PHYSMonday, April 7, 2008

8:00 PM-10:00 PM Morial Convention Center -- Hall A, Sci-Mix
Sci-Mix
Organizer:Laurie J. Butler
 Applications of ultrafast 2-D infrared spectroscopy to studies of the Fe-hydrogenase enzyme system
A. Ian Stewart, M Towrie, Ian P Clark, Anthony W. Parker, Saad Ibrahim, Chris J Pickett, Neil T Hunt
 Bond connectivity and mode delocalization measured via relaxation-assisted 2-D IR spectroscopy
Valeriy M Kasyanenko, Sri Ram G Naraharisetty, Igor V. Rubtsov
 Can DFT dissolve CO2 in water?
Jessica Cross, Karina Van Sickle, Mauricio Cafiero
 Charge transfer induced proton-coupled electron transfer
Jared J. Paul, Brittany C. Westlake, M. Kyle Brennaman, John M. Papanikolas, Thomas J. Meyer
 Charging and discharging of single F8BT nanoclusters in hole-injection devices
Rodrigo E. Palacios, Takuji Adachi, Arnaud Rival, Paul F. Barbara
 Dissociation and isomerization of B2Hx on Pt (111)
Nichole F. Sullivan, Jianjun Liu, Qingfeng Ge
 Dissociation dynamics of the HOOO radical upon IR excitation: Nature of chemical bonding
Craig Murray, Erika L Derro, Timothy D. Sechler, Marsha I Lester
 Dual-basis methods: Cation-Π effects in fullerene systems
Ryan P. Steele, Robert A. DiStasio Jr., Martin P. Head-Gordon
 Dynamic mechanism for single base deletion mutation by a DNA polymerase
Nilesh K Banavali, Janice Pata
 Effect of water on spectra and photoreaction dynamics of organic acids
Marta K. Kapala, Veronica Vaida
 Equilibrium sampling of polypeptides using a polymer-growth strategy
Artem B. Mamonov, Daniel M. Zuckerman
 Evaluation of novel DFT methods for dispersion-like forces in protein-ligand systems
Laura R. Hofto, Megan McKenna, Mauricio Cafiero
 Exceptionally reactive Pt-BHA nanocomposite catalysts for CO oxidation
Yi Zhang, Sittichai Natesakawat, Tom Sanders, Christopher Matranga, Goetz Veser
 Fabrication and modification of c-SiC thin film: Resistance to nonspecific protein adsorption for biosensing
Rui Zhang, Guoting Qin, Boris Makarenko, J. Wayne Rabalais, Chengzhi Cai
 Fabrication of metal nanoparticle-nanofiber composites via one-step electrospinning
Carl D. Saquing, Joshua L Manasco, Saad A Khan
 Formation of complex polycyclic cations by reactions of benzene and pyridine radical cations with acetylene
Paul Momoh
 Formation of covalent structures in ionic acetylene clusters
Rachael A. Relph, Joseph R. Roscioli, Joseph C. Bopp, Mark A Johnson
 Growth mechanism of highly luminescent ZnO nanoparticles
Erin Ruane, Temer S. Ahmadi, Alexandra Turner
 Hierarchically structured precipitation tubes: Physical characterization and catalytic properties
Jason J Pagano, Tamas Bansagi Jr., Oliver Steinbock
 Hollow gold-silver double shell nanospheres: Structure, optical absorption, and surface-enhanced Raman scattering
Tammy Y. Olson
 Infrared action spectroscopy of HOOO radical: Atmospheric reservoir for OH radical
Erika L Derro, Craig Murray, Timothy D. Sechler, Marsha I Lester
 Infrared spectra and ab initio calculations of K+(Tryptamine)(H2O)n=1-5
Amy L. Nicely, Dorothy J. Miller, James M. Lisy
 Investigating excited state dynamics in 7-azaindole
Molly B. Beernink, Nathan R Erickson, Nathaniel K. Swenson, Jonathan M. Smith
 Laser-induced fluorescence study of the Cl-atom initiated oxidation of biogenic carbonyl compounds
Kenshi Takahashi, Erika Iwasaki, Tomoki Nakayama, Yutaka Matsumi, Timothy Wallington
 Local interfacial electronic structure of thin pentacene films on Si(111)
Michael L. Blumenfeld, Mary P. Steele, Brandon S. Tackett, Oliver L. A. Monti
 Low temperature spectroscopic studies of acetylene-water ices relevant to astrophysical environments
Samuel S. Travis, Robert F. Ferrante, Marla H. Moore
 Low-frequency dynamics of proteins studied by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy
Keisuke Tominaga, Shintaro Kawaguchi, Ohki Kambara, Mikihiro Shibata, Hideki Kandori
 Paper Withdrawn
 Mechanically robust ordered nanocomposites exhibiting NIR Bragg diffraction
Sunil Kulkarni, Stephanie Wunder
 Nanocapsules of iron oxide nanoparticles
Charles C. Ferraioli, Alyssa Dusel, Temer S. Ahmadi
 Nanostructured polyurethane biomaterials and protein adsorption and platelet adhesion on surfaces
Li-Chong Xu, Pranav Soman, Jadwiga Weksler, Ajay Padsalgikar, James Runt, Christopher A. Siedlecki
 Neutral-neutral reaction of ground state carbon atom with triacetylene, HCCCCCCH: Formation of interstellar 2,4,6-heptatriynylidyne, HCCCCCCC
B. J. Sun, R. I. Kaiser, A. H. H. Chang
 Paper Withdrawn
 Nonlinear imaging and spectroscopy of ZnO nanostructures
Ralph L. House, Brian Mehl, Abhineet Uppal, Chuan Zhang, Amanda Reams, John M. Papanikolas
 Novel 3-D manufacturing paradigm: Interactions of carbon nanotubes and photosensitive ruthenium complexes
Harsh Chaturvedi, Jordan C. Poler
 Novel labeling strategy for structural measurements in proteins via 2-D IR spectroscopy
Sri Ram G Naraharisetty, Valeriy M Kasyanenko, Joerg Zimmermann, Megan Thielges, Floyd E Romesberg, Igor V. Rubtsov
 Nuclear hyperfine interactions in the open shell complexes O2-HF and O2-DF
Shenghai Wu, Galen Sedo, Erik M. Grumstrup, Kenneth R. Leopold
 o-/p-H2+HD and HD+HD collisions at low temperatures
Renat A. Sultanov, Dennis Guster
 Organic molecules at the surface of sulfuric acid
James M. Krier, Gilbert M. Nathanson
 Photoresistivity of aligned and random carbon nanotube networks
Jay D. Shah, Laura E Roberts, Joeseph Springs, Jordan C. Poler
 Photochemical control of the reactivity of tetraaza-tetrapyridopentacene toward the activation of small molecules: An experimental and computational study
Zachery Denkins, Wen Guo, Jeffrey A. Bartz, Sherine O. Obare
 Photodissociative studies of the propyn-1-yl radical
Paul E Crider II, Kathryn E. Kautzman, Luca Castiglioni, Daniel M Neumark
 Photoelectrochemical hydrogen production utilizing metal oxide nanomaterials
Abraham Wolcott, Tevye Kuykendall, Wilson A. Smith, Yiping Zhao, Jin Z. Zhang
 Photoenhancement of the reaction between ozone and chlorophyll at the air-water interface
Dorea Reeser, Daniel Clifford, Christian George, D. James Donaldson
 Photoinduced desorption of O2 and photooxidation of organics from TiO2(110) surfaces
David Sporleder, Daniel P. Wilson, Michael G. White
 Photophysical properties of novel azuliporphyrins
Jakoah Brgoch, David L. Cedeņo
 Photopolymerization of conductive metal nanoparticles
Xichen Cai, Kelechi C Anyaogu, Douglas C. Neckers
 Photosensitized singlet oxygen production from DNA bases
Naveen Gandra, Papireddy Tiyyagura, Ruomei Gao
 Polythiophene/carbon nanotube composites as electromechanical actuators: Prospect as artificial muscle
Ali U. Shaikh, Enkeleda Dervishi, Zhongrui Li, Alexandru S. Biris
 Probing phospholipid induced α-synuclein aggregation with tryptophan fluorescence
Candace M. Pfefferkorn, Jennifer C. Lee
 Probing the O(3P) + allyl radical product channels via unimolecular photodissociation
Benjamin L. FitzPatrick, Kai-Chung Lau, Laurie J. Butler, Jim J. Lin
 Rational design and controlled fabrication of sub-50 nm gold nanoparticle aggregate clusters
Nathaniel L Rosi
 Replica exchange simulations of helical stabilization in the yap1 protein
Logan S. Ahlstrom, C. Michael McCallum
 Role of chemical content in water uptake processes of tropospherically relevant aerosol with diameters <100 nm
Hunter B. Fontenot, Joelle S. Underwood
 Simulation of the ErbB-2 transmembrane domain embedded in mixed DMPC-DDPC bilayer
Fuchang Yin, James T. Kindt
 Single-crystalline neodymium hexaboride nanostructures
Gonghua Wang, Joseph R. Brewer, Barry Chin Li Cheung
 Solvent effects on the molecular self-assembly of benzene carboxylic acid derivatives
Gina M. Florio, Kimberly A. Stiso, Joseph S. Campanelli
 Spectroscopy of multiply charged metal ions: Infrared studies of Mn2+(18-crown-6)(CH3OH)1-3
Jason D. Rodriguez, James M. Lisy
 Sunlight initiated atmospheric photochemistry of organic acids
Meghan E. Dunn, Veronica Vaida
 Synthesis of colloidal silver nanocrystals and their 3-D superlattices
Ravi Shankar, Terry P. Bigioni
 Terahertz spectroscopy of biomolecules in aqueous miscelles
Catherine C. Cooksey, Edwin J. Heilweil
 Theoretical modeling of organic molecules for X-ray absorption spectroscopy
Chen Chen, David C. Edwards
 Theoretical studies of the activation of small hydrocarbons (CxH2x+2: x=1,2,3) by chromium oxides (CrOn: n=0,+1)
Felicia Nanguy, Timothy J. Dudley
 Theoretical study of the H+CH4 and H+C2H6 reactions
Joshua P. Layfield, Diego Troya
 Ultrafast coherent plasmon dynamics of individual metal nanostructures
Alexandria Kappus, C. C. Neacsu, M. B. Raschke
 Ultrafast magnetization dynamics in cobalt-doped iron oxide nanocrystals: Effect of varying exchange interaction
Chih-Hao Hsia, Tai-Yen Chen, Dong Hee Son
 Ultrafast photophysics of conjugated polyelectrolytes
Gustavo M Moriena, Sevnur Komurlu, Xiaoyong Zhao, Seoung Ho Lee, Hui Jiang, Kirk S. Schanze, Valeria D. Kleiman
 Ultraviolet photodissociation dynamics of the propargyl radical
Xianfeng Zheng, Yu Song, Jingsong Zhang
 Understanding the photochemistry of NOx complexes on urban surfaces through computational chemistry
Michael A. Kamboures, Yifat Miller, R. Benny Gerber
 Vacuum ultraviolet excitation spectroscopy of autoionizing Rydberg states of atomic sulfur in the range of 73,350-84,950 cm-1
Xueliang Yang, Jingang Zhou, Brant Jones, C. Y. Ng, William M. Jackson
 Vibronic simulations of the photoelectron spectrum of the NO3 radical
Bijoy Krishna Dey
 Xenon, laughing gas and cytochrome P450: Spectroscopic studies of inhaled anesthetics and their putative targets
Amy F. Grimes, Jennifer C. Lee

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The 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008