Monday, 31 October 2005: 8:00 AM-10:30 AM
Grand Ballroom B (Millennium Hotel)

Thermodynamics and Transport Properties (01a)

#42 - Thermodynamics at Nanoscale (01A09)
The session welcomes contributions on experimental, theoretical, and computational studies of systems and phenomena where a sub-micron or nanoscale length (intermediate between an atomistic size and a macroscopic size) explicitly affects the thermodynamic properties. Finite-size and fluctuation thermodynamics, thermodynamics of soft-matter materials (such as polymers, gels, microemulsions, and bio-membranes), wetting and interfacial phenomena, thermodynamics of pattern formation and fractals at nanoscale are examples of the topics to be considered for this session.
CoChair:You-Yeon Won
Chair:Mikhail A Anisimov
8:00 AMSelf-Assembly of Block Copolymers in a Liquid Crystal Solvent: Consequences of "Switchable Quality"
Neal Scruggs, Julia Kornfield
8:21 AMSurfactant Design for Hydrofluoroalkane-Based Pmdis: a Microscopic Investigation Using Chemical Force Microscopy
Libo Wu, Sandro R. P. da Rocha
8:42 AMMetastable Mesoscopic Clusters in Low-Ionic Strength Protein Solutions
Weichun Pan, Oleg Galkin, Luis Filobelo, Peter G. Vekilov
Part 1 
9:03 AMA Simulation Study of Capillary Condensation and Freezing of Krypton within Realistic Models of MCM-41 Materials
Francisco R. Hung, Benoit Coasne, Malgorzata Sliwinska-Bartkowiak, Keith E. Gubbins
9:24 AMA Macrothermodynamical Approach to the Limit of Reversible Capillary Condensation
Philippe TRENS, Nathalie Tanchoux, Francesco Di Renzo, François Fajula
Part 2 
9:45 AMInterfacial Properties and Structure of Polymer Blends and Solutions from Interfacial-Saft (Isaft) Density Functional Theory
Sandeep Tripathi, Aleksandra Dominik, Walter G. Chapman
10:06 AMOn the Stability of Ordered Ultrathin Organic Films: Dewetting and Ostwald Ripening
Jaime Ruiz-Garcia, R. D. Cadena-Nava, J. L. Cuellar-Camacho, E. A. Vazquez-Martinez, M. A. Valdez-Covarrubias
Sponsor:Engineering Sciences and Fundamentals
Cosponsors:Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum

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