 2008 — Enabling Technologies and New Markets
CONFERENCE SESSIONS
MONDAY, September 15, 2008
Special Workshop: Science & Technology of Nanocomposites
Session 1: Novel Preparation and Manufacturing Methods
Session Organizer: Prof. Sadhan C. Jana, University of Akron
TUESDAY, September 16, 2008
Session 2: Properties, Modelling, and Characterization
Session Organizer: Prof. Fengge Gao, Nottingham Trent University
Session 3: Commercial Applications: Industrial & Consumer Applications
Session Organizer: Lance Criscuolo, General Manager, Zyvex Performance Materials
WEDNESDAY, September 16, 2008
Session 4: Nanocomposites for Energy Applications
Session Organizer: Alex Kawczak, StrateNexus Technologies LLC
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CONFERENCE AGENDA
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Monday, September 15, 2008
08:00-09:00: Check-in; Continental breakfast
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| Workshop: |
Science & Technology of Nanocomposites |
9:00-12:30 |
Part 1: Fundamentals on Nanocomposites, Instructor: Prof. Miriam Rafailovich
Part 2: Polymer nanocomposites of clay, silica, and hybrid nanoparticles, Instructor: Prof. Sadhan Jana
Part 3: Carbon based nanocomposites, Instructor: Prof. Fengge Gao
Part 4: Is there reason for concern regarding nanoparticle toxicity? Instructor: Prof. Miriam Rafailovich
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| 12:30pm |
LUNCH |
| Session 1: |
Novel Preparation and Manufacturing Methods |
| Session Organizer: Prof. Sadhan C. Jana, University of Akron |
1:45pm |
PLENARY LECTURE: Fifteen Years of Nanocomposites Research: What is Novel About Nanoparticles and Manufacturing Methods
Sadhan C. Jana, Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Akron
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| 2:30pm |
New and Novel Techniques to Fabricate Carbon Nanotubes Containing Polymer Nanocomposites
Suprakas Sinha Ray, National Centre for Nano-Structured Materials, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa
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| 3:00pm |
Reversible Infrared Actuation of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube-Liquid Crystalline Elastomer
Nanocomposites
Liqiang Yang¹, Kristina Setyowati², An Li², Shaoqin Gong¹ ³ and Jian Chen²
¹Department of Mechanical Engineering; ²Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; and ³Department of Materials, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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| 3:30pm |
Nanocomposite Gels and Soft Nanocomposites: Unique Organic/Inorganic Network Structures with Extraordinary Optical, Mechanical and Functional Properties
Kazutoshi Haraguchi, Kawamura Institute of Chemical Research
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| 4:00pm |
COFFEE BREAK |
4:30pm |
Thermal Transport in Composite Materials and its Interfaces
Ajit K. Roy, Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate
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| 5:00pm |
Mechanical Behavior of Electrospun Polymer Nanofibers - From a Linking Scale Perspective
Shing-Chung Wong¹, , Avinash Baji¹, Siwei Leng²
¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, ²Institute of Polymer Science, The University of Akron
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| 5:30pm |
Metal -Polymer Nanocomposites for Opto-Magneto-Electronic Materials
Norman Luechinger¹, Greg Heness², Norman Booth², Stark Wendelin¹, and Sri Bandyopadhyay³
¹ETH Zurich, ²UTS Australia, ³SMSE/UNSW, Australia
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| 6:00pm |
POSTER SESSION; Cheese & Wine Reception |
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
8:00am Continental Breakfast
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| Session 2: |
Properties, Modelling, and Characterization |
| Session Organizer: Prof. Fengge Gao, Nottingham Trent University |
8:30am |
PLENARY LECTURE: Submicro vs Nano: A New Challenge or an Old Regime?
Fengge Gao, Yalan Li and Steven Moloney, Nanoscience Laboratory, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University
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| 9:30am |
Deformation and Fracture Behaviour of PP-MWNT Nanocomposites
Martin Ganß¹, Bhabani K. Satapathy², Mahendra Thunga¹³, Roland Weidisch¹³ (speaker), Petra Pötschke³, Andreas Janke³, Dieter Jehnichen³,
¹ Institute of Materials Science and Technology (IMT), Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena GERMANY; ² Centre for Polymer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi INDIA; ³ Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research, Dresden GERMANY
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| 10:00am |
Study on Fire Behavior of High Impact Polystyrene-Clay Nanocomposite and Triphenyl Phosphite
G. Sanchez-Olivares¹, (speaker) A. Sanchez-Solis¹, O. Manero¹ and G Camino²
¹ Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México MEXICO; ²Centro di Cultura per l'Ingegneria delle Materie Plastiche, ITALY
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| 10:30am |
COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:00am |
Processing and Properties of Biaxially Oriented Polypropylene-Based Nanocomposites
Nathalie Chapleau, Industrial Materials Institute - National Research Council of Canada
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| 11:30am |
Anisotropic Reinforcement in Nanocomposites: Preorientation of Filler Network, Magnetic Tuning
J. Jestin¹, N. Jouault¹, F. Cousin¹, I. Dubois¹, C. Ménager², R. Schweins³, J. Oberdisse*, F. Boué¹.
¹ Laboratoire Léon Brillouin (LLB), CEA/CNRS, Gif/Yvette France; ² Laboratoire Liquides Ioniques et Interfaces Chargées (LI2C), Paris France; ³ Institut Laue-Langevin, DS/LSS, Grenoble France; * Laboratoire des Colloïdes, Verres et Nanomatériaux (LCVN), Montpellier France
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| 12:00pm |
Well Dispersed Polymer-Silica Nanocomposites: Connectivity Transition in Filler Structure and Double Transition in Mechanical Behaviour
Nicolas Jouault¹ (speaker), Perrine Vallat¹, Jacques Jestin¹, Florent Dalmas², Sylvère Said³ and François Boué¹
¹ Laboratoire Léon Brillouin (LLB), Gif-sur-Yvette, France; ² Institut Chimie et Matériau de Paris Est, Thiais, France; ³ Laboratoire Polymère Propriétés aux Interfaces et Composites(L2PIC), Lorient, France
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| 12:30pm |
LUNCH |
| Session 3: |
COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS: Industrial & Consumer Applications |
| Session Organizer: Lance Criscuolo, General Manager, Zyvex Performance Materials |
| 2:00pm |
PLENARY LECTURE: Roadmap for Nanocomposites Towards Commercialization
Hariharan Ramasubramanian, Frost & Sullivan
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| 2:30pm |
Automotive Industry Applications of Nanocomposites
Will Rodgers, General Motors
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| 3:00pm |
Multi-Functional Nano-Materials for Advanced Automotive Applications
W. (Voytek) S. Gutowski, Weidong Yang, Phil Casey, and Sheng Li, CSIRO Materials Science and Enginerering, Australia
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| 3:30pm |
Commercialization of Nanocomposites
Lance Criscuolo, General Manager, Zyvex Performance Material
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| 4:00pm |
COFFEE BREAK |
| 4:30pm |
Commercialization of the POSS Nanostructured Chemical Platform
Joseph Schwab, Hybrid Plastics, Inc.
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| 5:00pm |
Applications of Halloysite Nanotubes in Polymer Composites
Aaron L. Wagner (speaker), Cathy A. Fleischer, Robert C. Daly, and Michael Duffy, NaturalNano Inc.
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| 5:30pm |
Commercial Introduction of LDH Nanoclays
Ross C. Opsahl, Akzo Nobel Polymer Chemicals LLC
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| 6:00pm |
Cheese & Wine Reception |
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
8:00am Continental Breakfast
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| Session 4: |
Nanocomposites for Energy Applications |
| Session Organizer: Alex Kawczak, StrateNexus Technologies LLC |
8:30am |
PLENARY LECTURE: Energy Technology Breakthroughs Enabled by Nanocomposites
Alex Kawczak, StrateNexus Technologies, LLC
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| 9:30am |
Buckypaper for Energy Storage and Conversion Nanocomposites
Jim Zheng, Richard Liang and Ben Wang, Florida State University
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| 10:00am |
Plasma Synthesis of Nanoparticles for Nanocomposite Energy Applications
Peter C. Kong, Idaho National Laborator, and Alex W. Kawczak, StrateNexus Technologies, LLC
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| 10:30am |
COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:00am |
Recent Advances in Developing Platinum Monolayer Electrocatalyst Nanocomposites for the O2 Reduction Reaction in Fuel Cells
M. B. Vukmirovic, K. Sasaki, W-P. Zhou, M. Li, P. Liu, J.X. Wang, R. R. Adzic, Brookhaven National Laboratory
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| 11:30am |
Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes for Improved Efficiency of OLED and OPV Nanocomposites
Ilia Ivanov¹(speaker), David Geohegan¹, Bin Hu², Matthew Garrett², Zhihua Xu², Ming Shao²
¹Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; ²University of Tennessee Knoxville
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| 12:00pm |
CONFERENCE ADJOURNMENT |
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September 15-17, 2008
