POLYMonday, August 20, 2007

8:30 AM-12:20 PM Westin Boston Waterfront -- Grand Ballroom A, Oral
Synthetic and Biological Macromolecules for Emerging Nanotechnologies
Organizers:Stephen J. Clarson
Josh Hagen
Siddharth V. Patwardhan
Kiyotaka Shiba
Dennis W. Smith Jr.
Mark E. Van Dyke
Ichiro Yamashita
Lee Ellen Drechsler
David M. Haddleton
William Hawthorne
Christopher W. Widenhouse
Official:Daniel E. Morse
8:30 AMPhysico-chemical studies of protein surface interactions
Carole C Perry, Paul Roach
9:00 AMUsing branched macromolecules to sense surface properties with molecular resolution
Sergei S. Sheiko, Frank C. Sun, Hyung-il Lee, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, David Shirvaniants, Michael Rubinstein
9:20 AMOligosaccharide-modified polymers as nucleic acid transfection agents
John M. Layman, Dietmar Appelhans, Brigitte Voit, Timothy E. Long
9:40 AMOriented immobilization of antibody fragments on polymer brushes for highly sensitive biorecognition
Ryoko Iwata, Yasuhiko Iwasaki, Kazunari Akiyoshi
10:00 AMDesigning biocompatible and activatable nanoscale carriers of bioactive agents
Adah Almutairi, Mikhail Berezin, Raffaella Rossin, Michael J Welch, Craig J. Hawker, Karen L. Wooley, Jean M. J. Fréchet
10:30 AMIntermission
10:50 AMPreparation and biodegradation of nanogels as carriers for carbohydrate drugs
Daniel J. Siegwart, Jung Kwon Oh, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
11:20 AMSynthesis and characterization of nanocarrier containing antioxidant 4-methylcoumarin
Mukesh K. Pandey, Rahul Tyagi, Virinder S. Parmar, Vincent B Tucci, Jayant Kumar, Thomas Shea, Arthur C. Watterson
11:40 AMTargeted, linear-dendritic diblock copolymer systems for DNA vaccination
Daniel K. Bonner, Kris C. Wood, David Nguyen, Lauren Tashima, Qibin Leng, Jianzhu Chen, Robert S. Langer, Paula T. Hammond
12:00 PMDeformation and fracture of protein materials: Balancing strength, energy dissipation and robustness
Markus J. Buehler, Theodor Ackbarow, Sinan Keten

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