Chairs

NOTE EARLY START

8:00 AM *Q1.1
Responsive Polymer Brushes Through Main Chain Self-Assembly. Stephen L. Craig, Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

8:30 AM Q1.2
Charged Polymer Brushes: Really Soft Matter? Tamer Farhan, Omar Azzaroni and Wilhelm T. S. Huck; Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

8:45 AM Q1.3
Fluorine End-Capped Polyethylene Glycol Materials as Water/Oil Fluid Responsive Surfaces. Jeffrey Youngblood and John Howarter; School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

9:00 AM Q1.4
Self-Recognising Fluid Monolayers of DNA-Based Surfactants: Properties and Applications. Vesselin N. Paunov, Chun Xu, Pietro Taylor and Paul D. I. Fletcher; Department of Chemistry, University of Hull, Hull, North Humberside, United Kingdom.

9:15 AM Q1.5
Selective, Controllable, and Reversible Aggregation of Polystyrene Latex Microspheres via DNA Hybridization. Phillip Henry Rogers¹, Peter V. Schwartz¹, Carl Bauer¹, Daniel Hansen¹, Stephen Vanderet¹, Antoine Calvez¹, Jackson Crews¹, Alistair Wood¹, James K. O. Lau², Brad Roberts², Eric Michel³ and David Pine³; ¹Physics, California Polytechnic State Univ., San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, California; ²Materials Engineering, California Polytechnic State Univ., San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, California; ³Materials and Chemical Engineering, Univ. of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California.

9:30 AM BREAK

10:00 AM *Q1.6
New Monolayers: Molecular Recognition, Catalysis, and Electronics. Colin Nuckolls, Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, New York; Nanoscience Center, Columbia University, New York, New York.

10:30 AM *Q1.7
Modifying Interfacial Interactions. Thomas P. Russell¹, Duyeol Ryu¹, Eric Drockenmuller² and Craig J. Hawker³; ¹Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts; ²IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California; ³Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, California.

11:00 AM Q1.8
Towards Tunable Interaction Between Conjugated Molecules and Metal Surfaces in Self-Assembled-Monolayers: A Theoretical View. Georg Heimel¹, Egbert Zojer^1,2 and Jean-Luc Bredas¹; ¹School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia; ²Institute of Solid State Physics, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria.

11:15 AM Q1.9
Phospholipid Morphologies on Photochemically Patterned Silane Monolayers. Micheal C. Howland¹, Annapoorna R. Sapuri-Butti¹, Sanhita S. Dixit¹, Andrew M. Dattelbaum², Andrew P. Shreve² and Atul N. Parikh¹; ¹Applied Science, University of California, Davis, Davis, California; ²Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico.

11:30 AM Q1.10
Structural and Mechanical Properties of Dendrimer-Mediated Thin Films. Fengting Xu and John A. Barnard; Materials Science & Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Q3.1
Physical and Electrical Characteristics of p-GaN after Cl₂/Ar Dry Etching. Hsueh Kuang-Po¹, Huang Shou-Chian¹, Sheu Jinn-Kong² and Hsin Yue-Ming¹; ¹Department of Electrical Engineering, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan; ²Institute of Electro-Optical Science and Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.

Q3.2
Versatile Helical Polymer Films: Chiroptical Switching and Memory with Re-Writable (RW) and Write-Once Read-Many-Times (WORM) Modes. Akihiro Ohira¹, Michiya Fujiki¹, Masanobu Naito¹, Kento Okoshi¹, Takahiro Hagihara¹ and Masashi Kunitake²; ¹Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, Japan; ²Applied Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan.

Q3.3
Nucleation of Pd Nanoparticles on a Smart Molecular Surface of Fibrous Hydrogen-Bonded Molecular Assemblages. Daisuke Ishii¹, Masaru Nakagawa¹, Tomokazu Iyoda¹, Taichi Nagashima², Shinichi Kawasaki² and Mitsuaki Yamada²; ¹Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan; ²Osaka Gas Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan.

Q3.4
Hydrophilic Effect of Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) and Leadframe by Atmospheric Pressure RF Glow Discharge Plasma. Won-Youl Choi¹, Jung-Hee Cho², Bang-Kwon Kang² and Sae-Hoon Kim¹; ¹Kangnung National University, Kangnung, South Korea; ²Changjo Engineering Co., Ltd., Hwaseong, South Korea.

Q3.5
Stable Charge Storage in Granular Thin Films. Fengting Xu¹, Sean M. Thaler¹, Alejandro Butera², James L. Weston³ and John A. Barnard¹; ¹Materials Science & Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; ²Centro Atomico Bariloche, Rio Negro, Argentina; ³Center for Materials for Information Technology (MINT), The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Q3.6
Wettability Changes Depending on Wavelengths of UV-Light in an Organosilane Monolayer Bearing a 4-(2-Naphthylmethylsulfonyl) phenyl Moiety. Motohiro Tagaya, Masaru Nakagawa and Tomokazu Iyoda; Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan.

Q3.7
Interface Engineering for Improved Growth and Microstructural Control of Dense/Porous Multilayer Devices. Aram Amassian, Richard Vernhes, Jolanta Ewa Klemberg-Sapieha, Patrick Desjardins and Ludvik Martinu; Regroupement Quebecois sur les Materiaux de Pointe (RQMP) and Department of Engineering Physics, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Q3.8
Porous Germanium. Cheng Fang, Sergiu Langa, Le Jiang, Juergen Carstensen and Helmut Foell; Chair for General Materials Science, Faculty of Engineering, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kaiserstr. 2, 24143 Kiel, Germany.

Q3.9
Modeling of Break-Junction Experiments. Lorenz Romaner^2,1, Egbert Zojer^2,1 and Jean-Luc Bredas¹; ¹School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia; ²Institute of Solid State Physics, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria.

Q3.10
Micropatterning of Block Copolymer Micelles by Solvent Capillary Contact Printing. Cheolmin Park, Jiyoung Hwang and Wonseok Hwang; Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.

Q3.11
New Applications of Nano-Structured-Metal/Semiconductor and -Metal/Liquid Interface. Koichi Okamoto and Axel Scherer; Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.

Q3.12
Facile Assembly of Functional Materials Using Confined Dewetting Lithography. Emily Elizabeth Barton¹, Hugo Celio^2,1 and Keith J. Stevenson¹; ¹Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas; ²Sematech International, Austin, Texas.

Q3.13
Adsorption and Decomposition of Organic Hydroxyl-Carbon Acids on Al (111) Surface: Density Functional Analyses. Jun Zhong¹ and James B. Adams²; ¹SEM Program, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona; ²Chemical and Materials Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.

Q3.14
Functional Arrays of Photonic Lattices Through Solvent Selective Deposition. Adrian M. Brozell, Michelle A. Muha, David N. Woolf and Atul N. Parikh; Applied Science, UC Davis, Davis, California.

Q3.15
Smart Thin Films. Weihong Zhang, Richard Nelson and John Larue; The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California.

8:30 AM *Q4.1
Micro, Nano, Macro: Off Road on the Silicon Road Map. Ralph G. Nuzzo^1,2 and John A. Rogers^2,1; ¹Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois; ²Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.

9:00 AM Q4.2
Nanoscale Tailored and Highly Ordered Self-Assemblies for Molecular Electronics and Photonics. Hong Ma, Mun-Sik Kang, Qing-min Xu, Seok-Ho Kang, Kyoung-Soo Kim, Hinlap Yip and Alex K.-Y. Jen; Materials Science & Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

9:15 AM Q4.3
Defect Control on Alkane Thiol-Covered Gold Surfaces. Antti Johannes Makinen, James P. Long, Neil J. Watkins and Zakya H. Kafafi; Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, District of Columbia.

9:30 AM Q4.4
ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

9:45 AM BREAK

10:15 AM Q4.5
Transferred to Q3.15

10:30 AM Q4.6
Vapor-Phase Deposition of Crosslinked Poly(2-Hydroxyethyl Methacrylate) as a Thin-Film Hydrogel. Kelvin Chan and Karen K. Gleason; Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

10:45 AM Q4.7
Conduction in Patterned Noble Metal Nanocolloidal Thin Films. Agnes Mewe, Stefan Kooij, Herbert Wormeester and Bene Poelsema; MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, Univ Twente, Enschede, Netherlands.

11:00 AM Q4.8
Metal-Oxide Interface Structure in Growth of Nanowires and Nanobelts. Yong Ding, Puxian Gao and Zhonglin Wang; Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.

11:15 AM Q4.9
Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering for Plated Silver Dendrites. Masahiro Yanagisawa¹, Mikiko Saito², Keiji Nakayama³, Keisi Ohashi¹ and Yasuo Wada²; ¹Fundamental Res.Labs., NEC Corporation, Tsukuba, Japan; ²Nanotechnology Labs., Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan; ³Nanotechnlogy Res.Inst., AIST, Tsukuba, Japan.

11:30 AM Q4.10
Reversible Adsorption of Metallic Nanomaterials at Liquid/Liquid Interface. Jean-Pierre Abid¹, Pierre Francois Brevet² and Hubert Girault¹; ¹Laboratoire d'Electrochimie Physique et Analytique, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland; ²Laboratoire de Spectrometrie Ionique et Moleculaire, Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon, France.

11:45 AM Q4.11
A Bipyridine Molecular Contact Between Two Au Surfaces - Ab Initio DFT Calculations of Forces and Conductances. Robert Stadler, Kristian Sommer Thygesen and Karsten Wedel Jacobsen; Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.

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