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71st Annual Meeting (Oct 1999)

Blends and Block Copolymers


Organizers: Timothy P. Lodge, University of Minnesota
Paula Moldanaers, K. U. Leuven

Number of papers = 22

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BC1 Morphology predictions from normal stress measurements for dilute immiscible polymer blends
Mario Minale and Pier Luca Maffettone
    Speaker: Mario Minale, Seconda Università di Napoli
        Wednesday     9:45     Hall of Ideas G / Track 1
BC2 Droplet vorticity alignment in model polymer blends under shear
Kalman B. Migler
    Speaker: Kalman B. Migler, National Institute of Standards and Technology
        Wednesday     10:10     Hall of Ideas G / Track 1
BC3 Rheology of a viscoelastic emulsion with a liquid crystalline polymer dispersed phase
Heon Sang Lee and Morton M. Denn
    Speaker: Heon Sang Lee, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/Univ. of California
        Wednesday     10:35     Hall of Ideas G / Track 1
BC4 An adaptation of the Doi-Ohta theory to the predictions of droplet shape changes and stresses in the flow of immiscible blends
Abdulwahab S. Almusallam, Ronald G. Larson, and Michael J. Solomon
    Speaker: Abdulwahab S. Almusallam, University of Michigan
        Wednesday     11:00     Hall of Ideas G / Track 1
BC5 Morphological development of immiscible polymer blends in complex flows
Brian E. Priore and Lynn M. Walker
    Speaker: Brian E. Priore, Carnegie Mellon University
        Wednesday     11:25     Hall of Ideas G / Track 1
BC6 Monitoring blend coalescence via particle size distribution and rheology
Suping Lyu, Frank S. Bates, and Christopher W. Macosko
    Speaker: Suping Lyu, University of Minnesota
        Wednesday     1:30     Hall of Ideas G / Track 1
BC7 The influence of block copolymer on the phenomena of collision and film drainage governing droplet coalescence in immiscible blends
Steven D. Hudson, Alex M. Jamieson, Ica Manas-Zloczower, Anthony R. Ramic, Julia C. Stehlin, Brian E. Burkhart, and Wararat Sophanowong
    Speaker: Steven D. Hudson, Case Western Reserve University
        Wednesday     1:55     Hall of Ideas G / Track 1
BC8 A new stress-optical relation in two-phase liquid/liquid mixtures
Peter Van Puyvelde, Paula Moldenaers, and Jan Mewis
    Speaker: Peter Van Puyvelde, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
        Wednesday     2:20     Hall of Ideas G / Track 1
BC9 Examining the dynamic rheological behavior of an LCST polymer blend in the two-phase region
Diana B. Hess and Susan J. Muller
    Speaker: Diana B. Hess, University of California - Berkeley
        Wednesday     2:45     Hall of Ideas G / Track 1
BC10 Stress-induced morphological transition in the body-centered cubic phase of block copolymer melts
John M. Sebastian, Chiajen Lai, Richard A. Register, and William W. Graessley
    Speaker: John M. Sebastian, Princeton University
        Wednesday     3:35     Hall of Ideas G / Track 1
BC11 Structure and dynamics of giant block copolymer micelles
Dimitris Vlassopoulos, Reinhard Sigel, George Fytas, Stergios Pispas, and Nikos Hadjichristidis
    Speaker: Dimitris Vlassopoulos, FO.R.T.H.
        Wednesday     4:00     Hall of Ideas G / Track 1
BC12 Orientation of polymeric hierachical nanostructers by oscillatory shear flow
Karin de Moel, Riikka Makinen, Janne Ruokolainen, Olli Ikkala, and Gerrit ten Brinke
    Speaker: Karin de Moel, University of Groningen
        Wednesday     4:25     Hall of Ideas G / Track 1
BC13 Rheology of layered silicate based block copolymer nanocomposite
Yong Taik Lim and O Ok Park
    Speaker: O Ok Park, KAIST
        Wednesday     4:50     Hall of Ideas G / Track 1
BC14 Linear rheology of lamellar diblocks compared to their hetero-four-arm star block copolymer analogs
D. Martin A. Buzza, Adnan F. Fzea, Jurgen B. Allgaier, Ronald N. Young, David J. Groves, and Tom C. Mcleish
    Speaker: D. Martin A. Buzza, University of Leeds
        Thursday     8:05     Hall of Ideas G / Track 1
BC15 Simulation of diblock copolymer melts by dissipative particle dynamics
Kai Zhang, Guoai Pan, and Charles W. Manke
    Speaker: Charles W. Manke, Wayne State University
        Thursday     8:30     Hall of Ideas G / Track 1
BC16 Phase transition in a triblock-diblock copolymer blend
Adriana Silva and Ramanan Krishnamoorti
    Speaker: Adriana Silva, University of Houston
        Thursday     8:55     Hall of Ideas G / Track 1
BC17 Dynamics of model miscible polyolefin blends
Jai A. Pathak, Ralph H. Colby, George Floudas, Ramanan Krishnamoorti, Lewis J. Fetters, and Rudi Faust
    Speaker: Jai A. Pathak, The Pennsylvania State University
        Thursday     9:20     Hall of Ideas G / Track 1
BC18 Scaling of the relaxation times for different relaxation mechanisms in immiscible polymer blends
Paula Moldenaers, Peter Van Puyvelde, and Jan Mewis
    Speaker: Paula Moldenaers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
        Thursday     10:10     Hall of Ideas G / Track 1
BC19 Monomeric friction factors in polymer mixtures
Timothy P. Lodge and Jodi M. Milhaupt
    Speaker: Timothy P. Lodge, University of Minnesota
        Thursday     10:35     Hall of Ideas G / Track 1
BC20 On the blends of hyperbranched polymers with linear polymers
Michael E. Mackay, Ye Hong, Justin J. Cooper-White, Craig Hawker, and Eva Malmstrom
    Speaker: Michael E. Mackay, Stevens Institute of Technology
        Thursday     11:00     Hall of Ideas G / Track 1
BC21 Rheological study of the effect of molecular parameters and temperature on the miscibility of polyethylene blends
Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein and Michael C. Williams
    Speaker: Michael C. Williams, University of Alberta
        Thursday     11:25     Hall of Ideas G / Track 1
BC22 Elastic behavior of thermoplastic polyurethanes probed by rheo-optical FTIR spectroscopy
Rangaramanujam Kannan and Gerald Hofmann
    Speaker: Rangaramanujam Kannan, Wayne State University
        Thursday     11:50     Hall of Ideas G / Track 1

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