Session: Colloidal Glasses and Gels III


Tuesday, 26 June 2007: 9:40 AM-12:20 PM
Clayton 101B
Colloidal Glasses and Gels III

Organizers:	Michael J. Solomon Francesco Sciortino
Presiders:	Francesco Sciortino Michael J. Solomon
9:40 AM	220	Dynamical arrest in clay suspensions - From Wigner glasses to viscoelastic phase separation Andrey Shalkevich, Anna Stradner, Suresh K. Bhat, Francois Muller, Peter Schurtenberger
10:00 AM	221	Minimal Models for Understanding Protein Crystallization Sanat K. Kumar, Hongjun Liu
10:20 AM	222	Proteins as model colloids exhibiting short-range attractions - The interplay between spinodal decomposition and glass formation Frédéric Cardinaux, Thomas Gibaud, Anna Stradner, Peter Schurtenberger
10:40 AM		Break
11:00 AM	223	Direct in-situ characterization of beta-hairpin peptide self-assembly into a hydrogel network Tuna Yucel, Joel P. Schneider, Darrin Pochan
11:20 AM	224	Rate of structural arrest in nanocolloidal suspensions undergoing gelation and aging Hongyu Guo, Subramanian Ramakrishnan, Brian Chung, Charles F. Zukoski, James L. Harden, Robert L. Leheny
11:40 AM	225	Using Triggered Gelation of Responsive Microgel Dispersions to Restore the Mechanical Properties of Degenerated Soft Tissue Brian R. Saunders, Tony Freemont
12:00 PM	226	Event-driven simulations of primitive models of Silica and Water: analogies between gel-formation in patchy colloidal particles and glass-formation in network forming liquids Cristiano De Michele