Argonne National Laboratory

Postdoctoral Research Symposium

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Nalco Company

Euclid Techlabs

Materials Development, Inc.

UOP/Honeywell Company

 

POSTER SESSION

October 27, 2011

5:15 - 7:30 PM

Argonne Guest House

 

 

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Chemistry and Biochemistry

 

1.     Determination of the Rate Constant for the NH2(X2B1) + NH2(X2B1) Recombination Reaction with Collision Partners He, Ne, Ar, and N2 at Low Pressures and 296 K. Gokhan Altinay and R. Glen Macdonal. Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439

 

2.     Three-Dimensional Anode Architectures and Materials. Fulya Dogan, Lynn Trahey, Michael M. Thackeray, John T. Vaughey. Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439

 

3.     Solution based synthesis and characterization of lithium-ion conducting phosphate ceramics for lithium metal batteries. Baris Key, David J. Schroeder, Brian J. Ingram, John T. Vaughey. Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439

 

4.     ACID-CATALYZED FURFURYL ALCOHOL POLYMERIZATION. Taejin Kima, Rajeev S. Assaryb, Christopher L. Marshalla, David J. Gosztolac, Larry A. Curtissb, Peter C. Stair. aChemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439 bMaterials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, cCenter for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439

 

5.     Progress on the Dynamical Sign Problem. Adam C. Knapp. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Departments of Chemistry and Physics, Urbana, IL 61801

 

6.     LOW-VALENT URANIUM COMPLEXES TOWARDS THE STUDY OF FUNDAMENTAL ORGANOMETALLIC TRANSFORMATIONS. Steven J. Kraft, Phillip E. Fanwick, and Suzanne C. Bart. Purdue University-West Lafayette, West Lafayette, IN 47907

 

7.     In Situ X-ray Diffraction Investigation of Manganese Oxide Electrocatalyst in Cycling Li-air Battery. Chi-Kai Lin. Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439

 

8.     IN SITU CHARACTERIZATION OF HOMOGENEOUS TRANSITION METAL SYSTEMS BY XAS. Ryan Nelson1, Elizabeth Mader1, Marc Johnson1, Jeff Miller1, Justin Lummiss2, Deryn Fogg2, Julia Khusnutdinova3, Liviu Mirica3. 1Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, 2Department of Chemistry, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 3Department of Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130

 

9.     Stabilization of Lithium Metal Anodes using Silane-based Coatings. Susanna Neuhold, David J. Schroeder, John T. Vaughey. Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439

 

10.  CATALYSTS WITH MULTIPLE METAL/OXIDE INTERFACES: INVENTING NEW CHEMICAL MECHANISMS USING TANDEM ACTIVE SITES. Neil M. Schweitzer. Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439

 

11.  NANOCRYSTAL HETEROSTRUCTURES FOR SOLAR ENERGY CONVERSION AND DOPED MAGNETIC NANOCRYSTALS. Rachel Selinsky, Mark Lukowski, Sanghun Shin, David Keavney*, Jae Hyo Han, Song Jin, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, *X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439

 

12.  KINETIC STUDY OF EPOXY RESIN CURE WITH AMINES:  QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS METHODOLOGY. Sang Ha Son, James M. Caruthers. School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University-West Lafayette, West Lafayette, IN, 47906

 

13.  UNDERSTANDING ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF BIMETALLIC NANOPARTICLE CATALYSTS BY XANES & DFT. Tianpin Wu1, Ruzica Todorovic2, Neil Schweitzer1, Randall Meyer2, Jeff Miller1. 1Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, 2Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607

 

Engineering

 

14.  Time Dependent Implementation of Argonne's Model for Universal Solvent Extraction. Kurt Frey. Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439

 

15.  HIGH AND RAPID HYDROGEN RELEASE FROM THERMOLYSIS OF AMMONIA BORANE NEAR PEM FUEL CELL OPERATING TEMPERATURES. Hyun Tae Hwang, Ahmad Al-Kukhun, and Arvind Varma. School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University-West Lafayette, West Lafayette, IN 47907

 

16.  Optimizing Operational Parameters of Clostridium ljungdahlii Metabolism During Syngas Fermentation. Dimple Kundiyana. Energy Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439

 

17.  A MULTI-PHYSICS SIMULATION FRAMEWORK FOR PROBLEMS IN REACTOR ANALYSIS. Vijay S. Mahadevan. Nuclear Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439

 

18.  PLUTONIUM ELUTION FROM DGA RESIN WITH AHA OBSERVED IN SITU VIA XANES AND XAFS. Luis H. Ortega, Michael Kaminski, Jeremy Kropf, Carol Mertz. Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439

 

19.  Two-Color, Two-Photon Laser-Induced Polarization Spectroscopy of Hydrogen atom and Carbon Monoxide. Aizaz H. Bhuiyan, Aman Satija, Sameer V. Naik, and Robert P. Lucht. School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University-West Lafayette, West Lafayette, IN 47906

 

20.  ULTRASONIC SENSORS FOR DOWNHOLE RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION AND MONITORING. Hual-Te Chien, Ke Wang, Apostolos Raptis, Shuh-Haw Sheen. Nuclear Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439

 

Environmental Science

 

21.  RADIO-NOBLE GAS DATING WITH ATOM TRAP TRACE ANALYSIS. Wei Jiang. Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439

 

Materials Science

 

22.  Bacteriorhodopsin Modified Metal-Supported Photocatalyst for Solar Hydrogen Generation. Shankar Balasubramanian1, Soma Chattopadhya2, Tijana Rajh1, Elena Rozhkova1. 1Center for Nanoscale Materials, 2Materials Research Collaborative Access Team, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439

 

23.  Making mass spectrometry smarter. Sergey Baryshev. Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439

 

24.  Highly textured positive and negative thin film electrodes in lithium-ion batteries. M. Bettge1,2,3, S.Y. Ryu, S. Burdin2, S. MacLaren2, I. Petrov2, M.-F. Yu3, E. Sammann2, D.P. Abraham1. 1Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, 2Frederick Seitz. Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, 3Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801

 

25.  STRUCTURE OF ELECTROLYTE-GRAPHENE/SIC(0001) INTERFACES: LI+ BATTERY APPLICATION. Sudeshna Chattopadhyay1, Albert L. Lipson1, Hunter J. Karmel1,Timothy T. Fister2, Jonathan D. Emery1, Qing Hua Wang1, Paul A. Fenter2, Mark C. Hersam1, Michael J. Bedzyk. 1Materials Science and Engineering Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, 2Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439

 

26.  Semiconductor Core/Shell Heterostructures for Quantum Dot Luminescent Solar Concentrators. Arnaud Demortiere, Chunxing She, Matthew Pelton, Richard Schaller, Seth Darling, Elena Shevchenko. Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439.

 

27.  VORTEX RESONANCE IN COUPLED FERROMAGNETIC DISKS. Shikha Jain, Helmut Schultheiss, John Pearson, Frank Y. Fradin, Samuel Bader, Valentyn Novosad. Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439

 

28.  NANOENGINEERING STABLE CARBON NANOTUBE AEROGELS. Ryan Kohlmeyer, Maika Lor, Jian Chen. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53211

 

29.  Growth and Dielectric Characterization of Barium Strontium Titanate Films on Metal Foils by Pulsed Laser Deposition. Shanshan Liu, Beihai Ma, U. (Balu) Balachandran. Energy Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439

 

30.  In-situ Fabrication of Porous Carbon Supported a-MnO2 Nanoparticles at Room Temperature: Application for Rechargeable Li-air Battery. Jun Lua, Yan Qina, Zonghai Chena, Yang Renb, Tianpin Wub, Jeffery T. Millera, Zhengcheng Zhanga, Khalil Aminea. aChemical Sciences and Engineering Division, bX-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439

31.  CAN EPITAXIAL STRAIN STABILIZE A FERROELECTRIC SnTiO3. William D. Parker. Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439

 

32.  Simulation of the parametric effect on swelling characteristics of pH -sensitive polyelectrolyte and polyampholyte hydrogels. Kamlesh J. Suthara Derrick C. Mancinia, Muralidhar K. Ghantasalab, aAdvanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, bDepartment of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008

 

33.  Advanced Nanofabrication Using Sequential Infiltration Synthesis. Yu-Chih Tseng. Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439

 

34.  FERROMAGNETIC DISKS AS OPTICAL LIGHT MODULATORS. E. A. Vitol1, V. G. Yefremenko1, S. Jain1, J. Pearson1, E. A. Rozhkova2, S. D. Bader1,2, V. Novosad1. 1Materials Science Division, 2Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439.

 

35.  CHARACTERISTICS of LITHIATED TITANIA:  Concentration, Morphology, Pressure and Nano Effects. Handan Yildirim, Jeff Greeley, and Subramanian Sankaranarayanan. Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439

 

36.  Watching Ir clusters form on Al2O3 support using pair distribution function (PDF) technique. Haiyan Zhao1, Joseph E. Mondloch2, Richard G. Finke2, Karena Chapman1, Peter Chupas1. 1X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, 2Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523

 

Physics and High Energy Physics

 

37.  Interatomic Coulombic Decay (ICD) in deep inner-shell vacancy cascades. D. Ray, R.W. Dunford, S.H. Southworth, D.A. Arms, E.M. Dufresne, E.P. Kanter, B. Krässig, R. Santra, O. Vendrell†, D.A. Walko, L. Young. X-Ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, †Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY), 22607 Hamburg, Germany