2010 Annual Meeting

Session: Advances in Biomaterial Evaluation

This session addresses the techniques used to evaluate biomaterials for numerous applications. The evaluation techniques will include the physical and biological properties, as well as their correlation to function.

Chair

Silviya Petrova Zustiak, Saint Louis University

Co-Chair

Holly J. Martin, Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems, Mississippi State University

Presentations

03:15 PM

(129a) Characterization of Synthetic Spider Silk Fibers for Biomaterial Applications*
Patrick A. Johnson, Thomas Servantez

03:55 PM

(129b) Surface Plasmon Resonance Protein Binding Studies On Reactive Vapor Deposition Coatings
Aftin Monique Ross, Di Zhang, Sei-Won Laura Chang, Joerg Lahann, Deng Xiaopei

04:15 PM

(129c) Determining Biocompatibility of a Chemically Modified Alginate Library through In Vivo Imaging and Histology
Kaitlin M. Bratlie, Tram T. Dang, Arturo Vegas, Thema M. Vietti, Robert S. Langer, Daniel G. Anderson

04:45 PM

(129d) Effects of Cells On Local Fluid Stress within Nonwoven Fiber Mesh Bone Tissue Engineering Scaffolds Using Lattice Boltzmann Simulations of Flow through High Resolution Micro-CT Imaged Scaffolds
Roman S. Voronov, Samuel VanGordon, Taren B. Blue, Robert L. Shambaugh, Vassilios I. Sikavitsas, Dimitrios V. Papavassiliou

05:05 PM

(129e) Pseudo-Component Modeling of Stress Relaxation Behavior of Self-Assembled Polycaprolactone Matrices
Kornkarn Makornkaewkeyoon, R. Russell Rhinehart, Sundararajan Madihally

05:25 PM

(129f) Understanding Three Transition States of Zwitterionic Carboxybetaine Methacrylate Hydrogels through Molecular Simulations
Yi He, Shaoyi Jiang