Invited Oral Presentations

  1. “Polyelectrolyte Multilayers Probed with Neutron Reflectivity”, Annual Meeting of the American Crystallographic Association, July 27, 2009, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  2. “Bio-assisted Surface Mediated Growth of Inorganic Nanoparticles” Polymer Textile and Fiber Engineering departmental seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology, February 2, 2009

  3. “Neutron Reflectivity Study of Structural Changes within Weak Polyelectrolyte Multilayers”, ORNL Workshop, Oak Ridge National Lab, TN, October 9, 2007

  4. “Polyelectrolyte Coatings Studied with Neutrons”, SNS/Oak Ridge National Lab, TN, August 24, 2006

  5. “Responsive Polyelectrolyte Multilayers”, SNS/Oak Ridge National Lab, TN, June 27, 2005.

  6. “Salt-induced Multilayer Growth: Correlation with Phase Separation in Solution”, The 3rd Annual Arthur E. Imperatore School of Sciences and Arts Graduate Student Conference, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, April 21, 2004.

Contributed oral presentations

  1. “Metal-reducing ultrathin free-standing membranes based on silk fibroin”, MRS meeting, San Francisco, CA, Apr 5-9, 2010.
  2. “Redox-active ultrathin templates of silk fibroin”, the 238th ACS National Meeting, Washimgton DC, August 18, 2009
  3. “Protein Structure and Surface-Mediated Synthesis of Monodisperse Titania Nanoparticles”, the 238th ACS National Meeting, Washimgton DC, August 18, 2009
  4.  “Silk-containing Free-standing Membranes for Metal Reduction”, Southeast Workshop on Soft Materials and Interfaces, Atlanta, GA, October 25, 2008.
  5. “Bio-assisted, surface-mediated growth of inorganic nanoparticles”, ACS National meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008
  6. “Biomimetic formation of inorganic nanoparticles on free-standing membranes”, Material Research Society meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 24-28, 2008.

  7. “Amphoteric Surface Hydrogels Derived from Hydrogen-Bonded Multilayers: Reversible Protein Uptake” (invited presentation of the selected poster), 4th International Nanomedicine and Drug 4. Delivery Symposium, Omaha, Nebraska, October 8, 2006.
  8. “Selective Chain Release from Layered Polyelectrolyte Films”, Material Research Society meeting. Symposium: Structure and dynamics of Charged Macromolecules at Solid-Liquid Interfaces, San Francisco, CA, April 20, 2006.

  9. “Hydrogen-bonded Self-assembled Films and Capsules of Thermoresponsive Polymers”, (invited presentation of the selected poster) 79th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, Clarkson University and the Center for Advanced Materials Processing, Potsdam, NY, June 14, 2005

  10.  “Salt-induced Multilayer Growth: Correlation with Phase separation in Solution”, 227th ACS meeting, Anaheim, CA, April 1, 2004.
  11. "Ionization of a Self-Assembled Weak Polyelectrolyte:Multilayer Stability and Controlled Release of Small Molecules", The 1st Annual Arthur E. Imperatore School of Sciences and Arts Graduate Student Conference, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, April 24, 2002.