PMSEMonday, 29 August 2005

8:15 AM-12:05 PM Grand Hyatt -- Independence Ballroom F--G, Oral
Biologically Enabled and Bio-Inspired Polymers
Bio- and Self-Assembled Polymers
Organizers:Shu Yang
Ulrich Wiesner
Presiding:Dan Luo
Dennis E. Discher
8:15 AMSelf-assembly between DNA and anionic membranes
Hongjun Liang, Daniel Harries, Gerard C. L. Wong
8:45 AMa-Helix to b-sheet transitions of novel short peptides conjugated to lipids induced by aggregation
Tomoko Shimada, Matthew Tirrell
9:00 AMBio-inspired assembly of 3-D polyelectrolyte scaffolds
Jennifer A. Lewis
9:30 AMArtificial sub-micron diameter silk fibers under benign processing conditions by two-fluid electrospinning
Mao Wang, Jian H. Yu, David L. Kaplan, Gregory C. Rutledge
9:45 AMOsmotically induced helix-coil transition in poly(glutamic acid)
Christopher B. Stanley, Helmut H. Strey
10:00 AMIntermission
10:20 AMSynthetic biomimetic microlens arrays from polymers
Joanna Aizenberg, Shu Yang
10:50 AMSelf-assembly of protein nanorings by chemical induction
Carston R. Wagner, Jonathan C. T. Carlson, Sidhartha Jena, Tsui-Fen Chou, Michelle Flenniken, Jessie Kerns, Ronald A. Siegel
11:05 AMManufacturing new materials using peptide motifs
Shuguang Zhang
11:35 AMNanostructure and kinetics of β-sheet fibrils constructed via peptide self-assembly exhibiting a non-twisted, laminated morphology
Matthew S. Lamm, Karthikan Rajagopal, Joel P. Schneider, Darrin J. Pochan
11:50 AMMesomorphic complexes of DNA with the mixtures of a cationic surfactant and a neutral lipid
Wei-Long Hsu, Hsin-Lung Chen, Willisa Liou, U-Ser Jeng, Hsien-Kuang Lin, Wen-Lian Liu

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