Poster Presentations

All 1998 NRA Ground principal investigators and Advanced Technology Development (ATD) projects are scheduled for poster presentations as listed below alphabetically. The assigned poster numbers (ID#) will be used for future reference and correspondence.

ID#	Principal Investigator	Investigation title

P01. Reza Abbaschian, University of Florida, "Morphological Stability of Faceted Interfaces,"
P02. J. Iwan Alexander,Case Western Reserve University,"Vibrations and g-jitter: transport disturbance due to residual acceleration during low gravity directional solidification experiments,"
P03. Jens Alkemper, Northwestern University, "The Evolution of Dendrite Morphology during Isothermal Coarsening,"
P04. Timothy J. Anderson,University of Florida, "An Electrochemical Method to Visualize Flow in Liquid Metals,"
P05. Tony W. Armstrong, SAIC, "Development of a Monte Carlo Radiation Transport Code System for HEDS,"
P06. Robert J. Bayuzick,Vanderbilt University, "Investigation of the Relationship Between Undercooling and Solidification Velocity,"
P07. Andre Benard, Michigan State University, "Investigation of Solidification Processes with Convection Using Meshless Methods and Quantitative Experimental Verification,"
P08. George Benedek,Massachusetts Institute of Technology,"Kinetic Evolution of Stable and Metastable States in Protein Solutions,"
P09. John F. Brady, California Institute of Technology, "Dispersion Microstructure and Rheology in Ceramics Processing"
P10. Michael Cima, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Forces during manufacture of microscale discrete electronic components"
P11. Jonathon A. Dantzig, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Phase Field Modeling of Microstructure Development in Microgravity,"
P12. Kenneth A. Debelak, Vanderbilt University, "Recovery of Minerals in Martian Solids via Supercritical Fluid Extraction,"
P13. Jeffrey J. Derby, University of Minnesota, "First Principles Calculations of Molten II-VI Compounds and Their Solidification Behavior,"
P14. Nikolaus Dietz, North Carolina State University, "Optical characterization of gas phase, gas phase chemistry, and surface chemistry during high pressure vapor phase deposition processes under laminar and turbulent flow conditions,"
P15. Edward L. Dreizin, The Titan Corporation, "High Temperature Phases and Phase Equilibrium in Reactive Molten Metal-Based Systems,"
P16. Edwin C. Ethridge, MSFC, "Mechanisms for the Crystallization of ZBLAN,"
P17. Donald C. Gillies, MSFC, "Use of Computed Tomography for Characterizing Materials Grown Terrestrially and in Microgravity, "
P18. Martin E. Glicksman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, "Follow-on Research Activities for the Rensselaer Isothermal Dendritic Growth Experiment (RIDGE),"
P19. Daniel A. Hammer, University of Pennsylvania, "Polyosomes: Tough, Giant Vesicles from Block Copolymers,"
P20. Mark D. Hollingsworth, Kansas State University, "Crystal Growth of New Families of Ferroeleastic Materials"
P21. George F. Homsy, Stanford University, "Solid State Electrochemical Oxygen Conversion for Martian and Lunar Environments: materials Development, Reactor Concepts and Chemical Conversion Cycles,"
P22. Kenneth A. Jackson, University of Arizona, "Growth of Rod Eutectics"
P23. David R. Johnson, Purdue Research Foundation, "Experimental and Numerical Investigations of Growth Morphologies of Peritectic Reactions,"
P24. David L. Kaplan, Tufts University, "Hierarchical Assembly of Collagen"
P25. Alain S. Karma, Northeastern University, "Phase-field Simulations of Dendritic Growth at Low Undercooling: Confronting Theory and Experiment"
P26. Kenneth J. Klabunde, Kansas State University, "Nanocrystals Superlattices: Synthesis and Properties,"
P27. Shankar Krishnan, Containerless Research, Inc. "Structure-Property Correlations and Phase Transitions in Group IV and II-V Liquids,"
P28. David J. Larson, SUNY-Stony Brook, "Defects Numerically Decreased (DENUDE),"
P29. Ben Q. Li, Washington State University, "Study of magnetic field effects on convection and solidification in normal and microgravity,"
P30. Nancy Ma, University of Missouri-Rolla, "Models of Mass Transport during Microgravity Crystal growth of Alloyed Semiconductors in a Magnetic Field"
P31. Allen K. MacKnight, Allied Signal Inc. "Advanced Materials Growth in Microgravity: Carbon Nanotubes, Semiconductors and Advanced Nanocomposites,"
P32. Jules John Magda, University of Utah, "Novel Microstructures for Polymer-Liquid Crystal Composite Materials,"
P33. Larry W. Mason, Lockheed Martin Astronautics,"CO2 Acquisition Membrane (CAM),"
P34. Richard H. Maurer, Johns Hopkins University, "Development of a Neutron Spectrometer to Assess Biological Radiation Damage Behind Spacecraft Materials,"
P35. Jimmy Mays, University of Alabama at Birmingham, "Controlled Synthesis of Nanoparticles Using Block Copolymers: Nanoreactors in Microgravity Conditions,"
P36. Konstantin Mazuruk, USRA, "Effects of Traveling Magnetic Field on Dynamics of Solidification,"
P37. Geoffrey B. McFadden, NIST, "Convective and Morphological Instabilities during Crystal Growth,"
P38. Jack Miller, Berkeley National Laboratory, "Radiation Transport Properties of Potential In Situ-Produced Regolith-Epoxy Materials for Martian Habitats,"
P39. John H. Perepezko, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Analysis of Containerless Solidification Microstructures in Undercooled Melts and Composite Systems"
P40. Lawrence S. Pinsky, University of Houston, "Development of a Space Radiation Monte-Carlo Computer Simulation Base On the FLUKA and ROOT Codes,"
P41. Miriam H. Rafailovich, SUNY-Stony Brook, "Microgravity Processing of Polymer Thin FIlms,"
P42.Won-Kyu Rhim, JPL, "Measurement of Thermophysical Properties of Molten Silicon and Germanium"
P43. Gregory Scott Rohrer, Carnegie Mellon University, "Shape evolution kinetics od small ceramic particles,"
P44. Paul D. Ronney, University of Southern California, "Extinction and Instability of Polymerization Fronts,"
P45. Thomas Paul Russell, University of Massachusetts, "Capillary Waves at Interfaces: The Role of Gravity and Electric Fields"
P46. Satwindar Sadhal, University of Southern California, "Non-Intrusive Measurement of Thermophysical Properties of Liquids by Electrostatic-Acoustic Hybrid Levitation,"
P47. Donald Sadoway, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "From Oxygen Generation to Metals Production: In Situ Utilization by Molten Oxide Electrolysis"
P48. Robert F. Sekerka, Carnegie Mellon University, "Lattice Boltzmann Computations of Binary Diffusion in Liquids under Stochastic Microgravity,"
P49. Albert J. Sievers, Cornell University, "Influence of Homogeneity and Fragility in the Dynamical Properties of Glassy Networks"
P50. Frans A. Spaepen, Harvard University, "Glass Formation, Nucleation and Diffusion in Metallic Melts,"
P51. Ching-Hua Su, MSFC, "Structural Fluctuations and Thermophysical Properties of Molten II-VI Compounds,"
P52. Daniel R. Talham, University of Florida, "The Features of Self-Assembling Organic Bilayers Important to the Formation of Inorganic Materials in Low-Gravity Conditions,"
P53. Michael Tsapatsis, University of Massachusetts, "Thin Film Molecular Sieve Synthesis: Processing- Microstructure Relationships and The Effect of Gravity on Microstructure,"
P54. Padetha Tin, NASA Glenn Research Center, "Interfacial Energy Determination of Succinonitrile and Succinnlitrile-Acetone Alloy Using Surface Light Scattering Experiment,"
P55. John Scott Walker, University of Illinois at Champaign -Urbana, "Models to Optimize the Benefits of Rotating Magnetic Fields for Semiconductor Crystal Growth in Space,"
P56. Richard Weber, Containerless Research, Inc., "Process-Property-Structure Relationships in Complex Oxide Melts,"
P57. Joe B. Whitehead Jr., The University of Southern Mississippi, "Phase Separation and Self-Assembly of Liquid Crystals and Polymer Dispersions: A Ground-Based Feasibility Study for Microgravity,"
P58. William R. Wilcox, Clarkson University, "Residual Gas Effects on Detached Solidification in Microgravity,"
P59. Nicholas Zabaras, Cornell University, "On the control of the effects of gravity on the solidification microstructures using optimally designed thermal boundary fluxes and electromagnetic fields"
P60. Cary J. Zeitlin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, "Measurement of Charged Particle Interactions in Spacecraft and Planetary Habitat Shielding Materials"

P61. Palmer Peters, NASA MSFC, "Solid-Liquid Interface characterization hardware"