Friday, October 20, 2006: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Westchase 3 ( Houston Westchase Marriott Hotel)
Margrave Memorial Symposium (Invited)
The symposium honors the memory of John L. Margrave, the E.D. Butcher Professor of Chemistry at Rice University and Member of National Academy of Sciences. During his more than fifty year-long professional carrier, Margrave made significant contributions to inorganic, physical, high-temperature materials and fluorine chemistry. He authored more than 800 publications and mentored more than 100 graduate students and 100 postdoctoral researchers during his career. John Margrave is remembered as a prominent scientist, inspiring teacher and a great colleague. The invited talks of John Margrave's former students and collaborators on their current research will be presented at the symposium.
Organizer:Valery Khabashesku
8:00 AM James Kauffman - Session Chair
8:00 AM118The life and research of Margrave
Robert Curl
8:25 AM119Molecular Engineering of Guest:Host Systems and Interfaces for Efficient Conversion of Electrical Energy into Light
Zakya Kafafi
8:50 AM120Prediction of Impact Resistance of Automotive Coatings based on a Nonlinear Viscoelastic Model using Finite Element Methods
Peter Kamarchik, James R Christenson
9:15 AM121Carbon Nano-Onions: Fluorination, Characterization and Tribology Studies
Valery N. Khabashesku, Yu Liu, Randy L. Vander Wal, Ph.D., Kazuhisa Miyoshi, Kenneth W. Street
9:45 AM Break
10:10 AM Edward Mickelson - Session Chair
10:10 AM122Nanoscale Reactive Materials and Catalysts
Kenneth J. Klabunde, Dmytro Demydov, Johanna Haggstrom, Igor Martyanov, Shalini Rodrigues, S Uma, Peter Stoimenov, Jiaqiang Yang
10:35 AM123Aligned Growth of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes
Robert Hauge, Xaqiong Xu, Sean Pheasant
11:00 AM124Evaluating New High-Energy Materials Using Computational Chemistry
David W. Ball
11:25 AM125Nanostructures and Porous Silicon: Activity and Phase Transformation in Sensors and Photocatalytic Reactors
James Gole

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