Focus Session: Biopolymers: Molecules, Solutions and Networks I

Presentations

• Conformation and Trapping of DNA at a Convergent Stagnation Point

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 10:15 AM – March 11, 2008, 10:27 AM

  Authors

  • Jennifer Kreft

    • Department of Chemistry, University of Texas, Tyler

  • Yeng-Long Chen

    • Academia Sinica
    • Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica

  • Hsueh-Chia Chang

    • University of Notre Dame
    • Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame
    • Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, University of Notre Dame

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• DNA Surface Hybridization Regimes

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 10:27 AM – March 11, 2008, 10:39 AM

  Authors

  • Rastislav Levicky

    • Polytechnic University

  • Ping Gong

    • Columbia University

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• Hybridization Pathways and Mechanisms of Model DNA Oligonucleotides in Solution.

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 10:39 AM – March 11, 2008, 10:51 AM

  Authors

  • Juan Araque

    • Rice University

  • Athanassios Panagiotopoulos

    • Princeton University

  • Marc Robert

    • Rice Quantum Institute, and Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University
    • Rice University

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• Structure and applications of a temperature responsive recombinant protein hydrogel based on silk- and elastin-like amino acid motifs

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 10:51 AM – March 11, 2008, 11:03 AM

  Authors

  • Lawrence Drummy

    • Air Force Research Laboratory

  • Melanie Tomczak

    • Air Force Research Laboratory

  • Joseph MacAuliffe

    • Genencor Inc.

  • Richard Vaia

    • Air Force Research Laboratory

  • Rajesh Naik

    • Air Force Research Laboratory

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• Fractal Nature of Semiflexible Networks in beta-Hairpin Peptide Hydrogels

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 11:03 AM – March 11, 2008, 11:15 AM

  Authors

  • Rohan Hule

    • Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware

  • Darrin Pochan

    • Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716
    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware
    • Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware
    • University of Delaware

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• A molecular model for toughening in double-network hydrogels

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 11:15 AM – March 11, 2008, 11:27 AM

  Authors

  • Wen-li Wu

    • NIST

  • Vijay Tirumala

    • NIST

  • Taiki Tominaga

    • Hokkaido University

  • Sanghun Lee

    • NIST

  • Paul Butler

    • NIST

  • Eric Lin

    • NIST
    • N.I.S.T. - Polymers Division
    • Polymers Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology

  • Jian Ping Gong

    • Hokkaido University

  • Hidemitsu Furukawa

    • Hokkaido University

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• De novo designed peptide and peptide-polymer conjugate for biomolecular materials

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 11, 2008, 11:27 AM – March 11, 2008, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Ting Xu

    • University of California, Berkeley
    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley
    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California at Berkeley
    • UC Berkeley, MSE \& Chemistry

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• Single polymer stretching in elastic turbulence of polymer solution

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 12:03 PM – March 11, 2008, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Yonggang Liu

    • Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institue of Science

  • Victor Steinberg

    • Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institue of Science

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• Shape and conformation of confined biopolymers.

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 12:15 PM – March 11, 2008, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Ya Liu

    • Brandeis University

  • Bulbul Chakraborty

    • Brandeis University

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• Raft Formation of Rod-like Polyelectrolytes

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 12:27 PM – March 11, 2008, 12:39 PM

  Authors

  • Daniel W. Sinkovits

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Erik Luijten

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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• Vapor-liquid coexistence of patchy attractive fluids: Wertheim theory study

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 12:39 PM – March 11, 2008, 12:51 PM

  Authors

  • Hongjun Liu

    • Columbia University

  • Sanat K. Kumar

    • Columbia University
    • Columbia Univ.

  • Glenn Evans

    • Oregon State University

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• Strong Keratin-like Nanofibers Made of Globular Protein

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 12:51 PM – March 11, 2008, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Yael Dror

    • Technion, Mechanical Eng. Dep.

  • Vadim Makarov

    • Technion, Mechanical Eng. Dep.

  • Arie Admon

    • Technion, Biology Dep.

  • Eyal Zussman

    • Technion, Mechanical Eng. Dep.

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• Electrospinning of Natural Polymers

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 1:03 PM – March 11, 2008, 1:15 PM

  Authors

  • Aihua He

    • Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • Shanshan Xu

  • Huarong Nie

  • Junxing Li

  • Charles C. Han

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