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

Zustiak, S. P., Saint Louis University

Co-Chair

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

Presentations

03:15 PM

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

03:55 PM

(129b) Surface Plasmon Resonance Protein Binding Studies On Reactive Vapor Deposition Coatings
Ross, A. M., Zhang, D., Chang, S. L., Lahann, J., Xiaopei, D.

04:15 PM

(129c) Determining Biocompatibility of a Chemically Modified Alginate Library through In Vivo Imaging and Histology
Bratlie, K. M., Dang, T. T., Vegas, A., Vietti, T. M., Langer, R. S., Anderson, D. G.

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
Voronov, R. S., VanGordon, S., Blue, T. B., Shambaugh, R. L., Sikavitsas, V. I., Papavassiliou, D. V.

05:05 PM

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

05:25 PM

(129f) Understanding Three Transition States of Zwitterionic Carboxybetaine Methacrylate Hydrogels through Molecular Simulations
He, Y., Jiang, S.