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Biointerphases Announces New Publishing Partnership with Springer Verlag
Biointerphases is pleased to announce our new publishing partnership with Springer Verlag! Beginning with 2012's Volume 7, Biointerphases will be published via SpringerOpen, Springer's suite of open access journals. We and Springer are committed to fostering and growing the open access model. The journal's editors, board members and editorial staff remain unchanged, and you can expect the same high-quality articles as always. To submit a manuscript, please visit our new submission site.
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Two stages in three-dimensional in vitro growth of tissue generated by osteoblastlike cells
Krishna P. Kommareddy, Claudia Lange, Monika Rumpler, John W. C. Dunlop, Inderchand Manjubala, Jing Cui, Karl Kratz, Andreas Lendlein, and Peter Fratzl
Biointerphases 5, 45 (2010); doi:10.1116/1.3431524
Physical properties of the substrate such as stiffness and architecture highly influence the proliferation and differentiation of cells. Here the authors show how scaffold stiffness and cell seeding densities influences osteoblast cells seeded onto polyether urethane scaffolds containing pores of different sizes. This paper emphasizes how geometric constraints may guide tissue formation in vitro and shows that optimizing scaffold architectures may improve tissue formation independent of the scaffold material used... Read more
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Protein resistant oligo(ethylene glycol) terminated self-assembled monolayers of thiols on gold by vapor deposition in vacuum
Laxman Kankate, Udo Werner, Andrey Turchanin, Armin Gölzhäuser, Helge Großmann, and Robert Tampé
Biointerphases 5, 30 (2010); doi:10.1116/1.3407483
Protein resistant oligo(ethylene glycol) (OEG) terminated self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of thiols on gold are commonly used for suppression of nonspecific protein adsorption in biology and biotechnology. Here the authors demonstrate that protein resistant SAMs can also prepared by vapor deposition (VD) in vacuum. The work opens a new path to in situ engineering and patterning of protein resistant monolayers by high and ultrahigh vacuum techniques... Read more
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Controlled solvent-exchange deposition of phospholipid membranes onto solid surfaces
Andreas O. Hohner, Maria Pamela C. David, and Joachim O. Rädler
Biointerphases 5, 1 (2010); doi:10.1116/1.3319326
Controlled deposition of lipid bilayers plays a key role in creating supported membranes for biosensing devices and biophysical cell studies. In this paper the authors demonstrate a solvent-exchange method to deposit a phospholipid bilayer on solid substrates. Supported lipid bilayers, prepared using this approach, are homogeneous and fluid... Read more
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| Meeting Announcements |
 Interface Biology of Implants
May 9-11, 2012
Warnemünde, Germany
Professor Joachim Rychly, University of Rostock, will host the 4th International Symposium “Interface Biology of Implants”, scheduled for May 9-11, 2012, at the Kurhaus in Warnemünde.
The goal of the meeting is to focus on the interdisciplinary research on the interface between implant biomaterials and the biosystem which forms a basis for tissue engineering and implant technology in the field of regenerative medicine.
The symposium will bring together international scientists from multiple disciplines such as materials science, physics, chemistry, biology and medicine, offering a platform for discussions and exchange in various plenary and poster sessions.
Every discipline mentioned is welcome to be discussed in the following topics:
- Generation of regenerative materials
- Cell - extracellular matrix interaction
- Material induced biological responses
- Mechanical control of cell
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Announcing the Biointerphase Poster Prize winners from the ONR-Seacoat Workshop held December 4-8, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada:
First Prize: Sophie Mieszkin, University of Birmingham
Second Prize: He Xie, Pennsylvania State University
Honorable Mention:
Tawheed Mohamed, University of Heidelberg/KIT
Emannuelle Evariste, University of Birmingham
Stella Bauer, University of Heidelberg
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Announcing the Biointerphase Poster Prize winners from the AVS 58th International Symposium and Exhibition, held October 30-November 4, 2011 in Nashville, Tennessee:
First Prize: X. Xie, University of Utah
Second Prize: M. P. Arpa Sancet, University of Heidelberg
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Biointerphases is a peer-reviewed open access journal published under the brand SpringerOpen. It is an interdisciplinary journal which explores all aspects of quantitative soft matter interfaces: chemistry, physics, engineering, theory and modeling. Topics covered include interface spectroscopy, in vivo and in vitro mechanisms, interface modeling, adhesion phenomena, protein-surface interactions, biomembranes on a chip, cell-surface interactions, biosensors/biodiagnostics, bio-surface modification, the nano-bio interface, biotribology/biorheology, molecular recognition, cell patterning for function, polyelectrolyte surfaces, and ambient diagnostic methods. In addition to regular submissions, the journal includes the In Focus section of features, examining specific topics and edited by experts in the field.
