Focus Session: Biopolymers I: Mechanical Properties

Presentations

• Probing Polarization Dynamics and Energy Dissipation in Ferroelectric Polymers on the Nanoscale

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 7, 2007, 6:00 AM – March 7, 2007, 6:36 AM

  Authors

  • Sergei V. Kalinin

    • Materials Sciences and Technology Division and The Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, ORNL

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• Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Study on the Effect of the Tau protein on the Mechanical Properties of Microtubules

  ORAL

  March 7, 2007, 6:36 AM – March 7, 2007, 6:48 AM

  Authors

  • Myung Chul Choi

    • UCSB / KAIST

  • Uri Raviv

    • UCSB / Univ of Jerusalem Israel

  • Herbert Miller

    • UCSB

  • Michelle Massie

    • UCSB

  • Youli Li

    • UCSB

  • Leslie Wilson

    • UCSB

  • Stuart Feinstein

    • UCSB

  • Mahn Won Kim

    • KAIST

  • Cyrus Safinya

    • UCSB

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• Time-resolved studies of actin organization by multivalent ions and actin-binding proteins

  ORAL

  March 7, 2007, 6:48 AM – March 7, 2007, 7:00 AM

  Authors

  • Ghee Hwee Lai

    • Dept. of Physics, Dept. of Materials Science \& Engineering, F. Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Kirstin Purdy

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • James R. Bartles

    • Northwestern University

  • Gerard C. L. Wong

    • University of Illinois, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Physics
    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Dept. of Physics, Dept. of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Dept. of Physics, Dept. of Materials Science \& Engineering, F. Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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• Elastic Behavior of Composite Actin and Microtubule Networks

  ORAL

  March 7, 2007, 7:00 AM – March 7, 2007, 7:12 AM

  Authors

  • Yi-Chia Lin

    • Harvard University

  • Gijsje Koenderink

    • AMOLF, the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics

  • Frederick Mackintosh

    • Vrije Universiteit

  • David Weitz

    • Harvard University

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• Mechanics of actin networks crosslinked with mutant human $\alpha$-actinin-4

  ORAL

  March 7, 2007, 7:12 AM – March 7, 2007, 7:24 AM

  Authors

  • Sabine Volkmer

    • MIT

  • Daniel Blair

    • Harvard University

  • Karen Kasza

    • Harvard University

  • David Weitz

    • Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Department of Physics, Harvard University
    • DEAS, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    • Harvard University
    • DEAS, Harvard University
    • Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138, USA
    • Division of Engineering and Applied Science. Harvard University
    • Applied Physics, Harvard University

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• Viscoelastic properties of Ionomer Melt

  ORAL

  March 7, 2007, 7:24 AM – March 7, 2007, 7:36 AM

  Authors

  • Monojoy Goswami

    • Columbia University

  • Sanat Kumar

    • Columbia University

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• Controlling the Properties of Thermoreversible Protein Hydrogels

  ORAL

  March 7, 2007, 7:36 AM – March 7, 2007, 7:48 AM

  Authors

  • Hui Yan

    • University of Manchester

  • Alberto Saiani

    • The University of Manchester
    • University of Manchester

  • Aline Miller

    • University of Manchester

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• Electrospinning of Hyaluronic acid (HA) and HA/Gelatin Blends

  ORAL

  March 7, 2007, 7:48 AM – March 7, 2007, 8:00 AM

  Authors

  • Aihua He

    • Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • Junxing Li

    • Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • Charles C. Han

    • Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    • Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100080, China
    • Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science
    • Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

  • Dufei Fang

    • StonyBrook Technology and Applied Research

  • Benjamin Hsiao

    • Stony Brook University
    • Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3400
    • StonyBrook Technology and Applied Research

  • Benjamin Chu

    • StonyBrook Technology and Applied Research

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• Rheology and lubricity of hyaluronic acid

  ORAL

  March 7, 2007, 8:00 AM – March 7, 2007, 8:12 AM

  Authors

  • Jing Liang

    • North Carolina State University

  • Wendy E. Krause

    • North Carolina State University

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• Physical Control of Stem Cells via Matrix Elasticity

  ORAL

  March 7, 2007, 8:12 AM – March 7, 2007, 8:24 AM

  Authors

  • Florian Rehfeldt

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Dennis Discher

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• Elasticity of Short DNA Molecules: Quantitative Agreement Between Theory and Experiment

  ORAL

  March 7, 2007, 8:24 AM – March 7, 2007, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Yeonee Seol

    • University of Colorado

  • Jinyu Li

    • University of Colorado

  • Philip Nelson

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Thomas Perkins

    • University of Colorado and JILA

  • M. D. Betterton

    • University of Colorado

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• Tube Radius in Entangled Networks of Semiflexible Polymers

  ORAL

  March 7, 2007, 8:36 AM – March 7, 2007, 8:48 AM

  Authors

  • Hauke Hinsch

  • Jan Wilhelm

  • Erwin Frey

    • Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics (ASC) and Center for NanoScience (CeNS), LMU Munich, Germany
    • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen
    • Arnold-Sommerfeld Center for theoretical physics, University of Munich
    • Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

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• Stretching and bending in cross-linked biopolymer networks

  ORAL

  March 7, 2007, 8:48 AM – March 7, 2007, 9:00 AM

  Authors

  • C. Heussinger

    • Arnold-Sommerfeld Center for theoretical physics, University of Munich

  • Erwin Frey

    • Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics (ASC) and Center for NanoScience (CeNS), LMU Munich, Germany
    • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen
    • Arnold-Sommerfeld Center for theoretical physics, University of Munich
    • Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

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