Session: Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy Studies on Organic, Polymer, and Biological Surfaces


COLL		Sunday, 10 September 2006

9:00 AM-12:10 PM Sir Francis Drake -- Carmel Room, Oral
Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy Studies on Organic, Polymer, and Biological Surfaces
Polymers at Interfaces
Organizer:	Zhan Chen
Organizer, Presiding:	Shen Ye
9:00 AM	36	Surface vibrational spectroscopy on polyvinyl cinnamate: Searching for molecular-level understanding of surface-induced liquid crystal alignment Y. Ron Shen, C. Y. Chen, P. Pagliusi
9:30 AM	37	Sum-Frequency Generation spectroscopy of long-chain alkyl groups on polymers and in monolayers: order, anisotropy, and vibrational quantum beats Alexander V. Benderskii, Himali D. Jayathilake, Andrey N. Bordenyuk
10:00 AM	38	Detection of chirality from a helically structured polymer thin film: Sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopic study Masahito Oh-e
10:30 AM	39	Probing organic field effect transistors (OFETs) in situ using SFG Hongke Ye, Ashraf Abu-Akeel, Jia Huang, Howard E. Katz, David H. Gracias
11:00 AM	40	Sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy studies on water-soluble polymer interfaces Takayuki Miyamae
11:30 AM	41	Enzyme activity on polymer films: The critical role of surface properties Bo Chen, Miriam Rafailovich, Richard Gross
11:50 AM	42	Combining confocal Raman spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy for characterization of pulp fiber surfaces Monika Österberg, Anna-Stiina Jääskeläinen

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