455 Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale

Wednesday, October 31, 2012: 8:30 AM
411 (Convention Center )
Description:
The 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.

Sponsor:
Thermodynamics and Transport Properties

Chair:
Dilip Asthagiri
Email: dilipa@jhu.edu

Co-Chair:
Cynthia Lo
Email: clo@wustl.edu


8:30 AM
(455a) Crossover From a Hydrophobic to Hydrophilic Force Law in a Coarse-Grained Water Model
Aviel Chaimovich, Rahul R. Lele, Jacob Israelachvili and M. Scott Shell

8:48 AM
(455b) Extended Flory-Huggins Model for Poly-(ethylene) Oxide Solutions
Mangesh Chaudhari and Lawrence R. Pratt

9:06 AM
(455c) Investigating Polymer Relaxation in Nanochannels and Nanoslits
Yeng-Long Chen, Jen-Fang Chang and Pokeng Lin

9:24 AM
(455d) Fast Monte Carlo Simulation of Liquid Crystal Nanodroplets by Theoretically-Informed Metropolis Sampling of Alignment-Tensor Fields
Juan Pablo Hernandez-Ortiz, Orlando Guzman, Tyler Roberts and Juan J. de Pablo

9:42 AM
(455e) How Can Talc Surfaces Be Both Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic?
Benjamin Rotenberg, Amish J. Patel and David Chandler

10:00 AM
(455f) Structure and Properties of Sticky Colloids in Confined Systems
Deepti Ballal and Walter G. Chapman

10:18 AM
(455g) Scaled-Particle Theory and the Thermodynamics of Solvation Over a Range of States
Hank Ashbaugh

10:36 AM
(455h) An Eyring-Based Model to Estimate the Dynamic Viscosity of Nanofluids
Ricardo Macias-Salinas
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