Symposium U—Materials Inspired By Biology
Chairs
Bob Birge, Syracuse University
Joe Cappello, Protein Polymer Technologies
R. Malcolm Brown Jr., University of Texas, Austin
Janos Fendler, Syracuse University
*Invited Paper
SESSION U1: PROTEIN-BASED DEVICES AND SYSTEMS
Chair: Robert R. Birge
Tuesday Morning, November 28
Fairfax B (S)
9:00 A.M. U1.1
ATTACHMENT AND PATTERNING OF BACTERIORHODOPSIN FOR DEVICE FABRICATION, Jennifer
L. Boyd, Robert A. Brizzolara, Ann E. Tate, Naval Surface Warfare Center,
Dahlgren, VA; and Gerardo R. Vasta, Center of Marine Biotechnology, Baltimore,
MD.
9:15 A.M. U1.2
PHOTOPHYSICAL AND MATERIAL PROPERTIES OF THE BLUE MEMBRANE FORM OF
BACTERIORHODOPSIN, Jack R. Tallent, Richard Gross, Q. Wang Song, Angelo Todorov
and Robert R. Birge, Syracuse University, W.M. Keck Center for Molecular
Electronics, Syracuse, NY.
9:30 A.M. U1.3
ELECTRODEPOSITED BACTERIORHODOPSIN (BR) AND BR/SOL-GEL COMPOSITE FILMS FOR
OPTICAL DEVICES, R.F. Kovar, T. Wilson, T. Tiano, J. Teverovsky, Foster-Miller
Inc, Waltham, MA; R. Swartz and F. Aboughanem, University of Massachusetts,
Lowell, Lowell, MA.
9:45 A.M. U1.4
SOL-GEL ENCAPSULATED PHOTODYNAMIC PROTEIN PHYCOERYTHRIN: A NEW BIOMATERIAL,
Zhongping Chen, L. Samuelson, J. Akkara, D.L. Kaplan, Biotechnology Division,
U.S. Army Natick Research, Development and Engineering Center, Natick, MA; H.
Gao and J. Kumar, Center for Advanced Materials University of Massachusetts
Lowell, Department of Physics, Lowell, MA; A. Marx, K. Tripathy, University of
Massachusetts Lowell, Department of Chemistry, Lowell, MA.
10:00 A.M. BREAK
10:30 A.M. U1.5
PATTERNED NETWORKS FROM CULTURED CELLS ON SELF-ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS, R.S.
Potember, Johns Hopkins University, APL, Laurel, MD; and M. Matsuzawa, RIKEN,
Saitama, Japan.
10:45 A.M. U1.6
BIOMEMBRANE-LIKE FILMS OF PROTEINS AND LIPIDS: STRUCTURE AND APPLICATIONS,
James F. Rusling, Alaa-Eldin Nassar, Zhe Zhang, Quingdong Huang and Zhongqing
Lu, University of Connecticut, Department of Chemistry, Storrs, CT.
11:00 A.M. U1.7
MOLECULAR MODELING OF SPIDER SILK ELASTICITY, Yves R. Termonia, E. I. duPont de
Nemours & Co., Inc., Experimental Station, Wilmington, DE.
11:15 A.M. U1.8
PROTEINS DIRECTING CRYSTAL MORPHOLOGY AND PHASE IN BIOFABRICATED
NANOCOMPOSITES, A.M. Belcher, University of California, Santa Barbara,
Department of Chemistry, Santa Barbara, CA; R.J. Christensen, University of
California, Santa Barbara, Department of Materials, Santa Barbara, CA; C.M.
Zaremba, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Chemistry,
Santa Barbara, CA; L.J. Friesen, University of California, Santa Barbara,
Department of Biological Science, Santa Barbara, CA; P.K. Hansma, University of
California, Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, CA; J.S.
Speck, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Materials, Santa
Barbara, CA; G.D. Stucky, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department
of Chemistry, Santa Barbara, CA; D.E. Morse, University of California, Santa
Barbara, Marine Science Institute, Santa Barbara, CA.
11:30 A.M. U1.9
SOLUBILIZATION OF PROTEINS IN MEMBRANES, N. Dan, University of Minnesota,
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Minneapolis, MN; and
S.A. Safran, Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Materials and
Interfaces, Rehovot, Israel.
11:45 A.M. DISCUSSION
SESSION U2: BIOMINETIC AND
SELF-ASSEMBLING SYSTEMS
Chair: Janos Fendler
Tuesday Afternoon, November 28
Fairfax B (S)
1:30 P.M. U2.1
BIOMIMETIC SYNTHESIS AND CONSTRUCTION OF ORGANIZED MATERIALS, S. Mann,
University of Bath, School of Chemistry, Bath, United Kingdom.
1:45 P.M. U2.2
THE COUPLING OF ADJACENT LAYERS IN LANGMUIR FILMS, H. Möhwalkd,
Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung, Berlin,
Germany.
2:00 P.M. U2.3
PROCESSING OF HIERARCHICALLY STRUCTURED CERAMICS THROUGH COASSEMBLY, Ilhan A.
Aksay, Princeton University, Department of Chemical Engineering and Princeton
Materials Institute, Princeton, NJ.
2:15 P.M. U2.4
SELF-ASSEMBLY OF ORIENTED METAL OXIDE NANOSTRUCTURES ON ORGANIC LAYERS, Sue
Feng, Yongan Yan and Thomas Bein, Purdue University, Department of Chemistry,
West Lafayette, IN.
2:30 P.M. DISCUSSION
2:45 P.M. BREAK
3:15 P.M. U2.5
PROTEIN ORGANIZATION ON SURFACTANT MEMBRANES, Kevin Maloney, California
Institute of Technology, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Pasadena, CA; David W. Grainger, Colorado State University Department of
Chemistry, Ft. Collins, CO; Christian Salesse and Michel Grandbois, University
Quebec-Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada.
3:30 P.M. U2.6
PROGRAMMED MOLECULAR TEMPLATES FOR THE FABRICATION OF INORGANIC
MICROSTRUCTURES, B.R. Heywood, S. Champ, C. German, University of Salford,
Salford, United Kingdom; and M. Mascal, University of Nottingham, Nottingham,
United Kingdom.
3:45 P.M. U2.7
LATERAL ELECTRON HOPPING IN OSMIUM TRIS-DPP MONOLAYERS AT THE AIR/WATER
INTERFACE, Won-Yong Lee and Marcin Majda, University of California at Berkeley,
Department of Chemistry, Berkeley, CA.
4:00 P.M. U2.8
THEORECTICAL ASPECTS OF DIFFUSION AND REACTIONS IN RESTRICTED GEOMETRIES, J.
Klafter, Tel Aviv University, School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv, Israel.
4:15 P.M. U2.9
CONTROLLED FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION OF PHENOLS BY HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE IN
ORGANIC SOLVENTS, M. Ayyagari, University of Massachusetts, Chemistry
Department, Center for Advanced Materials, Lowell, MA and US Army RD&E
Center, Biotechnology, Natick, MA; K.A. Marx, S.K. Tripathy, University of
Massachusetts, Chemistry Department, Center for Advanced Materials, Lowell, MA;
J.A. Akkara and D.L. Kaplan, US Army RD&E Center, Biotechnology, Natick,
MA.
4:30 P.M. DISCUSSION
SESSION U3: POSTER SESSION
Chair: Robert Birge
Tuesday Evening, November 28
8:00 P.M.
Grand Ballroom (S)
U3.1 OPTIMIZATION OF BACTERIORHODOPSIN FOR COMPUTER AND PHOTONIC
APPLICATIONS, R.R. Birge, D. Govender, R.B. Gross, A.F. lawrence, J.A. Stuart,
J.R. Tallent, E.H.L. Tan and B.W. Vought, Syracuse University, W. M. Keck
Center for Molecular Electronics and Department of Chemistry, Syracuse, NY.
U3.2 ENZYMATIC MODIFICATION OF POLYSACCHARIDES, Ferdinando F. Bruno, U.S.
Army Natick Research, Biotechnology Division, Development and Engineering
Center, Natick, MA and University of Iowa, Department of Chemical and
Biochemical Engineering and Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing, Iowa
City, IA; Joseph A. Akkara, David L. Kaplan, U.S. Army Natick Research,
Biotechnology Division, Development and Engineering Center, Natick, MA;
Jonathan S. Dordick, University of Iowa, Department of Chemical and Biochemical
Engineering and Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing, Iowa City, IA.
U3.3 LB FILMS, MONOLAYERS AND SELF-ASSEMBLY OF ALUMOSILICATE PLATELETS,
Nicholas A. Kotov, Janos H. Fendler, Syracuse University, Department of
Chemistry, Syracuse, NY; and Imre Dekany, Attila József University,
Department of Colloid Chemistry, Szeged, Hungary.
U3.4 THE GROWTH CONTROL IN CaCO3 BIOMINERALIZATION, Daniel Frech, Mary
Katchur, University of Washington, Department of Materials Science and
Engineering, Seattle, WA; Richard Humbert, University of Washington, Genetics
and Medicine, Seattle, WA; and Mehmet Sarikaya, University of Washington,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seattle, WA.
U3.5 UNUSUAL STRUCTURES IN CALCIUM CARBONATES GROWN IN SOLUTIONS OF
POLY(ASPARTIC ACID), Laurie B. Gower and David A. Tirrell, University of
Massachusetts at Amherst, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering,
Amherst, MA.
U3.6 INTERACTION OF NACRE PROTEINS WITH GEOLOGICAL CALCIUM CARBONATE,
Richard Humbert, University of Washington, Department of Materials Science and
Engineering and Department of Genetics and Medicine, Seattle, WA; Mehmet
Sarikaya, University of Washington, Department of Materials Science and
Engineering, Seattle, WA.
U3.7 PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS IN CHOLESTEROL CRYSTALS, S. Kumar and S.J. Burns,
University of Rochester, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rochester,
NY.
U3.8 CHARACTERIZATION OF BIODUPLICATED PEARLS: A LAYERED ORGANIC-INORGANIC
COMPOSITE, G. Lancaster, University of Washington, Department of Materials
Science and Engineering, Seattle, WA; R. Humbert, University of Washington,
Department of Genetics and Medicine, Seattle, WA; and M. Sarikaya, University
of Washington, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seattle, WA.
U3.9 THE INFLUENCE OF TEMPLATE STRUCTURE ON POLYMORPH SELECTIVITY IN
BIOMIMETIC MINERALIZATION, A.L. Litvin, Biotechnology Division, U.S. Army
Natick Research, Development and Engineering Center, Natick, MA and
GEO-Centers, Inc., Natick, MA; S. Valiyaveettil, Max-Planck Institute for
Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany; L.A. Samuelson, and D.L. Kaplan,
Biotechnology Division, U.S. Army Natick Research, Development and Engineering
Center, Natick, MA.
U3.10 SYNTHESIS AND CONSTRUCTION OF POROUS STRUCTURES USING NANOCRYSTALLINE
HYDROXYAPATITE TO POROUS BIOMIMIC MATERIALS, P. Luo and T.G. Nieh, Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA.
U3.11 STRUCTURE-FUNCTION MODEL OF PROPOSED HUMIC ACID BUILDING BLOCKS, Mark
Malaty, Ernestine Johnson, James M. Varnum, Susan A. Jansen, Temple University,
Department of Chemistry, Philadelphia, PA; and Geoffrey Davies, Northeastern
University, Department of Chemistry, Boston, MA.
U3.12 GROWTH OF PATTERNS IN MULTICELLULAR CHEMICAL SYSTEMS AND THEIR
RESPONSE TO BOUNDARIES, Jerzy Maselko, University of Alaska, Department of
Chemistry, Anchorage, AK.
U3.13 THE ROLE OF METAL COMPLEXATION IN THE SOLUBILITY AND STABILITY OF
HUMIC ACID, Mark D. Paciolla, Susan A. Jansen, Temple University, Department of
Chemistry, Philadelphia, PA; and Geoffrey Davies, Northeastern University,
Department of Chemistry, Boston, MA.
U3.14 BIOMOLECULAR OCCLUSION WITHIN BIOCRYSTALS: FINE STRUCTURE
INVESTIGATION BY ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS NEAR EDGE STRUCTURE ANALYSIS IN NACRE,
Maoxu Qian and M. Sarikaya, University of Washington, Department of Materials
Science and Engineering, Seattle, WA.
U3.15 ENZYMATIC POLYMERIZATION OF AMPHIPHILIC ALKYL TYROSINE DERIVATIVES
FROM EMULSIONS, R. Sarma, K.S. Alva, University of Massachusetts Lowell,
Department of Physics, Lowell, MA: K.A. Marx, S.K. Tripathy, University of
Massachusetts Lowell, Department of Chemistry, Lowell, MA; J.A. Akkara and D.L.
Kaplan, US Army Research Development and Engineering Center, Biotechnology
Division, Natick, MA.
U3.16 MICROMECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF MOLLUSK SHELLS, Benjamin Shapiro, G.
Lancaster and M. Sarikaya, University of Washington, Department of Materials
Science and Engineering, Seattle, WA.
U3.17 GRAMICIDIN A-PORPHYRIN DIAD INCORPORATION INTO MLM VESICLES MADE OF AN
ETHER-LINKED BOLAFORM PHOSPHOCHOLINE, D.H. Thompson and S. Svenson, Purdue
University, Department of Chemistry, West Lafayette, IN.
U3.18 FABRICATION OF RETICULATED CALCIUM PHOSPHATE FRAMEWORKS AND
MICROSKELETAL CALCIUM CARBONATE FILMS IN SELF-ORGANIZING REACTION MEDIA,
Dominic Walsh and Stephen Mann, University of Bath, School of Chemistry, Bath,
United Kingdom.
SESSION U4: TOWARD NANO-FABRICATION
Chair: Joseph Cappello
Wednesday Morning, November 29
Fairfax B (S)
8:30 A.M. U4.1
PROTEIN MICROSPHERES, Kenneth S. Suslick, Kenneth J. Kolbeck and Mike Wong,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Chemistry, Urbana,
IL.
8:45 A.M. U4.2
MATERIALS FROM SELF-ASSEMBLING MICRO- AND NANOSTRUCTURES, B.R. Ratna, Naval
Research Laboratory, Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering,
Washington, DC.
9:00 A.M. U4.3
CRYSTALLINE COLLOIDAL SELF ASSEMBLY: MESOSCOPIC PERIODIC MATERIALS, Sanford A.
Asher, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Chemistry, Pittsburgh, PA.
9:15 A.M. U4.4
FREEFORM FABRICATION OF BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS, Robert Crockett, Hogan Martin,
John O'Kelly, Lenette Raymond and Paul Calvert, University of ARizona, Tucson,
AZ.
9:30 A.M. U4.5
NEW MATERIALS AT THE BIOSCIENCE/ENGINEERING INTERFACE, John P. O'Brien, E. I.
duPont de Nemours & Co., Inc., Central Reserach and Development,
Wilmington, DE.
10:15 A.M. BREAK
10:45 A.M. U4.6
LB FILMS AND MONOLAYERS FROM SOLID MICRO AND NANOPARTICLES SELF-ASSEMBLY OF
MONOPARTICULATE FILMS, Nicholas A. Kotov, Janos H. Fendler, Syracuse
University, Department of Chemistry, Syracuse, NY; and Imre Dekany, Attila
József University, Department of Colloid Chemistry, Szeged, Hungary.
11:00 A.M. U4.7
WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM BIOLOGY ABOUT THE NANOSTRUCTURING OF MATERIALS? Richard
W. Siegel, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Materials Science and Engineering
Department, Troy, NY and Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik,
Halle, Germany.
11:15 A.M. U4.8
SCANNING FORCE MICROSCOPY OF ORGANIC FILMS, R. Rolandi, University of Genoa,
Department of Physics, Genoa, Italy.
11:30 A.M. U4.9
ENZYMATIC POLYMERIZATION IN SELF-ASSEMBLING MICROSTRUCTURES AND THE PREPARATION
OF NOVEL POLYMER-PROTEIN AND POLYMER-NANOPARTICLE COMPOSITES, X.Xu, P.
Ramannair, N. Kommareddi, M. McCormick, S. Banerjee, V.T. John, G.L. McPherson,
Tulane University, Department of Chemical Engineering, New Orleans, LA; C.J.
O'Connor, University of New Orleans, Department of Chemistry, New Orleans, LA;
J. Akkara and D. Kaplan, U.S. Army Natick RDE Center, Natick, MA.
11:45 A.M. U4.10
DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF MATERIALS WITH WELL DEFINED STRUCTURE BOTH IN THE SOLID
LATTICE AND IN THE MESOPHASE: A MOLECULAR BUILDING BLOCK APPROACH, Suresh
Valiyaveettil, Volker Enkelmann, Georg Moeßner, Christian Meiners, Markus
pfaadt, Hans Wolfgang Spiess and Klaus Müllen, Max-Planck-Institute for
Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany.
SESSION U5: MEMBRANE BASED SYSTEMS
AND BIOMINERALIZATION
Chairs: R. Malcolm Brown and Richard Potember
Wednesday Afternoon, November 29
Fairfax B (S)
1:30 P.M. U5.1
MOLECULAR SELF ASSEMBLY AND LIPID TUBULES: A PARADIGM FOR MOLECULARLY
ENGINEERED STRUCTURES, Joel M. Schnur, Naval Research Laboratory, Center for
Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, Washington, DC.
1:45 P.M. U5.2
SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF MINERALIZED LIPID TUBULE ARCHITECTURES,
Sandra L. Burkett and Stephen Mann, University of Bath, School of Chemistry,
Bath, United Kingdom.
2:00 P.M. U5.3
SKELETONS IN THE BEAKER, Geoffrey A. Ozin, Deepa Khushalani, Alex Kuperman and
Scott Oliver, University of Toronto, Advanced Materials Chemistry Research
Group, Lash Miller Chemical Laboratories, Toronto, Canada.
2:15 P.M. DISCUSSION OF POSTERS FROM PREVIOUS NIGHT
2:45 P.M. BREAK
3:15 P.M. U5.4
STRATEGIES OF BIOMINERALIZATION IN SYNTHETIC AND BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, Mehmet
Sarikaya, University of Washington, Department of Materials Science and
Engineering, Seattle, WA.
3:30 P.M. U5.5
BIMINERALIZATION AND COPPER BY MICROORGANISMS, U. Hinze, M. Thies and H.H.
Paradies, Märkische Fachhochschule, Biotechnology and Physical Chemistry,
Iserlohn, Germany.
3:45 P.M. U5.6
LAMELLAR LUMINESCENT FILMS PREPARED BY LANGMUIR-BLODGETT TECHNIQUE, M.E.D.
Zaniquelli, C.L. Medeiros, R.F. Silva and O.A. Serra, Universidade São
Paulo, Dep. Química, FFCLRP, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
4:00 P.M. U5.7
ELECTRICAL `WIRING' OF ENZYMES VIA ELECTRON CONDUCTING REDOX HYDROGELS, Adam
Heller, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Chemical Engineering,
Austin, TX.
4:15 P.M. U5.8
BIFUNCTIONAL MEMBRANE-BASED PHOTOREDOX ASSEMBLIES, Sergei V. Lymar and James K.
Hurst, Washington State University, Department of Chemistry, Pullman, WA.
4:30 P.M. DISCUSSION
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