Monday, 5 June 2006: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Cocoa 2 (Hershey Lodge and Convention Center)
Inorganic and Materials Chemistry (INOR)
Solid-State Chemistry and Materials Science I - Materials Synthesis and Characterization
This symposium will bring together scientists from the fields of inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, condensed matter physics, materials science, and engineering in order to examine current topics of interest to the greater materials chemistry community. Topics will include novel synthetic strategies to design new materials, structure-property relationships and nanostructured materials, as well as others.

Sessions will be comprised of invited speakers and contributed talks. Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows are highly encouraged to submit abstracts.

Sponsor: Bruker AXS, PANalytical, Duquesne's Bayer School, Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh, ACS Division of Polymer Materials Science and Engineering, ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry, National Science Foundation, Rigaku, SACP
Organizer:Jennifer A. Aitken
Presider:Jennifer A. Aitken
8:00 AM Welcoming Remarks
8:05 AM114Performance of nanophase titanium oxides as Li-ion battery anodes
Jan L. Allen, T. Richard Jow, Jeff Wolfenstine
8:30 AM115An inorganic room-temperature solid-state phase transition in Na3PO3S catalyzed by relative humidity
Nathan J. Takas, Jennifer A. Aitken
8:55 AM116Synthesis of lanthanide oxalates via in situ ligand formation
Karah E. Knope, Christopher L. Cahill
9:20 AM117New materials in the A2M3O12 family of negative thermal expansion compounds
Cora Lind
10:00 AM118Thin films of modifed chitosan and gold nanoparticles
Caroline L. Schauer, Matthew D. Cathell, Frances Bui, William Yackabonis
10:25 AM Break
10:40 AM119A unique class of hybrid nanostructured semiconductors: design, synthesis, structure modification and property tuning
Jing Li, Xiaoying Huang, Wooseok Ki
11:20 AM120Crystal-chemical principles and phase equilibria studies
Terrell A. Vanderah

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