CURRENT & RECENT ABSTRACTS

The abstracts in this folder are divided into 5 sets: Invited Conference Talks, Contributed Conference Talks, Research Seminars, New Manuscripts and Recently Published Manuscripts. These abstracts are in PDF format:

NEW ABSTRACTS:

“The role of heat capacity in arguments for a new glassformer paradigm.”  C. Austen Angell.

 

INVITED CONFERENCE TALKS:

September 7-11, 2009/  Invited talk at conference in Iguazu Falls, Brazil, Physics of non-crystalline Solids, "Ideal glassformers": seeking non-polymer liquids that are stable at their glass temperatures.”

September 1-5, 2009/  Invited talk in Rome for the International Discussion of Relaxation Processes, “The role of heat capacity in arguments for a new glassformer paradigm.”

May, 2009/  Invited talk at an Arizona Status University Workshop on Proteins and Water, “Protein gymnastics in the protic ionic liquid “pIL” milieu, and what it all might mean.”

April 2009/  Invited talk in Aberystwyth, Wales, “The low temperature end of the fragile liquid state: experimental evidence for a new paradigm.”

Fall 2008/  Invited talk at the symposium on Bulk Metallic Glasses, (Fall meeting of the MRS) honoring Franz Spaepen on his 60th birthday.

Fall 2008/  Keynote lecture presented at the Fall (Pacific Rim) meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Fall 2008/  Invited Talk for Philadelphia Chemical Society Meeting . . . Symposium on Water and Solutions Symposium Fall Meeting of the ACS, “Experimental studies of the solute effect in systems with single component liquid-liquid transitions.”  C.A. Angell and Vesselin Velikov.

Fall 2008/  Invited Talk for Organic Division Symposium Fall Meeting of the ACS, “Normal-to-Amyloid-protein transition, and reversible pre-fibril fold/unfold process, in lysozyme and lactalbumin.”  Nolene Byrne and C.A. Angell.

August 2008/  Keynote lecture presented at the 2008 EUCHEM conference on molten salts and ionic liquids, "Primitive PIL solvents for biomolecules, and a conjecture on early earth biology," Copenhagen.

March 24-28, 2008/  Invited talk at Spring Meeting of the Materials Research Society, Division of Organic Chemistry: Session on Ionic Liquid Applications:  Pharmaceutical, Therapeutics and Biotechnology -- "Pinning down the proton activities of protic ionic liquids and using them to study directed protein misfoldings, fibrillizations, and polypeptide fiber biosyntheses".   N. Byrne, T. Tang, J.-P. Belieres, J. Battista, C. Friesen and C.A. Angell.

November 26, 2007/  Invited talk at Fall Meeting of the Materials Research Society, Symposium Z1 “Glass Physics and deformation mechanisms” Title of talk: “Glasses in Single-component and Binary Metal Systems by Experiment, Computer Simulation and Theoretical Modeling”. C. Austen Angell.

October 22nd 2007/  (Opening talk at the 4th International Symposium on Non-crystalline Solids, Aracaju, Brazil) “Crystallization of some supercooled liquids via a second liquid phase as an “Ostwald step”. Is this what temperature-induced polyamorphism is all about?”  C. Austen Angell.

August 5th, 2007/  Opening Talk at COIL II (International conference on Ionic Liquids). Proton activity in ionic liquids: The ILPA index and its application in optimizing fuel cell efficiency, protein stability, and large molecule solubility.  C.A. Angell, N. Byrne, and J-P. Belieres.

August 2nd, 2007/  Invited talk at COIL II Pre-Symposium on Applications of Ionic Liquids.  Title of Talk (delivered by Dr. Nolene Byrne) “Ionic Liquids for the study of protein folding, and misfolding.”  Nolene Byrne, Jean-Philippe Belieres and C. Austen Angell.

July 2007, Shanghai/  (Extended Plenary Abstract for SSI-16, Shanghai, July 1-6, 2007) "On the relation of "dry" proton to "fast" Li+ conductivity in crystalline, glassy and polymer solid electrolytes," C.A. Angell.

May 2007, Moynihan/  "Success of the Moynihan cooperative two-state model for water, order-disorder transitions, and the big picture for glasses." C. Austen Angell.

April 2007, Argentina/  "Ionic Liquids in the service of fuel cells>100ēC, protein folding studies, and biopreservation." C. Austen Angell.

 

CONTRIBUTED CONFERENCE TALKS:

Spring 2008/  Contributed Talk for Spring Meeting Electrochemistry Society, Phoenix 2008 “On the state of the proton in protic ionic liquids.”  Jean-Philippe Belieres, Nolene Byrne, Don Gervasio and C.A. Angell.

Spring 2008/  Contributed Talk for Spring Meeting Electrochemistry Society, Phoenix 2008 “Ether Sulfones with additives for electrolytes in rechargeable lithium ion batteries.”  Xiao-Guang Sun and C.A., Angell.

 

RESEARCH SEMINARS:

Amherst Talk  "Protein folding and misfolding studies in novel stabilizing solvents of high ionic strength, low water activity, and glassforming ability."  C. Austen Angell.

Boston University Seminar  “Control of protein folding and misfolding in ionic liquid media, and a conjecture on early earth biology," Boston University Seminar.  C. Austen Angell.

George Washington U Seminar  “Control of protein folding and misfolding in ionic liquid media, and a conjecture on early earth biology,” George Washington University seminar abstract.  C. Austen Angell.

U of Wisconsin Seminar  “The Art and Science of glass formation. Ideal glassformers as opposed to “ideal glass”es,” University of Wisconsin Seminar.  C. Austen Angell.

 

RECENTLY PUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS:

469.     “Structure-energy relations in hen egg white lysozyme observed during refolding from a quenched unfolded state.”   Theresa Y. Cho, Nolene Byrne, David J. Moore, Brian A. Pethica, C. Austen Angell and Pablo G. Debenedetti (2009).

467.     “The ‘refoldability’ of selected proteins in ionic liquids as a stabilization criterion, leading to a conjecture on biogenesis”. Nolene Byrne, Jean-Philippe Belieres and C. Austen Angell (2009).

468.     “Protein folding in the protic ionic liquid milieu: from native conformation to fibril,” Nolene Byrne and C. Austen Angell (2009).

466.     “Formation and dissolution of hen egg white lysozyme amyloid fibrils in protic ionic liquids.”  Nolene Byrne and C. Austen Angell (2009).

462.     “Landscape thermodynamics and dynamics of a monatomic glassformer- the modified Stillinger-Weber model”, Vitaliy Kapko, Dmitry Matyushov and C. Austen Angell (2008)

461.     “Glass formation and glass transition in supercooled liquids, with insights from study of related phenomena in crystals,” C. Austen Angell 2008.

 

459.     “Protein Unfolding, and the ‘Tuning in’ of Reversible Intermediate States, In Protic Ionic Liquid Media,” N. Byrne and C.A. Angell 2008.

 

 

 

For Complete Journal References, see my Publications file.

 

 

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