AVS 50th International Symposium
    Nanometer Structures Wednesday Sessions

Session NS-WeM
Nanomechanics

Wednesday, November 5, 2003, 8:20 am, Room 308
Moderator: N.A. Burnham, Worcester Polytechnic Institute


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8:20am NS-WeM1 Invited Paper
Dissipation in Few Atom Systems
J. Pethica, University of Oxford, UK
9:00am NS-WeM3
Quantitative Imaging of Local Electromechanical Properties of Ferroelectric Surfaces by Piezoresponse Force Microscopy
S.V. Kalinin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, J. Shin, University of Tennessee, A.P. Baddorf, J.F. Wendelken, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, M. Kachanov, E. Karapetian, Tufts University
9:20am NS-WeM4
Evaluating Nanocomposite Strength at Individual Nanotube-Polymer Interfaces
S.R. Cohen, A.H. Barber, C.A. Cooper, H.D. Wagner, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
9:40am NS-WeM5 Invited Paper
Mechanics at the Nanoscale
T. Uchihashi, M. Higgins, Trinity College, Ireland, J.E. Sader, E.T.S. Walton Visitor, Trinity College, Ireland, S.P. Jarvis, Trinity College, Ireland
10:20am NS-WeM7
Nanomechanics of Cytoskeletal Proteins
J.G. Forbes, NIAMS, NIH, DHHS, K. Wang, LMB, NIAMS, NIH, DHHS
10:40am NS-WeM8
Effect of the Ionic Strength on a Natural Lipid Bilayer Assembling and Stability: A Force Spectroscopy(nanomechanical) Study
S. Garcia-Manyes, M.J. Kogan, F. Sanz, University of Barcelona, Spain, D. Ludevid, CSIC, Spain, E. Giralt, University of Barcelona, Spain