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A symposium on Mechanical Instabilities in Polymer Films, Interfaces and Nanostructures
This symposium is part of the Spring 2008 ACS National Meeting and Exposition , to be held at New Orleans, Louisiana, from Sunday, April 6 to Thursday, April 10, 2008.
Organizers: Christopher M. Stafford (NIST), Adam J. Nolte (NIST), Rui Huang (UT Austin)
Sponsors: ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) and National Science Foundation
Technical Program:
- Session I: Mechanics and Biological Applications (8:30 AM - 11:40 AM, Monday, April 7, 2008)
8:30 AM: Introductory Remarks
8:35 AM: Zhigang Suo, Instabilities in soft active materials (invited)
9:05 AM: Neville R. Moody, Effects of substrate compliance on fracture of thin hard films (invited)
9:35 AM: Rui Huang, Wrinkling of anisotropic crystal films on soft substrates
9:55 AM: Intermission
10:10 AM: Hanqing Jiang, Finite width effect of thin films buckling on compliant substrate: Impact on metrology
10:30 AM: Ryan C. Hayward, Creasing of hydrogels under compression: Harnessing an elastic instability to create active surfaces (invited)
11:00 AM: Sahraoui Chaieb, Wrinkling instabilities in monolayers and bilayers made of chiral lipids
11:20 AM: Khaled A. Aamer, Confinement and mechanical stiffening behavior of tyrosine-derived polycarbonate thin films
- Session II: Metrology and Thin Films (1:30 PM - 5:00 PM, Monday, April 7, 2008)
1:30 PM: Thomas P. Russell, Capillary wrinkling of floating thin films (invited)
2:00 PM: Jun Young Chung, Harnessing wrinkling instabilities for advanced measurements of polymeric thin films (invited)
2:30 PM: Ray Gunawidjaja, Determination of silver nanowires elastic modulus by means of longitudinal buckling instability
2:50 PM: Christopher M. Stafford, Measuring the modulus of hydrated contact lenses via surface wrinkling
3:10 PM: Intermission
3:20 PM: Lorraine F. Francis, Wrinkling of polymer coatings (invited)
3:50 PM: V. V. Tsukruk, Buckling instability of nanocomposite polymeric structures: Measuring elastic properties of complex nanostructured materials (invited)
4:20 PM: Adam J. Nolte, Effects of humidity on the thickness and Young's modulus of polyelectrolyte multilayer films
4:40 PM: Zekeriyya Gemici, Strain-induced elastic buckling instability for mechanical measurements (SIEBIMM) on colloidal assemblies
- Session III: Devices and Patterning (8:30 AM - 12:00 Noon, Tuesday, April 8, 2008)
8:30 AM: John A. Rogers, Wavy semiconductor nanomaterials for stretchable electronics (invited)
9:00 AM: Kyle J. Alvine, Instability in nanoimprinted structures (invited)
9:30 AM: Douglas P. Holmes, Wrinkling and snapping polymer surfaces
9:50 AM: Dinesh Chandra, Fabrication of strain responsive microlens array by confined buckling of poly(dimethylsiloxane) bilayer structure
10:10 AM: Intermission
10:25 AM: M. D. Thouless, Mechanical properties and instabilities of PDMS surfaces (invited)
10:55 AM: Takuya Ohzono, Spatial forcing of microwrinkle patterns (invited)
11:25 AM: Shu Yang, Self-assembly of complex patterns by controlled mechanical instability in patterned polymer films (invited)
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