Particle Technology Forum

Session 86 - Multiscale Modeling of Nanoparticle Systems
Nanoparticle Systems are becoming increasingly important to practical applications in pharmaceuticals and medical diagnostics, advanced materials, and microelectronics. However, as the focus of interest gradually shifts from fundamental science to industrial applications, there is a growing need to understand how the presence of nanoparticles affects both the functionality of the finished products and the requirements of the manufacturing processes. Moreover, an important component of developing nanoparticle systems at the manufacturing scale is to address environmental health and safety issues that could become especially challenging for hard-to-detect nanoscopic materials. Clearly, addressing these issues in a rigorous manner requires methodologies that facilitate information transfer across physical scales. In this session we encourage papers that utilize multiscale methods in order to achieve a fundamental understanding of nanoparticle formation mechanisms and applications to the environment, biomedical problems and industrial manufacturing. Specifically we welcome papers that address: (i) fundamental mechanisms of nanoparticle formation (ii) nanoparticle systems functionality and optimization of the performance of products, (iii) design of optimized and controllable manufacturing processes and (iv) multiscale methods to predict the ultimate fate of nanoscale materials in the body and in the environment.
Chair:M. Silvina Tomassone
CoChair:Yee Chiew
CoSponsor(s):Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum (See also Topical F)
 Study of Water Adsorption on Nanoparticle Surface and Phase Transformation during Nanoparticle Sintering Via Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Tio2 Nanoparticles
Vishal N. Koparde, Peter T. Cummings
 Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Nanoparticle Self-Assembly at a Liquid-Liquid Interface
Mingxiang Luo, Oleg A. Mazyar, Qing Zhu, Mark W. Vaughn, William L. Hase, Lenore L. Dai
 Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Nano-Scale Lubricant Films in Humidity
Haigang Chen, Qian Guo, Myung S. Jhon
 Molecular Dynamics Modelling of Nanodroplet Spraying on Liquid Substrates
Dan Lussier, Yiannis Ventikos, Nikolaos Kakalis
 Collection Efficiency of Nanosize Particles in an Electrostatic Precipitator
Panagiotis D. Christofides, Mingheng Li
 Modeling Aqueous Environments in Pre-Nucleation Silicate Species
Charles L. Schaffer, Kendall T. Thomson
 Slip Flow in Nanofluidics: Slip Length Vs. Contact Angle on Hydrophobic Surfaces from Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics
Lloyd L. Lee, Roman S. Voronov, Dimitrios V. Papavassiliou

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