AVS 55th International Symposium & Exhibition
    Biomaterial Interfaces Wednesday Sessions

Session BI-WeA
Quantitative Analysis of Biointerfaces

Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 1:40 pm, Room 202
Moderator: D.G. Castner, University of Washington NESAC/BIO


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1:40pm BI-WeA1 Invited Paper
'Structure' of Water: Myth or Reality?
M. Grunze, University of Heidelberg, Germany
2:20pm BI-WeA3
A Novel Approach to XPS Characterisation of ‘Click’ Surface Chemistry, More Information Less Damage
T.S. Nunney, R.G. White, Thermo Fisher Scientific, UK, N.B. Larsen, T.S. Hansen, A.E. Daugaard, S. Hvilsted, Technical University of Denmark
2:40pm BI-WeA4
A New QCM-D and Reflectometry Instrument - Applications to Supported Lipid Structures and their Interactions
M. Edvardsson, S. Svedhem, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, G. Wang, Chalmers University of Technology and Q-Sense AB, Sweden, R. Richter, CIC biomaGUNE, Spain, M. Rodahl, Q-Sense AB, Sweden, B. Kasemo, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
3:00pm BI-WeA5
Calculation of Adsorption Free Energy for Peptide-Surface Interactions using Molecular Dynamics Simulation Methods
N. Vellore, S.J. Stuart, Clemson University, B.R. Brooks, National Institutes of Health, R.A. Latour, Clemson University
4:00pm BI-WeA8 Invited Paper
Nonlinear Light Scattering: Bridging the Gap between Surface Science & Soft Matter
S. Roke, Max-Planck Institute for Metals Research, Germany
4:40pm BI-WeA10
Characterization of DNA Monolayers on Gold using Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy
C.L. Howell, M. Grunze, P. Koelsch, University of Heidelberg, Germany
5:00pm BI-WeA11
Avoiding Parasitic Reactions Due to Interconnect Dead Volume and Non-Specific Binding in Microfluidics
X. Luo, D.L. Berlin, W.E. Bentley, G.F. Payne, R. Ghodssi, G.W. Rubloff, University of Maryland
5:20pm BI-WeA12
Probing Orientation and Conformation of α-Helix and β-Sheet Model Peptides on Self-Assembled Monolayers with SFG and NEXAFS Spectroscopy
T. Weidner, J. Apte, L.J. Gamble, D.G. Castner, University of Washington