Complex Systems: 5th International Workshop on Complex Systems, Sendai, Japan 25-28 September 2007

by Tokuyama, Michio; Oppenheim, Irwin; Nishiyama, Hideya

• ISBN13: 9780735405011
• ISBN10: 0735405018
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-09
• Publisher: Amer Inst of Physics
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Summary

All papers have been peer-reviewed. This book gives up to date information on complex systems for experimental, theoretical, and computational researchers in the various fields, such as physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, polymer science, and computer science. The book contains review articles by leading scientists and contributed papers by authors in the forefront of research.

Table of Contents

Universal Behavior near the Glass Transitions in Fragile Glass-forming Systems	p. 3
Universal Secondary Relaxation of Water in Aqueous Mixtures, in Nano-confinement, and in Hydrated Proteins	p. 14
Kinetics and Control of Liquid-Liquid Transition	p. 24
Thermal Properties of the Water Confined within Nanopores of Silica MCM-41	p. 34
Dynamic Crossover Phenomenon in Confined Supercooled Water and Its Relation to the Existence of a Liquid-Liquid Critical Point in Water	p. 39
The Glass Transition of Driven Molecular Materials	p. 53
Diagrammatic Approach to the Dynamics of Interacting Brownian Particles: Mode-coupling Theory, Generalized Mode-coupling Theory, and All That	p. 62
Peculiar Behavior of the Secondary Dielectric Relaxation in Propylene Glycol Oligomers near the Glass Transition	p. 70
Statistical Mechanics of Time Independent Non-dissipative Nonequilibrium States	p. 74
Effect of Nanoscopic Confinement on the Microscopic Dynamics of Glass-forming Liquids and Polymers Studied by Inelastic Neutron Scattering	p. 79
Interdependence of Primary and Secondary Relaxations in Glass-forming Systems Undergoing Compression and Cooling	p. 85
Molecular Motions in Amorphous Pharmaceuticals	p. 91
Direct Observation of Low-energy Clusters in a Colloidal Gel	p. 97
Experimental Determination of Structural Relaxation in Trehalose-water Solutions by Inelastic Ultraviolet Scattering	p. 102
Direct Crystal to Glass Transformations of Trehalose Induced by Milling, Dehydration, and Annealing	p. 108
Extraordinarily Stable Organic Glasses Prepared by Vapor Deposition: Dependence of Stability and Dynamics upon Deposition Temperature	p. 114
Structural Relaxation of Vapor-deposited Amorphous Molecular Systems: Dependence on the Deposition Temperature	p. 119
Dielectric Spectroscopy on Propylene Glycol/Poly(Vinyl Pyrrolidone) Solutions: Polymer and Solvent Dynamics in Hydrogen-bonding Systems	p. 125
Effects of Disaccharide Sugars on Dynamics of Water Molecules: Dynamic Light Scattering and Dielectric Loss Spectroscopy Studies	p. 131
Heterogeneous Structure and Ionic Transport Properties of Silver Chalcogenide Glasses	p. 135
Can the Frequency Dependent Isobaric Specific Heat Be Measured by Thermal Effusion Methods?	p. 139
Density of States Simulations of Various Glass Formers	p. 142
Event-driven Simulation of the Dynamics of Hard Ellipsoids	p. 148
Molecular Dynamics of Generalized Binary Lennard-Jones Systems: Effects of Anharmonicity and Breakdown of the Stokes-Einstein Relation	p. 154
Diffusion, Structural Relaxation, and Rheological Properties of a Simple Glass Forming Model: A Molecular Dynamics Study	p. 160
Incorporating Activated Hopping Processes into the Mode-coupling Theory for Glassy Dynamics	p. 169
Nonlinear Susceptibility and Dynamical Length Scale of Glassy Systems	p. 173
Calorimetric Study of Kinetic Glass Transition in Metallic Glasses	p. 177
Low-energy Collective Excitations in Glassy and Supercooled Liquid Silica Probed by Inelastic X-ray Scattering	p. 180
Glass Transition Behaviors of Ethylene Glycol - Water Solutions Confined within Nano-pores of Silica Gel	p. 185
Ordering and Glass-transition Behaviors of the Water Confined between the Silicate Layers in Na(H)-RUB-18	p. 189
Novel Effects of Confinement and Interfaces on the Glass Transition Temperature and Physical Aging in Polymer Films and Nanocomposites	p. 192
Dynamic Nature of the Liquid-Liquid Transition of Triphenyl Phosphite Studied by Simultaneous Measurements of Dielectric and Morphological Evolution	p. 196
Crystallization and Structural Relaxation of Vapor-deposited Amorphous 1,2-Dichloroethane: Dependence on the Deposition Conditions	p. 199
Colloidal Glass Formation in Polymer Nanocomposites	p. 203
Fragility Variation of Lithium Borate Glasses Studied by Temperature-modulated DSC	p. 207
Separation of Dynamics in the Free Energy Landscape	p. 211
The Defect Diffusion Model, Glass Transition, and the Properties of Glass-forming Liquids	p. 215
Network Motif of Water	p. 219
A FDR-preserving Field Theory for Interacting Brownian Particles: One-loop Theory and MCT	p. 223
Relationship between the Diffusive Coefficient and the Specific Heat for Lennard-Jones Binary Mixture	p. 227
Critical Fluctuations of Time-dependent Magnetization in Ordering Processes near the Disorder-induced Critical Point	p. 231
Glass Transition in a Spherical Monatomic Liquid	p. 234
Link between Vitrification and Crystallization in Two-dimensional Polydisperse Colloidal Liquid	p. 238
Relationship between the Slow Dynamics and the Structure of Supercooled Liquid	p. 241
A Molecular Dynamics Simulation of a Supercooled System with 3,200 Model Polymers	p. 244
Liquid Polyamorphism: Some Unsolved Puzzles of Water in Bulk, Nanoconfined, and Biological Environments	p. 251
Theory of Multi-time Correlations: Application to Pump-Probe Experiments of Reorientation in Anisotropic Cavities	p. 272
Driven Colloidal Mixtures and Colloidal Liquid Crystals	p. 284
The Structure and Thermodynamic Stability of Reverse Micelles in Dry AOT/Alkane Mixtures	p. 289
Models of Gel-forming Colloids	p. 295
Molecular Simulations of Nanoparticles in an Explicit Solvent	p. 304
From Molecular Solutions to Fragile Gels: Dynamics of Rigid Polymers in Solutions	p. 312
How a Colloidal Paste Flows - Scaling Behaviors in Dispersions of Aggregated Particles under Mechanical Stress	p. 320
Nanoparticle Retardation in Semidilute Polymer Solutions	p. 326
Geometrical Classification of Spaghetti-like Nanoclusters	p. 331
Numerical Simulation of Flow Patterns of Spherical Particles in a Semi-Cylindrical Bin-Hopper	p. 337
Power-Law Fluctuations at the Order-Disorder Transition in Colloidal Suspensions under Shear Flow	p. 343
Colloidal Phase Behavior in a Binary Mixture	p. 346
Dielectric Relaxation Phenomena in Hydrogen-bonded Liquids	p. 350
Dynamic Sound Scattering Investigation of the Dynamics of Sheared Particulate Suspensions	p. 354
Influence of Hydrodynamics on Relaxation Time of Dynamics in Colloidal Crystal	p. 359
DSC Study of Light and Heavy Water Confined within Mesoporous Silica Pores	p. 363
Micro-Brillouin Scattering Study of Acoustic Properties of Protein Crystals	p. 367
Dynamical Properties on the Thermal Denaturation of Lysozyme-Trehalose Solution	p. 371
Brillouin and Raman Scattering Study of Ethylene Glycol Aqueous Solutions	p. 375
Terahertz Time Domain Spectroscopy of Glass-forming Materials	p. 379
Novel Finite Difference Lattice Boltzmann Model for Gas-liquid Flow	p. 383
Similarities in the Dynamics of Suspensions of Monodisperse Colloidal Chains with Different Lengths Confined in the Thin Films	p. 387
Size Effects on Short-time Self-diffusion in Dilute Highly Charged Colloidal Suspensions	p. 391
Layering Phenomena Driven by Rotating Magnetic Field in Ferrofluid	p. 395
A Theory of Electrical Conductivity of Pseudo-binary Equivalent Molten Salt	p. 399
Ordering Dynamics of Lamellar Patterns in Cooperative Systems with a Small-world Topology	p. 403
Volume-energy Correlations in the Slow Degrees of Freedom of Computer-simulated Phospholipid Membranes	p. 407
Local Structural Effects on Intermolecular Vibrations in Liquid Water: The Instantaneous- Normal-Mode Analysis	p. 410
Effects of Multivalent Salt Addition on Effective Charge of Dilute Colloidal Solutions	p. 414
Addressing Unsolved Mysteries of Polymer Viscoelasticity	p. 419
Polymer Dynamics from Synthetic to Biological Macromolecules	p. 429
Thermal and Dielectric Behavior of Liquid-Crystalline Polybutadiene-Diols with Mesogenic Groups in Side Chains	p. 440
Complex Structure and Dynamics of Diblock Copolymers in a Mixture of Partially Miscible Solvents	p. 446
Cooperativity and Materials' Dynamics - New Insights and Quantitative Predictions	p. 452
Water Flow through a Stimuli-responsive Hydrogel under Mechanical Constraint	p. 458
Anomalous Diffusion in Polymer Solution as Probed by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy and Its Universal Importance in Biological Systems	p. 464
Thermal, Mechanical, and Dielectric Behavior of Liquid-Crystalline Polybutadiene-Diols with Cyanobiphenyl Groups in Side Chains	p. 470
Fluctuation Effects of the Microphase Separation of Diblock-copolymers in the Presence of an Electric Field	p. 476
Numerical and Experimental Studies on Alignment Dynamics of Lamellae of Block Copolymer under an Electric Field	p. 482
The Thermal Conductivity of Amorphous Polymers Calculated by Non-equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Simulation	p. 486
Modelling Complex Systems in Full Detail: A New Approach	p. 491
Monte Carlo Simulation for Ternary System of Water/Oil/ABA Triblock Copolymers	p. 497
Effect of Viscosity of an Epoxy near or over Its Gel Point on Foaming Structures	p. 501
Viscoelasticity and Dynamics of Single Biopolymer Chain Measured with Magnetically Modulated Atomic Force Microscopy	p. 504
Nonequilibrium Dynamics of a Manipulated Polymer: Stretching and Relaxation	p. 508
Morphologies of Multicompartment Micelles formed by Triblock Copolymers	p. 512
Structure Analysis of Jungle-Gym-Type Gels by Brownian Dynamics Simulation	p. 517
Brownian Dynamics Simulation of Diffusion in Slide-Ring Gel	p. 521
Studies of Drug Delivery and Drug Release of Dendrimer by Dissipative Particle Dynamics	p. 525
Coarse Grained Simulation of Lipid Membrane and Triblock Copolymers	p. 528
The Double-Funnel Energy Landscape of an Off-lattice Model Protein: A Knowledge-based Evolution Algorithm Approach	p. 532
Viscoelasticity of Entangled Semiflexible Polymers via Primitive Path Analysis	p. 536
Electrorheological Fluids Dynamics	p. 541
Flow Dynamics in Arc Welding	p. 547
Numerical Modeling of Electric Arcs with Water Vortex and Hybrid Stabilizations	p. 554
Spreading and Solidification of Hollow Molten Droplet under Its Impact onto Substrate: Computer Simulation and Experiment	p. 561
Mathematical Modelling of Advanced Thermal Plasma Reactors and Application to Nanoparticle Production	p. 569
Fluid Complex Plasmas - Studies at the Particle Level	p. 577
Radio-frequency, Atmospheric-pressure Glow Discharges: Producing Methods, Characteristics and Applications in Bio-Medical Fields	p. 584
Evaluation of Sealing Characteristics in MR Fluid Channel Flow Relating to Magneto- Rheological Properties	p. 592
Numerical Simulation of Structure Formation of Magnetic Particles and Nonmagnetic Particles in MAGIC Fluids under Steady Magnetic Field	p. 598
Interfacial Phenomena of Magnetic Fluid with Permanent Magnet in a Longitudinally Excited Container	p. 606
TiO[subscript 2] Film Deposition by Atmospheric Thermal Plasma CVD Using Laminar and Turbulence Plasma Jets	p. 612
Non-equilibrium Plasma MHD Electrical Power Generation at Tokyo Tech	p. 618
Can Microscale Wall Roughness Trigger Unsteady/Chaotic Flows?	p. 626
Drop Impact on a Solid Surface Comprising Micro Groove Structure	p. 633
Surface Tension Effect to Die-swell Extrusion of Viscoelastic Fluid	p. 639
Linear Analysis for a Finite Liquid Jet	p. 646
Bubble Rising Velocity in Sodium Chloride Aqueous Solution under Horizontal DC High Magnetic Field	p. 654
Study on the CO[subscript 2] Solid-gas Two Phase Flow with Particle Sublimation and Its Basic Applications	p. 658
Shape Deformation of Vesicle Coupled with Phase Separation	p. 667
Anomalous Diffusion in Microrheology: A Comparative Study	p. 672
Markov-Chain Monte Carlo Simulation of Inverse-Halftoning for Error Diffusion Based on Statistical Mechanics of the Q-Ising Model	p. 678
Aging, Rejuvenation and Memory Effects in Systems Far from Equilibrium	p. 684
Biopreservative Capabilities of Disaccharides on Proteins: A Study by Molecular Dynamics Simulations	p. 690
Ice Film Morphologies and the Structure Zone Model	p. 696
A Study of [alpha]-Relaxations in Trehalose Super Cooled Liquids	p. 702
Hydration Water Dynamics in Solutions of Hydrophilic Polymers, Biopolymers and Other Glass Forming Materials by Dielectric Spectroscopy	p. 706
Structure of Te[subscript 1-x] Cl[subscript x] Liquids	p. 712
Dynamics of Nano-Meter-Sized Domains on a Vesicle	p. 717
Chain Structures of Microparticles Induced by Focusing a Laser Beam near the Liquid-air Interface of a Droplet	p. 721
Study of Molecular Dynamics in Liquid-crystalline Phases of CBOOA by High-resolution [superscript 13]C NMR	p. 725
A Study of the Secondary Relaxation in Galactose-water Mixtures	p. 728
Fluctuations in Human's Walking (IV)	p. 732
Nonequilibrium Work Theorem for Simple Models with and without Memory	p. 736
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