Topical 3: 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Electrophoresis Society (AES)

Session 10 - Advances In Electrokinetics and Electrophoresis - Fundamentals
Electrokinetics involves the use of electrical fields and electrical forces (between surfaces and particles) to produce a motion of colloidal particles within a medium. This environment could be either a fluid, porous or fibrous medium. Notable applications include those related to environmental process such as the decontamination of water or a soil, the cleaning of water for drinking purposes and the decontamination of industrial effluents; electrostatics aspects in membrane-based separation processes is another excellent example as well as micro-filtration in electrically enhanced processes. Within this framework, a detailed analysis of particle-to-particle electrostatics forces, the experimental measurements of their magnitude and computer-based simulation approaches are relevant for the advance of processes and technology involving electrokinetics principles. Therefore, contributions with novel approaches related to fundamental principles, modeling, and experimental studies will be welcomed. We would like to have a balance between a given problem, the motivation, and the outcome related to the solution. However, purely experimental contributions describing new and novel aspects of electrokinetics will be welcomed as well as theories and computational efforts helping to improve understanding of outstanding fundamental problems.
Chair: Brian J. Kirby
CoChair: Huanchun Cui
  A Mixed Boundary Element Method/brownian Dynamics Approach for Simulating DNA Electrophoresis In Electrically Insulating Microfluidic and Nanofluidic Geometries
Jaeseol Cho, Kevin D. Dorfman
  Effects of Gel Morphology on Predicting Optimal Times of Separation In Nanocomposite Gels
Jennifer Anne Pascal, Holly A. Stretz, Mario Oyanader, Pedro E. Arce
  Electrical Conductance of Aqueous Solutions of Surfactants with Added Electrolytes
Ezinwa O. Elele, Boris Khusid
  Structure and Conformation of Protein-Surfactant Complexes In Gel Electrophoresis
Danilo C. Pozzo, Monica Ospinal
  Optimal Separation Times In An Electrical Field Flow Fractionation (EFFF) Separator: Effect of Electroosmotic Flow
Jennifer Anne Pascal, Mario Oyanader, Pedro E. Arce
  Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Effect of Dc and AC Electric Field on Polyelectrolyte
Boris Khusid, Tak S. Lo, Joel Koplik

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