Preliminary Program subject to change
08F03 Sensing Applications of Nanocomposites
OverviewNanocomposite materials are increasingly the material of choice in transportation, military and medical applications, offering an excellent balance of properties, including high stiffness to weight ratio, high strength, low permeability, and reduced flammability. Such composites may be engineered simultaneously, however, for smart applications using arrays of switches and sensors in fabrics and films, including electro-optical, biosensor and or drug delivery devices. This session invites papers which survey structure/property relationships or processing techniques for smart nanocomposites designed for sensing or switching. We welcome both theoretical and experimental papers.
Primary SponsorComposites (08f)

Chair

Holly A. Stretz
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Tennessee Technological University
Prescott Hall, Box 5013
Cookeville, TN 38501
Phone Number: 931-372-3495
Fax Number: 931-372-6352
Email: hstretz@tntech.edu

CoChair

Salma Saddawi, Special, Profess
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
University of Notre Dame
182 Fitzpatrick Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5637
Phone Number: 574-631-3324
Fax Number: 574-631-8366
Email: ssaddawi@nd.edu
Welcoming Remarks
Effect of Foaming on Fiber Orientation and Electrical Conductivity of Polymer Carbon Fiber Composites in Injection Molding
Ghodratollah Hashemi-Motlagh, Michael R. Thompson and Andrew N. Hrymak, Chemical Engineering, MMRI/CAPPA-D, McMaster University, 1280 Main S W, Hamilton, ON L8S4L7, Canada
Negative Normal Stresses in Polymer Nanocomposites
Bani H. Cipriano1, Gary T. Cheng1, Takashi Kashiwagi2, Jack Douglas3 and Srinivasa R. Raghavan1, (1)University of Maryland, Department of Chemical Engineering, College Park, MD 20742, (2)Building and Fire Research Laboratory, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, (3)Polymers Division, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899
Hdpe/Al2o3 Nanocomposites Prepared by Extruding Al2o3 Coated Hdpe Particles
Xinhua Liang1, Luis F. Hakim1, Joseph A. Spencer2, Karen J. Buechler2, David M. King1, Steven M. George3 and Alan W. Weimer1, (1)Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, 1111 Engineering Drive, Campus Box 424, Boulder, CO 80309-0424, (2)ALD NanoSolutions, Inc., 580 Burbank Street, Unit 100, Broomfield, CO 80020, (3)Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Campus Box 215, Boulder, CO 80309
Large-Scale Production of Carbon-Coated Copper Nanoparticles for Sensor Applications
Evagelos K. Athanassiou, Robert N. Grass and Wendelin J. Stark, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, Zurich, Switzerland
Break
Film Characteristics of Magnetic Nanoparticles Incorporated into Tethered Thermoresponsive N-Isopropylacrylamide Copolymer Hydrogels
Beinn V. O. Muir1, Cathrin Corten2, Dirk Kuckling2, Shan X. Wang3, Wolfgang Knoll4 and Curtis W. Frank1, (1)Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, 381 North South Mall, Stanford, CA 94305-5025, (2)Fachrichtung für Chemie und Lebensmittelchemie, Dresden, D-01062, Germany, (3)Department of Materials Science, Stanford University, Peterson Building 550, Stanford, CA 94305-2205, (4)Materials Science, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, Mainz, 55128, Germany
Responsive Polydiacetylene/Silica Nanocomposite Films with Tunable Mesostructure and Thermochromatism
Huisheng Peng, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118 and Yunfeng Lu, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Tulane University, 6823 St Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118
Uv-Vis Properties of Zno / Low Density Polyethylene Nanocomposites
Tong Liu, Linda S. Schadler and Richard W. Siegel, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180
Responsive Nanocomposites Thorugh Hierarchical Assembly
Huisheng Peng1, Jing Tang2, Lu Yang3, Hank Ashbaugh4 and Yunfeng Lu3, (1)Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118, (2)Chemical Engineering Department, Tualne University, New Orleans, LA 70118, (3)Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, (4) Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118
Concluding Remarks

Materials Engineering and Sciences Division