Preliminary Program subject to change
08A13 Multiscale Modeling and Characterization of Polymers
OverviewThis session focuses on multiscale simulation to characterize the behavior of polymeric materials and produce insight into structure property relationships. The appropriate simulation protocols span or connect two or more scales of time, size or detail in the polymeric materials.
Primary SponsorPolymers (08a)
Co-Sponsor(s)Computational Molecular Science and Engineering Forum (21)

Chair

Coray M. Colina
Dr.
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
121 Steidle Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone Number: 814-865-3351
Fax Number: 814-865-2917
Email: colina@matse.psu.edu

CoChair

Peter Ludovice
School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
311 Ferst Dr.
Atlanta, GA 30332-0100
Phone Number: 404-894-1835
Email: pete.ludovice@chbe.gatech.edu

CoChair

Manolis Doxastakis
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Houston
4800 Calhoun Ave.
Houston, TX 77204
Phone Number: (713) 743-4319
Fax Number: (713) 743-4323
Email: edoxastakis@uh.edu
Structural and Dynamical Properties of Polystyrene Determined by Coarse-Graining MD Simulations
Vagelis Hamandaris1, Dirk Reith2, Nico F.A. van der Vegt1 and Kurt Kremer1, (1)Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, Mainz, Germany, (2)Computational Chemical Engineering Group, Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI), Schloss Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Rheological And Entanglement Characteristics Of Polyethylene Liquids And Visualization Of Conformational Changes In Shear And Elongational Flows
Jun Mo Kim, Chemical Engineering, The University of Tennessee, 419 Dougherty Hall, Knoxville, TN 37996-2200, David J. Keffer, The University of Tennessee, 617 Dougherty Hall Dougherty Hall, Knoxville, TN 37996-2200, Martin Kröger, Department of Materials, ETH-Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 10, Zurich, Switzerland and Brian J. Edwards, Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Tennessee, 419 Dougherty Hall, Knoxville, TN 37996
Free Volume And Transport Properties In Polymeric Materials
Xiao-Yan Wang, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Chemical Engineering, Austin, TX 78712, Benny D. Freeman, Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 10100 Burnet Rd., Bldg 133, Center for Energy and Environmental Resources, Austin, TX 78758 and Isaac C. Sanchez, Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Mail Code C0400, Austin, TX 78712
Transport Properties in Nanocomposites: Modeling Cfd Approach for Randomly Distributed Systems
Matteo Minelli, Marco Giacinti Baschetti and Ferruccio Doghieri, Department of Chemical Engineering, Mining and Environment Technology, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Via Terracini 34, Bologna, Italy
Mesoscale Simulations Of Hydrated Nafion Membranes
Aleksey Vishnyakov, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 98 Brett rd, Piscataway, NJ 08854 and Alexander V. Neimark, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University, 98 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058
BREAK1
Coray M. Colina, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 121 Steidle Building, University Park, PA 16802
Multiscale Simulations Of Fluid Flow Through Polymer Grafted “Smart” Nano- And Micro-Porous Materials
Zhengmin Li and Donald Brenner, Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7907
Development of Structure-Property Relationships for Biobased Polymers Using Quantum and Molecular Mechanics Simulations
David Bruce, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Clemson University, 127 Earle Hall, Clemson, SC 29634-0909 and James McAliley, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Clemson University, 127 Earle Hall, Clemson, SC 29634-0909

Materials Engineering and Sciences Division