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2006

4th International workshop on nonequilibrium thermodynamics and complex fluids
3-7 september 2006, Rhodes, Greece

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   Day 5: Thursday morning, September 7, 2006

Session 7 Applications to complex materials: glasses, micelles, colloids, blends, interfaces
Chair: V.G. Mavrantzas

08:00  Ergodicity-breaking in glassforming liquids (and related systems), and relaxation processes below the glass temperature, Tg_»
C.A. Angell
Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1604, USA

08:50  Entropy production of oscillatory flows between parallel plates _»
M. Lopez de Haro1, S. Cuevas1, M.A. Olivares-Robles2, F. Vazquez3
1 Centro de Investigacion en Energia, UNAM, Temixco, Morelos 62580, Mexico
2 Seccion de Investigacion y Posgrado, ESIME-Culhuacan, IPN, Mexico D.F.
3 Facultad de Ciencias, UAEM, Cuernavaca, Morelos 62209, Mexico

09:15  A thermodynamically consistent model for the thixotropic rheological behavior of concentrated colloidal star polymer solutions_»
A.N. Beris1, D. Vlassopoulos2
1 Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
2 Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser, and University of Crete, Department of Materials Science & Technology, P.O.Box 1527, Road to Voutes, Vasilika Vouton 71110 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

09:40  Extrudate swell control by balancing short and long polyethylene chains using multi-scale modeling _»
C.F.J. den Doelder
Dow Benelux B.V., P.O. Box 48, 4530AA, Terneuzen, The Netherlands

10:05  Coffee break

10:20  Flow of Polymer blends between Concentric Cylinders _»
M. Dressler1, B.J. Edwards2, E.J. Windhab1
1 Institute of Food Science and Nutrition, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2 Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-2200, USA

10:45  On the rheology of a dilute suspension of vesicles _»
C. Misbah, G. Danker
LSP, Univ. J. Fourier, Grenoble I andCNRS, BP 87, 38402 Saint Martin d'Heres, France

11:10  Atomistic molecular dynamics simulation of the temperature and pressure dependences of local and terminal relaxations in cis-1,4-polybutadiene_»
G. Tsolou, V.G. Mavrantzas
1 Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras, GR 26504, Greece
2 Institute of Chemical Engineering and High-Temperature Chemical Processes (FORTH-ICE/HT), Patras GR 26504, Greece

11:35  Discussion
V.G. Mavrantzas

12:00  Lunch

14:00  Discussion - Closing remarks
V.G. Mavrantzas

15:00 End of workshop day 5/5

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