Focus Session: Biological and Bio-Inspired Adhesive Polymers II

Presentations

• DILLON MEDAL SYMPOSIUM BREAK

  Invited

  March 4, 2014, 2:30 PM – March 4, 2014, 3:06 PM

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• Switchable adhesion of liquid crystalline elastomers

  ORAL

  March 4, 2014, 3:06 PM – March 4, 2014, 3:18 PM

  Authors

  • James Adams

    • University of Surrey

  • Andrew Brown

    • University of Surrey

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• Measurement of depletion-induced force in microtubule bundles

  ORAL

  March 4, 2014, 3:18 PM – March 4, 2014, 3:30 PM

  Authors

  • Fiodar Hilitski

    • Brandeis University

  • Andrew Ward

    • Brandeis University

  • Zvonimir Dogic

    • Brandeis University

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• Hybrid metal-coordinate transient networks: using bio-inspired building blocks to engineer the mechanical properties of physical hydrogels

  ORAL

  March 4, 2014, 3:30 PM – March 4, 2014, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • Scott Grindy

    • Massachusetts Inst of Tech-MIT

  • Devin Barrett

    • Northwestern University

  • Phillip Messersmith

    • Northwestern University

  • Niels Holten-Andersen

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Massachusetts Inst of Tech-MIT

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• Predictive relationships between crosslinker unbinding kinetics, gel stiffness, and plasticity in adhesive biopolymers

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 4, 2014, 3:42 PM – March 4, 2014, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • Megan Valentine

    • Univ of California - Santa Barbara
    • University of California, Santa Barbara

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• DNA Gel with dynamic cross-links

  ORAL

  March 4, 2014, 4:18 PM – March 4, 2014, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • Chang-Young Park

    • Material Research Laboratory, University of California at Santa Barbara

  • Deborah Fygenson

    • Department of Physics and Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program, University of California at Santa Barbara

  • Omar Saleh

    • Department of Materials and Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program, University of California at Santa Barbara

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• Bio-inspired adhesion: local chemical environments impact adhesive stability

  ORAL

  March 4, 2014, 4:30 PM – March 4, 2014, 4:42 PM

  Authors

  • Matthew A. Gebbie

    • Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Michael V. Rapp

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Jing Yu

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Wei Wei

    • Materials, Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Herbert Waite

    • Materials, Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara
    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Jacob N. Israelachvili

    • Materials, Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara

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• Multi-scale models for cell adhesion

  ORAL

  March 4, 2014, 4:42 PM – March 4, 2014, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • Yinghao Wu

    • Albert Einstein College of Medicine

  • Jiawen Chen

    • Albert Einstein College of Medicine

  • Zhong-Ru Xie

    • Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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• Semiflexible networks with labile crosslinkers: Bundling, rheology, ripping, and healing

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 4, 2014, 4:54 PM – March 4, 2014, 5:30 PM

  Authors

  • Alex J. Levine

    • UCLA, Department of Physics and Chemistry
    • Univ of California - Los Angeles

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