9th Annual PCAMM Meeting (2004)
December 4, 2004: NRC Innovation Centre, UBC Campus, 3250 East Mall (at 16th Ave.)
8:30 Registration, Coffee&Donuts
9:00 S. Campbell (Ballard)
A fundamental approach to non-precious metal catalysts for PEM fuel cells
9:30 N. Forde (SFU)
Manipulating and probing soft materials with optical tweezers
9:50 H.B. Li (UBC)
Probing the mechanical properties of proteins via single molecule atomic force microscopy
10:10 C. Sinclair (UBC)
The role of interfaces in controlling plasticity in layered composites
10:30 Coffee Break
10:50 B.C. Choi (UVic)
Dynamic domain configurations in magnetic thin film elements
11:10 I. Efimov (UBC)
Novel magnetic semiconductors and half metals
11:30 T.J. Wigglesworth (SFU)
Photochromic monomers and polymers and their technologies
11:50 S. Burke (UVic)
Exploring nc-AFM as a surface science technique for molecules on insulators: the prototypical system C60 on KBr
12:10 J. Huang (UBC)
Investigation of bainite formation using neutron Bragg-edge transmission
12:30 Lunch and Poster Session
14:00 R.A. Wolkow (UoA)
Laying a Foundation for Silicon-based Molecular Devices
14:30 R.A. Herring (UVic)
Measurement of the properties of bulk plasmons using energy-filtered electron holography for future nanotechnology
14:50 J.W. Stouwdam (UVic)
Colloidal PbSe quantum dots stabilized by oleate that emit strongly at 1.55 micrometer
15:10 Coffee Break
15:30 N. Armour (UVic)
The feasibility of bulk growth of cadmium zinc telluride by liquid phase electro-epitaxy
15:50 R.F. Kiefl (UBC)
Depth controlled b-detected NMR at ISAC and its applications to condensed matter
16:10 C. Michal (UBC)
Spider silk and artificial muscles: solid-state NMR studies of structure, dynamics and molecular mechanisms
16:30 PCAMM committee meeting