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SESSION N1: Smart Polymer Gels
Tuesday Morning, March 29, 2005
Room 3007 (Moscone West)
8:30 AM N1.1
Reversibly Swellable Polymers Made by Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition. Chunmei Li¹ and M. G. Finn²; ¹Chemistry, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas; ²Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, Ja Lolla, California.

8:45 AM N1.2
Experimental Determination and Modeling of Phase and Calorimetric Properties of Gel-Forming Polymers With a Lower Critical Solution Temperature (LCST). Francisco J. Solis¹, John Larance², Rachel Weiss-Malik³ and Brent Vernon²; ¹Integrated Natural Sciences, Arizona State University West, Phoenix, Arizona; ²Harrington Department of Bioengineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona; ³Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

9:00 AM *N1.3
Hydrodynamic Theory of Active Polar Gels. Jean-Francois Joanny, Karsten Kruse, Frank Julicher, Jacques Prost and Ken Sekimoto; Physico Chimie Curie, Inst. Curie (Paris), Paris, France.

9:30 AM *N1.4
Directed Motion and Cargo Transport Through Propagation of Polymer Gel Volume Phase Transitions. Ulrich Wiesner¹, Lilit Yeghiazarian², Surbhi Mahajan¹, Claude Cohen³ and Carlo D. Montemagno²; ¹Materials Science & Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; ²Biological Engineering, UCLA, Los Angeles, California; ³Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM *N1.5
Polymer Gels for Remote Manipulation: In Vivo Adjustable Intra-Ocular Lens. Julia Kornfield¹, Eric Pape¹, Robert Grubbs¹, Dan Schwartz², Chris Sandstedt³ and Shiao Chang³; ¹Dept of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California; ²UCSF, San Francisco, California; ³Calhoun Vision, Pasadena, California.

11:00 AM N1.6
N-isopropylacrylamide Copolymer with Dimethyl-γ-butyrolactone acrylate with Hydrolysis-Dependent Lower Critical Solution Temperature. Zhanwu Cui and Brent Vernon; the Harrington Department of Bioengineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.

11:15 AM N1.7
ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

11:30 AM N1.8
Thermoreversible Gelation of Methylcellulose in Water: Effects of Ionic Surfactants. Lin Li, School of Mechanical & Production Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.

11:45 AM N1.9
Molecular Motions of PNIPAM Microgels in the Swollen and Collapsed States Studied by Neutron Scattering. Enrique Lopez Cabarcos^1,2, Jorge Rubio Retama² and Beatriz Lopez Ruiz³; ¹Physics, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California; ²Pharmaceutical Chemical Physics, University Complutense of Madrid, Madrid, Spain; ³Analytical Chemistry, University Complutense of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

SESSION N2: Bioinspired Polymer Gels
Tuesday Afternoon, March 29, 2005
Room 3007 (Moscone West)
1:30 PM N2.1
Nonaqueous Gels with Broad Temperature Performance. Joseph L. Lenhart and Phillip J. Cole; Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

1:45 PM N2.2
Probing Weak Adhesive Forces with Surface Modified Tri-Block Copolymer Gels. David A. Brass and Kenneth R. Shull; Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

2:00 PM *N2.3
Polypeptide Hydrogels: Structure and Function. Timothy Deming, UCLA, Los Angeles, California.

2:30 PM *N2.4
Enzymatically Crosslinked Hydrogels: The Role of Polymer Composition in Gelation and Adhesion at the Biomaterial/Tissue Interface. Bi-Huang Hu, Marsha Ritter Jones, Roger Warren Sands and Phillip Messersmith; Biomedical Engineering Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:30 PM *N2.5
Environmentally Responsive Hydrogels with Tunable Rigidity Constructed via Peptide Folding and Consequent Self-Assembly. Darrin J. Pochan, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware.

4:00 PM N2.6
Surface-Patterned Hydrogels with Controlled Bioactivity. Peter Krsko, Jennifer Sipics and Matthew Libera; , Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey.

4:15 PM N2.7
Liquid Crystalline Gels Self-Assembled from Block Copolymers. Neal Scruggs, Rafael Verduzco and Julia Kornfield; Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.

4:30 PM N2.8
Enzymatic Cross-Linking of Short Synthetic Peptides and Peptide-Polymer Conjugates to Cartilage. Marsha Elizabeth Ritter Jones and Phillip B. Messersmith; Biomedical Engineering Department, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.

4:45 PM N2.9
Synthesis and Surface Properties of DOPA Modified Acrylic Triblock Hydrogels. Murat Guvendiren, Chi-Yang Chao and Kenneth R. Shull; Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

SESSION N3: Poster Session: Polymer Gels
Tuesday Evening, March 29, 2005
8:00 PM
Salons 8-15 (Marriott)
N3.1
Acid Exposure and Swelling Influences on Phosphate Uptake in Polymers. Anika Odukale¹, Edward A. Ross², William E. Scott¹ and Christopher Batich¹; ¹Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; ²Division of Nephrology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

N3.2
Multiple Stamping of Arrays of Supported Lipid Bilayers with Different Lipid Compositions using Micropatterned Hydrogel Stamps. Sheereen Majd¹ and Michael Mayer^1,2; ¹Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; ²Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

N3.3
Viscoelastic Characterization of Model Physical Gels through Instrumented Indentation. Aaron Michael Forster¹, Peter L. Drzal² and Mark R. VanLandingham¹; ¹Multifunctional Materials Branch, Army Research Lab, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland; ²Building and Fire Research Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland.

N3.4
Structures of Hydrophilic Polymer-Silica-Phosphoric Acid Composites and Applications in Intermediate Temperature Fuel Cells. Wenbin Hong¹, Ken Tasaki² and Galen Stucky³; ¹Mitsubishi Chemical Center for Advanced Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara, California; ²Mitsubishi Research and Innovation Center, Goleta, California; ³Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, California.

N3.5
Ion Transport in Decoupled Hybrid Organic-Inoganic Polyelectrolyte. Flavio Leandro de Souza, Edson Roberto Leite and Elson Longo; Materials Science and Engineering, UFSCar, Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

N3.6
ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

N3.7
Characterization of H+Nafion®/Alcohol Gels. Steven Romel Givens, Christian Pellerin, John Papalia, John Rabolt and Bruce Chase; Material Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware.

N3.8
Controlling Pore Size of Resorcinol Formaldehyde Foam Aerogels for ICF Shell Targets. Christopher A. Frederick, O. Acenas, D. G. Czechowicz, A. Nikroo and R. R. Paguio; General Atomics, San Diego, California.

N3.9
Sliding Friction of Gel Under a High Load. Jian Ping Gong and Takayuki Kurokawa; Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

N3.10
The Volume Phase Transitions of Acrylic Acid/Kaoline Powder Superabsorbent Composite. Jihuai Wu and Jianming Lin; Huaqiao University, Institute of Materials Physical Chemistry, Quan Zhou, Fujian, China.

N3.11
Properties of Poly(tert-butyl acrylate) Gels Polymerized in the Presence of Solvents. Danielle R. Lewis and Jeffrey T. Koberstein; Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York.

N3.12
Mechanical Properties in Large Deformations of Hydrogels. Rebecca Webber, Guillaume Micquelard, Dominique Hourdet and Costantino Creton; ESPCI, Paris, France.

SESSION N4: Biomedial Applications of Hydrogels
Chair: Phil Messersmith
Wednesday Morning, March 30, 2005
Room 3007 (Moscone West)

8:30 AM N4.1
ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

8:45 AM N4.2
Characterization of Poly(vinyl alcohol)–Amino Acid Hydrogel Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering Applications. Elizabeth Donaldson¹ and Buddy Ratner²; ¹Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; ²Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

9:00 AM *N4.3
Synthesis of Osteogenic Hydrogels for the Controlled Differentiation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells. Charles Nuttelman, April Kloxin and Kristi Anseth; Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado and HHMI, Boulder, Colorado.

9:30 AM N4.4
Polysaccharide-Derivatized Polymers for the Noncovalent Assembly of Bioactive Hydrogels. Nori Yamaguchi^1,2, Le Zhang^1,2, Eric M. Furst³ and Kristi L. Kiick^1,2; ¹Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware; ²Delaware Biotechnology Institute, Newark, Delaware; ³Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware.

9:45 AM N4.5
Dihexyl Acrylamide Block Copolymer Nanogels for On-Chip Protein Adsorption and DNA Purification. Karl William Putz¹, Thomas N. Chiesl¹, Meena Babu³, Chung-Yan Koh², Xihua Lu¹ and Annelise Barron¹; ¹Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; ²Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; ³Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM *N4.6
Tissue Regeneration with Ultra-Thin Hydrogels: Cell Sheet Engineering for Regenerative Medicine Utilizing Temperature-Reponsive Culture Surfaces. Masayuki Yamato, Institute of Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Science, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.

11:00 AM N4.7
Colocalization of RGD and PHSRN Epitopes on PEG Surfaces Influences Osteoblast Function. Danielle S. W. Benoit¹ and Kristi S. Anseth^1,2; ¹Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado; ²Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland.

11:15 AM N4.8
Maintenance of Undifferentiated Human Embryonic Stem Cells on RGD Functionalized Hydrogels. Ying Jun Li¹, Eugene H. Chung¹, Ryan T. Rodriguez², Meri T. Firpo² and Kevin E. Healy¹; ¹Bioengineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California; ²Center for Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.

11:30 AM N4.9
Sol Gel Scaffolds as In-Vitro Platforms for Neural Network Development Analyses. Shalini Prasad, EE, Universityof California Riverside, Riverside, California; ECE, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon.

11:45 AM N4.10
In-Situ Gelation and Tissue Adhesive Potential of Mussel Adhesive Protein Mimetic Hydrogels. Sean Burke and Phillip Messersmith; Biomedical Engineering Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

SESSION N5: Device Applications of Polymer Gels
Chair: Ken Shull
Wednesday Afternoon, March 30, 2005
Room 3007 (Moscone West)
1:30 PM N5.1
Micropatterning of Poly(ethylene glycol) Hydrogels: Applications in Cell Screening and BioMEMS. Alexander Revzin¹ and Mehmet Toner²; ¹Biomedical Engineering, UC Davis, Davis, California; ²Center for Engineering in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

1:45 PM N5.2
Dynamic In Situ Spectroscopic Ellipsometry of Thin Polymer Films. Three Case Studies. Nebojsa Pantelic, William R. Heineman and Carl J. Seliskar; Chemistry Department, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.

2:00 PM *N5.3
Hydrogel Micro and Nano-Environments as Functional Units in Microfluidic Devices. Jaisree Moorthy and David Beebe; Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.

2:30 PM N5.4
Development of an Ultra-Lightweight and Uncooled Protein/Polymer Thermal Sensor Array. Lawrence L. Brott, Morley O. Stone and Rajesh R. Naik; Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB, Ohio.

2:45 PM N5.5
Cytocompatibility of PEG Hydrogel Constructs for Photo-Initiated Layered Manufacturing. John Jongchun Bang^1,2, Karina Arcaute^1,2, Lindsay Adams^1,2, Luis Ochoa^1,2 and Ryan Blaine Wicker^1,2; ¹Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas; ²W.M.Keck Border Biomedical Manufacturing and Engineering Lab, El Paso, Texas.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:30 PM *N5.6
Using Enzymes and Biological Materials for Biofabrication. Gregory F. Payne and William E. Bentley; Center for Biosystems Research, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, College Park, Maryland.

4:00 PM N5.7
Hydrogel Multilayers for Sensing and Actuating Applications. Ryan Toomey¹ and Juergen Ruehe²; ¹Department of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida; ²Institute of Microsystems Technology (IMTEK), University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.

4:15 PM N5.8
Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Surfaces by In-situ Self-Assembly for Controlled Drug Delivery - Detecting Pores by Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy. Hubert Koller¹, Ansgar Boegershausen¹ and Anita Hill²; ¹Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany; ²CSIRO Manufacturing & Infrastructure Technology, Clayton South MDC, Victoria, Australia.

4:30 PM N5.9
Anisotropic Porosity of Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Polyisocyanate Sol-Gel Films. Jonathan M. Stoddard and Douglas A. Loy; MST-7, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico.

4:45 PM N5.10
Use of Stimuli-Responsive Organosilica Hydrogels in Controlled Intake/Release of Molecules. Dave C. Bakul and Mukti S. Rao; Chemistry and Biochemistry, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois.

SESSION N6: Mechanics and Adhesion of Polymer Gels
Thursday Morning, March 31, 2005
Room 3007 (Moscone West)
8:30 AM N6.1
Nonlinear Elastic Properties of Entangled and Non-Entangled Polymer Physical Gels. Costantino Creton², Alexandra Roos², Fanny Deplace², Patrice Roose³ and Francois Simal³; ¹ESPCI, Paris, France; ²Laboratoire PPMD, ESPCI, Paris, France; ³R&D Acrylics, Surface Specialties, Bruxelles, Belgium.

8:45 AM N6.2
Toughened Acrylamide Based Hydrogels. Sandra Leigh Cram¹, Costantino Creton², Hugh R. Brown¹ and Geoff M. Spinks¹; ¹BlueScope Steel Institute, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia; ²ESPCI, Paris, France.

9:00 AM *N6.3
Tough Hydrogels with Double Network Structure. Jian Ping Gong¹, Y. Kurokawa¹, R. Kuwabara¹, Y. H. Na¹, Y. Tanaka² and Y. Osada¹; ¹Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan; ²Creative Research Initiative "Sousei", Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

9:30 AM N6.4
Physical Properties of Interpenetrating Polymer Networks Determined by QCM-D. Elizabeth F. Irwin¹ and Kevin E. Healy^1,2; ¹Bioengineering, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California; ²Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California.

9:45 AM N6.5
Use of the Quartz Crystal Microbalance in Contact Mechanics Studies of Polymer Gels. Kenneth R. Shull and F. Nelson Nunalee; Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM *N6.6
An Indentation Method for Characterizing the Elastic Properties and Permeability of Gels. Chung Yuen Hui¹, Yu Yun Lin³, Fu-Chin Chuang³, Wei-chun Lin² and Kenneth R. Shull²; ¹Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; ²Material Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; ³Civil Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.

11:00 AM N6.7
Transport Properties of Polymer Gels. Wei-Chun Lin¹, Kenneth R. Shull¹, Chung-Yuen Hui², Yu Yun Lin³ and Fu-Chin Chuang³; ¹Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; ²Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; ³Department of Civil Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.

11:15 AM N6.8
Structure and Mechanical Properties of Gelatin - Clay and Gelatin - Oxide Nanocomposite Gels in Bulk and Thin Film Form. Margarita Darder¹, Anabel Ruiz-Hitzky¹, Patrick Amarellis², Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky¹, Andre Dubault² and Henri Van Damme²; ¹ICMM, CSIC, Madrid, Spain; ²PCPMD, ESPCI, Paris.

11:30 AM N6.9
Adhesion Between Polymeric Fluids Using a Probe Method. Regis Schach and Costantino Creton; Laboratoire PPMD UMR 7615, CNRS/ESPCI, Paris, France.

11:45 AM N6.10
Electric Field Effect on Adhesion of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Gel. Victor Barinov, Robert Dabrowski and Kalle Levon; Chemical and Biological Sciences and Engineering, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York.