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Symposium TT: Interfaces in Materials, Biology, and Physiology

• 2012 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit

• April 9 - April 13, 2012
• Moscone West Convention Center | Marriott Marquis - San Francisco, California-
• Meeting Chairs: Lara A. Estroff, Jun Liu, Kornelius Nielsch, Kazumi Wada

Interfaces in Materials, Biology, and Physiology

High-performance engineering materials can exhibit property amplifications similar to those observed in natural composites such as wood, sea shell nacre, and bone.  While the ability to relate such mechanical properties to hierarchical structure is gaining in maturity, careful control of the interfaces and interphases between constituents remains challenging.  Harnessing such knowledge will aid the design of advanced materials such as attaching composite wings to aircraft, as well as enable the development of solutions for tendon-bone reattachment, rotator cuff repair, and bone regeneration.

The aim of this symposium is to provide a forum for materials scientists, chemists, biologists, physicists, bioengineers, and clinicians to interact in a multidisciplinary environment to present their research on interfaces in natural and synthetic materials as well as on interfaces between biology and materials.  The symposium will integrate key topics in many areas of mechanics and materials dealing with micromechanics, continuum methods, numerical methods, and experiments that investigate mechanical response in biological and bioreplacement systems at the micro- and nano-length scale.  In addition, the role of mechanics at the cellular and tissue level and its medical implications will be discussed.  Interactions between experimental and computational aspects are especially significant in biological systems due to the complexity and hierarchy of structure due to the scientific and computational challenges encountered in modeling biological systems.  Here, central challenges exist at each hierarchical level, from understanding how attachment occurs at the macroscopic level to understanding how attachment drives molecular cues to cells at the nanoscopic level.

The potential impact of the integration of biology and materials science defines the scope of this bioderived and bio-inspired symposium.  There-fore, the focus of the symposium is both timely and important.  Applications of the presented research will form part of the core mission of many agencies and should be of interest to researchers in diverse fields as well as the NSF, NIH, DOE, and DOD, among others. 

Session topics will include:

• Pericellular and extracellular environments, and their role in guiding cell biophysics, biochemistry, gene expression, and differentiation
• Structural attachment of dissimilar materials in nature, physiology, engineering, and surgery
• Thermal and mass transport across tissues and interfaces in nature and engineering
• Photonics and optoelectronics in nature
• Multifunctional hybrids in nature and engineering

Invited speakers include:

Todd R. Allen (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison), Ian Baker (Dartmouth College), Matthew Begley (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara), Markus J. Buehler (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology), Matthew C. Dixon (Biolin Scientific, Inc.), Virginia L. Ferguson (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder), Huajian Gao (Brown Univ.), Lorna J. Gibson (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology), Klaus Mecke (Erlangen Univ., Germany), Vicky Nguyen (Johns Hopkins Univ.), Teresa Pérez Prado (Inst. Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados, Spain), Robert O. Ritchie (Univ. of California, Berkeley), Alexander M.  Rubin (Boeing), Eduardo Saiz (Imperial College London, United Kingdom), Gudrun Schmidt (Purdue Univ.), Osamu Takai (Nagoya Univ., Japan), Stavros Thomopoulos (Washington Univ. School of Medicine), Julian F. V. Vincent (Univ. of Bath, United Kingdom), Margaret Wheatley (Drexel Univ.), Younan Xia (Washington Univ.).

Symposium Organizers

Ulrike G. K. Wegst
Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth
14 Engineering Dr.
Hanover, NH 03755-8000
Tel 603-646-3148, Fax 603-646-9655
ulrike.wegst@dartmouth.edu  

Amal M. K. Esawi
The American University in Cairo
AUC Ave., P. O. Box 74
New Cairo 11835, Egypt
Tel 20-2-2615-3102
a_esawi@aucegypt.edu 

Guy Genin
Washington University, St. Louis
1 Brookings Dr.
St. Louis, MO 63130
Tel 314-935-5660, Fax 314-935-4014
genin@wustl.edu 

Tianjian Lu
Xi'an Jiaotong University
School of Aerospace
Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
Tel 86-29-82665600, Fax 86-29-83234781
tjlu@mail.xjtu.edu.cn 

Jonathan Wilker
Purdue University
560 Oval Dr.
W. Lafayette, IN 47907
Tel 765-496-3382
wilker@purdue.edu