3rd Stadler Symposium on Mesoscale Organization

Beer Sheva, March 2000.

 

Program

The 3rd Minerva Meso Symposium
Thursday, March 2, 2000 - The Reimund Stadler Minerva Center at The Ben-Gurion University


10:30
Coffee

10:45 - 12:15
Rafael Tadmor (Weizmann Institute) : Shear and Normal Forces between Surfaces Bearing Telechelic Polymer Brushes

Uri Raviv (Weizmann Institute) : Interactions between PEG Brushes in Aqueous Medium: Soft Surface Modification for Implants and Biomaterials

Marcus Heuberger (Weizmann Institute) : Surface Modification of PEP by PEP-PEO Diblock Copolymers

Harald Hoppe (Weizmannn Institute) : Spinodal Mechanism: Dewetting or Decomposition

Christoph Scheiter (Weizmann Institute) : Biolubrication: Is Hyaluronic Acid a Good Solvent

12:15 - 13:45
Svetlana Pevzner (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, BGU) : The in-situ phase transitions occurring during bicontinuous cubic phase formation

Rajdip Bandyopadhyaya (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, BGU) : Mesoporous Thin Films of Silica

Holger Grüll (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, BGU) : Geometry Effects on Adsorption of Polymers

Sebastien Pierrat (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, BGU) : Wetting Properties of Polymeric Surfaces Autophobicity vs. Ultrahydrophobicity

Haim Divir (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, BGU) : Influence of Interactions in Polypropylene/Glass Fibres/Flame Retardant Systems on the Flammability and Mechanical Propertie

Liora Shmueli (Dept. of Chemical Enginnering, BGU) : "Rheology and Morphology in Amphiphilic Block Copolymer/Microemulsion Systems

13:45 -14:20
Lunch (Dean Cafeteria)

14:30 - 15:30
Jacob Klein (Weizmann Institute) : Biolubrication: steric effects or double-layer forces?