POLYTuesday, 30 August 2005

8:00 AM-12:00 PM Grand Hyatt -- Arlington/Cabin John, Oral
General Papers: Polymers and Biology
Organizer:Dana Garcia
Presiding:Alexander K. Andrianov
8:00 AMModified polymers as safe and efficient gene delivery carriers
Peisheng Xu, Shiyan Li, Qun Li, Jun Ren, Youqing Shen, M Radosz
8:20 AMAccelerated hydrolysis of the beta-(1,4)-glycosidic linkages due to grafting of various groups onto cellulose
David T. Karst, Yiqi Yang
8:40 AMSynthesis and properties of second generation dendronized celluloses
Changde Zhang, William H. Daly
9:00 AMThe impact of surfactant structure and morphology on biocide efficacy
Alicyn M. Rhoades, Adam P. Hathorne, Douglas A. Wicks
9:20 AMPoly(caprolactone) based, highly branched segmented poly(ester urethane)s and poly(ester urethane urea)s via A2 and B3 methodologies
Kristin M. Sisson, Serkan Unal, Timothy E. Long
9:40 AMSynthesis, characterization and in vitro degradation of L-alanine co-substituted polyphosphazenes
Anurima Singh, Nicholas Krogman, Swaminathan Sethuraman, Lakshmi S Nair, Jacqueline L Sturgeon, Paul W Brown, Cato T Laurencin, Harry R Allcock
10:00 AMColloidal micelles as multifunctional vaccines
Darrell J. Irvine, Siddhartha Jain, Woon Teck Yap, Yen-Chen Huang
10:20 AMInvestigation of 3-D Tyrosine-derived polycarbonate scaffolds for tissue engineering
Jean S. Stephens, Tithi Dutta Roy, Joy P Dunkers, Matthew L. Becker, Aarti Rege, Joachim Kohn
10:40 AMWater-soluble biodegradable polyphosphazenes: Emerging systems for biomedical applications
Alexander K. Andrianov
11:00 AMPolymerization of Actin: Structural changes from small-angle neutron scattering
Alexander I. Norman, Robert Ivkov, Jeffrey G Forbes, Sandra C. Greer
11:20 AMProbe diffusion in PVA solutions and gels studied by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
Ariel Michelman-Ribeiro, Hacene Boukari, Ralph Nossal, Ferenc Horkay
11:40 AMPhysical and chemical characterization of bioactive polymer composites
Tonya B. Icenogle, William F. Regnault, Joseph M. Antonucci, Drago Skrtic

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The 230th ACS National Meeting, in Washington, DC, Aug 28-Sept 1, 2005