CARBMonday, April 7, 2008

8:30 AM-12:00 PM Morial Convention Center -- Rm. 214, Oral
Bioenergy and Carbohydrate Structure: Modeling and Experiment
Organizers:Alfred French
Alain Laederach
Organizer, Presiding:Robert J. Woods
8:30 AMIntroductory Remarks
8:45 AMNanoscale characterization of plant cell-wall microfibril structure
Shi-You Ding
9:15 AMCooperativity effect of hydrogen bonding interactions in native celluloses from ab initio calculations
Xianghong Qian
9:45 AMThermal response in crystalline cellulose: A molecular dynamics study
Malin Bergenstråhle, Lars Berglund, Karim Mazeau
10:15 AMIntermission
10:30 AMSimulation of assigned infrared spectra from molecular dynamics simulations
B. Lachele Foley, Robert J. Woods
11:00 AMA new era of carbohydrate modeling using cutting edge DFT methods
Udo Schnupf, J. L. Willett, Wayne B. Bosma, F. A. Momany
11:30 AMStructural characterization of the esterified wheat straw hemicelluloses induced by microwave irradiation
Feng Xu, Runcang Sun, Bai Peng

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The 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008