Session: Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale I (2014 Annual Meeting)

658 Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale I

Thursday, November 20, 2014: 8:30 AM

Crystal Ballroom A/F (Hilton Atlanta)

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:

Amish J. Patel
Email: pamish@seas.upenn.edu

Co-Chair:

Jindal Shah
Email: Jindal.K.Shah.7@nd.edu

8:30 AM

(658a) Solvent Cavitation Under Solvophobic Confinement
Hank Ashbaugh

8:50 AM

(658b) Thermodynamic Analysis of the Role of Material Flexibility on the Drying Transition of Water Between Hydrophobic Objects
Y. Elia Altabet and Pablo G. Debenedetti

9:10 AM

(658c) Wetting-Dewetting Transitions on Superhydrophobic Surfaces
Fnu Suruchi and Amish Patel