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Small Angle Neutron Scattering pattern from a flowing self-assembled surfactant system. The pattern indicates the molecular assembly and how the assembled structure aligns with the flow direction. The results are being used to engineer better surfactant systems for health care applications.
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“This manuscript was prepared under cooperative agreement 70NANB7H6178 from NIST, U.S. Department of Commerce. The statements, findings, conclusions and recommendations are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of NIST or the U.S. Department of Commerce.”
All papers with work performed at NIST (funded in part by the CNS) needs this verbage in the acknowledgements.
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Upcoming Meetings
American Conference on Neutron Scattering, Ottawa, ON, Canada, June 26-30, 2010
Publications
Branco, M. C., F. Nettesheim, D. J. Pochan, J. P. Schneider and N. J. Wagner (2009). "Fast Dynamics of Semiflexible Chain Networks of Self-Assembled Peptides." Biomacromolecules 10(6): 1374-1380.
Grieshaber, S. E., A. J. E. Farran, S. Lin-Gibson, K. L. Kiick and X. Q. Jia (2009). "Synthesis and Characterization of Elastin-Mimetic Hybrid Polymers with Multiblock, Alternating Molecular Architecture and Elastomeric Properties." Macromolecules 42(7): 2532-2541.
Helgeson, M. E., M. D. Reichert, Y. T. Hu and N. J. Wagner (2009). "Relating shear banding, structure, and phase behavior in wormlike micellar solutions." Soft Matter 5(20): 3858-3869.
Helgeson, M. E., P. A. Vasquez, E. W. Kaler and N. J. Wagner (2009). "Rheology and spatially resolved structure of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide wormlike micelles through the shear banding transition." Journal of Rheology 53(3): 727-756.
Hould, N. D. and R. F. Lobo (2008). "Nanoparticle precursors and phase selectivity in hydrothermal synthesis of zeolite beta." Chemistry of Materials 20(18): 5807-5815.
Hule, R. A., R. P. Nagarkar, A. Altunbas, H. R. Ramay, M. C. Branco, J. P. Schneider and D. J. Pochan (2008). "Correlations between structure, material properties and bioproperties in self-assembled beta-hairpin peptide hydrogels." Faraday Discussions 139: 251-264.
Hule, R. A., R. P. Nagarkar, B. Hammouda, J. P. Schneider and D. J. Pochan (2009). "Dependence of Self-Assembled Peptide Hydrogel Network Structure on Local Fibril Nanostructure." Macromolecules 42(18): 7137-7145.
Jha, A. K., R. A. Hule, T. Jiao, S. S. Teller, R. J. Clifton, R. L. Duncan, D. J. Pochan and X. Q. Jia (2009). "Structural Analysis and Mechanical Characterization of Hyaluronic Acid-Based Doubly Cross-Linked Networks." Macromolecules 42(2): 537-546.
Jia, X. Q. and K. L. Kiick (2009). "Hybrid Multicomponent Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering." Macromolecular Bioscience 9(2): 140-156.
Kalman, D. P. and N. J. Wagner (2009). "Microstructure of shear-thickening concentrated suspensions determined by flow-USANS." Rheologica Acta 48(8): 897-908.
Liberatore, M. W., F. Nettesheim, P. A. Vasquez, M. E. Helgeson, N. J. Wagner, E. W. Kaler, L. P. Cook, L. Porcar and Y. T. Hu (2009). "Microstructure and shear rheology of entangled wormlike micelles in solution." Journal of Rheology 53(2): 441-458.
Liu, S., R. Maheshwari and K. L. Kiick (2009). "Polymer-Based Therapeutics." Macromolecules 42(1): 3-13.
Nettesheim, F., M. W. Liberatore, T. K. Hodgdon, N. J. Wagner, E. W. Kaler and M. Vethamuthu (2008). "Influence of nanoparticle addition on the properties of wormlike micellar solutions." Langmuir 24(15): 7718-7726.
Ronak, M., A. L. Eric and L. K. Kristi (2009). "Manipulation of Electrostatic and Saccharide Linker Interactions in the Design of Efficient Glycopolypeptide-Based Cholera Toxin Inhibitors." Macromolecular Bioscience 9999(9999): NA.
Singh, N., M. S. Tureau, T. H. Epps and Iii (2009). "Manipulating ordering transitions in interfacially modified block copolymers." Soft Matter: -.
Sullivan, M. M., P. A. Puolakkainen, T. H. Barker, S. E. Funk and E. H. Sage (2008). "Altered tissue repair in hevin-null mice: Inhibition of fibroblast migration by a matricellular SPARC homolog." Wound Repair and Regeneration 16(2): 310-319.
Presentations
Talk by Matthew Helgeson: "The Mechanism of Shear Banding in Worm-like Micelles: Rheo-SANS Measurements of Microstructure and Structure-property Relationships."
Talk by Darrin Pochan: "SANS Studies of Shear-thinning and Rehealing Hydrogel Networks from Peptide Self-assembly and Micelles from Charged Block Copolymer Self-assembly."
Poster by Monica Branco: "Neutron Scattering Analysis of the Dynamics and Structure of Semiflexible, Self-Assembled Peptide Chain Networks and Wormlike."
Poster by Aaron Eberle: "Colloidal Sticky Spheres - Inter-particle Potential Spanning the Fluid/Gel Phase Transition."
Poster by Dennis Kalman: "Microstructure Measurements of Shear Thickening, Concentrated, Near Hard Sphere, Colloidal Dispersions via 1-2 Plane Flow-SANS."
ACNS 2008 Short Courses
QENS:
A hands-on look at quasielastic neutron scattering for the investigation of mobility in soft condensed matter.
- An introduction to Quasielastic Neutron Scattering
Dr. J.R.D. Copley (National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST Center for Neutron Research)
- QENS in the energy domain: Backscattering and Time-of-Flight
Prof. A. Sokolov, Department of Polymer Science, University of Akron
- QENS in the time domain: Hands-on Neutron Spin Echo Spectroscopy
Dr. A. Faraone, (Department of Material Science and Engineering, University of Maryland and National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST Center for Neutron Research)
- Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Neutron Scattering: Polymer Melt and Solution Dynamics
Prof. G. Smith, Department of Material Science and Engineering, University of Utah
- The Influence of trehalsoe on melting and dynamics in dehydrated phospholipids bilayers
Prof. J. Maranas, Department of Chemical Engineering, Penn State University
SANS-reflectometry
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