Biological materials result from highly evolved processes that inspire study in a broad range of scientific disciplines: a basic understanding of how natural materials function informs our search for useful knowledge to synthesize, control and manipulate materials at an atomic scale. Biological “engineering” serves as a model for the design and synthesis of novel artificial materials and devices including biomedical, optical, magnetic, electronic, ceramic, and composite materials. In turn, these advances in knowledge depend upon the results of “ordinary” engineering and synthesis which have enabled high-resolution measurements to shed new light on biomaterial formation and properties. This symposium will bring together a diverse group of researchers to discuss the latest advances in biological and bio-inspired materials synthesis, assembly, characterization techniques, and design.
Session Topics
Topics of interest in this symposium include:
- Biomineralization mechanisms, structure, and spectroscopy
- In-situ studies of reactions, assembly, and crystallization
- Biophotonics and biological optical materials: structure, assembly, and properties
- Biological magnetic, electronic, and metallic materials: structure, assembly, and properties
- Bio-inspired optical, magnetic, and electronic materials/structures/devices
- Bio-inspired machinery
- Biomimetic sculpting of 2D and 3D micro-/nanostructures
- Inorganic-organic hybrid materials
- High-resolution techniques for characterization of biological materials
- Biosensors
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Invited Speakers
Invited speakers include: Takuzo Aida (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan), Joanna Aizenberg (Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies), George D. Bachand (Sandia National Labs), Angie Belcher (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology), Matthias Epple (Univ. Duisburg-Essen, Germany), Elma Gonzalez (Univ. of California-Los Angeles), Mark Hildebrand (Univ. of California-San Diego), David Kaplan (Tufts Univ.), Nils Kroger (Univ. Regensburg, Germany), Chris Lawrence (QinetiQ, United Kingdom), Rajesh Naik (Air Force Research Lab, WPAFB), Dan-Eric Nilsson (Lund Univ., Sweden), G. Carole Perry (Nottingham Trent Univ., United Kingdom), Mike Sailor (Univ. of California-San Diego), Matthew Tirrell (Univ. of California-Santa Barbara), Andrew Turberfield (Univ. of Oxford, United Kingdom), Peter Vukusic (Univ. of Exeter, United Kingdom), Ichiro Yamashita (Panasonic, Japan), and Shuguang Zhang (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology). |
Symposium Organizers
Kenneth H. Sandhage
Georgia Institute of Technology
Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering
771 Ferst Dr. NW
Atlanta, GA 30332-0245
Tel: 404-894-6882
Fax: 404-894-9140
ken.sandhage@mse.gatech.edu |
Shu Yang
University of Pennsylvania
Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering
3231 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Tel: 215-898-9645
Fax: 215-573-2128, shuyang@seas.upenn.edu |
Trevor Douglas
Montana State University
Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
108 Gaines Hall
Bozeman, MT 59717
Tel: 406-994-6566
Fax: 406-994-5407
tdouglas@chemistry.montana.edu |
Andrew R. Parker
University of Oxford
Green College
Dept. of Zoology
South Parks Rd.
Oxford OX1 3PS
United Kingdom
Tel: 44-1865-271-218
Fax: 44-1865-281-253, andrew.parker@zoo.ox.ac.uk |
Elaine DiMasi
Brookhaven National Laboratory
National Synchrotron Light Source Dept.
Bldg. 725D
Upton, NY 11973-5000
Tel: 631-344-2211
Fax: 631-344-3238
dimasi@bnl.gov |
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