Agenda | ||
| NOTE: Abstracts linked below are in WORD unless otherwise indicated. | ||
| Wednesday, March 10 | ||
| 6:00 p.m. -8:00 p.m. |
Welcoming Reception at the DoubleTree Hotel | |
| Thursday, March 11 | ||
| 7:00 a.m. | CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST provided at Weinberg Lobby | |
| 9:00 a.m. | Welcome talks: Linda Horton (ppt), ORNL, BES Materials and Eng. Physics program director; Jeff Nichols, ORNL, CSM director; Doug Lowndes, ORNL, CNMS director | |
| Session #1 - Chair Jeff Nichols | ||
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 a.m. | Molecular Modeling of Tribology and Structure of Nanoconfined Fluids | Peter Cummings (Vanderbilt) |
| Molecular Simulation Studies of Nano-Scale Friction (pdf) | Shaoyi Jiang (U Washington) | |
| 11:00 a.m. | Chemical Effects on the Adhesion and Friction between Alkanethiol Monolayers: Molecular Dynamics Simulations | Mark Stevens (Sandia) |
| 11:45 a.m. | LUNCH provided in ROB (5700) Main Street | |
| Session #2 - Chair Steve Granick | ||
| 1:00 p.m. | Hybrid Molecular Dynamics Simulation in Nanotribology: Overcoming the Time Scale Gap between Theory and Experiments | Yongsheng Leng (Vanderbilt) |
| 1:35 p.m. | Control of Friction at the Atomic Scale | Yehuda Braiman (ORNL) |
| 2:10 p.m. | BREAK | |
| 2:30 p.m. | Friction through Dynamical Formation and Rupture of Molecular Bonds | Joseph Klafter (Tel Aviv) |
| 3:05 p.m. | Dynamics and Friction at Different Length Scales | Adnan Akay (CMU ) |
| 3:40 p.m. | BREAK | |
| Session #3 - Chair Jacob Barhen | ||
| 4:00 p.m. | Effect of Viscous Damping on MEMS Sensors | Thomas Thundat (ORNL) |
| 4:35 p.m. | Quartz Crystal Microbalance Studies of the Impact of Nanoscale Dynamical Motion on Friction and Lubrication at the Macroscale
| Jackie Krim (NCSU) |
| 5:10 p.m. | ADJOURN for the day | |
| Friday, March 12 | ||
| 7:00 a.m. | CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST provided at Weinberg Lobby | |
| Session #4 - Chair Linda Horton | ||
| 9:00 a.m. | The Interaction of Water with Silane Monolayers on Mica and Silicon | Miguel Salmeron (LBL) |
| 9:35 a.m. | Frictional Forces and Amontons’ Law: From the Molecular to the Macroscopic Scale | Uzi Landman (Georgia Tech) |
| 10:10 a.m. | BREAK | |
| 10:30 a.m. | Length, Rate and Time Scaling in Tribological Processes | Jacob Israelachvili (UCSB) |
| 11:05 a.m. | Hydrated Ions and Polyelectrolytes as Molecular Lubricants | |
| 11:40 a.m. | How Do Fluids Flow in Nanometer-Sized Films? | Steve Granick (UIUC) |
| 12:15 p.m. | LUNCH provided in ROB (5700) Main Street | |
| Session #5 - Chair Peter Cummings | ||
| 1:30 p.m. | A MEMS Inchworm Actuator for Static, Dynamic and Pre-Sliding Friction Measurements | Maarten De Boer (Sandia) |
| 2:05 p.m. | Fundamental Studies of Friction in MEMS: Single Asperity Friction and Surface Topographic Mapping with Atomic Force Microscopy | Robert Carpick (UW Madison) |
| 2:40 p.m. | BREAK | |
| 3:00 p.m. | Biomimetic Lubrication Schemes: Molecular-Level Studies | Scott Perry (U Houston) |
| 3:35 p.m. | Defects and Friction in Alkylsilane Self-Assembled Monolayers | Michael Chandross (Sandia) |
| 4:10 p.m. | Effects of Surface Adsorbates on Friction and Wear of Diamondlike Carbon | Ali Erdemir (ANL) |
| 4:45 p.m. | Adjournment Break | |
| 7:00 p.m. | BANQUET provided at Oak Ridge Museum of Science and Energy | |
| Banquet Speaker: Thomas Zacharia, ORNL, Associate Lab Director, Computing and Computational Sciences | ||
| 8:30 p.m. -10:00 p.m. | Roundtable Discussion (at Museum) | |
| Saturday, March 13 | ||
| 7:00 a.m. | BREAKFAST provided at DoubleTree | |
| Session #6 - Chair Yehuda Braiman | ||
| 9:00 a.m. | Time-Dependence of Size Effects in Frictional Interactions | Peter Blau (ORNL) |
| 9:35 a.m. | Friction, Fracture, Fatigue and Creep at the Nanoscale | Seth Putterman (UCLA) |
| 10:10 a.m. | BREAK | |
| 10:30 a.m. | Friction and Wear of Ionic Crystals at the Atomic Scale | Enrico Gnecco (U. of Basel) |
| 11:05 a.m. | Hopping Dynamics Governing Sliding Friction at the Nanoscale | Elisa Riedo (Georgia Tech) |
| 11:40 a.m. | Summary of Roundtable Discussions | Organizers |
| NOON | ADJOURN | |