Program overview

MONDAY AFTERNOON, 3 MARCH 2003

C1.001 Complex Structured Materials

C1.002 Preparation and characterization of magnetic nanocomposite in polymer matrix by ion-implantation

M. WEIGAND, R.J. Patel, M. Curry, K. Ghosh, R.E. Giedd (Phys. Astro amp; Mat. Science, Dept. Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield), S.R. Mishra (Dept. of Physics, The University of Memphis, Memphis), J.Y. Rho, A. Wagh (Dept. of Biomed. Engg., The University of Memphis, Memphis), Dept. of Physics Collaboration, Dept. of Biomed. Engg. Collaboration

C1.003 First-principles Study of the Adsorption of Carbon Atoms on Copper Surfaces

Tu Hu, Qiming Zhang (U of Texas at Arlington), X. G. Gong (Fudan Univ, China), Jack C. Wells, Zhenyu Zhang (ORNL)

C1.004 The effect of irradiation on the absorption and four-wave mixing properties in Eu3+-doped aluminosilicate glasses

N. Anterhaus, A.Y. Hamad (Southern Illinois University), J.J. Martin, C.A. Hunt, J.P. Wicksted (Oklahoma State University)

C1.005 Nanoscale Phase Separation of GeS2 Glass

Cai Liuchun, Boolchand P. (University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0030)

C1.006 Electrical characterization and morphological studies of conducting polymer nanofibers

N.J. Pinto (Univ. of Puerto Rico), Y.X. Zhou, M. Freitag, A.T. Johnson, A.G. MacDiarmid (Univ. of Pennsylvania), C.H. Mueller (The Analex Corporation, Cleveland), N. Theofylaktos, D.C. Robinson, F.A. Miranda (NASA-Glenn Research Center)

C1.007 Temperature dependence of interface barrier height change as implicated by field emission studies of aligned-multiwall carbon nanotubes

Chen Sheng-Yuan (Department of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, ROC 30042), Lue Juh-Tzeng (Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, ROC 30042)

C1.008 Properties of Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Suspended in Various Surfactants

Valerie C. Moore, Michael S. Strano, Erik H. Haroz, Leslie McAhren, Robert H. Hauge, Richard E. Smalley (Rice University)

C1.009 Nanoscale Building Blocks and Nanoassembly of Structures

Cengiz Ozkan (Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of California, Riverside), Sathyajith Ravindran, Mihrimah Ozkan, Brooke Colburn

C1.010 Insulating to metallic transition under pressure in SWNT

Richard Falconi, José Antonio Azamar (Departamento de Física Aplicada CINVESTAV, Mérida, Yuc. MEXICO. 97310), Roberto Escudero (Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales UNAM)

C1.011 Charge Density Fluctuations and Magnetoplasmons for a Nanotube

Godfrey Gumbs (Department of Physics and Astronomy,Hunter College of the City University of New York, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021), Chwen-Yang Shew (Department of Chemistry, College of Staten Island of the City University of New York, 2800 Victory Boulevard, Staten Island, NY 10314)

C1.012 Solubility and Phase Behavior of Chemically Oxidized SWNT in Super Acid Suspensions

Hua Fan, Lars Ericson, Ramesh Sivarajan, Carter Kittrell, Wade Adams, Robert Hauge (Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Rice University, Houston), Richard Smalley (smalley@rice.edu)

C1.013 FIELD-EMISSION CHARACTERIZATION OF CARBON NANOTUBES GROWN ON METAL SUBSTRATES

Andrei Chakhovskoi, Nickolai Chubun (University of California, Davis, ECE Department), Thomas Felter (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Raouf Loutfy, Moravsky Alexander (MER Corp., Tucson, AZ)

C1.014 Light Scattering Study on SWNTs Solutions

Tong Wang, Tao Liu, T. Veedu Sreekumar, Satish Kumar (School of Textile and Fiber Engineering , Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332), Rina Tannenbaum (School of Materials Science and Engineering), Vallerie Moore, R.H. Hauge, R.E. Smalley (Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005)

C1.015 Polarized Raman Spectroscopy on the Intrinsic Alignment of Organically Modified SWNT Fibers Extruded from Super Acid Suspensions

Joseph A. Sulpizio, Lars M. Ericson, Hua Fan (Rice University Department of Physics and Astronomy), Sivarajan Ramesh, Rajesh K. Saini, W.E. Billups, Robert H. Hauge (Rice University Department of Chemistry), Richard E. Smalley (Rice University Department of Physics and Astronomy and Department of Chemistry)

C1.016 Ozone and Other Oxidant Reactions with Individually Dispersed Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes in Surfactant and Water Solutions

Zhenning Gu (Rice University Department of Chemistry), Jonah Shaver (Rice University Department of Physics and Astronomy), Carter Kittrell, John L. Margrave, Robert H. Hauge (Rice University Department of Chemistry), Richard E. Smalley (Rice University Departments of Chemistry and Physics)

C1.017 Synthesis and characterization of Se nano-structures inside the one-dimensional channels of zeolite

Irene Ling Li (Dept. of Physics, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, KLN, HK, China), Pascale Launois (LPS (UMR CNRS 8502), bat. 510, univ. Paris Sud, 91405 Orsay, France), Zi Kang Tang (Dept. of Physics, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, KLN, HK, China)

C1.018 Magnetoelectric Effects at Piezoresonance in Ferromagnetic-Ferroelectric Layered Composites

D. A. Filippov, M. I. Bichurin, V. M. Petrov (Novgorod State University, Russia), G. Srinivasan (Oakland University, Rochester, MI)

C1.019 Measurements of rock permeability and porosity by continuous-flow laser-polarized xenon NMR

R. Wang, D.G. Cory (MIT), R.W. Mair, M.S. Rosen, R.L. Walsworth (Harvard-Smithsonian)

C1.020 Theory of Low-Frequency Magnetoelectric Effects in Ferromagnetic-Ferroelectric Layered Composites: Free and Clamped Samples

M. I. Bichurin, V. M. Petrov (Novgorod State University, Russia), G. Srinivasan (Oakland University, Rochester, MI)

C1.021 Nano-structured Morphology of Electrospun Polymer-Carbon Nanotube Composite Fibers

Gunaranjan Viswanathan (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY), Prabir Patra, Steve Warner (Dept. of Textile Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA), Chang Y. Ryu (Dept. of Chemistry, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY), Pulickel M. Ajayan (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY)

C1.022 SWNT/PAN Composite Film based SuperCapacitors

Tao Liu, T.V. Sreekumar, Satish Kumar (School of Textile and Fiber Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332), Robert H. Hauge, Richard E. Smalley (Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, Houston, TX77005)

C1.023 Influence of Defects on the Elastic Properties of Carbon Nanotubes

Sergei Shenogin, Rahmi Ozisik (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

C1.024 Frustration in Condensed Matter: Three-Dimensional Simulations.

C. E. Woodruff, C. Boekema (San Jose State University)

C1.025 The Effects of Cs on the Raman Modes of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes

Xiaofeng Duan (Major Shared Resource Center for High Performance Computing, Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio), Brahim Akdim, Ruth Pachter (Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials amp; Manufacturing Directorate, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio)

C1.026 Characterization of traps in SOI wafers by transconductance characteristics of MOSFETs

Tatsuro Hanajiri, Yoshikata Nakajima, Hideki Tomita, Kenichi Aoto, Toru Toyabe, Takitaro Morikawa, Takuo Sugano (Bio-nanoelectronics Research Center,Toyo University, Kawagoe, Saitama, 350-8585,JAPAN)

C1.027 Defect Structures in Zinc/Tin Codoped Indium Oxide Transparent Conductors

Oliver Warschkow, Ljubomir Miljacic (Northwestern University, Department of Physics and Astronomy), Jason A. Sese (University of Maryland, Broward County), Thomas A. Mason (Northwestern University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering), Donald E. Ellis (Northwestern University, Department of Physics and Astronomy)

C1.028

C1.029 Carbon nano-fiber growth on the anode during hydrogen DC arc-discharge

Hisashi Kajiura, Houjin Huang, Shigemitsu Tsutsui (Materials Laboratories, Sony Corporation), Yousuke Murakami (Technical Solutions Center, Sony Corporation), Mitsuaki Miyakoshi (Materials Laboratories, Sony Corporation)

C1.030 Magneto Electronic and Optical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes

F. L. Shyu (Department of Physics, Chinese Military Academy, Kaohsiung, Taiwan), C. P. Chang (Center for General Education, Tainan Woman's College of Art and Technology, Tainan, Taiwan), R. B. Chen (Department of Electrical Engineering, Cheng Shiu Institute Technology, Kaohsiung, Taiwan), C. W. Chiu, M. F. Lin (Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan)

C1.031 Obtaining Isolated SWNTs from Bundles without the Use of a Surfactant

C. A. Furtado, U. J. Kim, G. Chen, P. C. Eklund (The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Physics, 104 Davey Laboratory, University Park, PA, 16802.)

C1.032 Magneto Electronic Excitations in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

C. W. Chiu (Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan), C. P. Chang (Center for General Education, Tainan Woman's College of Art and Technology, Tainan, Taiwan), F. L. Shyu (Department of Physics, Chinese Military Academy, Kaohsiung, Taiwan), R. B. Chen (Department of Electrical Engineering, Cheng Shiu Institute Technology, Kaohsiung, Taiwan), M. F. Lin (Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan)

C1.033 Raman modes of carbon nanotubes under pressure

D. Masica, B. Buller (Affiliation), U. Venkateswaran (Oakland University)

C1.034 Magneto-band of the stacked Nanographite Ribbons

C.P. Chang (Center for General Education, Tainan Woman's College of Arts amp; Technology, Tainan, Taiwan), C.W. Chiu (Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan), F.L. Shyu (Department of Physics, Chinese Military Academy Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan), R. B. Chen (Department of Electrical Engineering, Cheng Shiu Institute Technology, Kaohsiung, Taiwan), M.F. Lin (Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan)

C1.035 Electronic transport in monolayers of multiwall carbon nanotubes

Vladimir Samuilov (Department of Materials Science, SUNYSB, Stony Brook, N.Y.), Jean Galibert (Laboratoire National des Champs Magn?tiques Puls?s, 143, Avenue de Rangueil, F-31432 Toulouse, CEDEX 4 (France)), Edina Couteau, Maria Seo (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, DP-IGA, PH Ecublens, CH-1015, Lausanne, Suisse), John Sokolov, Miriam Rafailovich (Department of Materials Science, SUNYSB, Stony Brook, N.Y.)

C1.036 Phase Transitions in Single-wall Carbon Nanotube Bundles under Hydrostatic Pressure

X.H. Zhang, D.Y. Sun (Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China), Z. F. Liu (Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong-Kong,Shatin, Hong-Kong, China), X. G. Gong (Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China)

C1.037 Insight Into Carbon Nanotube - Polymer Nanocomposite Stabilization From Simplified Models

Kristopher E. Wise, Cheol Park (ICASE), Peter T. Lillehei, Emilie J. Siochi (Advanced Materials and Processing Branch, NASA Langley Research Center)

C1.038 Fluids

C1.039 Phase separation in a multi-component driven fluid mixture:a lattice gas computer simulation approach

Luis Cueva-Parra (University of Southern Mississippi), Ras Pandey (Naval Research Laboratory, University of Southern Mississippi), Ray Seyfarth (University of Southern Mississippi), Joe Gettrust (Naval Research Laboratory)

C1.040 Complex Structure Formation in a Ternary Mixture Driven Through the Patterned Microchannel

Olga Kuksenok, Anna Balazs (Chemical Engineering Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA)

C1.041 A molecular dynamics simulation study of the switching dynamics of a nematic liquid crystal under an applied electrical field

Pu Tian, Dmitry Bedrov, Grant Smith (Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Chemical and Fuels Engineering, University of Utah), Matthew Glaser, Joseph Maclennan (Department of Physics and Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center,University of Colorado,Boulder)

C1.042 Liquid crystal orientation transition induced by microtextured substrates

Baoshe Zhang, Fuk Kay Lee, Ping Sheng, Ophelia K. C. Tsui (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

C1.043 Investigating the Elastic Properties of N4 Through Freedericksz Transitions

David J. Merriman, Shila Garg (Department of Physics, The College of Wooster, Wooster OH 44691)

C1.044 Physicochemical Properties of Novel Polymer Nanoparticles

Jong H. Han, Ingrid Stepanek, Pradeep P. Bhat, Matteo Pasquali, Michael S. Wong (RICE University, Department of Chemical Engineering, Houston, TX 77005)

C1.045 Structure and Phase Transitions in Confined Binary Colloid Mixtures

Bianxiao Cui, Binhua Lin, Stuart A. Rice (The James Franck Institute, Department of Chemistry, and CARS, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637)

C1.046 Surface Chemistry Effects for Microrheology of Biological Materials

M.T. Valentine, M.L. Gardel (Dept. of Physics, Harvard University), Z. Perlman, T.J. Mitchison (Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School), D.A. Weitz (Dept of Physics amp; DEAS, Harvard University)

C1.047 Absorption Optics of Aqueous Foams

Alex Gittings, Ranjini Bandyopadhyay, Douglas Durian (UCLA)

C1.048 Discrete analogs of two-dimensional flow

William Schwalm (Department of Physics, University of North Dakota), Mizuho Schwalm (Physics/Computer Science, University of North Dakota)

C1.049 Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films

C1.050 Positron induced Auger spectroscopy of Ge/Si (001)

Jinggang Zhu, Jiong Yan, Anat Eshed, Xie Shuping (Affiliation), Alex Weiss (The University of Texas at Arlington), UTA positron Team

C1.051 STUDY OF GROWTH AND MORPHOLOGY OF Ge/Si (001) NANOSTRUCTURES

Jinggang Zhu, Jiong Yan, Anat Eshed, Alex Weiss (University of Texas at Arlington)

C1.052 Gamma spectra resulting from the annihilation of positrons with elecrons in single core levels of Cu, Ag and Au

Seogkyu Kim, Anat Eshed (The University of Texas at Arlington), S. Goktepeli Collaboration, A.R. Koymen Collaboration, W.C. Chen Collaboration, D.J. O'Kelly Collaboration, P.A. Sterne Collaboration, M. Nadesalingam Collaboration, A.H. Weiss Collaboration

C1.053 A Surface X-ray Diffraction Study of Hydrogen on Ni(111)

Christopher Walker, Marcelo Ackermann, Odile Robach, Carlos Quiros, Helena Isern, Salvador Ferrer (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility)

C1.054 Anomaly of the height correlation in a surface with a globally constrained dynamics

Jin Min Kim (Soongsil Univ.), Hyeong-Chai Jeong (Sejong Univ.), H. Choi, Yup Kim (Kyung-Hee Univ.)

C1.055 Time Dependence of Step Fluctuations on Vicinals of Cu(100)

Altaf Karim, Talat S. Rahman (Department of Physics, Kansas State University), Marko Rusanen, Tapio Ala Nissila (Laboratory of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland), Ismo Koponen (Department of Physical Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland)

C1.056 Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves From a Rough Dielectric Film on a Planar Metallic Substrate

Alvaro Soto-Pérez, Raúl García-Llamas (Departamento de Investigación en Física, Universidad de Sonora)

C1.057 Self Assembly of Paired Plate Precipitate Structures in Pb0.91La0.09Zr0.65Ti0.35O3 PLZT Thin Films

Cengiz Ozkan (Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of California, Riverside), Bahadir Tunaboylu Collaboration

C1.058 Electrical Transport Properties of InAs Epilayer Grown on GaAs (001) Substrate By MBE

L.C. Cai, H. Chen, C.L. Bao, Q. Huang, J.M. Zhou (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 10080, People¡¯s Republic of China)

C1.059 Determination of the activation energies based on the surface morphology of YBa2Cu3O7-x thin films

Aminta Mendoza, Liliana Tirado, Diego Arias, Octavio Guzmán (Laboratorio de Optoelectrónica, Universidad del Quindío, Armenia, Colombia)

C1.060 Quasi-Equilibrium in Epitaxial Growth

M. Gahl, E. Gust, A. Saxton, K.R. Roos (Department of Physics, Bradley University)

C1.061 Local atomic structure of partially ordered NiMn films investigated by EXAFS spectroscopy

A. Yu. Ignatov, T. A. Tyson (New Jersey Inst. of Tech., Newark, NJ 07102), F.J. Espinosa, S.D. Conradson (Los Alamos Natl Lab., Los Alamos, NM 87545), R.F.C. Farrow, M.F. Toney (IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA 95120)

C1.062 Heats of Segregation of BCC Metals Using Ab Initio and Quantum Approximate Methods

Brian Good (NASA Glenn Research Center), Anne Chaka (NIST), Guillermo Bozzolo (OAI)

C1.063 Energy spectrum of Bloch electrons under periodic electric and magnetic modulations

Ming-Che Chang (Taiwan Normal University), Min-Fong Yang (Tunhai University)

C1.064 Investigation of thermal vibration correlation of [110] silicon lattice atoms by ion scattering

Jong-Wan Lee (Department of Physics, Hallym University, ChunChon, KangWon 200-702, Korea), Rupert Pfandzelter (Institut fuer Physik der Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Invalidenstr. 110, 10115 Berlin, Germany)

C1.065 First-principles calculations of Pt surface phonon dispersion curves

Sampyo Hong, Talat S. Rahman (Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506), Rolf Heid, Klaus Peter Bohnen (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, IFF, Karlsruhe, Germany)

C1.066 The electronic and atomic structure of Ag/Cu(110) and Ag/Cu(100)

Orhan Kizilkaya (Louisana State University), Dustin Hite (Louisiana State University), Richard Kurtz, Phillip Sprunger (Louisana State University)

C1.067 A Nonlocal Image Formulation of van der Waals Atom-Surface Attraction in a Magnetic Field

Norman J. Morgenstern Horing (Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ 07030), L. Y. Chen (Department of Physics, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249)

C1.068 Enhanced optical transmission through subwavelength holes randomly distributed in a thin gold film

Nikifor Rakov, Mufei Xiao (Centro de Ciencias de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)

C1.069 A Method for Suppressing Superconductivity of Thin Films

Tarmo Suppula (Department of Physics, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland), Jukka Pekola (Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland), Juha Kauppinen (Nanoway Ltd., Jyvaskyla, Finland)

C1.070 The Role of Landau Quantization in Atom-Surface van der Waals Interaction

Norman J. Morgenstern Horing (Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ 07030)

C1.071 The Role of 2D Magnetoplasmons in van der Waals Interaction of a Quantum Dot Atom with a 2D Quantum Well Plasma

Norman J. Morgenstern Horing (Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ 07030)

C1.072 Mossbauer Study of Magnetic Ordering of Fe/Gd Multilayers

ATAUR CHOWDHURY (University of Alaska Fairbanks), ANDREA FREITAG (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

C1.073 Normal Metal-Superconducting Proximity Stacks

Michael Stanton, Douglas Natelson (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, Rice University)

C1.074 Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy Investigation of Yttrium Iron Garnet Films

C.T. Paulson, D.P. Lagally, B.T. Rosner, D.W. van der Weide (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering)

C1.075 Biological Physics

C1.076 Dielectric properties of gel collected from shark electrosensors

Mary E. Hughes, Brandon R. Brown (Dept. of Physics, University of San Francisco), John C. Hutchison, Royce W. Murray (Department of Chemistry, UNC Chapel Hill)

C1.077 Numerical Investigation of Macroscopic Cardiac Mechanics.

Gavin Buxton, Anna Balazs (Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA 15261, US.)

C1.078 Measurement of electro osmotic flow (EOF) in a DNA surface electrophoresis cell

Perumal Ramasamy, Eli Hoory, Samuliov Vladimir, Jonathan Skolov, Rafailovich Miriam (Stonybrook University)

C1.079 On a modified directed percolation model

Mihaela E. Sardiu (Physics Department, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431), Gelio Alves, Yi-Kuo Yu (Physics Department, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431 and NCBI, NLM, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20894)

C1.080 The effect of denaturant on protein stability: a Monte Carlo lattice simulation

Ho Sup Choi, June Huh, Won Ho Jo (School of Material Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea)

C1.081 Denaturation and Amyloid Fibril Formation of Insulin at Model Lipid-Water Interfaces

J.S. Sharp, J.A. Forrest (Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada), R.A.L. Jones (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7RH, United Kingdom)

C1.082 Crystallographic and Computational Studies of a Class II MHC Complex with a Nonconforming Peptide: HLA-DRA/DRB3*0101

Christian S. Parry (University of Massachusetts Medical School), Jack Gorski (Blood Research Institute and Wisconsin Medical College), Lawrence J. Stern (University of Massachusetts Medical School)

C1.083 Effects of the Heme Side Chains on Ligand Rebinding-Kinetics of CO binding to porphine reconstituted myoglobin

Wenxiang Cao, Xiong Ye, James F. Christian, David Wharton, J. Timothy Sage, Paul M. Champion (Dept. of Physics and Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex System, Northeastern University, Boston 02115)

C1.084 Raman Study of Wet-Spun Films of Lithium Hyaluronate as a Function of Relative Humidity

I. Reineck, J. DeAnna, S.A. Lee (Un. of Toledo), A. Rupprecht (Un. of Stockholm)

C1.085 THEORETICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE LONG-RANGE ATTRACTION BETWEEN G-ACTIN MOLECULES THROUGH THE EXCLUDED VOLUME EFFECT.

Masayuki Irisa (Department of biochemical engineering and sciencce, Kyushu Institute of Technology, JAPAN)

C1.086 BULK SPECTROSCOPY AND SINGLE-MOLECULE STUDIES ON eqFP611, A NOVEL RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN.

Sergey Ivanchenko, Andreas Schenk, Carlheinz Röcker (Dept. of Biophysics University of Ulm, D-89069 Ulm, Germany), Jörg Wiedenmann (Dept. of General Zoology and Endocrinology University of Ulm, D-89081 Ulm, Germany), G. Ulrich Nienhaus (Dept. of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801 USA)

C1.087 DNA Amplification Using Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Madhavi Krishnan (University of Michigan), Victor Ugaz (Texas Aamp;M University), Mark Burns (University of Michigan)

C1.088 AM1 study of N-2-acetylaminofluorene bonded to deoxyguanosine at the minor adduct site

Morgan Besson (Villanova University)

C1.089 Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Vibrational Spectra of Cytidine and Deoxycytidine

S.A. Lee, J. Li (Un. of Toledo), A. Anderson, L. Lettress (Un. of Waterloo), Z.W. Cao, Y.Z. Chen (National University of Singapore)

C1.090 Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Vibrational Spectra of Adenosine and Deoxyadenosine

J. Li, M. Schwenker, S.A. Lee (Un. of Toledo), A. Anderson (Un. of Waterloo), Z.W. Cao, Y.Z. Chen (National University of Singapore)

C1.091 Dynamics of DNA Chains on Flat and Patterned Surfaces

Bingquan Li, Fang Xiaohua, Young-Soo Seo, Vladimir Samuilov, Miriam Rafailovich, Jonathan Sokolov (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, SUNY at Stony Brook)

C1.092 Studies of DNA Droplet Drying Kinetics on Flat/Structured Gold Surfaces

Xiaohua Fang, Bingquan Li, Miriam Rafailovich, Jonathan Sokolov (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, SUNY at Stony Brook)

C1.093 Elastic Response of Single DNA Molecules in a Reentrant Collapsing Transition

Yoshihiro MURAYAMA, Hirofumi WADA (Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan), Yoshihiko SAKAMAKI (Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan), Masaki SANO (Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan)

C1.094 High Pressure Infrared Study of Deoxycytidine

A. Anderson (Un. of Waterloo), I. Lawson, S.A. Lee (Un. of Toledo)

C1.095 Computational Analysis of DNA Sequences

Gelio Alves (Physics Department, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431 and National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20894), T. P. Doerr (National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20894), Yi-Kuo Yu (Physics Department, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431 and National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20894)

C1.096 Direct evidence for very different excited-state lifetimes in two adenine tautomers

Boiko Cohen, Patrick Hare, Bern Kohler (Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, 100 W. 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210)

C1.097 Probing active electron transfer branch in photosystem I reaction center.

Sergei Savikhin, Naranbaatar Dashdorj (Purdue University), Wu Xu, Peter Martinsson (Iowa State University), Parag Chitnis (Iowa StateUniversity)

C1.098 A 240 GHz high-field transient EPR study of the primary donor triplet state g-tensor in photosynthetic reaction centers of Rhodobacter sphaeroides R-26.

Johan van Tol (Center for Interdisciplinary Magnetic Resonance, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fl 32310), David Budil, Ronghui Zeng (Dept. of Chemistry, Northeastern University, Boston MA 02115), Harry Frank, Amanda Deal (Dept. of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT)

C1.099 Investigation of Dendrimer-Membrane Interactions

Almut Mecke (Department of Physics, University of Michigan), Jessica Hessler (Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan), Inhan Lee (Michigan Center for Biological Information), Mark Banaszak Holl (Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan), Bradford Orr (Department of Physics, University of Michigan), Anil K. Patri, Jr. Baker (Center for Biologic Nanotechnology, University of Michigan)

C1.100 Phospholipid Langmuir layers mixed with novel lipophilic-fullerene-derivative molecules

J. S. Koo, K. Shin (Kwangju Insitute of Science and Technology, Korea), U. Jeng, T.-L. Lin (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan), M. H. Wu, Z. A. Chi, M. C. Shih (National Chung-Hsin University, Taiwan), C. -H. Hsu, H. -Y. Lee (Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Taiwan), L. Y. Chiang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

C1.101 LT-STM study of self-organisation of b-carotene molecular layers on Cu (111)

Arturo-M. Baró (Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, C-III, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049-Madrid, Spain), Saw-Wai Hla (Nanoscale amp; Quantum Phenomena Institute, Physics amp; Astronomy Dept., Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, USA.), Karl-Heinz Rieder (Institut fuer Experimentalphysik. Freie Universitaet, Arnimallee 14, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.)

C1.102 Development of an open, human-scale low field MRI system

F.W. Hersman, I. Muradyan, I.C. Ruset (U. New Hampshire), M.I. Hrovat, S. Patz (Brigham and Women's Hospital), R.W. Mair, M. Rosen, L.L. Tsai, R.L. Walsworth (Harvard-Smithsonian)

C1.103 Sound Transduction: A Complex System

Thomas Svobodny (Wright State University)

C1.104 PHASE DEVELOPMENT AND MAGNETISM IN FERROMAGNETIC BIOGLASS CERAMICS

A.C. Kis, Th. Leventouri (Physics Department, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431, USA), J.R. Thompson (Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830-6061, U.S.A, and Department of Physics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1200, U.S.A.)

C1.105 Investigating the local mechanical properties of cells using microinjected colloidal particles

Clifford Brangwynne (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138), Benjamin Matthews (Harvard Medical School, Boston MA 02115), Megan T. Valentine (Harvard University, Cambrdge, MA 02138), Donald E. Ingber (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115), David A. Weitz (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138), DEAS Collaboration

C1.106 Continuum models of electrostatic interactions in proteins and protein-protein complexes

Alexandre V. Morozov (Department of Physics, University of Washington, Box 351560, Seattle WA 98195-1560), Tanja Kortemme, David Baker (Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Box 357350, Seattle WA 98195-7350)

C1.107 Force of an actin spring

Jennifer Shin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), L. Mahadevan (University of Cambridge), Paul Matsudaira (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Whitehead Institute)

C1.108 Dynamics of an actin spring

Christophe Riera, L Mahadevan (University of Cambridge), Jennifer Shin, Paul Matsudaira (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

C1.109 Polymer Physics I

C1.110 Real Space Structure of Associating Polymer with Selective Solvents

Kathleen Kolbet, Matthew Russell (Lebanon Valley College)

C1.111 A Light Scattering Investigation of a Sol-gel/melt Transition: the Poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO)/methanol/LiClO4 System

S. Peng, J. C. Selser, R. Bogoslovov, G. Piet, Physics Department Team

C1.112 Slow Dynamics and the Glass Transition in Colloidal Suspensions and Polymer Melts

Erica J. Saltzman, Kenneth S. Schweizer (University of Illinois)

C1.113 Study of Carrageenan Conformation Using Time-Dependent Light Scattering and Viscometry

Erica Sharp, David Norwood (Southeastern Louisiana University)

C1.114 The structure factor of poly(1-butene) and poly(4-methyl-1-pentene) from wide angle X-ray scattering, molecular dynamics and PRISM.

Anton Habenschuss (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Man-Ho Kim (National Institute of Standards and Technology), John G. Curro, David R. Heine (Sandia National Laboratories)

C1.115 The photochemical properties of dye rotaxane

Jong S. Park, Jung O. Park, Mohan Srinivasarao (Georgia Institute of Technology)

C1.116 Phase Separation, Structure and Gelation in Polymer-Particle Suspensions

Y.L. Chen, S.A. Shah, K.S. Schweizer, C.F. Zukoski (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

C1.117 Obervation of E-relaxation Process in Polybutadiene

Yifu Ding, Alexander Kisliuk, Alexei Sokolov (Department of Polymer Science, University of Akron, Ohio, 44325-3909)

C1.118 Nanocrystal Formation under Confinement in a Rubbery Polymer: Large Melting Point Depression in Telechelic, Pyrene-End-Labeled PDMS as a Function of PDMS Molecular Weight

Bryce Jones, John Torkelson (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-3120)

C1.119 Orientational Order and Mechanical Response in Strained Polymer Liquids and Networks

Folusho Oyerokun, Kenneth Schweizer (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

C1.120 Adsorption of Polyelectrolytes onto Like-Charged and Oppositely Charged Surfaces

Hao Cheng, Monica Olvera de la Cruz (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208.)

C1.121 Polyelectrolyte Dynamics Studied by Neutron Spin-Echo Spectroscopy

V.M. Prabhu, E.J. Amis (Polymers Division, National Institute for Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899), D. Bossev, N. Rosov (NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, MD 20899)

C1.122 Modeling Electrostatic Forces Between Opposing Polyelectrolyte Brushes: Interdigitation versus Compression

Delphine Dean, Joonil Seog, Christine Ortiz, Alan Grodzinsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA)

C1.123 Dissolved charged linear macromolecules of finite volume: counterion distribution and effective forces

Joerg Mertins, Reiner Kree (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Goettingen, Germany)

C1.124 Effect of Solution Conditions on Nanoscale Interactions Between Opposing Glycosaminoglycan Brushes

Joonil Seog, Dean Delphine (MIT), Shirley Wong-Palms, Anna Plaas (University of South Florida), Alan Grodzinsky, Christine Ortiz (MIT)

C1.125 Molecular Modeling of Nanostructure and Water Transport in Nafion

Seung Soon Jang (MSC - California Institute of Technology (Caltech)), Valeria Molinero, Tahir Cagin, William A. Goddard (MSC - Caltech)

C1.126 Phase behavior of solutions of flexible oppositely charged polyelectrolytes

Alexander Kudlay, Monica Olvera de la Cruz (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208)

C1.127 Control of Surface Properties Using Fluorinated Polymer Brushes

A. Hexemer, E. J. Kramer (UCSB), L. Andruzzi, X. Li, C. K. Ober (Cornell Univ.), G. Galli, E. Chiellini (Pisa Univ.)

C1.128 Remarkable Differences Between the Flow Orientation and Mechanical Properties of Pentablock and Triblock Copolymers by Solution Extrusion

Tamotsu Harada, Lisa S. Lim, Marc A. Hillmyer, Frank S. Bates (Affiliation), Timothy P. Lodge (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota)

C1.129 An improved algorithm for spectral self-consistent field theory

Christopher Tyler, David Morse (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota)

C1.130 Phase structure and liquid crystal orientation in a series of rod coil block copolymers

Christopher Li, Lingyu Li (Department of Materials Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia PA 19104), Hailiang Zhang, Xinhua Wan, Qi-Feng Zhou (Department of Polymer Science, Peking University, P. R. China)

C1.131 Size Effect on Crystal Orientation Changes in Nano-Confined Lamellae of PEO-b-PS Block Copolymer

Ping Huang, Lei Zhu, Alexander J. Jing, William Y. Chen, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Ya Guo, Qing Ge, Roderic P. Quirk (Dept. of Polymer Science, Univ. of Akron, Akron, OH44325), Edwin L. Thomas (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT, Cambriage, MA 02139), Bernard Lotz (Institute Charles Sadron, 6 Rue Boussingault, Strasbourg 67083, France), Benjamin S. Hsiao, Fengji Yeh, Lizhi Liu (Dept. of Chemistry, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY11794)

C1.132 A continuosuly branched model for the dendrimer-melt brush

Thomas C. Zook, Galen T. Pickett (CSU Long Beach, Physics and Astronomy)

C1.133 EUV Sensitive Chemically Amplified Imaging Layers for use with Diblock Copolymer Thin Films

Erik Edwards (University of Wisconsin Madison and Center for Nanotechnology), Paul Nealey (University of WIsconsin Madison and Center for Nanotechnology)

C1.134 Achieving long range order in diblock copolymer thin films by the use of thermal gradients

Judith Waller (Oxford University), Dan Angelescu, Matthew Trawick, Douglas Adamson, Richard Register, Paul Chaikin (Princeton University)

C1.135 Imaging the morphology of block copolymer films using scanning electron microscopy

Shuaigang Xiao, Sang Ouk Kim, Paul Nealey (University of Wisconsin)

C1.136 Structure Formation in Crystallization of Crystalline-Crystalline Block Copolymers

Hiroki Takeshita, Katsuhiko Takenaka, Tomoo Shiomi (Department of Chemistry, Nagaoka University of Technology)

C1.137 An effective \chi parameter for block copolymer melts with finite compressibility

Junhan Cho (Dept. of Polymer Sci amp; Eng, Dankook University)

C1.138 Semi-invariants and Landau free energy

Sergey Panyukov (P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia)

C1.139 Nano Structure of Liquid Crystalline Poly(benzyl L-glutamate) – X Diblock Copolymer Cast Films

Elizabeth Minich (University of Delaware), Andrew Nowak, Timothy Deming (University of California at Santa Barbara), Darrin Pochan (University of Delaware), University of Delaware and University of California at Santa Barbara Collaboration

C1.140 Microphase-Separation of Cyclic Block Copolymers of Styrene and Butadiene and of Their Corresponding Linear Triblock Copolymers

Yuqing Zhu, Samuel P. Gido (Department of Polymer Science amp; Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003), Hermis Iatrou, Nikos Hadjichristidis (Department of Chemistry, University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis Zografou 15771, Athens, Greece)

C1.141 Measurement of Grain Growth Rates for Order-Order Transitions in Block Copolymers

Thomas Chastek, Timothy Lodge (University of Minnesota)

C1.142 Molecular Weight Effect of End-Functionalized Polymers on Reaction at the Interface between Immiscible Polymers

B. J. Kim, E. J. Kramer (UCSB), H. Kang, K. Char (SNU)

C1.143 Deformation and Fracture of Lamellar PCHE-PE Block Copolymers: Effect of Chain Architecture

V. Khanna, J. Ruokolainen, G. H. Fredrickson, E. J. Kramer (Materials Departemnt, University of California, Santa Barbara), S. F. Hahn (Dow Chemical)

C1.144 Evolution of Surface Morphology in Thin Block Copolymer Films

Cheng Gang, Dvora Perahia (Chemistry Department, School of Material Science and Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson SC 29634-0973)

C1.145 Clustering and Continuum Percolation in Macromolecular Systems

Xiaoling Wang, Avik Chatterjee (State University of New York-College of Environmenal Science and Forestry)

C1.146 Enhanced Diffusion in a Polymer-Silica Nanocomposite Viewed by Pulse Field Gradient NMR

Junyan Zhong, Wen-Yang Wen, Alan A. Jones (Chemistry Department,Clark University, Worcester MA 01610)

C1.147 The Application of Two-dimensional Correlation Infrared Spectroscopy to the Study of Polymer Blends with Relatively Weak Intermolecular Interactions.

He Huang, Serghei Malkov, Michael M. Coleman, Paul C. Painter (Deparment of Materials Sci.amp; Eng., Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA16802)

C1.148 Shear coalescence studies of compatibilized polymer blends

Kristin Brinker, Wesley Burghardt (Northwestern University)

C1.149 Transport controlled segregation in a single-phase regime of mixtures of Liquid crystal and Polymer

Scott Meng, Thein Kyu (Department of Polymer Engineering, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-0301), Timothy J. Bunning (Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, AFRL/MLPJ, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio 45433), Collaborative Center for Polymer Photonics Collaboration

C1.150 POSS-PDMS Blends at the Air/Water Interface

John Hottle, Jianjun Deng, Hyong-Jun Kim, Alan Esker (Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech), Brent Viers (Air Force Research Laboratories, Edwards Air Force Base)

C1.151 Thickness of Spin-Cast Polystyrene/Clay Nanocomposite Films

Jun Li, Vladimir Shapovalov, Maryana Isakova, Sandhu Bhupinder, Steven Schwarz (Physics, Queens College CUNY, Flushing, NY 11367), Vladimir Zaitsev, Miriam Rafailovich, Jonathan Sokolov (Materials Science, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY 11794)

C1.152 Ultrathin POSS-Polymer Blends

Joe Polidan, Ben Vastine, Jianjun Deng, Alan Esker (Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech), Brent Viers (Air Force Research Laboratories, Edwards Air Force Base)

C1.153 Improving the Properties of Polymer Blends with Supercritical Carbon Dioxide

Edmund Palermo (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850), Mitchell Fourman (Ward Melville High School, NY), Steven Lubin (West Islip High School, NY), Mayu Si, Miriam Rafailovich, Jonathan Sokolov (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794)

C1.154 Near Field Spectroscopic Investigation of Fluorescence Quenching by Charge Carriers in Pentacene-Doped Tetracene

Doo Y. Kim (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin), Jason D. Mcneill, Paul F. Barbara (epartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin)

C1.155 A Broadband Dielectric Investigation of the Dynamics of Miscible Polymer Blends with Intermolecular Hydrogen Bonding

Shihai Zhang, Paul Painter, James Runt (Penn State University)

C1.156 Broadband Dielectric Investigation of Semi-Crystalline Poly(ethylene oxide) - Poly(styrene-co-hydroxystyrene) Blends

Xing Jin, James Runt (Penn State University)

C1.157 The behavior of PS-PMMA block copolymer blends in thin films on rough substrates.

Yoshihiro Hayashi, Shinya Matsubara, Shinya Kiyono, Easan Sivaniah, Takeji Hashimoto (Department of Polymer Chemistry, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan), Kenji Fukunaga (UBE Industries Ltd., Ichihara, Chiba 290-0045, Japan.)

C1.158 Organoclays Effect on Crystallization of Semicrystalline Poly(L-lactic acid)

Vahik Krikorian, Cui Honggang (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering and Delaware Biotechnology Institute), Jerold Schultz (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering), Darrin Pochan (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering and Delaware Biotechnology Institute)

C1.159 Carbon Nano Tube Composites with Chemically Functionalized Plant Oils

Wim Thielemans, Richard P. Wool (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark DE 19716-3144), Werner Blau, Valerie Barron (Physics Department, ttrinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland)

C1.160 Synthesis And Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy Of Poly(hydroxyethyl methacrylate-g-ethylene glycol)

Dong Zhang, Christine Ortiz (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA)

C1.161 Defect–Mediated Plastic Deformation Near Scratches and Indentations in Thermally Evaporated Pentacene Thin Films

Lawrence Drummy, Paul Miska, David Martin (Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Macromolecular Science and Engineering Center, University of Michigan)

C1.162 NEW EXPERIMENTS WITH (COLLOIDAL PROBE-) LABELD ACTIN FILAMENTS AND MOTOR PROTEINS; 3D MOTILITY ASSAY, THERMODYNAMIC ANALYSIS AND INDUCED REPTATION.

J. Uhde, M. Keller, E. Sackmann (Biophysik/E22, TU Muenchen)

C1.163 Percolation clusters in sheared polymer nanocomposites

Eihab Jaber, Haobin Luo, Wentao Li, Dilip Gersappe (Dept of Materials Science and Engineering, SUNY at Stony Brook)

C1.164 Noncircular Pores on the Surface of Asymmetric Polymer Membranes: Evidence of Pore Formation via Spinodal Demixing

Ariya Akthakul, William McDonald, Anne Mayes (MIT)

C1.165 On the formation of multi-generation buckles in elastomeric films

Kirill Efimenko, Jan Genzer (NC State University)

C1.166 Surface Grafted Copolymer Assemblies with Gradient in Molecular Weight and Composition

Michael Tomlinson, Jan Genzer (NC State University)

C1.167 Effect of Solution Conditions on the Nanoscale Intermolecular Interactions Between Human Serum Albumin and Low Grafting Density Surfaces of Poly(ethylene oxide)

Monica Rixman, Celia Macias (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering), Delphine Dean (Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA), Christine Ortiz (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering)

C1.168 Direct Imaging of Nanoparticle Embedding into Thin PS Films

J.H. Teichroeb, J.A. Forrest (Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada)

C1.169 Chain end effect on the surface glass transition temperature

Y Pu, D Gersappe, J Sokolov, M Rafailovich (Dept of Materials Science and Engg, SUNY at Stony Brook)

C1.170 Influence of Chain End Groups on Surface Segregation in Miscible Blends of Polystyrene and Poly (vinyl methyl ether)

Daisuke Kawaguchi, Keiji Tanaka (Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan), Seiji Tasaki (Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University, Osaka 590-0494, Japan), Atsushi Takahara (Institute for Fundamental Research of Organic Chemistry, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan), Tisato Kajiyama (Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan)

C1.171 ULTRAMICROINDENTATION AT SILK MEMBRANES SURFACES

I Puente Orench, FJ Balta Calleja (Inst de Estructura de la Materia, Madrid, ES), S Putthanarat, RK Eby (Inst Polymer Sci, U Akron, USA)

C1.172 Topographically Tuning Polymer Adhesion

Alfred Crosby (Polymer Science and Eng., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA)

C1.173 Isotherm Studies of Telechelic POSS-PEO Polymers

Woojin Lee, Jianjun Deng, Alan Esker (Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech), Byoung-Suhk Kim, Patrick Mather (Polymer Program and Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Connecticut)

C1.174 The Mobility of Polymer Chains Confined at a Free Surface

Y Pu, D. Gersappe, J Sokolov, M Rafailovich (Dept of Materials Science and Engg, SUNY at Stony Brook), T Petersen (Ward Melville High School , Setauket, NY), W. L. Wu (National Institution of Standards amp; Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899), S.A. Schwarz (Dept. of Physics, Queens Collegeof CUNY, NY)

C1.175 Modification of Gold Surfaces with Ultrathin Polyacrylonitrile Films

Rituparna Paul, Rolf Schmidt, Daniel Dyer (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)

C1.176 Generation and characterization of three-dimensional nanoparticle assemblies on molecular weight gradients of surface-anchored macromolecules

Rajendra R. Bhat, Jan Genzer (NC State University)

C1.177 Crystallization of Ultra-thin Film of Polyethylene and Its Copolymers

Yantian Wang, Shouren Ge, Miriam Rafailovich (Affiliation), Jonathan Sokolov (Dept. of Materials Sci. amp; Eng., State University of New York at Stony Brook), Gad Marom (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Arnold Lustiger (ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company), Mike Gelfer (Dept.of Chemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook)

C1.178 Parallel and Perpendicular Diffusion of Polymer into Its Confined Matrix

Clive Li, Jonathan Sokolov, Miriam Rafailovich (Stony Brook University), Vladimir Zaitsev, Steven Schwarz (Queens College)

C1.179 Control of Surface Morphology in PS-b-PMMA/PPO Blend Thin Films

Sangcheol Kim, Jeong Yeon Park, Kookheon Char (School of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University)

C1.180 Late Stage of Dewetting of Inverted PVP/PS Bilayer Films

Huiman Kang (School of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-744, Korea), Seung-Heon Lee (Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106.), Sangcheol Kim, Kookheon Char (School of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-744, Korea)

C1.181 Effect of Ge-overlayers on the resistivity of ultra thin metal films

Klaus Schroder, Sean Novak (Syracuse University), Jonathan Hollander (University of Illinois, Champaign)

C1.182 Nano-Calorimetric Studies of Polymeric Phase Transitions in Confined Geometries

Azar Alizadeh, Anis Zribi, Surya Ganti, Pradeep Sharma, Ken Conway, Loucas Tsakalakos, Patrick R.L. Malenfant, Julie Teetsov (General Electric, Global Research Center, Niskayuna, NY 12309)

C1.183 The effect of nanoscale fillers on the tracer diffusion in polymers

Jean Harry Xavier, Jonathan Sokolov, Miriam Rafailovich, Tadanori Koga (Stony Brook University), Kwanwoo Shin Team

C1.184 Influence of mobile nanoparticles on phase separation dynamics in thin film polymer blends

Ranjan Deshmukh, Hyun-joong Chung, Andreas H. Taubert, Russell J. Composto (Materials Science and Engineering, LRSM, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6272)

C1.185 Synthesis and characterization of polymer brushes that can be cleaved from the substrate by photo-generated acid

Martha Montague, Erik Edwards, Paul Nealey (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

C1.186 Dynamic Separation of Polymer Thin Blend Film on Au/Si

John Jerome, Y.S. Seo, S. Zu (Materials, SUNY at Stony Brook), Y. Vladimir (Physics, Queens college, NY), M. Rafailovich, J. Sokolov (Materials, SUNY at Stony Brook)

C1.187 Contrasting viscoelasticity with atomically rough and smooth surfaces in molecularly-thin fluid films

Zhiqun Lin, Steve Granick (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801)

C1.188 The effect of nano-confinement on the mechanical properties of thin polymer films

Paul O'Connell, Greg McKenna (Texas Tech University)

C1.189 Radial thickness profiles of spincoated polymer wedge films

Jason Thomas, Bernie Nickel, John Dutcher (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada N1G 2W1)

C1.190 Experimental and theoretical investigation of hole growth in freely-standing polymer films

Connie Roth, Ben Deh, Bernie Nickel, John Dutcher (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada N1G 2W1)

C1.191 Effect of Annealing of Polystyrene Films in the Freely-Standing State

Chris Murray, John Dutcher (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada N1G 2W1)

C1.192 Moisture absorption in thin polymer films

Christopher Soles (NIST Polymers Division), Joseph Lenhart (Sandia National Labs), Ronnie Jones, Vivek Prabhu, Eric Lin, Wen-li Wu (NIST Polymers Division)

C1.193 Coil to brush-like transition of polymer thin films in supercritical CO2

Young-Soo Seo, J. Jerome, T. Koga, J. Sokolov, M. Rafailovich (Materials, SUNY at Stony Brook), S. Satija (NIST)

C1.194 Micro-shearing of Block Copolymer Thin Film

Hoichang Yang, Chansu Kim, Chang Y. Ryu (Chemistry, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180), Kilwon Cho (Chemical Engineering, POSTECH, Korea)

C1.195 Ultrastructural and Nanomechanical Studies of Fresh Bovine and Human Cortical Bone

Kuangshin Tai, Christine Ortiz (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

C1.196 Adsorption of myoglobin to metal-chelating lipid monolayers by neutron and X-ray reflectivity and GIXD

Michael Kent, Hyun Yim, Darryl Sasaki (Sandia National Laboratories), Sushil Satija (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Jaroslaw Majewski (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

C1.197 Self-Assembling Diblock Polypeptide Hydrogels: Effects of Salt and Cell-Growth Media on the Self-assembly Process and Material Properties

Lisa Pakstis, Bulent Ozbas, Darrin Pochan (University of Delaware), Andrew Nowak, Timothy Deming (University of California, Santa Barbara)

C1.198 Mechanic properties of freely suspended quasi two-dimesional model actin cortex on microfabricated three-dimensional pillar substrates

Alexander Roth (Institut für Biophysik E22 Technische Universität Muenchen), Wouter Roos, Joachim Spatz (Institut für physikalische Chemie Universität Heidelberg), Erich Sackmann (Institut für Biophysik E22 Technische Universität Muenchen), Institut für Biophysik E22 Technische Universität Muenchen Team, Institut für physikalische Chemie Universität Heidelberg Team

C1.199 Magnetic Nanoparticle-Phospholipid Interactions in Monolayer Films

Jennifer Stockdill, John Goff, Kristen Wilson, Judy Riffle, Alan Esker (Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech)

C1.200 Structure of Individual Cartilage Aggrecan Macromolecules and Their Constituent Glycosaminoglycan Chains Visualized via Atomic Force Microscopy

Laurel Ng (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)), Alan Grodzinsky (MIT), John Sandy (University of South Florida (USF)), Anna Plaas (USF), Christine Ortiz (MIT)

C1.201 X-ray scattering and optical ellipsometric studies of collagen-model peptides

Georgie Georgiev, Peggy Cebe (Physics and Astronomy Department, Tufts University), Regina Valluzzi, David Kaplan (Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, Tufts University)

C1.202 CHARACTERIZATION OF HYDROGELS FORMED VIA INTRAMOLECULAR FOLDING AND CONSEQUENT SELF-ASSEMBLY OF Beta-HAIRPIN PEPTIDES

Bulent Ozbas, Lisa Pakstis, Darrin J Pochan (University of Delaware, Materials Science and Engineering Department), Karthikan Rajagopal, Juliana Gill, Joel P. Schneider (University of Delaware, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry)

C1.203 Phase behavior of Crosslinked Diblock Copolymers

Jayajit Das, Arup Chakraborty, Nitash Balsara (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, UC-Berkeley)

C1.204 Block Copolymer Thin Films and the Double Gyroid Motif - A Combinatorial Study

Michael J. Fasolka, Alamgir Karim (Polymers Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899), Augustine M. Urbas, Edwin L. Thomas (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA 02139)