| AVS 65th International Symposium & Exhibition | |
| Actinides and Rare Earths Focus Topic | Friday Sessions |
Click a paper to see the details. Presenters are shown in bold type.
| 8:20am | AC+MI+SA-FrM1 Invited Paper Periodic Boundary Condition and Embedded Cluster DFT Calculations of Water Adsorption on AnO2 (An = U, Pu) Surfaces Nikolas Kaltsoyannis, University of Manchester, UK, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
| 9:00am | AC+MI+SA-FrM3 Invited Paper Understanding the Role of Oxidation States on the Chemistry of Actinides through Integration of Theory and Experiment Wibe de Jong, J.K. Gibson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, R.J. Abergel, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, University of California, Berkeley |
| 9:40am | AC+MI+SA-FrM5 An Experimentalist’s Viewpoint: The Tremendous Strengths and Occasional Weaknesses of Actinide Cluster Calculations James G. Tobin, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh |
| 10:00am | AC+MI+SA-FrM6 Ligand and Metal XAS Edges In Heavy Metal Compounds Paul S. Bagus, University of North Texas, C.J. Nelin, Consultant |
| 10:40am | AC+MI+SA-FrM8 XANES Investigation into the Electronic Structure of Ce Coordination Complexes Liane Moreau, C.H. Booth, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Y. Qiao, E. Schelter, University of Pennsylvania |
| 11:20am | AC+MI+SA-FrM10 Ligand Induced Shape Transformation of Thorium Dioxide Nanocrystals Gaoxue Wang, E. Batista, P. Yang, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| 11:40am | AC+MI+SA-FrM11 Perspectives on the Synthesis, Characterization and Applications of Upconversion and Downconversion Nanomaterials Martin Ntwaeaborwa, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa |