Session: Self-Organizing Materials: Design, Supramolecular Structure, and Function (65th Southwest Regional Meeting)

9:20 AM

290

Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Multinuclear Lipid Metal Complexes
Juan Noveron, University of Texas at El Paso

9:40 AM

291

Fullerene Incorporation in Phospholipid Membrane Assemblies
Gabriel Montano, Ph.D., Los Alamos National Laboratory; Jessica R. McCoury, B.S., Los Alamos National Laboratory; Matthew Goertz, Ph.D., Sandia National Laboratories; Rashi Iyer, Ph.D., Los Alamos National Laboratory; Hsing-Lin Wang, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Andrew P. Shreve, Los Alamos National Laboratory

10:00 AM

292

Self-Assembly of Homo- and Hetero-Metallic Complex Architectures by Ligand Design
Juan Olguín, University of Otago and The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology; Sally Brooker, University of Otago and The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology

10:20 AM

293

Chemical Reactivity of Self-Assembled Monolayers: Following "Click" Reactions by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Ronald L. Halterman, University of Oklahoma; Lloyd A. Bumm, University of Oklahoma; Daminda H. Dahanayaka, University of Oklahoma; Abhijit B. Biswas, University of Oklahoma; Anuradha Singh, University of Oklahoma; Louis P. Jackson, University of Oklahoma

10:40 AM

Coffee

11:00 AM

294

A Unimolecular Model for a Mechanism of Assisted-Threading/Dethreading of a Macrocycle with a Polymer Chain
Michael F. Mayer, Texas Tech University; Zheng Xue, Texas Tech University

11:20 AM

295

Energy Transduction in Vesicles
David P. Summers, Ph. D., MIT, Carl Sagan Center, SETI Institute; Juan Noveron, University of Texas at El Paso; Ranor Basa, AA, Foothill College, Foothill College

11:40 AM

296

Modular Self-Assembled Receptors for Peptides
Adam R. Urbach, Trinity University

12:00 PM

297

Hierarchical Molecular Complexity Via Gold Nanoparticles
Juan Noveron, University of Texas at El Paso; Brenda M. Porta, University of Texas at El Paso

12:20 PM

Lunch

1:20 PM

298

Precise Synthetic Control Over the Average Density of Threaded Macrocycles within Polypseudorotaxanes
Michael F. Mayer, Texas Tech University; Songsu Kang, Texas Tech University; Ruiyang Jiang, Texas Tech University

1:40 PM

299

Crystal Engineering of Materials Built of Lewis Acids and Neutral Organic Molecules
Tatiana V. Timofeeva, New Mexico Highlands University; Andrey Yakovenko, New Mexico Highlands University; Jose Gallegos, New Mexico Highlands University; Mikhail Antipin, New Mexico Highlands University

2:00 PM

300

Amphiphilic Fluorescent Polythiophene Block-Copolymers Incorporating Low Energy Gap Units
Evgueni E. Nesterov, Louisiana State University; Jinwoo Choi, Louisiana State University

2:20 PM

301

Controlling RNA Folding and Assembly for Designing New Nano-Biomaterials
Luc Jaeger, University of California at Santa Barbara

2:40 PM

302

Asparagine Derived Lipid Analogues Stabilizes Liposomes in Acidic Environment
Adelphe M. Mfuh, University of Texas at San Antonio; Mathew P. D. Mahindaratne, University of Texas at San Antonio; George R. Negrete, University of Texas at San Antonio; Frederick J. Lakner, Chemical Diversity Inc

3:00 PM

Coffee

3:20 PM

303

Self-Organization of DNA Hybrid Materials
Leonel Barreda, University of Texas at El paso; Brenda M. Porta, University of Texas at El paso; Juan C. Noveron, University of Texas at El paso

3:40 PM

304

Molecular Structure & Dynamics of Spider Silk Proteins in Water
Jeffery L. Yarger, Arizona State University

4:00 PM

305

Functional Nanomaterials Based On Janus Nanoparticles
Sulolit Pradhan, University of California; Li-Ping Xu, University of California; Shaowei Chen, University of California

4:20 PM

306

Dye-Sensitized Ruthenium Nitrosyls: Trackable NO Donors for Light-Triggered NO Delivery to Cellular Targets
Pradip K. Mascharak, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California

4:40 PM

307

Aromatic Donor-Acceptor Interactions
Brent Iverson, University of Texas at Austin