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Program / MRS Symposium K
Biological and Bio-Inspired Materials and Devices
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Chairs
Kenneth H. Sandhage     Georgia Institute of Technology
Shu Yang     University of Pennsylvania
Trevor Douglas     Montana State University
Andrew R. Parker     University of Oxford
Elaine DiMasi     Brookhaven National Laboratory

Proceedings to be published online
(see ONLINE PUBLICATIONS at www.mrs.org)
as volume 873E
of the Materials Research Society
Symposium Proceedings Series.
This volume may be published in print format after the meeting.

* Invited paper
SESSION K1: Silica: Biomineralization and Bio-Inspiration
Chairs: Mark Hildebrand and Kenneth Sandhage
Tuesday Morning, March 29, 2005
Room 3002 (Moscone West)

8:30 AM *K1.1
Biogenic Nanostructured Silica Formation in Diatoms: Proteins, Genes, and Structure. Mark Hildebrand, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, California.

9:00 AM *K1.2
Biosilica Nanofabrication in Diatoms: The Structures and Properties of Regulatory Silaffins. Nils Kroeger1 and Nicole Poulsen1,2; 1Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia; 2Biochemistry 1, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.

9:30 AM K1.3
Control of Nanoparticle Assembly Using DNA-Modified Diatom Templates. Nathaniel Louis Rosi, Emma Kate Payne, Shad Thaxton and Chad A. Mirkin; Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

9:45 AM K1.4
Blue Luminescent Biogenic Silicon-Germanium Oxide Nanocomposites. Shuhong Liu1, Clayton Jeffryes1, Gregory L. Rorrer1, Chih-hung Chang1, Jun Jiao2 and James A. Hedberg2; 1Chemical Engineering Department, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon; 2Physics, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM *K1.5
The Role of Electrostatic Interactions, Hydrogen Bonding and the Hydrophobic Effect in the Regulation of Amorphous Silica Structures. Carole Celia Perry, Siddharth V. Patwardhan, David Belton and Graham Tilburey; Biomedical and Natural Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom.

11:00 AM K1.6
Self-Assembly of Proteins That Direct Biological Silicification. Meredith Murr1, Hiro Tsuruta3 and Daniel E. Morse2,1; 1Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California; 2Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California; 3Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Menlo Park, California.

11:15 AM K1.7
Biomimetic Silicification of 3-D Polyelectrolyte Scaffolds Assembled by Direct Writing. Mingjie Xu1, Eric Duoss2 and Jennifer A. Lewis2,1; 1Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois; 2Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.

11:30 AM K1.8
Sol-Gel Syntheses on Single-Cell Scaffolds: Applying Complex Chemistries to Nature's 3-D Nanostructured Templates. Michael Weatherspoon, Christopher Gaddis, Shawn Allan, Ye Cai, Michael Haluska, Robert Snyder and Kenneth Sandhage; Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.

11:45 AM K1.9
Small-Angle X-ray Scattering, FTIR and SEM Characterization of Nanostructured PVA/TEOS Hybrids by Chemical Crosslinking. Herman Sander Mansur and Alexandra Piscitelli Mansur; Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.

SESSION K2/L2: Joint Session: Functional Biomaterials and Biomimetics
Chair: Trevor Douglas and William Landis
Tuesday Afternoon, March 29, 2005
Room 3002 (Moscone West)

1:30 PM *K2.1/L2.1
Lamellar Bone: Old and New Insights into Structure and Function. Steve Weiner1, Eugenia Klein1, Meir Barak1, Paul Zaslansky1 and Ron Shahar2; 1Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel; 2Faculty of Agriculture, Hebrew University, Rehovot, Israel.

2:00 PM *K2.2/L2.2
Mechanisms Governing the Inelastic Deformation of Bone. Anthony Evans, Materials, UCSB, Santa Barbara, California.

2:30 PM K2.3/L2.3
Evidence for a Possible Mechanical Role of Bone Matrix Proteoglycans and Glycoproteins. Paul Hansma, Georg Fantner, Johannes Kindt, Philipp Thurner, Leonid Pechenik, Marquesa Finch, Patricia Turner, Georg Schitter, Blake Erickson, Zachary Schriock, Laura Star Golde, Erik Strong and Simcha Frieda Udwin; Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California.

2:45 PM K2.4/L2.4
Contact-induced Deformation and Failure of Dental Multilayers: Effects of Loading Rate. Xinrui Niu, Min Huang, Jikou Zhou and Winston O. Soboyejo; Mechanical and Aerospace of Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:30 PM *K2.5/L2.5
High-Efficiency Fiber-Optical Network in a Glass Sponge. Joanna Aizenberg1, Andrew D. Yablon2, V. C. Sundar1, James C. Weaver3 and Micha Ilan4; 1Bell Labs/Lucent, Murray Hill, New Jersey; 2OFS Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey; 3UCSB, Santa Barbara, California; 4Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

4:00 PM *K2.6/L2.6
Biomimetic Materials Chemistry. Rajesh R. Naik, Ryan M. Kramer, Melanie M. Tomczak, Joseph M. Slocik, Laura A. Sowards, Sharon E. Jones and Morley O. Stone; US Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio.

4:30 PM K2.7/L2.7
Chemically-Tailored Nanofibers Derived from Self-Assembled Natural Templates. Samuel Shian1, Dori Landry2, Ye Cai1, Brian Palenik2, Mark Hildebrand2 and Ken H. Sandhage1; 1Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia; 2Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.

4:45 PM K2.8/L2.8
A Halogen Smile: Br and I in the Jaws of Nereis, a Marine Worm. Henrik Birkedal1, Rashda Khan2, Nelle Slack3, Chris Broomell4, Helga C. Lichtenegger5, Frank W. Zok3, Galen D. Stucky2,3 and Herbert Waite4; 1Department of Chemistry, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark; 2Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California; 3Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California; 4Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California; 5Department of Materials Science and Testing, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria.

SESSION K3: Poster Session: Biological and Bio-inspired Materials and Devices I
Chairs: Elaine DiMasi, Trevor Douglas and Kenneth Sandhage
Tuesday Evening, March 29, 2005
8:00 PM
Salons 8-15 (Marriott)

K3.1
Synthesis and Structural Characterization of Silica Gels Prepared with Amine and Polyamine Catalysts. Katya Delak1 and Nita Sahai2,1; 1Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin; 2Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.

K3.2
Development of a Biocompatible Ink for Thermal Inkjet Printing. Helen E. Smith1,2, Lawrence L. Brott2 and Rajesh R. Naik2; 1Department of Chemistry, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio; 2Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.

K3.3
Polychaete Worm is an Expert Sand Mason. Hua Zhao, Chengjun Sun and Herbert Waite; Dept. of Mol Cellu and Dev Biology, Marine Science Institute, Santa Barbara, California.

K3.4
Elasticity and Piezoelectricity in Biological Systems on the Nanoscale: From Bones to Butterflies. Brian J. Rodriguez1, Alexei Gruverman2 and Sergei V. Kalinin3; 1Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina; 2Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina; 3Condensed Matter Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

K3.5
Comparison of Piezoresistive and Optical Read-Out Methods for Microcantilever-Based Biosensor Fabricated by Surface Micromachining Technique. Kwang-Ho Na1, Hyung Do Kim1, Kyung Ah Yoo1, C. J. Kang2 and Yong-Sang Kim1; 1Electrical Engineering, Myongji University, Yongin, South Korea; 2Physics, Myongji University, Yongin, South Korea.

K3.6
Influence of the Crosslinked Chitosan Sphere and Films on the Calcium Carbonate Crystallization. Andronico David Neira-Carrillo1,2,3, Francisco Martinez3, Jaime Retuert2,3, Maria Soledad Fernandez1,2 and Jose Luis Arias1,2; 1Cs Biological veterinary and Animal Science, University of Chile, Santiago, Province, Chile; 2Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research in Materials , CIMAT, Santiago, Chile; 3Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.

K3.7
X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Characterization of Crystal Growth on Organic Templates. Jonathan Lee, Tony van Buuren, Robert W. Meulenberg, Trevor M. Willey, Louis J. Terminello and James J. De Yoreo; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California.

K3.8
Biosynthesis of CaCO3 Crystals. Kaustav Sinha1, Debabrata Rautray2, Murali Sastry2 and Absar Ahmad2; 1Department of Materials & Metallurgical Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada; 2Department of Materials Chemistry and Biochemical Sciences, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, Maharashtra, India.

K3.9
Surface Treatment of Polystyrene with Ozone / UV in Water and Aqueous Ammonia Solution and Enzymatic Activity of Surface-Immobilized Glucose Oxidase. Ken Yanagisawa1, Takurou N. Murakami1, Yoshiaki Horano1, Yoshikazu Tokuoka1, Mitsuo Takahashi2, Norimichi Kawashima1; 1 Biomedical Engineering Department, Toin University of Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan; 2Chemical Science and Engineering Department, Tokyo National College of Technology, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan.

K3.10
Enhanced Biocompatibility of GPC by MeV Ion Bombardment. Robert Zimmerman1, I. Gurhan2, C. Muntele1, S. Sarkisov1, M. Rodrigues3 and D. Ila1; 1Alabama A&M University, Normal, Alabama; 2Ege University Faculty of Engineering, Ismar, Turkey; 3University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto SP, Brazil.

K3.11
Hydroxyapatite Crystallization Kinetics in Amorphous Calcium Phosphate Flms Coated on Titanium via Micro-Arc Process. Yun-Mo Sung1, Yeong-Keun Shin1, Kyung-Woo Kim1 and Sang-Ho Hwang2; 1Materials Sci. & Eng., Daejin University, Pochun-si, Kyunggi-do, South Korea; 2R&D Department, Nano-Tech Inc., Pochun-si, Kyunggi-do, South Korea.

K3.12
Fabrication of Semiconductor Nano-Particles in the Protein Cage of Apoferritin. Kenji Iwahori2, Keiko Yoshizawa2 and Ichiro Yamashita3,2,1; 1Materials Science, Nara Institute of Sceince and Technology, Ikoma, Japan; 2CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Ikoma; 3ATRL, Matsushita Electric Industrial. Co., Ltd., Seika, Japan.

K3.13
Fabrication of In2O3 Oxide Semiconductor Nano-Particles Using Ferritin. Mitsuhiro Okuda1, Hideyuki Yoshimura2, Kenji Iwahori3, and Ichiro Yamashita1; 1ATRL, Matsushita Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Kyoto, Japan; 2Meiji University, Kanagawa, Japan; 3CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Nara, Japan.

K3.14
ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

K3.15
Selective Deposition of DNA-Functionalized Gold Nanospheres into Surface Nanopores. Angelika B. Niemz1, Krisanu Bandyopadhyay1,2, Eric Tan1, Lin Ho1, Annie Tan2 and Shenda M. Baker2; 1Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont, California; 2Chemistry, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California.

K3.16
Nanostructure of β-Sheet Fibrils Constructed by Peptide Self-Assembly. Matthew S. Lamm1, Karthikan Rajagopal2, Joel P. Schneider2 and Darrin J. Pochan1; 1Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware; 2Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware.

K3.17
Novel Concept for Antifouling Paints with Zero Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) Elution by Interpenetrating Polymer Network (IPNs). Masanobu Naito, Takashi Nakai, Kenji Mori, Takuma Kawabe, Yoshiki Kawamoto, Daisuke Furuta, Yukio Imanishi and Michiya Fujiki; Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, Japan.

K3.18
Energy Transfer in Dendrimers. Jeffrey L. Krause, Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

K3.19
Synthesis and Characterization of Multivalent Artificial Glycoproteins. Ying Wang1,2 and Kristi L. Kiick1,2; 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware; 2Delaware Biotechnology Institute, Newark, Delaware.

K3.20
Fabrication of Magnetic Hollow Silica Nanostructures for Bio-Applications. Weilie Zhou1, Lei Shao1,2, Daniela Cruntu1, Jianfeng Chen2 and Charles J. O'Connor1; 1Advanced Materials Research Institute, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana; 2Research Center of the Ministry of Education for High Gravity Engineering and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China.

K3.21
Synthesis and Characterization of Biomolecular Hybrids as Novel Energy Sources. Dean Ho, Benjamin Chu, Hyeseung Lee, Evan Brooks, Karen Kuo and Carlo D. Montemagno; Bioengineering, UCLA, Los Angeles, California.

K3.22
Biocompatible Thin Films by the Electrostatic Self-Assembly Process. You-Xiong Wang1, Kit Cheung1, Nicholas P. Evans3, John L. Robertson3, Cristelle F. Jullian2, William B. Spillman2 and Richard O. Claus1; 1Fiber & Electro-Optics Research Center, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia; 2Virginia Tech Applied Bioscience Center, Virginia Polytetechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia; 3Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Polytetechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia.

K3.23
Immobilization Of Thylakoid Membranes Via Self-Assembled Monolayers. Kien Bang Lam1,2, Elizabeth F. Irwin3, Kevin E. Healy3,4 and Liwei Lin1,2; 1Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California; 2Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California; 3Department of Bioengineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California; 4Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California.

SESSION K4: Biomolecular Assembly and Bio-inspired Synthesis
Chairs: Rajesh Naik and Aida Takuzo
Wednesday Morning, March 30, 2005
Room 3002 (Moscone West)

NOTE EARLY START

8:00 AM K4.1
DNA-Assembled Nanocomponent Arrays with Hierarchically Controlled Intercomponent Spacing. Yariv Y. Pinto1,2, John D. Le2, Nadrian C. Seeman3, Karin Musier-Forsyth2, T. Andrew Taton2 and Richard A. Kiehl1; 1Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; 2Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; 3Chemistry, New York University, New York, New York.

8:15 AM K4.2
Toward Single DNA Sequencing: Single Nucleobase Sensitivity of α-Hemolysin (α-HL) Transmembrane Protein Based Biosensor. Nurit Ashkenasy1, Jorge Sanchez-Quesada1, M. Reza Ghadiri1 and Hagan Bayley2; 1Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; 2Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, United Kingdom.

8:30 AM *K4.3
Building From Bottom Up: Fabrication of Materials Using Peptide Motifs. Shuguang Zhang, Center for Biomedical Engineering NE47-379, Center for Bits & Atoms, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

9:00 AM *K4.4
Cell Biology and Biochemistry of Coccolithphore Biomineralization. Elma L. Gonzalez, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Univ of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.

9:30 AM K4.5
Electroactive Luminescent Nanowires of Self-Assembled Oligoelectrolyte-Amyloid Fibrils. Anna Herland1, Per Bjork1, Peter Nilsson1, Johan Olsson2, Peter Konradsson2, Per Hammarstrom2 and Olle Inganas1; 1Applied Physics, IFM, Linkoping, Sweden; 2Chemistry, IFM, Linkoping, Sweden.

9:45 AM BREAK

10:15 AM K4.6
Fabrication of Hierarchical Structures Using Protein Cages as Building Blocks. Michael T. Klem1,3,4, Eric Gillitzer2,3,4, Peter Suci2,3,4, Mark Allen1,3,4, Mark Young2,3,4 and Trevor Douglas1,3,4; 1Chemistry & Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana; 2Plant Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana; 3Center for BioInspired Nanomaterials, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana; 4Thermal Biology Institute, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana.

10:30 AM K4.7
Self-Assembled Material Nanostructure Defined by the Secondary Structure of Amphiphilic Diblock Copolypeptides. Lisa M. Pakstis1, Darrin J. Pochan1, Timothy Deming2, Eric Holowka2 and Andrew Nowak2; 1Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware; 2Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.

10:45 AM K4.8
Biomimetic Nanotechnology: Exquisite Control Over Self-Assembly of Designed Peptide Multilayer Nanofilms. Bingyun Li, Yang Zhong and Donald T. Haynie; Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana.

11:00 AM K4.9
Bio-Inspired Design of Modular Multi-Domain Polymers for Advanced Biomaterials. Zhibin Guan, Jason T. Roland, Dora Guzman and Jane Z. Bai; Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California.

11:15 AM K4.10
Synthesis of Transient Amorphous Calcium Carbonate, and Its Transformation to Oriented Calcite Crystals. Yong-Jin Han, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California; Joanna Aizenberg; Materials Research Department, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey.

11:30 AM K4.11
The Characterization of a Novel DNA Immobilization on Diamond by Carboxylic Aromatic Compounds. Junghoon Yang1,2, Kwang-Soup Song1,2, Guo-Jun Zhang2, Hitoshi Umezawa1,2, Iwao Ohdomari1,2 and Hiroshi Kawarada1,2; 1Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan; 2Nanotechnology Research Center (NTRC), Tokyo, Japan.

11:45 AM K4.12
Metallic Pd and Pt Nanoparticles on S-Layer Proteins Studied by Small Angle X-ray and Neutron Scattering. Barbara Aichmayer1,2,3, Michael Mertig4, Alexander Kirchner4, Oskar Paris3, Ingomar Jaeger1,2 and Peter Fratzl3; 1Department of Material Physics, University of Leoben, Leoben, Austria; 2Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Leoben, Austria; 3Department of Biomaterials, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany; 4Max-Bergmann-Center of Biomaterials, University of Technology, Dresden, Germany.

SESSION K5: Bio-inspired Material Synthesis
Chairs: Trevor Douglas and Darrin Pochan
Wednesday Afternoon, March 30, 2005
Room 3002 (Moscone West)

1:30 PM *K5.1
The Bio-Nano-Process: Making Semiconductor Devices Using Protein Supramolecules. Ichiro Yamashita, ATRL, Matsushita Electric Industory Co., Ltd., Kyoto, Japan; CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kyoto, Japan; NAIST, Nara, Japan.

2:00 PM K5.2
Positioning of DNA Nanowires Decorated with Luminescent Conjugated Polyelectrolyte. Per Bjork, Anna Herland, Peter Asberg, Peter Nilsson and Olle Inganas; Applied Physics, IFM, Linkoping, Sweden.

2:15 PM K5.3
Bio-Inspired Evolution of Zinc Oxide-Based Materials Directed by Amino Acids and Peptides. Joachim Bill, Peter Gerstel, Rudolf Hoffmann and Fritz Aldinger; Max-Planck-Institut fuer Metallforschung/INAM, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.

2:30 PM K5.4
Biomimetic Synthesis of Metal Oxides Using Protein Cages as Reaction Vessels. Mark Allen1,4, Debbie Willits2,4, Keith Gilmore3,4, Mark Young2,4 and Trevor Douglas1,4; 1Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana; 2Plant Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana; 3Physics, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana; 4Center for BioInspired Nanomaterials, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana.

2:45 PM K5.5
Biotemplate-Based Nanostructuring and Metallization. Mato Knez1, Sinan Balci2, Anan Kadri3, Fabian Boes3, Alexander M. Bittner2, Christina Wege3, Holger Jeske3 and Klaus Kern2; 1Exp. II, Max-Planck-Institut MSP, Halle, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany; 2Nanoscale Science, Max-Planck-Institut FKF, Stuttgart, Germany; 3Molekularbiologie und Virologie der Pflanzen, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:30 PM *K5.6
Molecular Chaperons for Stimuli-Responsive Nanomachines. Takuzo Aida and Kazushi Kinbara; Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

4:00 PM K5.7
Structural Investigation of Bio-Directed Hierarchical Assembly of Multifunctional Materials from Proteins and Diblock Copolymers. Linda Katherine Molnar1,2, Dongseok Shin3, Rebecca Breitenkamp3, Todd Emrick3 and Thomas P. Russell3; 1NASA Ames Center for Nanotechnology, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, California; 2Eloret Corporation, Sunnyvale, California; 3Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts.

4:15 PM K5.8
Magnetite-PLGA Microparticles as Potential Oral Delivery Vehicles of Therapeutic Proteins. Jianjun Cheng1, Dennis Ho1, Chris Yim1, Omid C. Farokhzad2,3 and Robert S. Langer1; 1Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 2Department of Anesthesiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 3Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

4:30 PM K5.9
Supramolecular Design: Synthesis of Complex Nanostructures and Their Application as Drug- and DNA-Delivery Systems. Itzia Cruz-Campa, Juan C. Noveron, Lynn Santiago, Renato Aguilera and Armando Varela-Ramirez; University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas.

4:45 PM K5.10
A New Generation of Multifunctional Nanoparticles Possessing Magnetic Motor Effect for Drug or Gene Delivery. Tae-Jong Yoon1, Jun Sung Kim2, Byung Geol Kim1, Kyeong Nam Yu2, Myung-Haing Cho2 and Jin-Kyu Lee1; 1School of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; 2College of Veterinary Medicine and School of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.

SESSION K6: Biophotonics and Biosensors
Chairs: Andrew Parker and Shu Yang
Thursday Morning, March 31, 2005
Room 3002 (Moscone West)

NOTE EARLY START

8:00 AM K6.1
Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensor Based on Phase Measurement. Kotaro Kajikawa1,2 and Ryo Naraoka1; 1Information Processing, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan; 2PRESTO, JST Japan Science and Techonology Agency, Saitama, Japan.

8:15 AM K6.2
Single Aperture Functionalization for Bio-Organism Sensing Applications. Joakim Nilsson and Sonia E. Letant; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California.

8:30 AM *K6.3
Box Jellyfish: Visually Guided Animals with Four Parallel Brains. Dan-Eric Nilsson, Cell and Organism Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.

9:00 AM *K6.4
Controlling the Flow of Color: Photonic Systems in Lepidoptera. Pete Vukusic, School of Physics, University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom.

9:30 AM K6.5
Tunable Bio-Inspired Microlens Arrays with Integrated Pore Structures. Shu Yang1, Kuang-sheng Hong1, Jing Wang2, Haim H. Bau2 and Joanna Aizenberg3; 1Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, New Jersey; 2Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 3Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey.

9:45 AM K6.6
Conjugated Polyelectrolytes: Conformation Sensitive Optical Probes for the Recording of Biological Processes. Peter Nilsson1, Anna Herland1, Johan Olsson3, Johan Rydberg2, Lars Baltzer2, Peter Konradsson3, Per Hammarstrom3 and Olle Inganas1; 1IFM, Biomolecular and Organic Electronics, Linkoping, Sweden; 2IFM, Organic Chemistry, Linkoping, Sweden; 3IFM, Chemistry, Linkoping, Sweden.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM *K6.7
Smart Dust: Self-Assembling, Self-Orienting Porous Silicon Photonic Crystals in Sensor and Microfluidics Applications. Michael J. Sailor, Jamie R. Link and Jason R. Dorvee; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California - San Diego, La Jolla, California.

11:00 AM K6.8
Biofunctionalization of Magnetic Nanoparticles and Incorporation of Same into a Magnetic Tunnel Juction Based Biosensor. Stephanie Grancharov2,1, Hao Zeng1, Shouheng Sun1, Stephen O'Brien2, Chris Murray1, John Kirtley1 and Glenn Held1; 1Nanoscale Materials and Devices, IBM, Yorktown Heights, New York; 2Applied Physics and Applied Math, Columbia University, New York, New York.

11:15 AM K6.9
Electropermeabilization of Mammalian Cells Visualized with Fluorescent Semiconductor Nanocrystals (Quantum Dots). Yinghua Sun1, P. Thomas Vernier3, Jingjing Wang5, Andras Kuthi2, Laura Marcu4,5 and Martin A. Gundersen2,1; 1Department of Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; 2Department of Electrical Engineering-Electrophysics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; 3MOSIS, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; 4Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; 5Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

11:30 AM K6.10
Biologically-Compatible Gd@(Carbon Nanostructures)as Advance Contrast Agents for Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Balaji Sitharaman1,2,3, Keith Hartman1,2,3, Kyle Kissell1,2,3, Lesa Ann Tran1,2,3, Lon J. Wilson1,2,3, Irene Rusakova4, Robert D. Bolskar5, Sabrina Laus6, Eva Toth6, Alain Borel6, Gabriel Gonzalez7, Lothar Helm6 and Andre E. Merbach6; 1Chemistry Dept, Rice University, Houston, Texas; 2Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, Houston, Texas; 3Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology, Rice University, Houston, Texas; 4Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, Texas; 5TDA Research Inc., Wheat Ridge, Colorado; 6Institut de Chimie Moleculaire et Biologique, Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland; 7Departament de Quimica Inorganica, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

11:45 AM K6.11
Bio-Functionalization of Monodisperse Magnetic Nanoparticles and Their Use as Biomolecular Labels in a Magnetic Tunnel Junction based Sensor. Glenn Held1, Stephanie G. Grancharov1,2, Hao Zeng1, Shouheng Sun1, Shan X. Wang3, Stephen O'Brien2, C. B. Murray1 and J. R. Kirtley1; 1IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, New York; 2Dept. of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, Columbia, New York; 3Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

SESSION K7: Bio-inspired Devices
Chair: Michael Sailor
Thursday Afternoon, March 31, 2005
Room 3002 (Moscone West)

1:30 PM *K7.1
Active Biological Transport Systems as Functional Components of Nanoscale Materials and Devices. George D. Bachand, Susan B. Rivera, Andrew K. Boal, Marlene Bachand, Jun Liu and Bruce C. Bunker; Biomolecular Materials and Interfaces, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

2:00 PM *K7.2
Nanomachines Made from DNA. Andrew Turberfield, University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, United Kingdom.

2:30 PM K7.3
Biomimetic Actuating Surfaces. R. Lloyd Carroll1, Daniel B. Blum1, Brandon R. Lunk1, Jing Hao1, Ben Wilde2 and Rich Superfine1; 1Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; 2Computer Science, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

2:45 PM K7.4
Carbon Nanotube Bio-Complexes for Bio-Molecular Recognition. Xiao-Wu Tang, Sarunya Bangsaruntip, Nadine Wang Shi Kam, Nozomi Nakayama, Qian Wang, Erhan Yenilmez and Hongjie Dai; Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

3:00 PM BREAK

SESSION K8: Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery
Chair: Shu Yang
Thursday Afternoon, March 31, 2005
Room 3002 (Moscone West)

3:30 PM K8.1
Peptide-Modified Hydrogels for Neural Stem Cell Control. Krishanu Saha, David Schaffer and Kevin Healy; University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California.

3:45 PM K8.2
Chitosan-Alginate Hybrid Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering. Zhensheng Li1,2, Miqin Zhang1, Kip D. Hauch1, Demin Xiao2 and Hassna Ramay1; 1Material Sciences and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; 2Department of Orthopedics, Shenzhen People's Hospital, Shenzhen, China.

4:00 PM K8.3
Biodegradable and Thermoresponsive Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Hydrogels for Bone Tissue Engineering. Eugene H. Chung1, Dale R. Sumner3 and Kevin E. Healy2,1; 1Department of Bioengineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California; 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California; 3Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois.

4:15 PM K8.4
Blending Polymer of Polysulfone/ Polycaprolactone for Improvement of the Hemocompatibility and for Drug Controlled Release. Yen-Yu Liu1, Chia-Hui Tsai1, Dean-Mo Liu2 and San-Yuan Chen1; 1Material Science and Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan; 2ApaMatrix Technologies Inc., Moffatt Road, Richmond, British Columbia, Canada.

4:30 PM K8.5
AB0 Blood Group Typing with Artificial Receptors. Oliver Hayden, Karl-Juergen Mann and Franz Ludwig Dickert; University of Vienna, Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Vienna, Austria.

4:45 PM K8.6
Active and Adaptive Photochromic and Thermochromic Electrospun Fibers, Fabrics and Membranes for Biosensors and Tissue Engineering. John F. Rabolt1, Simon Frisk2,1, Giuseppi Zerbi2, Chiara Bertarelli2 and Andrea Bianco2; 1Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware; 2Dip. Chimica, Materiali e Ing. Chimica, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy.

SESSION K9: Poster Session: Biological and Bio-inspired Materials and Devices II
Chairs: Elaine DiMasi, Andrew Parker and Shu Yang
Thursday Evening, March 31, 2005
8:00 PM
Salons 8-15 (Marriott)

K9.1
Novel Nanoscale Biosensor for Lactate Analysis in Sweat. Arun Kumar1, Jessica Otto1,2, Ashok Kumar1,2 and Shekhar Bhansali1,3; 1Nanomaterial and Nanomanufacturing Research Center, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida; 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida; 3Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida.

K9.2
Functionalized Nanoparticles for the Treatment of Osteoporosis. Ganesan Balasundaram and Thomas Jay Webster; Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

K9.3
Aminopropyl Embedded Silica Films as Potent Substrates in DNA Microarray Applications. Kristjan Saal1,2, Tanel Tatte1,2, Ilmar Kink1, Ants Kurg3, Rynno Lohmus1, Uno Maeorg2, Ago Rinken2 and Ants Lohmus1; 1Lab. Of Low Temperatures, Institute of Physics Univ. of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia; 2Institute of Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia; 3Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia.

K9.4
A Fluorescence Biosensor Constructed from a Maltose Binding Protein Immobilized in Poly(ethylene Glycol) Hydrogel. Wensheng Cai, J. Bruce Pitner and Glenn Vonk; BD Technologies, RTP, North Carolina.

K9.5
Bioinspired Sensors. Nikolaos Chalkias1 and Emmanuel Giannelis2; 1Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; 2Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

K9.6
Physically Tunable Amphiphilic Diblock Copolypeptide Vesicles. Eric Peter Holowka1, Lisa Pakstis2, Darrin Pochan2 and Timothy J. Deming3; 1Materials Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Goleta, California; 2Materials Engineering, University of Deleware, Wilmington, Delaware; 3Bioengineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.

K9.7
Preparation and Characterization of Porous Material from Self-Organized Hydroxyapatite/Collagen Nanocomposite. Shunji Yunoki, Toshiyuki Ikoma, Akira Monkawa, Masanori Kikuchi and Junzo Tanaka; National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan.

K9.8
Conjugated Polyelectrolytes on Solid Supports Report Conformation Changes in Docking Proteins by Optical Emission. Peter Asberg, Peter Nilsson and Olle Inganas; Applied Physics, Physics and Measurment Technology, Linkoping, Sweden.

K9.9
Electrodeposition of Biotin-Doped Polypyrrole on Microfabricated Electrodes. Paul M. George1, David A. LaVan3, Ching-Yuan Chen2 and Robert Langer2; 1Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 2Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 3Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

K9.10
ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

K9.11
Disposable Microchip-Based Electrochemical Detector Using Prussian Blue-Modified Indium Tin Oxide Electrode. Ju-Ho Kim1, In-Je Yi1, Chi-Jung Kang2 and Yong-Sang Kim1; 1Electrical Engineering, Myongji Univ., Yongin, Kyunggido, South Korea; 2Physics, Myonji Univ., Yongin, Kyunggi-do, South Korea.

K9.12
Transferred to K11.1

K9.13
ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

K9.14
Fabrication and Characterization of Polycaprolactone Foam Scaffolds for Stem Cell Studies. Michael H. Tollon1, Bradley Jay Willenberg3, Christopher Batich1,3, Takashi Hamazaki2 and Naohiro Terada2; 1Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; 2Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; 3Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

K9.15
Viscoelastic Properties of Ultrathin Films of Hyaluronic Acid as Measured Using a Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation. James Eric Ho and Kevin E. Healy; Department of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California.

K9.16
A Rapid Antigen Detection Assay Using Photografted Whole Antibodies. Robert Sebra1, Kristyn Masters2, Christopher Bowman1,3 and Kristi Anseth1,2; 1Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, Colorado; 2Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland; 3University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Biomaterials Research Center, Denver, Colorado.

K9.17
Mossbauer and Raman Spectroscopy of the Iron (III) -Porphyrin Biomaterial for Potential Application as a Spin Based Electronic Device. Aboubaker Chedikh Beye1,4, Sosse Ndiaye1, Bassirou Lo1, Oumar Sakho1,4, Papa Douta Douta Tall1,4, N. Pearson2, O. Munro2, R. M. Erasmus3, Vittoria Pischedda3, Giovanni Hearne3 and Wole W. Soboyejo4; 1Groupe de Physique des Solides et Science des Materiaux, Universite Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal; 2School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa; 3School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; 4International Material Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.

K9.18
Immobilization of Proteins on the Surface of Silanized Hydroxyapatite. Akira Monkawa, Toshiyuki Ikoma, Syunji Yunoki, Yuri Kumagai and Junzo Tanaka; Biomaterials Center, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba.

K9.19
Transferred to K10.1

K9.20
Hydroxyapatite Coatings Deposited by KrF-Laser Ablation and its Adhesion to Metallic and Ceramic Implants. Won-Jun Lee1, Sang-Wook Lee1, Hyelee Kim1, Dae-Joon Kim1 and Jung-Suk Han2; 1Department of Advanced Materials Engineering and Bioengineering Research Center, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea; 2Department of Prosthodontics and Dental Research Center, College of Dentistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.

K9.21
Fabrication and Characterization of Active Matrix Array for Cell Probing and Screening. Seung-Ik Jun1, Timothy E. McKnight2, Anatoli V. Melechko2,1, Michael L. Simpson1,2 and Philip D. Rack1; 1Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee; 2Molecular Scale Engineering and Nanoscale Technologies Research Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

K9.22
SPM and Charge Transport Measurements Through DNA Molecules of Complex Sequence.
Hezy Cohen1, Claude Nogues1,2, Ron Naaman2 and Danny Porath1; 1Physical Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; 2Department of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel.

K9.23
Self-Assembled Cell-MEMS Devices for Correlation of Molecular and Mechanic-Electro Performance of Muscle Cells.
Jianzhong Xi, Eric Dy and Carlo Montemagno; Bioengineering Dept., UCLA, Los Angeles, California.

SESSION K10: Biomaterials: Theory and Experiment
Chair: Elaine DiMasi
Friday Morning, April 1, 2005
Room 2007 (Moscone West)

8:30 AM K10.1
Simulations and Design of a New Green Fluorescence Protein Mutant. Murat Cetinkaya1, Ahmet Zeytun2, Andrew Bradbury2 and Melik C. Demirel1; 1Engineering Science and Mechanics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; 2Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico.

8:45 AM K10.2
Nano-Phononics in Biological Systems. Alexander A. Balandin and Vladimir A. Fonoberov; Nano-Device Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Riverside, California.

9:00 AM K10.3
Guanine Quartet Networks Stabilized by Cooperative Hydrogen Bonds. Roberto Otero Martin, Maya Schoeck, Luis M. Molina, Erik Laegsgaard, Ivan Stensgaard, Bjork Hammer and Flemming Besenbacher; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark.

9:15 AM K10.4
Molecular Recognition in 2D Binary Mixtures of DNA Bases Studied by STM. Maya Schoeck, Eva Rauls, Roberto Otero Martin, Wei Xu, Erik Laegsgaard, Ivan Stensgard, Bjork Hammer and Flemming Besenbacher; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark.

9:30 AM K10.5
A Solution to the Streptavidin-Biotin Paradox? Frederic Pincet and Julien Husson; Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France.

9:45 AM K10.6
Structure and Mineralization at Organic Monolayer Interfaces. Elaine DiMasi, Brookhaven National Laboratory.

10:00 AM BREAK

SESSION K11: Advances in Scanning Probes and In-Vitro Mineralization
Chair: Elaine DiMasi
Friday Morning, April 1, 2005
Room 2007 (Moscone West)

10:30 AM K11.1
Optical Spectroscopies for Biological Structure at Interfaces. Neil Anderson, Clayton Yang, John Stephenson, Lee Richter and Kimberly Briggman; NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland.

10:45 AM K11.2
Bioelectromechanical Imaging by Scanning Probe Microscopy. Galvani's Experiment on the Nanoscale. Sergei V. Kalinin1, Brian J. Rodriguez2, Junsoo Shin3,1, Arthur P. Baddorf1 and Alexei Gruverman2; 1Condensed Matter Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina; 3Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee.

11:00 AM K11.3
Investigating Protein-Mineral Interactions in a Marine Invertebrate System. Germaine Fu1, Suresh Valiyaveettil3, Brigitte Wopenka4, Siping Roger Qiu5, James J. De Yoreo5 and Daniel E. Morse2,1; 1Biomolecular Science and Engineering Graduate Program, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California; 2Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California; 3Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; 4Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; 5Department of Chemistry and Materials Science, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California.

11:15 AM K11.4
Probing the Effect of Different Polypeptide Biomineral Recognition Sequences on the Growth of Calcite. Il Won Kim1, Molly R. Darragh2, Christine A. Orme2 and John Spencer Evans1; 1Laboratory for Chemical Physics & Center for Biomolecular Materials Spectroscopy, New York University, New York, New York; 2Department of Chemistry and Materials Science, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California.

11:30 AM K11.5
In Situ Characterization of Surface Evolution on Titanium in Hydrogen Peroxide Containing Solutions. Julie J. Muyco1,2, Jeremy J. Gray1, Timothy V. Ratto1, Christine A. Orme1, Joanna McKittrick2 and John Frangos3; 1LLNL, Livermore, California; 2University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California; 3La Jolla Bioengineering Institute, La Jolla, California.

11:45 AM K11.6
An in-situ AFM Study of Crystal Growth on Brushite (010): The Influence of Modifiers. Jennifer L. Giocondi1, Molly Darragh1, Roger Qui1, James DeYoreo1, Christine A. Orme1, Ruikang Tang2, George Nancollas2 and John R. Hoyer3; 1Directorate of Chemistry and Materials Science, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California; 2Department of Chemisty, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, New York; 3The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

SESSION K12: Biomimetic Minerals and High Resolution Probes
Chair: Elaine DiMasi
Friday Afternoon, April 1, 2005
Room 2007 (Moscone West)

1:30 PM *K12.1
Nanocrystalline Calcium Phosphates and Plaster of Paris from Deep-Sea Medusae - What Can be Learned from Biomineralisation? Matthias Epple, Inorganic Chemistry, Univ Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.

2:00 PM K12.2
Synchrotron X-ray Studies on the Effect of Mg Ions on Oriented Growth of Calcite on Alkanethiol Functionalized Self-Assembled Monolayer. Seo-Young Kwak1, Elaine DiMasi1, Yong-Jin Han2 and Joanna Aizenberg2; 1National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York; 2Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey.

2:15 PM K12.3
Modification of Calcium Carbonate Crystal Morphology Induced by Macromolecules Extracted from Natural Bioceramics. Maria Soledad Fernandez1, Andronico Neira-Carrillo1, Patricio Spencer1, Jose Ignacio Arias1, Maria Jose Navarrete1, Marcos Farina2 and Jose Luis Arias1; 1Veterinary Sciences, Universidad de Chile and CIMAT, Santiago, Chile; 2Histology and Embryology, Universidade Federal Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

2:30 PM K12.4
Lipidated Peptides as Templates for CaCO3 Mineralization.
Alexander Kros1, Silvia Cavalli1, Daniela C. Popescu2, Emily E. Tellers1, Mark Overhand1 and Nico A. J. M. Sommerdijk2; 1Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands; 2Laboratory of Macromolecular and Organic Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands.

2:45 PM K12.5
515 Million Years of Reflecting Optics: Structural Colour in Nature. Andrew Parker, Oxford University.

3:00 PM BREAK

SESSION K13: Biomimetic Bone and Implant Materials
Chair: Elaine DiMasi
Friday Afternoon, April 1, 2005
Room 2007 (Moscone West)

3:30 PM K13.1
Well Dispersed Nanophase Titania in Poly-lactic-co-glycolic Acid (PLGA) Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering Applications. Huinan Liu1, Elliott B. Slamovich1 and Thomas J. Webster2,1; 1Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; 2Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

3:45 PM K13.2
Dentin Matrix Protein 1 (DMP1) Actively Participates in Initiating and Modifying Calcium Phosphate Morphology During Crystal Growth. Sivakumar Gajjeraman, Karthikeyan Narayanan, Sankalp Jain, Amsaveni Ramachandran and Anne George; Oral Biology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

4:00 PM K13.3
Probing In Vitro Interactions of Immortalized Human Bone Marrow Stromal Cells with Novel Bioactive Glass Coatings. Jie Song1,2, Eduardo Saiz1, Vincent Eng1, Carolyn R. Bertozzi1,2,3 and Antoni P. Tomsia1; 1Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, California; 2Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, California; 3Departments of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California.

4:15 PM K13.4
Hydroxyapatite Thin Films Produced by Radio Frequency Magnetron Sputtering from Two Facing Targets. Donald E. Ellis1,2, Z. Hong1, L. Luan1, Alexandre Rossi3, Alexandre Mello3, J. G. Eon4, John Ketterson1 and Joice Terra3; 1Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; 2Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; 3Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; 4Instituto de Quimica, Fed. University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

4:30 PM K13.5
Template-Free Routes to Hierarchically Porous Inorganic Monoliths. Eric Toberer and Ram Seshadri; Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California.

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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