PMSEMonday, August 20, 2007

8:30 AM-12:00 PM Westin Boston Waterfront -- Grand Ballroom E, Oral
Hierarchically Ordered Functional Materials
Biological and Biomimetic Strategies for Creating Ordered Materials
Organizers:Rick Beyer
Mark VanLandingham
Richard A. Vaia
Presiding:Charlene M. Mello
8:30 AMMolecular biomimetics: Genetically engineered polypeptides as building blocks in materials and medicine
Mehmet Sarikaya
9:00 AMBiosynthetically derived polypeptides as templates in materials design
Kristi L. Kiick
9:30 AMForward and inverse design of hierarchically-ordered functional assemblies from anisotropic nanocolloids
Sharon A. Glotzer
10:00 AMIntermission
10:30 AMChemically functionalized viral capsids for light harvesting and diagnostic imaging
Matthew B. Francis
11:00 AMBacteriophage Q-Β: An example of a hierarchically ordered functional device
Steven D. Brown, Edward Jung, Erica Strable, M. G. Finn
11:30 AMPetrification to form functional hybrid materials
Gautam Gupta, Plamen Atanassov, Shailendra Rathod, Timothy L. Ward, Gabriel P. Lopez

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Symposium Grid -- Division of Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering -- Session Listing

The 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007