POLYSunday, April 6, 2008

8:15 AM-12:00 PM Hilton New Orleans Riverside -- Grand Salon 16, Oral
Undergraduate Research in Polymer Science
Organizers:Sarah E. Morgan
Sergei Nazarenko
8:15 AMBioinspired design of hydrogel-encapsulated underwater flow sensors
David Lu, Michael E. McConney, Tao Han, Darrell H. Reneker, Vladimir V. Tsukruk
8:40 AMBiological activity and characterization of nerve growth factor loaded salicylic acid-based poly(anhydride-ester) microspheres
Natasha Z. Piracha, Michelle L. Johnson, Jeremy Griffin, Kathryn E. Uhrich
9:05 AMConducting dye polymers as an electrocatalyst for NADH oxidation for sensor applications
Jacob R. Worsham, Anne Blackwell, Shelley D. Minteer
9:30 AMInvestigation of the effects of polymer microstructure on the rheologies of polyelectrolyte gels: The importance of chain rigidity, branching, hydrophobic modification and polymer-particle interaction
Ashley Cox, Stephen F. Foster, Robert Lochhead
9:55 AMIntermission
10:20 AMCrosslinking of collagen scaffolds with 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl) carbodiimide
Amran Asadi, Yuping Li, Elliot P. Douglas
10:45 AMProton conducting nanocomposite membranes for high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells
Sarah M. White, Sergio Granados-Focil, Richard C. Woudenberg, Ozgur Yavuzcetin, Mark T. Tuominen, E. Bryan Coughlin
11:10 AMThiol-ene based reconstructive dental materials
Jordan E Boulden, Neil B Cramer, Christopher N. Bowman
11:35 AMSelf-assembly and aggregation behavior of the hydrophobins hypA and hypB from Agaricus bisporus
Lacey M. Harris, Jun Li, Gordon C. Cannon, Sabine Heinhorst, Sarah E. Morgan

Undergraduate Research in Polymer Science -- Next Session

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The 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008