AVS 54th International Symposium
    Tribology Thursday Sessions

Session TR2+BI+NS+MN-ThM
Biolubrication, Sensing and Adhesion

Thursday, October 18, 2007, 8:00 am, Room 617
Moderator: R.W. Carpick, University of Pennsylvania


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8:00am TR2+BI+NS+MN-ThM1
Resonant Nanomechanical Sensors for Protein Detection
P.S. Waggoner, H.G. Craighead, Cornell University
8:20am TR2+BI+NS+MN-ThM2
Correlation between XPS Data and Liquid Phase Self-Assembly of Alkanethiols
H.M. Meyer III, T.G. Thundat, R. Desikan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, R.G. White, Thermo Fisher Scientific, UK
8:40am TR2+BI+NS+MN-ThM3 Invited Paper
Surface-Chemical Aspects of Implant Biotribology and Biomimetic Lubrication
N.D. Spencer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
9:20am TR2+BI+NS+MN-ThM5
In-situ Measurement of Boundary-Lubrication on Articular Cartilage Surfaces
J.M. Coles, Duke University, G.D. Jay, Brown University, F. Guilak, S. Zauscher, Duke University
9:40am TR2+BI+NS+MN-ThM6
Humidity Dependent Ordering of Water and its Effect on Adhesion and Friction between Silica Surfaces
B.I. Kim, J. Bonander, Boise State University
10:00am TR2+BI+NS+MN-ThM7
Nanomechanical Properties of Arachidic Acid Langmuir Blodgett Films
G. Oncins, University of Barcelona, Spain, J. Torrent-Burgues, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain, F. Sanz, Universitat de Barcelona and Center of Nanobioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), Spain
10:20am TR2+BI+NS+MN-ThM8
Optimal Roughness for Minimal Adhesion
D.L. Liu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, J. Martin, Analog Devices Inc., N.A. Burnham, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
10:40am TR2+BI+NS+MN-ThM9
A Tribological Study of Bound plus Mobile Lubricants for MEMS Application from the Nano- to the Macro-scale Regime
B.P. Miller, M. Brukman, North Carolina State University, C.C. Baker, Naval Research Laboratory, R.J. Nemanich, North Carolina State University, K.J. Wahl, Naval Research Laboratory, J. Krim, North Carolina State University