PMSETuesday, 30 August 2005

8:15 AM-12:50 PM Grand Hyatt -- Independence Ballroom F--G, Oral
Biologically Enabled and Bio-Inspired Polymers
Surfaces and Interfaces
Organizer, Presidings:Shu Yang
Ulrich Wiesner
8:15 AMMimicking ion channels by polymerizable supramolecular stacks of wedge-shaped tris(alkenyl-oxy)benzene sulfonates
U. Beginn, L. Yan, X. Zhu, S. Chvalun, M. Möller
8:45 AMBiomimetic pattern transfer from a hard material to a soft biomaterial
Li-Qun Wu, Reza Ghodssi, Yossef A. Elabd, Gregory F. Payne
9:00 AMComplexity and emergence as design principles for engineering emergent functionality in nanoscale systems
Carlo Montemagno
9:30 AMDirected assembly of microtubules using ordered subcellular organization centers
Wen Shang, Jonathan S. Dordick, Robert E. Palazzo, Richard W. Siegel
9:45 AMModel systems for biomineralization: Fabrication of restricted reaction areas for silica deposition
Henning Menzel, Olaf Helmecke, Peter Behrens
10:00 AMIntermission
10:20 AMPatterned structures for study of cell-surface interactions
Christopher K. Ober, Wageesha Senaratne, Prabuddha Sengupta, Barbara Baird
10:50 AMMolding of biologically-derived soft nanostructures using pattern replication in non-wetting templates (PRINT)
Benjamin W. Maynor, Isaac LaRue, Jamie R. Boyce, Jason P. Rolland, Edward T. Samulski, Sergei S. Sheiko, Joseph M. DeSimone
11:05 AMPhysics of active gels
Jacques Prost
11:35 AMPolyelectrolyte complexes formed initially by surface tethered cationic poly(L-lysine): Their secondary structures and beyond
Susan Y. Tseng, Yuli Wang, Ying-Chih I. Chang
11:50 AMBiomimetic creation of superhydrophobic films
W. Ming, D. Wu, R. van Benthem, Gilbertus de With
12:05 PMNovel heparinized-polyurethane coatings with controlled nitric oxide release
Zhengrong Zhou, Biyun Wu, Mark E. Meyerhoff
12:20 PMConcluding Remarks

Previous Session -- Biologically Enabled and Bio-Inspired Polymers

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