POLYTuesday, April 8, 2008

8:30 AM-12:05 PM Hilton New Orleans Riverside -- Grand Salon 18, Oral
Stimuli Responsive Polymers
Biorelated Materials
Organizers:Christoph Weder
Stuart J. Rowan
Rigoberto C. Advincula
Oren A. Scherman
8:30 AMIntroductory Remarks
8:35 AMStimuli-responsive polymer surface and interfaces
Marek W. Urban
9:00 AMDo it like the sea cucumber: Bioinspired chemo-mechanical polymer nanocomposites
Jeffrey R. Capadona, Otto van den berg, Lynn A. Capadona, Kadhir Shanmuganathan, Dustin J. Tyler, Stuart J. Rowan, Christoph Weder
9:25 AMElastin-like peptides: From side chain polymers to fusion proteins
Jan C. M. van Hest, Rosalie LM. Teeuwen, Frits A. de Wolf, Han Zuilhof
9:50 AMEngineering cell-responsive hydrogels via the use of biologically relevant interactions
Kristi L. Kiick
10:15 AMIntermission
10:25 AMFacile synthesis of biocompatible responsive copolymers in aqueous solutions
Cameron Alexander, Johannes Magnusson, Pasparakis George, Wenxin Wang
10:50 AMMultifunctional polyester nanoparticles with control over size and functionalities
Alice van der Ende, Rachel Ruckstuhl, Eva Harth
11:15 AMResponsive polymer-protein bioconjugates by grafting-from via RAFT with the R-group approach
Brent S. Sumerlin, Priyadarsi De, Ming Li, Sudershan R. Gondi
11:40 AMThermally responsive elastin biopolymers for drug delivery
Ashutosh Chilkoti

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