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Session Y20: Biological-Synthetic Hybrid Materials

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Sponsoring Units: DPOLY
Chair: Ali Dhinojwala, University of Akron
Room: 321


Friday, March 20, 2009
8:00AM - 8:36AM

 Y20.00001: Peptide Folding and Consequent Self-assembly for Shear Thinning Hydrogels with Immediate Recovery
Invited Speaker: Darrin Pochan

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Friday, March 20, 2009
8:36AM - 8:48AM

 Y20.00002: Designing `smart' hydrogels using peptide-responsive conjugates
Alberto Saiani , Jean-Baptiste Guibaud , Aline Miller

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Friday, March 20, 2009
8:48AM - 9:00AM

 Y20.00003: ``Backpack'' Functionalized Living Immune Cells
Albert Swiston , Soong Ho Um , Darrell Irvine , Robert Cohen , Michael Rubner

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Friday, March 20, 2009
9:00AM - 9:12AM

 Y20.00004: Reversible Structural Transition of a DNA Lipid Film.
Matthew Tirrell , Surekha Gajria , Thorsten Neumann , Luc Jaeger

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Friday, March 20, 2009
9:12AM - 9:24AM

 Y20.00005: Gecko-Inspired Carbon Nanotube-Based Adhesives
Liehui Ge , Sunny Sethi , Anubha Goyal , Lijie Ci , Pulickel Ajayan , Ali Dhinojwala

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Friday, March 20, 2009
9:24AM - 9:36AM

 Y20.00006: Sensing Structures Inspired by Blind Cave Fish
Michael E. McConney , Nannan Chen , David Lu , Kyle D. Anderson , Huan Hu , Chang Liu , Vladimir V. Tsukruk

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Friday, March 20, 2009
9:36AM - 9:48AM

 Y20.00007: Giant super-helix formation from aqueous bioinspired block copolymers.
H.K. Murnen , A.M. Rosales , R.N. Zuckermann , R.A. Segalman

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Friday, March 20, 2009
9:48AM - 10:00AM

 Y20.00008: The effects of supramolecular network topology on hapten-receptor avidity
Jason Benkoski , Andrew Mason , Jill La Favors , Joshua Wolfe

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Friday, March 20, 2009
10:00AM - 10:12AM

 Y20.00009: Dynamic DNA Interactions with Functionalized Colloids
Lu Zhang , Yingxi Elaine Zhu

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Friday, March 20, 2009
10:12AM - 10:24AM

 Y20.00010: Growth of well-defined metal and oxide nanoparticles on biological surfaces
Vladimir Tsukruk

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Friday, March 20, 2009
10:24AM - 10:36AM

 Y20.00011: Fluorescent DNA-bound Ag nanoclusters
Patrick O'Neill , Lourdes Velazquez , Kim Weirich , Deborah Fygenson

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