712, Venkat Ganesan, Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station, Code C0400, Austin, TX 78712 and Victor Pryamitsyn, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station, Code C0400, Austin, TX 78712
A 3-D Approach to Model Diffusion In Randomly Distributed Nanocomposite
Matteo Minelli, Marco Giacinti Baschetti and Ferruccio Doghieri, Department of Chemical Engineering, Mining and Environment Technology, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Via Terracini 34, Bologna, Italy
Molecular Simulation of Nanoscale Distribution and Mobility of Water and Dimethylmethylphosphonate In Sulfonated Polystyrene
Aleksey Vishnyakov, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 98 Brett rd, Piscataway, NJ 08854 and Alexander V. Neimark, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 98 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854
Characterization of Entangled Cross-Linked Poly(ethylene glycol) Hydrogels with Dangling Ends
Mahnaz Eskandari, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Suite 214A, 10 W. 33rd street, Chicago, IL 60616, Arsun Artel, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, 10 W 33rd Street, Chicago, IL 60616, Eric M. Brey, Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Engineering 1 Building, Room 116, 10 W. 32nd Street, Chicago, IL 60616 and Ali Cinar, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, 10 W. 33rd Street, Chicago, IL 60616

Materials Engineering and Sciences Division