AVS 61st International Symposium & Exhibition
    Biomaterial Interfaces Wednesday Sessions

Session BI+AS-WeM
Nonlinear Optical & Vibrational Spectroscopy

Wednesday, November 12, 2014, 8:00 am, Room 317
Moderator: Luke Hanley, University of Illinois at Chicago


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8:40am BI+AS-WeM3 Invited Paper
Characterizing Adsorbate Structure at the Solid-Liquid Interface through Nonlinear Vibrational Spectroscopy and Modelling Approaches
S. Roy, P.A. Covert, K.-K. Hung, U. Stege, Dennis Hore, University of Victoria, Canada
9:20am BI+AS-WeM5
Vibrational Spectroscopy Investigation of the Giant Surface Potential of Organic Semiconductors
Laura Kraya, Princeton University, C. Krekeler, C. Weigel, Technical University Braunschweig, Germany, P. Zhao, Princeton University, W. Kowalsky, Technical University Braunschweig, Germany, C. Lennartz, BASF, A.L. Kahn, B. Koel, Princeton University
9:40am BI+AS-WeM6
Diatom Biomineralization at the Molecular Level Probed by SFG Spectroscopy
H. Lutz, Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, Germany, J.E. Baio, Oregon State University, V. Jaeger, A. Roehrig, G. Drobny, J. Pfaendtner, University of Washington, Tobias Weidner, Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, Germany
11:00am BI+AS-WeM10 Invited Paper
Water, Charge and Membrane Interface Stability
Sylvie Roke, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
11:40am BI+AS-WeM12
Second Harmonic Scattering: Characterizing the Interaction between Lipid Membranes and Water
Cornelis Lütgebaucks, C. Macias-Romero, S. Roke, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
12:00pm BI+AS-WeM13
Analyzing the Structure of Amyloid Fibrils in Bacterial Biofilms In Vitro and in Real Time Using Sum-Frequency-Generation Spectroscopy
P. Johansson, R. Francisco, J. Bryers, Patrick Koelsch, University of Washington