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Presentations at the 2007 AIChE Annual Meeting

November 4-9, 2007 Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 1

Single-Molecule Analysis of 1d Diffusion and Transcription Elongation of T7 RNA Polymerase along Individual Stretched DNA Molecules ................................................................ 1

Ronald G. Larson, Ji Hoon Kim

The Thermodynamics of Single Molecule Stretching of Polysaccharides: Implications for Elastic Tissues ........................................................................................................ 2

Richard G. Haverkamp, A.T. Marshall, M.A.K. Williams

Characterization of Spider Silk Proteins for Tissue Engineering Applications ........................... 4Patrick A. Johnson

Microscopic Analyses of Polyelectrolytic Complexes Between Hyaluronan and Chitosan ............................................................................................................................................... 5

Gregory Rutkowski, John H Brekke

A Novel Pretreatment Technique for Hydrolysis of Chitin ............................................................. 6Indira Priya Samayam, Schall Constance A, Sasidhar Varanasi

Functional Nanofibers from Biomaterial Complexes ...................................................................... 7Stephanie T. Sullivan, Sachin Talwar, Saad A. Khan

A Transient Heat of Water Vapor Sorption Model for Human Skin................................................ 8Santosh Yadav, Stephen W. Thiel, Gerald B. Kasting, Neville G. Pinto

Thermosensitive Chitosan as a Matrix for the Controlled Delivery of Biologically Active Molecules for Bone Repair..................................................................................................... 9

Joshua R. Bush, Vedavathi Madhu, Cato T. Laurencin, Gary Balian, Lakshmi Nair

Material Characterization and in Vivo Analysis of Biodegradable, Injectable Poly(Ester Urethane)Urea Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering ............................................. 16

Andrea E. Hafeman, S.A. Guelcher

An Injectable Implant Material Functionalized with Bioactive BMP-7 Short Peptides for Orthopaedic Applications .......................................................................................... 18

Yupeng Chen, Thomas J. Webster

Development of Semi-Conductor Biomaterials for Regulating Cell Growth .............................. 26Charlene Rincon, Santanu Chattopadhyay, Carson Meredith

Polyelectrolyte Nanofilms for Cell Contacting Applications ........................................................ 27Jennifer A. Phelps, Corrine R. Wittmer, W. Mark Saltzman, Martha J. Harding, Paul R. Van Tassel

Hydrogel-Nanofiber Composite Systems for Drug Delivery......................................................... 28Ya Liang, Anthony M. Lowman, Giuseppe R. Palmese

Degradable Poly(Hydroxyethyl Methacrylate) Hydrogels for Tissue Engineered Scaffolds: Controlled Molecular Weight Degradation Products .................................................. 33

Sarah K. Atzet, Buddy Ratner, Scott A. Curtin, Stephanie J. Bryant

Determination of Interfacial Properties of Polydimethylsiloxane-Water Systems Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations......................................................................................... 35

Ahmed E. Ismail, Gary S. Grest, David R. Heine, Mark J. Stevens, Mesfin Tsige

Simulation of Alkane-Based Mechanically-Assembled Monolayers Using Discontinuous Molecular Dynamics ............................................................................................... 36

Lawrence A. Strickland, Carol K. Hall

Nanomaterial Incorporation to Prevent Polymer Film Buckling .................................................. 37Troy R. Hendricks, Ilsoon Lee

Atrp Initiator Coatings Based on Cvd Polymerization .................................................................. 38Xuwei Jiang, Hsien-Yeh Chen, Mutsumi Yoshida, Joerg Lahann

Chemical Vapor Deposition of Porous Poly Methyl Methacrylate Films..................................... 39Xichong Chen, Mitchell Anthamatten

Effect of Nanoparticle Geometry on the Polymer Interphase....................................................... 40Karl Putz, L. Catherine Brinson, Ramanathan Thillaiyan

Production and Characterization of Core-Sheath Electrospun Nanofibers Doped with Carbon Nanotubes.................................................................................................................... 41

Satyajeet S. Ojha, Derrick R. Stevens, Laura I. Clarke, Russell E. Gorga

Electrospinning Under an Ac Field : Synthesis of Complex Nano-Fibers and Membranes ........................................................................................................................................ 42

Siddharth Maheshwari, Hsueh-Chia Chang

Influence of Nanosilica on Phase Separation and Toughness in Multi-Phase Polymers ............................................................................................................................................ 44

E. Jason Robinette, Andres A. Bujanda, Robert Jensen, Steven H. McKnight

Processing and Structure of Magnetic C/co-Polymer Nanocomposites with up to 90 Wt% Metal Content....................................................................................................................... 46

Norman A. Luechinger, Loher Stefan, Robert N. Grass, Evagelos K. Athanassiou, Sri Bandyopadhyay, Greg Heness, Norman Booth, Wendelin J. Stark

Processing and Characterization of Polymer Nanocomposites with Nanofiller Dispersion Ranging From Moderate to Excellent: Tuning Nanofiller Dispersion by Solid-State Shear Pulverization....................................................................................................... 48

Katsuyuki Wakabayashi, John M. Torkelson

Silica Nanoparticles: From Facile Synthesis to Ordered Nanoparticle-Crystals and Coatings ............................................................................................................................................. 49

Mark A. Snyder, J. Alex Lee, Tracy M. Davis, L. E. Scriven, Michael Tsapatsis

Antibacterial Plga/silver Doped Amorphous-Tcp Nanocomposite Prepared by Electrospinning ................................................................................................................................. 50

Oliver D. Schneider, Stefan Loher, Robert N. Grass, Tobias J. Brunner, Wendelin J. Stark

Preventing Post Surgical Tissue Adhesion Using Hydrogels Based on Dihydroxyacetone-Polyethylene Glycol Diblock Copolymer ....................................................... 52

Peter N. Zawaneh, David Putnam

Biocompatibility Analysis of Novel Biomaterials Based on Hydrogel Nanocomposites ............................................................................................................................... 54

Samantha A. Meenach, J. Zach Hilt, Kimberly W. Anderson

Reactivity of Calcium Phosphate Cements in Dependence of Particle Size, Crystal Phase and Crystallinity..................................................................................................................... 55

Tobias J. Brunner, Robert N. Grass, Marc Bohner, Oliver D. Schneider, Wendelin J. Stark

Micropatterning Proteins on Pla Films Using Photolithography ................................................. 56Rahul M. Rasal, Douglas E. Hirt

Electrospun Nanofibers of Enzymatically Modified Polysaccharide for Drug Delivery ............ 57Hsiao Mei Annie Chu, Benham Pourdeyhimi, Saad A. Khan

Utilizing Detailed Mechanistic Modeling of Polymer Pyrolysis: Insight Into Polystyrene Pyrolysis....................................................................................................................... 58

Seth E. Levine, Linda J. Broadbelt

Understanding Polymer Pyrolysis through Advances in Reactive Molecular Simulation .......................................................................................................................................... 59

Kenneth D. Smith, Stanislav I. Stoliarov, Marc R. Nyden, Phillip R. Westmoreland

Effects of Water on the Cationic Ring-Opening Photopolymerizations of Epoxycyclohexane Monomers ........................................................................................................ 61

Dongkwan Kim, Julie L. Jessop, Jeffrey W. Stansbury

Monte Carlo Simulation for Polymer Nanocomposite Coating Formation Through Curing................................................................................................................................................. 69

Jie Xiao, Yinlun Huang

A “Top-down” Approach for Estimating Service Lifetimes of Polymer Coating Films in Weathering .......................................................................................................................... 71

Brian R. Hinderliter, Yechun Wang, Stuart Croll

Modification of Epoxy Resin with the Synthesized Polyhedral Octa-3-Glycidoxypropyl Silsesquioxane..................................................................................................... 78

Xiaoyan Ma, Guozheng Liang, Hongxia Yan, Yun Huang

Larry Duda's Career Interest in Diffusion in Polymers Begins at Dow ....................................... 87Henry T. Kohlbrand, Douglas E. Leng

Water Diffusion through Hydrogel Membranes. a Novel Evaporation Cell Free of External Mass-Transfer Resistance ................................................................................................ 98

Clayton J. Radke, Francesco Fornasiero, Darren Tang, Ali Boushehri, John Prausnitz

Multicomponent Diffusion and Free Volume Analyses for Industrial Applications................... 99John M. Zielinski, Vipul S. Parekh, John E. Palamara

Duda-Vrentas Theory: From Phase Inversion to Drug Delivery................................................. 100Anthony J. McHugh

Multicomponent Solubility and Diffusivity in Polymer-Solvent Systems by Application of the MS - Igc Technique.......................................................................................... 101

J. Román Galdámez, Ronald P. Danner, J. Larry Duda

Free-Volume Concepts and Their Applications to Industrial Situations................................... 102Narayan Ramesh

Use of Vrentas-Duda Free Volume Theory to Predict Co-Monomer Diffusion in Polyethylene .................................................................................................................................... 103

Laura L. Chutny, Eric Cheluget

Layering Transitions in Thin Films of Spherical-Domain Block Copolymers .......................... 104Gila E. Stein, Edward J. Kramer

Creation of Nanocavities in Amphiphillic Block Copolymer Thin Films ................................... 105Andrew C. Miller, Ryan D. Bennett, Paula T. Hammond, Darrell J. Irvine, Robert E. Cohen

Self-Arranged Protein Nanoarrays on Diblock Copolymer Templates...................................... 106Nitin Kumar, Omkar Parajuli, Jong-In Hahm

Microstructure of Confined Block Copolymer Thin Films: Application of Interfacial-Saft (Isaft) Density Functional Theory........................................................................ 107

Shekhar Jain, Adam S. Bymaster, Walter G. Chapman

Entropically Driven Surface Segregation of Highly-Branched Polymers ................................. 108Zhenyu Qian, Venkatachala M. Minnikanti, Lynden A. Archer, Bryan B. Sauer

Modification of Polyethylene Terephthalate Surfaces and Analysis of Immobilized Ntpdase Kinetics ............................................................................................................................. 115

Vignesh Muthuvijayan, Randy S. Lewis

The Dynamics of Dextran Oxidation for Controlling Bioadsorption on Solid Surfaces ........................................................................................................................................... 116

Kyung Min Lee, Stephen P. Beaudoin

Surface Science Studies on the Effects of Triethoxsilylbutyraldehyde and Two Metal Treatments to Bond Chitosan ............................................................................................. 117

Holly J. Martin, Kirk H. Schulz, Keisha Walters, Joel D. Bumgardner

The Mechanism of Chitosan Induced Enhancement of Lung Surfactant Adsorption ....................................................................................................................................... 119

Patrick C. Stenger, Omer M. Palazoglu, Joseph A. Zasadzinski

Biomedical Coatings with Reactive Surface Composition Gradients ....................................... 120Yaseen Elkasabi, Joerg Lahann

Synthesis and Characterization of a New Class of Biomaterials: Antioxidant Polymers .......................................................................................................................................... 122

Paritosh Wattamwar, Thomas D. Dziubla

Surface Modification and Bulk Properties of Pla-Pha Blend Films ........................................... 123Rahul M. Rasal, Douglas E. Hirt

Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer in Microemulsion Polymerizations: Kinetics and Critical Parameters..................................................................... 124

Jennifer O'Donnell, Eric W. Kaler

Kinetic Study of the Radiation-Induced Copolymerization of 2-Ethylhexyl Acrylate and Acrylic Acid .............................................................................................................................. 125

Alia P. Weaver, Joseph Silverman, Lourdes G. Salamanca-Riba, Mohamad Al-Sheikhly

Free Radical Polymerization of 1,1-Difluoroethene in a Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Medium............................................................................................................................... 126

Jonathan E. Wenzel, H. Bryan Lanterman, Sunggyu Lee

Microrheological Investigation of Acrylate Photopolymerization Kinetics .............................. 132Victor Breedveld, Ryan P. Slopek

Spatial Analysis of Photoinitiated Micropatterning Reactions Via Ftir Imaging ...................... 133Dipti Biswal, J. Zach Hilt

Aqueous Solution Conformation of Poly(2-Ethyl-2-Oxazoline) and Its Adsorption on Cellulose..................................................................................................................................... 134

Ayanna M. Bernard, Peter J. Ludovice

Elasticity of Single Poly(Ethylene Oxide) Molecule in Water and Hexadecane........................ 135Lu Yang, David E. Hanson, Hank Ashbaugh, Lawrence R Pratt

Suppression of the Orthorhombic Network Phase in Poly(Isoprene-B-Styrene-B-Ethylene Oxide) (Iso) Triblock Copolymers through the Introduction of Polydispersity.................................................................................................................................. 136

Christopher J. Ellison, Adam J. Meuler, Christopher M. Evans, Marc A. Hillmyer, Frank S. Bates

Monitoring Conformational Changes of Amphiphilic Polyesters in Different Solvents by Hyper-Rayleigh Scattering (HRS)............................................................................. 137

Lars-Owe Schneider, Andrej Voronov, Ananias Kohut, Wolfgang Peukert

Novel Dynamic Polymer Networks Containing Reversible Hydrogen Bonding Side-Groups..................................................................................................................................... 140

Jiahui Li, Andrew J. Hilmer, Helen H. Park, Mitchell Anthamatten

Melt Phase Behavior of Amphiphilic Polyoxyolefin-Based Block Copolymers Blended with Selectively Associating Homopolymers ............................................................... 142

Alvin H. Romang, Vijay R. Tirumala, Vikram Daga, Eric K. Lin, James J. Watkins

Network Structure and Dynamics of Penetrant Transport in Glassy Polymers ....................... 143Adam K. Ekenseair, Richard A. Ketcham, Nicholas A. Peppas

Predicting Pka Values of Weak Acidic and Basic Polymer Brushes Via Molecular Modeling .......................................................................................................................................... 144

Haitao Dong, Ranil Wickramasinghe, Scott Husson, Xianghong Qian

A Mechanical Model for in Vitro Cartilage Engineering .............................................................. 145Jennifer R. Amos, Jay D. Potts, Johnathan W. Bender

Endothelial Cells Induced Early Recovery of Hepatocytes in an Organotypical Model ................................................................................................................................................ 146

Rohit Jindal, Yaakov Nahmias, Arno W. Tilles, Francois Berthiaume, Martin L. Yarmush

Stem Cell-Derived Myocardial Cells for Heart Tissue Engineering ........................................... 147Abhirath Parikh, Dong H. Jing, Manolis S. Tzanakakis

Influence of RGD Surface Concentration on the Osteoblastic Differentiation of MSC Cultured in RGD-Modified Plla Foams Under Conditions of Flow Perfusion .................. 148

Jose F. Alvarez-Barreto, Bonnie Grider, Paul L. DeAngelis, Vassilios I. Sikavitsas

Star Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Vinyl Sulfone Hydrogel as a Tunable Scaffold for Neural Tissue Engineering............................................................................................................. 149

Silviya L. Petrova, Jennie Leach

Engineering of Functional Bile Ducts Using Immobilized Glycosaminoglycans..................... 150Lijun Chen, Howard W. T. Matthew

Concurrent Blood and Lymphatic Tissue Engineering............................................................... 151Melody A. Swartz, Carolyn Yong

In Situ Measurement of the Ion Incidence Angle Dependence of the Ion-Enhanced Etching Yield in Plasma Reactors ................................................................................................. 152

Rodolfo Jun Belen, Sergi Gomez, Mark Kiehlbauch, Eray S. Aydil

Prediction of Feature Profile Evolution in Shallow Trench Isolation Etching .......................... 154John Hoang, Cheng-che Hsu, Jane P. Chang

The Effect of Oxygen Addition in a Chlorine Plasma During Shallow Trench Isolation Etch................................................................................................................................... 155

Cheng-che Hsu, Jane P. Chang

The Effect of Polymerizing Chemistry and Ion Flux on Oxide Fencing, Line Edge Roughness, and Micro-Trenching in Nano-Scale Interconnect Structures for 45 Node Reactive Ion Etching Process.............................................................................................. 156

Ammar Alkhawaldeh

Reaction Mechanisms in Patterning Hafnium-Based Metal Oxide Thin Films ......................... 157Ryan M. Martin, Hans-Olof Blom, Jane P. Chang

Plasma Activation of Polymer Surfaces for Enhanced Adhesion ............................................. 158Eleazar Gonzalez II, Michael Barankin, Andrew G. Hsieh, Steve Babayan, Robert F. Hicks, Joseph Deitzel, John Gillespie Jr.

Investigation of Physical Vapor Deposited Ta / W Multilayer Structure as a Copper Diffusion Barrier ................................................................................................................ 159

Prodyut Majumder, Christos G. Takoudis

Towards a Univeresal Phase Diagram for Functional Rod-Coil Block Copolymers ................ 160Bradley D. Olsen, Venkat Ganesan, Rachel A. Segalman

A Multichain Self-Consistent Field Theory for Correlations in Polymers: Chain Swelling in Polymer Blends ........................................................................................................... 161

David T. Wu

Advancing Multiscale Modeling Prediction of Mechanical Properties of Polyhydroxyalkanoates .................................................................................................................. 162

Yuping Xie, Allyce Caines, Johanna Carroll, Sergei Shenogin, Isao Noda, Yvonne A. Akpalu

Structure of Pluronic Solutions. a Multiscale Modeling Study .................................................. 169Dmitry Bedrov, Grant D. Smith

Solvation and Dymanics of Sulfonated Polystyrene in Water and Nerve Agent Simulants ......................................................................................................................................... 170

Aleksey Vishnyakov, Alexander V. Neimark

Scaling of Polymer Diffusivity in Confined Colloid-Polymer Systems...................................... 171Amir Amini, Pierre Gilles de Gennes, Marc Robert

Polymer Topology Characterization: A Universal Approach ..................................................... 172Amit S. Kulkarni, Gregory Beaucage

Polymer Property Modelling for the Design of the Structured Products .................................. 173Kavitha Chelakara Satyanarayana, Jens Abildskov, Rafiqul Gani

Development and Characterization of a Microfluidic Hepatocyte Bioreactor for Modelling Liver Function in Pharmacokinetic Processes .......................................................... 175

Brittany Held, Nak Won Choi, Mario Cabodi, Michael L. Shuler, Abraham D. Stroock

Tissue Engineering the Vocal Fold: Using Bioreactors to Improve Matrix Accumulation .................................................................................................................................. 176

Jeffrey C. Wolchok, Patrick A. Tresco

Tendon Tissue Engineering ........................................................................................................... 177Rita Abousleiman, Peter S. McFetridge, Vassilios I. Sikavitsas

Micropatterned Surfaces to Control the Alignment and Proliferation of Tenocytes ............... 178P.J.A. Kenis, Ashish Kapoor, Evelyn Caporali, Matthew C. Stewart

Bioinspired Engineered Nanocomposites for Bone Tissue Engineering ................................. 179Esmaiel Jabbari, Xuezhong He, Junyu Ma

Blending Chitosan with Polycaprolactone: Porous Scaffold Generation and Toxicity............................................................................................................................................. 183

Aparna Sarasam, Afshan I. Samli, Linda Hess, Micheal Ihnat, Sundararajan V. Madihally

Development and Optimization of Electrospun Poly Lactic Acid Fibers Containing Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Tissue Engineering ........................................................... 184

Russell E. Gorga, Seth D. McCullen, Laura I. Clarke, Derrick R. Stevens, Elizabeth Loboa

Cell-Extracellular Matrix Mechanobiology: Subcellular Mechanisms and Therapeutic Applications ............................................................................................................... 185

Sanjay Kumar

Local Mechanical Signals Influence Endothelial Cell Behavior During 3D Vasculogenesis in Vitro.................................................................................................................. 186

Valerie L. Cross, Abraham D. Stroock

PolyEthylene Glycol-Based Hydrogels for Controlling the Interplay between Mechanical and Chemical Cues in Three-Dimensional Culture of Mammary Epithelial Cells................................................................................................................................. 187

Michael S. Weiss, Manjari Dimri, Hamid Band, Vimla Band, Lonnie D. Shea

Deposition of Oriented Collagen From a Nematic State: Orienting Fibroblasts ...................... 188John E. Kirkwood, Jayakumar Rajadas, Gerald G. Fuller

Understanding Protein-Protein Interactions in Focal Adhesions .............................................. 189Robert Russell, Hengyi Xiao, Tanmay Lele

A Supported-Bilayer Based Surface Display System for Cell-Adhesive Peptide Ligands ............................................................................................................................................ 190

Badriprasad Ananthanarayanan, Matthew V. Tirrell

Effect of Linker and Spacer on the Design of a Fibronectin-Mimetic Peptide and Cell Adhesion .................................................................................................................................. 191

Jennifer A. Craig, Emilie L. Rexeisen, Efrosini Kokkoli

Microfluidic / Nanofluidic Sensors Using Catalytic DNA for Heavy Metal Detection............... 192Donald M. Cropek, Tulika Sanjeev Dalavoy, Paul W. Bohn, Jonathan Sweedler, Mark A. Shannon, Yi Lu

Chip Cooling with Micro-Array Jets .............................................................................................. 199R J. Bezama, G. Natarajan

Motivation and Development of an High Temperature, Ceramic Heat Exchanger................... 200Merrill A. Wilson, Charles Lewinsohn, James Cutts

Laminar Flow and Mass Transfer in a Ceramic Micromixer ....................................................... 201R J. Bezama, Govindarajan Natarajan

Fly Ash Utilization and Development of Low Density Red Clay Bricks .................................... 202Murali mohan Vaka, Rajendra Prasad Padamata, Sujatha V, Sarveswararao S

Mixed Polyelectrolyte and Neutral Polymer Brushes: Macroscopic Or Microscopic Phase Separation ............................................................................................................................ 215

Kevin N. Witte, You-Yeon Won

Patterning of Functional Polymer Thin Films Using Rod-Coil Block Copolymers .................. 216Bradley D. Olsen, Rachel A. Segalman

Modulation of the Fragility of a Polymer Glass with Antiplasticizer Additives ........................ 217Robert A. Riggleman, Jack Douglas, Juan De Pablo

Directly Probing the Interfacial Alpha Relaxation Dynamics of Thin Polymer Films by Means of a Multilayer Dielectric Spectroscopy Technique ................................................... 218

Rodney D. Priestley, Linda J. Broadbelt, John M. Torkelson

Surface-Initiated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization of Polymer Nanolayers ................... 219Azadeh Samadi, S. Michael Kilbey II, Scott Husson

Impact of Segmental Mobility on the Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Thin Polymer Films.................................................................................................................................. 220

Casey G. Campbell, Bryan D. Vogt

Comparing the Mechanical Properties of Chitosan Films Bound by Four Treatment Combinations on Implant Quality Titanium ............................................................... 221

Holly J. Martin, Kirk H. Schulz, Joel D. Bumgardner, Judith A. Schneider

Copolymeric Hydrogels of Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Methylether Acrylate and N-Isopropylacrylamide for Environmental Separations ................................................................. 224

Veera Boddu, Hiren Patel, Nathaniel Naismith, Riley C. Flowers

Water-Based Interpenetrating Networks with Tunable Properties ............................................ 225Soumitra Choudhary, Surita R. Bhatia

The Role of Sol Molecular Weight and Mobility on the Short and Long Term Performance of Polymer Gels........................................................................................................ 226

Randy A. Mrozek, Phillip J. Cole, Joseph L. Lenhart

Investigation of Crack-Healing Characteristics in Polymer Networks of Dgeba Epoxy Cured with a Cycloaliphatic Diamine ................................................................................ 227

Aflal M. Rahmathullah, Giuseppe R. Palmese

Dynamic Mechanical Response of Polydomain Main-Chain Elastomers ................................. 228Harshad P. Patil, Ronald C. Hedden

Anisotropic Thermal Conductivity Measurements on Cross-Linked Polybutadienes in Uniaxial Elongation......................................................................................... 229

David Venerus, Dimitre Kolev

Enhanced Mechanical Properties of Multimodal Polydimethylsiloxane Networks.................. 230Geoffrey D. Genesky, Claude Cohen

Characteristic Deformation Patterns in Rubber Networks Arising from the Limiting Chain Extensibility: Self-Homogenization and Coupling of Strain Components..................... 231

Ecevit Bilgili, Barry Bernstein, Hamid Arastoopour

Photostimulation of Diffusion and Activation of Dopants in Ion Implantation Applications..................................................................................................................................... 232

Yevgeniy Kondratenko, Ramakrishnan Vaidyanathan, Charlotte Kwok, Edmund G. Seebauer

Atomistic Modeling of Grain Boundary Diffusion in Sn-Ag-Cu Solder ..................................... 233Michael S. Sellers, Andrew Schultz, David A. Kofke, Cemal Basaran

An Accelerated Molecular Dynamics Study of the Gallium Arsenide(001) β2(2x4) Reconstruction……………………………………………………………………………………………..234

Maria H. Mignogna, Kristen A. Fichthorn

Prediction of Links Between Small Self-Interstitial Clusters and Extended {311} Defects in Crystalline Silicon......................................................................................................... 236

Sangheon Lee, Gyeong S. Hwang

Current-Induced Stabilization of Surface Morphology in Stressed Solids ............................... 237Vivek Tomar, M. Rauf Gungor, Dimitrios Maroudas

Computational Models to Improve the Growth of Radiation Detector Crystals ....................... 239David Gasperino, Lisa Lun, Andrew Yeckel, Jeffrey J. Derby

Influence of Magnetic Field on Local Flow and Turbulence in 300mm Cz-Si Crystal Growth Process ................................................................................................................. 240

Prashant Ramchandra Gunjal, Milind S. Kulkarni, P.A. Ramachandran

Numerical Simulation of Laser Enhanced Thermophoretic Mcvd Process for the Manufacture of Optical Fiber Preforms ........................................................................................ 242

Anugrah Singh, Mohammed Hafiz O. K.

Hierarchical Nano-Manufacturing of Zeolite Membranes ........................................................... 251Michael Tsapatsis

Porous Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials ................................................................................ 252Mark E. Davis

Solution-Processed Conductors and Semiconductors for Organic Thin-Film Electronics ....................................................................................................................................... 253

Lynn Loo

Accelerating Materials Discovery Using Atomically Detailed Modeling ................................... 254David S. Sholl

Biomaterials in Drug Delivery: Design of Novel Carriers ........................................................... 255Samir Mitragotri

Biological Characterization of Novel L-Tyrosine Based Polyphosphate and Polyurethanes ................................................................................................................................. 256

Parth Shah, Stephanie T Lopina, Yang H Yun

Macrophages Exhibit Stable Phenotypic Markers in Extended Culture on Model Biomaterial Surfaces ...................................................................................................................... 258

Lisa M. Chamberlain, Mercedes Gonzalez-Juarrero, David W. Grainger

Patterning of Living Cells Within Self-Assembled Nanostructures........................................... 260Eric C. Carnes, Carlee Ashley, DeAnna Lopez, Cynthia Douthit, Jennifer Pelowitz, Shelly Karlin, Darren Dunphy, Hattie Gresham, Graham Timmins, C. Jeffrey Brinker

Variations in Molecular Interaction Forces Measured Between Virulent and Avirulent Listeria Monocytogenes Strains and a Model Surface of Silicon Nitride ................. 261

Nehal I. Abu-Lail, Bong-Jae Park

Length Dependent Uptake of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes by Human Lung Cells ............. 262Jeffrey A. Fagan, Matthew L. Becker, Barry J. Bauer, Erik K. Hobbie

Cytotoxicity of Aggregated Fullerene C60 Particles on Cho and Mdck Cells .......................... 263Binbing Han, M. Nazmul Karim

Co-Assembly of Biocomposite Materials From Live Cells and Inorganic Particles Using Dielectrophoresis on a Chip ............................................................................................... 264

Shalini Gupta, Elizabeth Lynch, Orlin Velev, Peter Kilpatrick

Polymer Nanocomposites Containing Aligned Carbon Nanotubes .......................................... 265Huisheng Peng, Yuntian Zhu, Quanxi Jia

Reinforcement of Nylon-6 with Synthesized Porous Silica Nanoparticles ............................... 266J. Brent Fox, Holly A. Stretz, Vijay T. John, Grace Tan, Jibao He

Simulation of Highly Concentrated Fiber in a Polymer Melt for a Complex Flow Using Hele-Shaw Approximation .................................................................................................. 267

Gregorio M. Velez, Aaron P. R. Eberle, Dr. Donald G. Baird, Peter Wapperom

Composite Materials for Enabling Device Performance in Extreme Environments ................ 268Joseph L. Lenhart

Role of Polymer-Surface Interactions on the Viscolesatic Properties of the Polymer Nanocomposites .............................................................................................................. 269

Alireza Sarvestani, Esmaiel Jabbari

Mechanistic Study of Surface-Modified Uhmw-Pe Using Pulsed-Dbd Plasma ........................ 270Jacqueline H. Yim, Daphne Pappas, Victor N. Vasilets, Alexander Fridman, Giuseppe R. Palmese

Controlled Evaporation Device for Dip-Assisted Convective Assembly .................................. 271J. Alex Lee, Mark A. Snyder, L. E. Scriven, Michael Tsapatsis

Effect of Zeolitic-Amorphous Silicas in Spin-on Mel Zeolite Thin Films................................... 272Yan Liu, Christopher M. Lew, Minwei Sun, Junlan Wang, Yushan Yan

New Platform for Detecting DNA Translocation .......................................................................... 273Zhu Chen, David P. Adams, Michael Joseph Vasile, Carter Hodges, Ying-Bing Jiang, Nanguo Liu, C Jeffery Brinker

Silica-Titania Mixed Oxide Mesoporous Thin Films: Incorporation of Ti by Surfactant Complexation ............................................................................................................... 274

Mohammed S. Rahman, Stephen E. Rankin

Nanocrystal Infusion in Mesoporous Metal Oxide Thin Films ................................................... 275Mehul N. Patel, Hiroshi Uchida, Ryan D. Williams, R. Alan May, Keith J. Stevenson, Keith P. Johnston

CO2 Expanded Liquid Deposition of Organoclay Thin Films ..................................................... 276Prasad Bhosale, Holly A. Stretz, Kendall M. Hurst, Christopher B. Roberts

Free and Supported 2D Nanoparticle Veils Structures Via Self-Organization.......................... 278Stoyan K. Smoukov, Bartlomiej Kowalczyk, Bartosz A. Grzybowski

Nanofiber Production Via Melt Blowing........................................................................................ 279Christopher J. Ellison, Alhad Phatak, Christopher W. Macosko, Frank S. Bates

Modeling of Multifilament Fiber Melt-Spinning ............................................................................ 280Young-Pyo Jeon, Christopher L. Cox

Order-Chaos-Order Transitions in Electrospinning .................................................................... 282Pradipto K. Bhattacharyya, G. C. Rutledge, G. H. McKinley

Flow-Induced Crystallization of Polypropylene-Clay Nanocomposites .................................... 283Mark A. Treece, James P. Oberhauser

Rheology of Supercritical CO2-Based Dispersed Polymer-Clay Nanocomposites ................. 284Mihai Manitiu, Steven E. Horsch, Rangaramanujam M. Kannan, Esin Gulari

Effect of Mixing TYPE on Rheological Behavior, Microstructure, and Mechanical Properties of Pp/clay Nanocomposite .......................................................................................... 285

Guo Jiang, Han-Xiong Huang

Defect Engineering for Ultrashallow Junctions Using Surfaces ............................................... 291Edmund G. Seebauer, Charlotte Kwok, Ramakrishnan Vaidyanathan, S.H. Yeong, M. P. Srinivasan, B. Colombeau, L. Chan

Atomic-Scale Analysis of the Role of Surface Cordination Defects in the Growth of Amorphous Silicon Thin Films.................................................................................................. 292

Mayur S. Valipa, Tejinder Singh, Dimitrios Maroudas

Ab-Initio Study on Zinc Sulfide Formation Mechanism in a Cvd Reactor................................. 294Yousef Sharifi, Luke E. K. Achenie

Hot Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition Kinetics for Germanium Nanoparticle Growth on Extended and Patterned Hafnia Surfaces ................................................................. 295

John G. Ekerdt, Shawn S Coffee

In-Situ Characterization of Dynamics of Impurity Absorption and Outgassing in Porous Low-K Dielectric Thin Films ............................................................................................. 297

Asad Iqbal, Junpin Yao, Harpreet Juneja, Farhang Shadman, Roger P Sperline

Reaction Rates and Mechanism for the Deposition of Ruthenium Thin Films From Supercritical Carbon Dioxide......................................................................................................... 305

Christos F. Karanikas, James J. Watkins

Study of Low-K Film Repair and Pore Sealing Using Chlorosilanes Dissolved in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide......................................................................................................... 306

Eduardo Vyhmeister, David Suleiman, L. Antonio Estévez, Anthony J. Muscat

Surface Forces and Protein Adsorption Characteristics of Polydimethylsiloxane Films Grafted with Dextran and Polyethylene Glycol ................................................................. 309

Megan Farrell Kelchner, Stephen P. Beaudoin

Structure and Dynamics of Water near the Interface with Oligo(Ethylene Oxide) Self-Assembled Monolayers .......................................................................................................... 310

Ahmed E. Ismail, Gary S. Grest, Mark J. Stevens

AFM Force Characterization of Self-Assembled Monolayers and Their Resistance to Protein Adsorption ..................................................................................................................... 311

Bich-Van Chu Pham, Stephen Beaudoin

Understanding Vesicle Fusion: Interactions Between Phospholipid Bilayers and Solid Substrates.............................................................................................................................. 312

Travers H. Anderson, Emily E. Meyer, Hongbo Zeng, Jacob N. Israelachvili

Rational Design of Alpha-Helical Peptide-Based Anchors for Tether Supported Membranes ...................................................................................................................................... 313

Lina Zhong, Raymond Tu, Lane Gilchrist

Hydration Properties and Dynamics of Non-Fouling Materials ................................................. 314Jason C. Hower, Shaoyi Jiang

Molecular Simulation Studies of Protein Interactions with Phosphorylcholine Self-Assembled Monolayers .......................................................................................................... 315

Yi He, Jason C. Hower, Shengfu Chen, Matthew Bernards, Yung Chang, Shaoyi Jiang

First Priniciples Calculation of Atomic Layer Deposition of HfO2 ............................................ 316Atashi Mukhopadhyay, Javier Fdez. Sanz, Charles Musgrave

Atomic Layer Deposition of Optically Active Zno and TiO2 Nanothick Films on Particles ........................................................................................................................................... 317

David M. King, Xinhua Liang, Xiaohua Du, Jarod A. McCormick, Steven M. George, Alan W. Weimer

Material Characteristics and Electrical Properties of Hafnium Silicate Films Synthesized by Plasma Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition .................................................... 318

Jiurong Liu, Ryan M. Martin, Monica Sawkar, Jane P. Chang

Quantum Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Ald of HfO2 ................................................. 319Charles Musgrave, Atashi Mukhopadhyay, Javier Sanz

Surface Reaction Engineering for Oxide Heteroepitaxy on Si(100)-2x1 ................................... 320Brian G. Willis, D.B. Skliar, A. Mathew

Atmospheric Plasma Deposition of Silicon Dioxide Coatings for Mechanical and Electrical Protection ....................................................................................................................... 321

Angela M. Ladwig, Steve Babayan, Mark Smith, Mike Hester, Wayne Highland, Ronald Koch, Robert F. Hicks

Chemical Vapor Deposition of Low-Dielectric Constant Organosilicon-Based Thin Films ................................................................................................................................................. 322

Narine R. Malkhasyan, Daniel D. Burkey

Fluidized Bubbling Bed Reactor Model for Silane Pyrolysis in Solar Grade Silicon Production ....................................................................................................................................... 323

Yue Huang, Palghat A. Ramachandran, Milorad P. Dudukovic

Effects of Microstructure and Elemental Composition on Material Properties of LPCVD Sic Films for Micro- and Nanosystems ........................................................................... 324

Christopher S. Roper, Roger T. Howe, Roya Maboudian

Growth and Characterization of Ill-V Compound Semiconductors on Silicon ......................... 325S. F. Cheng, R. L. Woo, Li Gao, R. F. Hicks

Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth and the Evolution of the Microstructure of Indium Arsenide on Gallium Arsenide.......................................................................................... 326

Thomas F. Kuech, Anish Khandekar, Xueyan Song, Susan Babcock, Manish Rathi, Ganasen Suryanarayanan

The Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of Gallium Arsenide-Based Quantum Well ‘W' Structures for Mid-IR........................................................................................................ 328

Thomas F. Kuech, Manish Rathi, Anish A. Khandekar, D.P. Xu, J. Y. T. Huang, J.H. Park, Luke J. Mawst, Xueyan Song, S.E. Babcock

Preparation and Modeling of Polyimide/ceramic Composites with High Dielectric Constant........................................................................................................................................... 329

Baoku Zhu, Weidong Liu, Shuhui Xie, Jian Zhang, Youyi Xu

Fabrication of Metal Matrix Nanocomposites by a Bottom Up Approach – the Design of Mechanical and Electronic Properties ........................................................................ 337

Robert N. Grass, Evagelos K. Athanassiou, Wendelin J. Stark

Characterization of Functionalized Amorphous Mesoporous Silica Particles......................... 339Noah D. Meeks, David Meyer, D. B. Bhattacharyya

Physical Properties of Polymer Impregnated Concrete Prepared by Using Microwave Radiation ...................................................................................................................... 341

Won-Mook Lee, JunHak Kim, Jung Soon Park, Hun young Park

Encapsulated Nano- and Meso-Fiber Mesh Composites............................................................ 342Ya Liang, Giuseppe R. Palmese

Supercritical CO2 Processing of Nano-Clays and Clay-Polymer Nanocomposites ................ 343Steven E. Horsch, Mihai Manitiu, Rangaramanujam M. Kannan, Esin Gulari

Volume 2

Multiscale Modeling of Cyclization Effects in Drying Sol-Gel Silica Films ............................... 344

Xin Li, Stephen E. Rankin

Molecular Modeling of the Creation of Novel, Ultra-Thin, Nano-Porous Layers and Supported Membranes Using Chemical Vapor Deposition ........................................................ 345

John B. Moloney, Thomas C. McDermott, Damian A. Mooney, J. M. D. MacElroy

Atomic-Scale Analysis of Structural and Mechanical Properties of Ultra-Low-Dielectric-Constant Mesoporous Amorphous Silica Films ........................................................ 347

M. Rauf Gungor, James J. Watkins, Dimitrios Maroudas

Molecular Insight Into the Pathway to Crystallization of Aluminium ........................................ 348Jerome P. Delhommelle, Caroline Desgranges

Computational Investigation of Bismuth Pyrochlores................................................................ 349Aravind R. Asthagiri, Beverly Brooks Hinojosa

Correlating the Diameter, Energy, and Composition of Single-Walled Metal-Oxide Nanotubes: A Computational, Experimental, and Theoretical Study ........................................ 350

Suchitra Konduri, Sanjoy Mukherjee, Sankar Nair

Study of Structure and Size of Cdse Quantum Dots ................................................................... 351Yenni Cahyana, Sang Kyu Kwak

Preparation and Rheology of Double Emulsion Morphologies in Compatibilized Immiscible Polymer Blends ........................................................................................................... 352

Jeffrey Martin, Sachin Velankar

Determination of the Viscoelastic Shear Modulus of Poly(Isobutylene)/solvent Systems Using Thickness Shear Mode Quartz Resonators....................................................... 353

Anthony Richardson, Venkat R. Bhethanabotla, Stefan Cular

Polydomain Simulation of Liquid Crystalline Polymer Orientation in Channel Flows ............ 354Wesley R. Burghardt, Jun Fang

Rheological Analysis of a System of Well-Defined Sparsely Long-Chain Branched Polyethylenes with the Mcleish-Larson Pom-Pom Model and an Extension to Film-Casting Processing Characteristics..................................................................................... 355

Christopher W. Seay, Christopher McGrady, Donald G. Baird

Experimental and Numerical Study of Film Casting ................................................................... 356Graham H. Harrison, Kenneth K. Aniunoh

The Role of LLDPE Resin Properties in LLDPE/CaCO3 Microporous Films ............................ 357Patricia L. Roberts, Leah A. Leavitt, Mahin Shahlari, Sunggyu Lee

Formation and Characterization of a Two-Component Self-Assembled Monolayer of Thiolate Containing Oligoethylene Glycol on Gold ................................................................ 362

Fei Shen, Jan Genzer, Orlando J. Rojas, Patrick V. Gurgel, Ruben Carbonell

Rheology and Enzyme Resistance of Self-Assembled Peptide-Modified Hyaluronic Acid Gels ...................................................................................................................... 363

Madhuvanthi A. Kandadai, Jules J. Magda, Grant D. Smith, Dmitry Bedrov, Jimmy Mays, George Sakellariou

Brush Like Structure Array of Thiolated DNA Oligonucleotides Attached to As-Terminated Gallium Arsenide (001)............................................................................................... 364

JoonHyuk Yang, Jung Chul An, Luz Martinez-Miranda, Lourdes G. Salamanca-Riba, Mohamad Al-Sheikhly

Modular Biomaterials From Surfactant and Polyelectrolyte Mixtures ...................................... 365Yakov Lapitsky, Tasneem Zahir, Molly S. Shoichet

Synthesis and Characterization of Hydrophilic Anionic-Neutral Block Copolymers for the Prevention of Post-Surgical Adhesions ........................................................................... 366

John M. Medley, Eugene Kaplan, Thomas D. Dziubla

Cell-Free Protein Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Complex Virus-Like Particles .................. 368Bradley C. Bundy, James R. Swartz

Characterization of Self Assembled Polycaprolactone Vascular Grafts................................... 369Kristin N. Wallace, Sean Duguay, Sundararajan V. Madihally

Degradable and Charge Density-Changing Polyethylenimine for Controlled and Targeted Intracellular Delivery of Plasmid DNA and Sirna......................................................... 370

Min Suk Shim, Young Jik Kwon

Molecular Aggregation of Biopolymers at High Pressures ........................................................ 371Nasim Annabi, Suzanne Mithieux, Sergei Kazarian, Anthony S. Weiss, Fariba Dehghani

The Effect of Screw Configuration and Material Composition on Mechanical Properties and Dynamic Rheological Properties of Polypropylene/high Density Polyethylene Blends ....................................................................................................................... 372

Can Yang, Han-Xiong Huang

a Cox-2 Promoter-Based Tumor-Specific Gene Therapy Treatment in Bladder and Colon Cancer Cell Lines................................................................................................................. 373

Xiujuan Zhang, W. T. Godbey

Ultra-Rapid Synthesis of Ordered Mesoporous Carbon Via Microwave Assisted Carbonization (No abstract) ........................................................................................................... 374

Analysis of Interfacial Action of Rectorite/thermoplastic Polyurethane Nanocomposites by Inverse Gas Chromatography and Molecule Simulation......................... 375

Xiaoyan Ma, Xiaohong Qu, Fang Chen, Hongxia Yan

Design of Nanoporous Carbon Electrode Catalyst for Direct Methanol Fuel Cell ................... 385Jin Yeon Hwang, Yeong Rok Oh, Won Jae Choi, Ji Eun Lee, Jin Hoe Kim, Hyung Ik Lee, Sun Keun Kim, Ji Man Kim

Oxidations (No abstract).................................................................................................................. 386

Rheological Behavior of Polymer Melts in Equibiaxial Elongational Flow Using a Modified Lubricated Squeezing Flow Technique ........................................................................ 387

David Venerus, Terresita Medina-Guadarrama, Tai-Yi Shiu

Astrocytic Growth on Silicone Catheters with Different Hydrophobicities in a Model of Pulsatile Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow ............................................................................... 388

Carolyn A. Black, William E. Grever, K. Y. Simon Ng, James P. McAllister II

Swelling Behavior of Poly(N-Cyclopropylacrylamide) Cross-Linked Thin Films..................... 389Leena Patra, Ryan G. Toomey

Nanostructured Glycosaminoglycan-Based Polyelectrolyte Multilayers Using the Polyanion Heparin and the Polycation Chitosan......................................................................... 390

Soheil Boddohi, Matt Kipper

Creating Nanoparticle-Polymer Systems: A Study of the Dispersion of Nanoparticles in a Polymer Solution ............................................................................................ 391

Deepika R. Gollamandala, Ileana C. Carpen

Evaluating Molecular-Level Changes during Co-Culture of Macrophages and Fibroblasts from Different Sources............................................................................................... 392

Dolly J. Holt, David W. Grainger

Binding Mechanism of Affinity Ligands for Purification of Plasmid DNA ................................ 394Ying Han, Gareth M. Forde

Characteristics of Ni-Fe-P Alloys Prepared From Basic Electroless Platings ......................... 399Bing-Hung Chen, Ming-Tong Kuo

Nafion® Nanofibers and Their Effect on Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell Performance .................................................................................................................................... 400

Joshua D. Snyder, Yossef A. Elabd

On the Mechanism of Diffusion and Free Radical Scavenging of α-Tocopherol in Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene…………………………………………………………………………401

Marina K. Chumakov, Michael Kasser, Joseph Silverman, Mohamad Al-Sheikhly

Highly Conductive Ionic Liquid-Polymer Membranes................................................................. 402Liang Gwee, Yossef A. Elabd

Transport in Polymer-Polymer Nanocomposite Membranes ..................................................... 403Holly Schaeffer, Hong Chen, Giuseppe R. Palmese, Yossef A. Elabd

Use of Surface-Modified Nanocomposite for Advanced Pvdf Membrane................................. 404Myoung Jun Park, Yingbo Chen, Hern Kim

Application of the Coats-Redfern Method for Various Mechanical Functions to the Study of Different Products of Polyvinylidene Fluoride by TGA ............................................... 405

Huaying Li, Hern Kim

Hydrophilic Modification of Polyvinylidene Fluoride Via Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization of 3-Trimethoxysilylpropyl Methacrylate ........................................................... 406

Yingbo Chen, Hern Kim

Synthesis of Mesoporous Silicate Materials from Poly Silicate without Layered Structure .......................................................................................................................................... 413

Yoshinobu Otake, Yuji Matsuzawa, Hiromi Miyakawa, Tomoko Takahashi

Ion-Exchanged Carbon Supported Platinum Catalysts for Hydrogen Fuel Cells .................... 422Benjamin D. Eirich, Yossef A. Elabd

Cell Directed Assembly - a New Approach for Creating Bio/nano Materials............................ 423DeAnna Lopez, Eric Carnes, Cynthia Douthit, Jennifer Pelowitz, Shelly Karlin, Helen Baca, Darren Dunphy, Seema Singh, C. Jeffrey Brinker

Studying Corrosion of Coated Titanium Anodes in a Corrosive Solution ................................ 424Fatemeh Abniki, Ehsan Bakhshi

Corrosion Behaviors of Commercial Metallic Alloys, Silicon Carbides, and Silicon Nitride in Sulfuric Acid Solutions .................................................................................................. 425

Chang Soo Kim, Ki Yong Lee, Kwang Ho Song, Young-Gon Yoon, Gyeong-Taek Gong, Kye Sang Yoo, Kwang-Deog Jung, Hoggon Kim

Effects of Substrate Geometry on the Deposition Process in a Cvd Reactor .......................... 426Yousef Sharifi, Luke E. K. Achenie, Lorenz T. Biegler

Co-Assembly of Genetically-Modified Bacteriophages and Various Nanoparticles Into 2D Arrays Via a Novel Deposition Technique ...................................................................... 427

Landon T. White, Carlee E. Ashley, Zhen Yuan, Dimiter N. Petsev, Plamen Atanassov, David Peabody, C. Jeffrey Brinker

Variation of Surface Structure and Wettability of Spider Silk Protein Films ............................ 428Hao Zhang, Christina Skinner, Patrick A. Johnson

Synthesis and Properties of Polystyrene/sepiolite Composite ................................................. 429Zhiping Le, Fei Yu, Yanqiu Huang, Shaobo Deng, Roger Ruan, Xinwei Yang

Specular, Diffuse and Subsurface Reflections From Roughening Coating Films ................... 430Yechun Wang, Brian R. Hinderliter, Stuart Croll

Sonolytic Dispersion of Nanostructured Transition Metal Carbides......................................... 431Kenneth L. Roberts, Aruna S. Arunagiri, Leroy Covington Jr.

Crystallization and Network Formation of Syndiotactic Polystyrene Synthesized with Metallocene Catalysts ............................................................................................................ 439

Joongjin Han, Kyu Y. Choi

Layered Double Hydroxides: Preparation, Characterization, and Application as Electrolyte to Fuel Cells ................................................................................................................. 441

Joseph J. Steirer Jr., Yushan Yan

A Comparative Study of Two Commercial Calorimeters Using Free-Radical Polymerization Experiments and Model Predictions .................................................................. 442

Sriraj Srinivasan, Michael C. Grady, George A. Kalfas, Masoud Soroush

A Morphological Study on the Solid-State Polymerization of Bisphenol a Polycarbonate ................................................................................................................................. 444

Yuesheng Ye, Kyu Y. Choi

Synthesis of Highly Porous and Hollow Polymer Particles by Heterogeneous Precipitation Polymerization.......................................................................................................... 445

Yunju Jung, Joongjin Han, Kyu Y. Choi

Structure and Stability of Small Self-Interstitial and Vacancy Clusters in Silicon................... 446Sangheon Lee, Gyeong S. Hwang

Biological Response of Spider Silk Protein Materials ................................................................ 447Thomas Martinez-Servantez, Christina Skinner, Patrick A. Johnson

Chemically Tuning Molecular Adsorption on Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Electronic Sensor Arrays ............................................................................................................... 448

Chang Young Lee, Michael Strano

Fabrication and Durability of Ceramic Microchannel Devices for Sulfuric Acid Decomposition ................................................................................................................................ 449

Charles Lewinsohn, Merrill Wilson, Hyrum Anderson, James Cutts, Allen Johnson

Synthesis and Characterization of Magneto-Dielectric Composites for Radio Frequency Applications ................................................................................................................. 450

Susan A. Farhat, Martin C. Hawley, Shanker Balasubramaniam, Leo C. Kempel

Surface Micropatterning of Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Hydrogel Using Surface Graft Polymerization Combined with Photolithography....................................................................... 452

Woojin Lee, Won Gun Koh, Dongkil Choi, Yeol Lee, Dae Nyun Kim

Encapsulated Fiber Mesh Composite Systems ........................................................................... 460Ya Liang, Giuseppe R. Palmese

Proton Transport in Sulfonated Nanoporous Opal Membranes ................................................ 461Joanna Smith

Ab Initio Study of Self-Assembled Monolayers of Oligo Phenylene Ethynylene on Gold Surfaces.................................................................................................................................. 462

Ling Miao, Jorge Seminario

Enhancement of the Wood Flour/polymer Systems Via Compatibilization and Inclusion of Organically Modified Nanoclay ................................................................................ 463

Max E. Hetzer, Tony Poloso, Daniel De Kee

Compressible Magnetorheological Fluids.................................................................................... 469Abu Rashid, Alan Fuchs, Yanming Liu, Barkan Kavlicoglu, Gokan Aydar, Faramarz Gordaninejad

Phase Separated Proton Exchange Membrane ........................................................................... 470Joko Sutrisno, Alan Fuchs, Yanming Liu, Cahit Evrensel, Barkan Kavlicoglu, Faramarz Gordaninejad

Studies on the Utilization of Fly Ash in Manufacturing of Low Density Ceramic Tiles ........... 471Sarveswara Rao Sangita, Sujatha Vanapalli, Rajendra Prasad Padamata, Asha Immanuel Raju Chaduvula, Ravi Kumar G

Self-Assembled 3D Ordered Macroporous Structures for Tissue Engineering Scaffolds .......................................................................................................................................... 472

Kuo-yuan Chung, Narayan Chandra Mishra, Keng-hui Lin

Twin Screw Extrusion Processing and Shaping of Biodegradable Scaffolds with Controlled Morphologies for Tissue Engineering Applications ................................................ 473

Seher Ozkan, Dilhan Kalyon, Xiaojun Yu

New Carbon Allotropes Produced by Hydrogen Plasma Exposure of Carbon Nanotubes........................................................................................................................................ 474

Michael J. Behr, Tejinder Singh, Dimitrios Maroudas, Eray S. Aydil

A New Multiscale Coarse-Grained (Cg) Methodology: the Self-Consistent Force-Matching (Scfm) Method ................................................................................................................ 476

Jhih-Wei Chu

Targeting the p53-MDM2 Interaction with Protein Analogous Structures ................................ 477Dimitris Missirlis, Brian Lin, Marc Farine, Matthew Tirrell

Targeted Adhesion of Multiplexed Near-Infrared (Nir) Emissive Polymersomes by DNA Hybridization........................................................................................................................... 478

Anthony J. Kim, Natalie A. Christian, Michael J. Therien, Daniel A. Hammer

Biomimetic and Biohybrid Hydrogels: Novel Recognitive Biomaterials for Controlled Therapeutic Delivery.................................................................................................... 479

Siddarth Venkatesh, Mark E. Byrne

Hyaluronan-Chitosan Polyelectrolytic Complex as a Platform for Delivery of Cytotoxic Agents............................................................................................................................. 480

Gregory Rutkowski, John H Brekke, Sarah Philen, Aderinsola Gilbert

The Kinetic Evolution of Mixtures of Anionic and Cationic Lipid Vesicles Reveals Two Distinct Behavioural Regimes ............................................................................................... 481

Paul A. Beales, Thomas G. Tullius, T. Kyle Vanderlick

Designing a Local Drug Delivery System for Ovarian Cancer Using Biomimetic Materials........................................................................................................................................... 482

Eva Williams, Ryan Toomey, Norma A. Alcantar

Nano- and Micro- Scale Replication of Intestinal Basement Membrane Using Chemical Vapor Deposition ........................................................................................................... 487

Courtney A. Pfluger, Rebecca L. Carrier, Daniel D. Burkey

Cationic Polymeric Systems for Glucose-Responsive Insulin Delivery ................................... 489Steve R. Marek, Nicholas A. Peppas

A New Injectable Tissue Engineered Scaffold Induces Angiogenesis...................................... 490Hossein Hosseinkhani, Mohsen Hosseinkhani, Ali Khademhosseini

Fabrication of Functionalized Nanoparticles Using High Shear Force Nanomixer and Nanoprecipitation for Biological Applications ..................................................................... 493

Devesh Srivastava, Ilsoon Lee

Fabrication of Fucntional Biodegradable Scaffolds with Well-Defined Pore Geometry ......... 494Weijie Xu, Esmaiel Jabbari

Chemical Cross-Linking of Polyelectrolyte Nanofilms to Control Mechanical Properties and Cell Adhesion ........................................................................................................ 495

Jennifer A. Phelps, Paul R. Van Tassel

Minimizing Cell Adhesion on Hydrophobic Surfaces ................................................................. 496A. Anderson, W. Robert Ashurst

Associative Networks with Crystalline Junctions ....................................................................... 497Sarvesh K. Agrawal, Naomi Sanabria-Delong, Gregory N. Tew, Surita R. Bhatia

Structural and Dynamical Properties of Polystyrene Determined by Coarse-Graining MD Simulations ............................................................................................................... 498

Vagelis Hamandaris, Dirk Reith, Nico F.A. van der Vegt, Kurt Kremer

Rheological and Entanglement Characteristics of Polyethylene Liquids and Visualization of Conformational Changes in Shear and Elongational Flows ........................... 499

Jun Mo Kim, David J. Keffer, Martin Kröger, Brian J. Edwards

Free Volume and Transport Properties in Polymeric Materials ................................................. 502Xiao-Yan Wang, Benny D. Freeman, Isaac C. Sanchez

Transport Properties in Nanocomposites: Modeling Cfd Approach for Randomly Distributed Systems ....................................................................................................................... 503

Matteo Minelli, Marco Giacinti Baschetti, Ferruccio Doghieri

Mesoscale Simulations of Hydrated Nafion Membranes ............................................................ 510Aleksey Vishnyakov, Alexander V. Neimark

A Multi-Scale Model for Diffusion in Polystyrene Foam ............................................................. 511Pravin Kannan, Joseph J. Biernacki, Donald P. Visco

Multiscale Simulations of Fluid Flow Through Polymer Grafted “Smart” Nano- and Micro-Porous Materials ........................................................................................................... 512

Zhengmin Li, Donald Brenner

Development of Structure-Property Relationships for Biobased Polymers Using Quantum and Molecular Mechanics Simulations ........................................................................ 513

David Bruce, James McAliley

Macroporous Mixed Movtenbox for Propane (Amm)Oxidation.................................................. 516Li Yuan, Vadim V. Guliants

The Effect of Calcination Conditions on Structure and Properties of Pt-Bha Nanocomposites ............................................................................................................................. 517

Tom Sanders, Goetz Veser

Transition Metal / Alloy Foams by Combustion Technique........................................................ 518Peter Erri, Jose Nader, Arvind Varma

Synthesis of Fe/Cu/Al2O3 Coated with BaSO4 Composites Granule for Sulfuric Acid Decomposition to Hydrogen Production ............................................................................. 519

Kye Sang Yoo, Haznan Abimanyu, B.M. Nagaraja, Gyeong-Taek Gong, Chang Soo Kim, Byoung Sung Ahn, Kwang Deog Jung, Honggon Kim

Nanocage-Assisted Synthesis of Gold and Platinum Nanoparticles of Uniform Size............. 520Juan D. Henao, Young-Woong Suh, Mayfair C. Kung, Harold H. Kung

The Fusion of Silicon and Enzymes: Smart Multifunctional Catalysts ..................................... 521Claire Jeanquartier, Georg Schitter, Heidrun Woelfler, Gerburg Schider, Sandrine Rivillon, Yves Chabal, Johannes G. Khinast

First-Principles Theoretical Analysis of the Structure and Stability of Ii-Vi Semiconductor Nanoclusters ........................................................................................................ 522

Tejinder Singh, T. J. Mountziaris, Dimitrios Maroudas

Computational Modeling of Silicon Nanoparticle Formation ..................................................... 524Hongyi Dang, Mark T. Swihart

Quantum Wire Arrays in the Framework of ETS-4 and ETS-10.................................................. 525Onnaz Ozkanat, Jiangdong Deng, Al Sacco Jr.

Particle Adhesion to Photomask Materials .................................................................................. 526Caitlin Kilroy, Gautam Kumar, Ravi Jaiswal, Stephen Beaudoin

Structure-Processing-Property Interrelationships in Swnt, C12-Swnt and Vgcf Polypropylene Nanocomposites ................................................................................................... 527

Vinod K. Radhakrishnan, Brian J. Downs, Dhriti Nepal, Virginia A. Davis, Stephen W. Zagarola

Polymer-Clay Nanocomposites of Linear Low Density Polyethylene (Lldpe) and Polyoxymethylene (Pom) ............................................................................................................... 528

Mahin Shahlari, Patricia L. Roberts, Leah A. Leavitt, Matthew Factor, Sunggyu Lee

Strain Hardening of Polypropylene-Clay Nanocomposite Melts in Elongational Flow ........... 538Tanmay Pathak, Krishnamurthy Jayaraman

Nanocomposites for Tissue Engineering Applications Engineered Using a Novel Twin Screw Extrusion and Electrospinning Process (Seep- Screw Extrusion with Electrospinning).............................................................................................................................. 545

Dilhan Kalyon, Cevat Erisken, Hongjun Wang

Characterization and Property Studies of Cyanate Ester/organoclay Nanocomposites ........ 546Gang Huang, Hossein Toghiani, Charles U. Pittman Jr.

Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Processing for Controlled Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Nanocomposite Films ............................................................................................. 547

Michael Barankin, Eleazar Gonzalez II, Robert F. Hicks

Understanding the Synthesis, Structure and Durability of Fly Ash Geopolymers .................. 548John L. Provis, Louise M. Keyte, Catherine A. Rees, S. Sindhunata, Syet Li Yong, Grant C. Lukey, Jannie S. J. van Deventer

Effects of Composition on the Mechanism of Formation of Single-Walled Mixed-Oxide Nanotubes............................................................................................................................. 549

Sanjoy Mukherjee, Cintia Nojima, Sankar Nair

Bulk Material Dissolution Zeolite Syntheses in the Presence of Emulsions: Large Zeolite Crystals with Unusual Morphologies ............................................................................... 550

Edgar Jordan, Daniel F. Shantz

Pure-Silica-Zeolite Mel Nanoparticle Suspension Prepared with Evaporation-Assisted Two-Stage Synthesis Method ........................................................................................ 551

Yan Liu, Minwei Sun, Christopher M. Lew, Junlan Wang, Yushan Yan

Ordered Mesoporous Silica as Templates for Heterostructure Growth.................................... 552Justin J. Hill, Sonja P Cotton, Fahd Rajab, Kirk J. Ziegler

The Effects of Volatile Organic Additives in Mesostructured Silica Particles Produced by Evaporation-Induced Self Assembly...................................................................... 553

Timothy L. Ward, Shailendra B. Rathod

Sorel Cement Reactions and Their Kinetics ................................................................................ 558Terry Ring, Eric Ping

Bio-Based Composite Repair Resins Containing No Hazardous Air Pollutants...................... 566John J. La Scala, Kevin Andrews, Scott Bingham, James M. Sands, Giuseppe R. Palmese

Resorbable Polyurethane/bone Composites for Bone Tissue Engineering ............................. 567J. Dumas, S.A. Guelcher

Cellulose Whiskers Reinforced Nanocomposite Polymer Matrix .............................................. 569Gerardo A. Montero, Orlando J. Rojas

Starch-Filled Composites Created Using Solid-State Shear Pulverization............................... 570Amanda M. Walker, Ying Tao, John M. Torkelson

Immobilization of Enzymes in Silica Nanomaterials by Incorporating an Autosilicification Domain ............................................................................................................... 571

Afshan S. Shaikh, Wesley D. Marner II, Susan J. Muller, Jay D. Keasling

Avidin-Mediated Presentation of Bioactive Peptides and Proteins Using Dopa-Tethered Poly(Ethylene Glycol) ..................................................................................................... 572

Rico C. Gunawan, James A. King, William M. Miller

The Specific Recognition of a Collagen Mimetic Cell-Binding Peptide Sequence Derived from Type I Collagen for Different Cell Types ............................................................... 573

Yen Wah Tong, Shih Tak Khew

Ionic Block Copolymers as Templates for Biomineralization .................................................... 578M. Kanapathipillai, Y. Yusufoglu, A. Rawal, M. Akinc, K. Schmidt-Rohr, C.T. Lo, P. Thiyagarajan, S. Mallapragada

Optimization of Different Cross-Linkers in Generating Gelatin Porous Scaffolds .................. 579Steven Castleberry, Tyler Weirick, Sundararajan V. Madihally

In Vitro Ovarian Follicle Maturation: Synthetic Hydrogels to Mimic the Native Ovary ................................................................................................................................................ 580

Elizabeth Parrish, Teresa K. Woodruff, Lonnie D. Shea

Modulating the Orientation and Conformation of Bone Osteopontin and Bone Sialoprotein for Osteoblast Adhesion .......................................................................................... 581

Matthew Bernards, Shaoyi Jiang

Marrow Stromal Cell Function on Multi-Functional Peptide-Reinforced Nanocomposite Scaffold ................................................................................................................ 582

Esmaiel Jabbari, Alireza S Sarvestani, Xuezhong He

Imaging the Lithium Distribution within Nanostructured Polymer Electrolytes ...................... 583Enrique D. Gomez, Nitash P Balsara

Electrospinning Nafion® Nanofibers ............................................................................................ 584Hong Chen, Joshua D. Snyder, Yossef A. Elabd

Non-Mean-Field Electrostatic Correlations in Polyelectrolyte Brushes.................................... 585Tao Jiang, Jianzhong Wu

Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Inorganic Ions in Peo Aqueous Solution Using on Quantum-Chemistry-Based Force Field.................................................................................. 586

Zhi Tao, Lukas Vlcek, Peter T. Cummings

Nano-Structured Functional Poly(Vinyl Pyrrolidone) Hydrogels Synthesized by Ionizing Irradiation .......................................................................................................................... 587

Jung-Chul An, Dianne Poster, Wyatt N. Vreeland, Joseph Silverman, Mohamad Al-Sheikhly

Study on the Gel Polymer Electrolyte Based on the Synthesized Copolymer of Pmma-Mah ....................................................................................................................................... 588

Yun Huang, Xiaoyan Ma, Shuhui Wang, Fang Chen, Xiaohong Qu

Lithium Ion Gels Containing Porous Pvdf-Hfp Matrix Filled with Crosslinked Peg................. 597Baoku Zhu, Zhenyu Cui, Mei Zhang, Gaige Han, Youyi Xu

Structure and Properties of Nanocomposite Gel Polymethyl Methacrylate Electrolytes ...................................................................................................................................... 605

Shuhua Qi, Xiaoyan Ma, Fang Chen, Xiaohong Qu, Yun Huang

Synthesis of Degradable Nanotubes by Tubulin Template Polymerization ............................. 612Xuezhong He, Esmaiel Jabbari

Electrospun Nanofibers of Enzymatically-Modified Polysaccharide for Drug Delivery .......... 613Hsiao Mei Annie Chu, Benham Pourdeyhimi, Saad A. Khan

Heptavalent Inhibitors of Anthrax Toxin....................................................................................... 614Amit Joshi, Sandesh Kate, Arundhati Saraph, Jeremy Mogridge, Ravi S. Kane

Dynamic Peptide Folding and Assembly for DNA Separations ................................................. 615Vikas P. Jain, Angela Jimenez, Raymond S. Tu

Effect of an Unsaturated Amphiphilic Macromer on Electrospining of Aligned PLGA Fibers .................................................................................................................................... 616

Weijie Xu, Xuezhong He, Alireza S Sarvestani, Esmaiel Jabbari

Biomimetic Synthesis of Silica Nanoparticles............................................................................. 617Mark A. Snyder, Efrosini Kokkoli, Michael Tsapatsis

Modification of a Naturally Derived Matrix Using Nanoparticles ............................................... 618Benjamin J. Lawrence, Fadee G. Mondalek, Sundararajan V. Madihally, Brian P. Grady, Bradley P. Kropp, H. K. Lin

Towards a Treatment of Human Caries Using Ultrafine Bioactive Glass Nanoparticles ........ 619Meret Vollenweider, Tobias J. Brunner, Sven Knecht, Robert N. Grass, Oliver D. Schneider, Matthias Zehnder, Thomas Imfeld, Wendelin J. Stark

Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy as an In-Situ Probe for Organic Field Effect Transistors ................................................................................................... 621

Hongke Ye, Jia Huang, Howard Katz, David H. Gracias

Performance of N- and P-Type Organic Field-Effect Transistors Fabricated by In-Plane Growth of Organic Crystals Via Solvent-Vapor-Assisted Recrystallization................... 622

Jonghwa Jeong, Debra J. Mascaro

Conductive Patterning Utilizing Polyelectrolytes for Plastic Electronics................................. 623Troy R. Hendricks, Jue Lu, Lawrence T. Drzal, Ilsoon Lee

Fabrication of Intra-Level Air-Gaps for Integrated Circuits ........................................................ 624Seongho Park, Jeff Krotine, Sue Ann Bidstrup Allen, Paul A. Kohl

Performance of Advanced Resists Based on Polymer-Bound Pag Resins.............................. 625Clifford Henderson, Cheng-Tsung Lee

Photodefinable Low-K Dielectric Polymers for Low Temperature Processing ........................ 626Clifford Henderson, Michael Romeo

Conductive Polymers for Nerve Guidance ................................................................................... 627Christine E. Schmidt

Drug Delivery From Neural Prostheses Using Polymer Composites........................................ 628Jessica O. Winter, Ning Han, Fei Wang, Michael Owens, Joseph F. Rizzo, Stuart Cogan

Guidance of Neurite Outgrowth Via Microenivronmental Cues ................................................. 630Deanna M. Thompson, Angela M Seggio, Karen S Ellison, Dara Missan

Patterned Plg Substrates for Localized DNA Delivery and Directed Neurite Extension ......... 631Tiffany Houchin-Ray, Laura A. Swift, Jae-Hyung Jang, Lonnie D. Shea

Pegylation of Interleukin-10 to Enhance Delivery to the Central Nervous System and Therapeutic Efficacy for Neuropathic Pain ........................................................................... 632

Ryan Soderquist, Melissa Mahoney

Multiple Channel Bridges Tailored with Gene Therapy and Extracellular Matrix Components for Spinal Cord Regeneration ................................................................................. 633

Laura De Laporte, Yang Yang, Kanika K. Bhatia, Andrew F. Adler, Anna L. Yan, Lonnie D. Shea

Nanoporous Delivery Devices Based on Biodegradable Polymers for Constant Drug Release ................................................................................................................................... 635

Hongyan He, Chi Yen, Natalie Jones, Winston Ho, William E. Carson, L. James Lee

Exploiting Lymphatic Transport and Complement Activation in Nanoparticle Vaccines........................................................................................................................................... 643

Sai T. Reddy, André Van der Vlies, Eleonora Simeoni, Colin O'Neil, Jeffrey A. Hubbell, Melody A. Swartz

Loading of Vault Nanocapsules with Gold Probes Using a Protein “Shuttle” ......................... 644Lisa E. Goldsmith, Leonard H. Rome, Harold G. Monbouquette

Enhancing Doxorubicin Permeability Across the Blood Brain Barrier by Cationic Beta-Cyclodextrin Polymers .......................................................................................................... 645

Eun Seok Gil, Tao L. Lowe, Jianshu Li, Huining Xiao

Dendrimer-Based Nanodevices for Sustained, Targeted Ocular Delivery of Therapeutics .................................................................................................................................... 646

Bharath Rajaguru, Rangaramanujam M. Kannan, Raymond Iezzi

Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Carbon Nanotube Needle Effects on Plasma Membrane Structure ....................................................................................................................... 647

Vamshi K. Gangupomu, Franco M. Capaldi

Reactive Poly(P-Xylylene) Copolymer Coatings: Combinations of Functionalities in Defined Ratios............................................................................................................................. 649

Yaseen Elkasabi, Mutsumi Yoshida, Joerg Lahann

High Throughput Cell-Based Assays for Biodegradable Polymers .......................................... 650Latrisha K. Petersen, Andrew F. Adler, Jennifer H. Wilson, Jon B. Thorstenson, Maria P. Torres, Surya K. Mallapragada, Michael Wannemuehler, Balaji Narasimhan

Combinatorial and High Throughput Methods for the Design and Characterization of Libraries for Polymer Blend Phase Behavior .......................................................................... 651

Jon B. Thorstenson, Latrisha K. Petersen, Balaji Narasimhan

Influencing Polymorph Selectivity Through Antisolvent Crystallization in Microfluidic Channels..................................................................................................................... 652

Venkateswarlu Bhamidi, Paul J. A. Kenis, Charles F. Zukoski

Ultrarapid Synthesis of Ordered Mesoporous Carbon Via Microwave Assisted Carbonization .................................................................................................................................. 653

Jin Hoe Kim, Ji Eun Lee, Hyung Ik Lee, Chanho Pak, Hyuk Chang, Doyoung Seung, Ji Man Kim

Low-Energy Infrared Spectroscopy on the Silica Surface-A New Experimental Approach ......................................................................................................................................... 654

A. Anderson, W. Robert Ashurst

Directed Self-Assembly of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials in Nanopore Channels .......................................................................................................................................... 655

Michael Z. Hu

Towards a Functional Organic-Inorganic Semiconductor Interface ......................................... 656Lars C. Grabow, John J. Uhlrich, Thomas F. Kuech, Manos Mavrikakis

Wet-Chemical and Plasma Treatments to Enhance Adhesion Between Electroless Copper and Dielectric Materials .................................................................................................... 657

Sue Ann Allen, Harley Hayden, Paul Kohl

Ionically Self Assembled Thin Films for Second Order Non-Linear Optical Applications..................................................................................................................................... 658

Richey M. Davis, Akhilesh Garg

Diffusion and Relaxation Behavior of Polymer Ultra-Thin Films: A Progress Report ............. 659Clifford Henderson, Richard Lawson

Control of Nanoparticle Location in Block Copolymer Scaffolds Via External Fields ................................................................................................................................................ 660

Vibha Kalra, Jinwoo Lee, Sergio Mendez, Fernando A. Escobedo, Ulrich Wiesner, Yong Lak Joo

Self-Assembled Hybrid Nanoporous Opal Films and Membranes ............................................ 661Ilya Zharov

Functionalization of the Internal Surface of Pure Silica-Mfi with N-Butanol ............................ 662Chil-Hung Cheng, Tae-Hyun Bae, Sebastian C. Reyes, Ronald R. Chance, Benjamin A. McCool, Sankar Nair, Christopher W. Jones

Gold-Nanoparticle Conjugation on Genetically Engineered Tobacco Mosaic Virus ............... 664Jung-Sun Lim, Sang-Yup Lee, James N. Culver, Michael T. Harris

Synthesis of (Zn,Mn)Se and (Zn,Cu)Se Nanocrystals Using Microemulsions as Templates ........................................................................................................................................ 665

Qi (Grace) Qiu, Tracy Heckler, Bing C. Mei, Jun Wang, T. J. Mountziaris

Organosilicon Dendrimer Templates for Synthesis of Nanocage Materials............................. 667Michael N. Missaghi, Christopher Downing, Mayfair C. Kung, Harold H. Kung

Continuous Aerosol-Based Synthesis of Nanostructured Silica Supports.............................. 668Raghuraman Pitchumani, Marc-Olivier Coppens, Andreas Schmidt-Ott

Ring and Branched Amino Acids for Templating Mesoporous Cerium Oxide: Synthesis and Structural Characterization .................................................................................. 669

Sam Mitchell, Javier Guzman

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