Brian J. Love
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Address
Collegiate Square Suite 302
Mail Code 0286
540-231-3186
540-231-3554 FAX
Web Updates (journal pubs, funding, projects,
and people).
August 2006 Fabien and Brian submit a manuscript entitled "Dynamic photorheological
analysis of photopolymerizable urethane dimethacrylate resins with varying diluent
content and light fluence" to the Journal
of Rheology
July 2006 Nancy and Linsey
Marr ride bikes across
June 2006
Faith Huang arrives as
an IAESTE scholar to work for 6 months.
She is from
Brian and Nancy go
to
May
2006 Fabien Piguet-Ruinet joins Virginia
Tech as a Visiting Research Scholar. He
is from Universite Claude Bernard (LYON France) and
is focused on rheology and photopolymerization.
Paul Fox joins as
a summer intern, he’s an MSE major from NC State
April
2006 Fabien Piguet-Ruinet joins Virginia Tech as a Visiting Research
Scholar. He is from Universite
Claude Bernard (LYON France) and is focused on rheology
and photopolymerization.
Elena and Brian submit
a manuscript entitled “The Physical basis for stability in bimodal dispersions
including micrometer-sized particles and nanoparticles”
to the Journal of Rheology.
March
2006 “A Comparative Study of Transport Through Amine Plasma Treated Asymmetric Polysulfone
Membranes”, a collaboration with John Dillard’s group is submitted to the J Membrane Science.
“Design and Testing
of an Oscillatory Compression Device for Cell Constructs", to Annals of
Biomedical Engineering, a collaboration with Kim Williams’ group in Chem Eng was submitted to Annals of Biomedical Engineering
February
2006 “Photodimerization of coumarin
functionalized poly(alkyl acrylate)
and poly (alkyl methacrylate) random copolymers”, a
collaboration with Tim Long’s group was submitted to
the J Polym Sci, Polymer Chemistry.
Kristin wins a
Macromolecules and Interfaces Institute (MII) Fellowship for the fall term
2006.
January
2006 Kristin McKeon joins the group. She received her BS Degree in Biology from VT
in 2004. She will work on the amyloid protein
efforts.
The manuscript for Analytical Biochemistry is
accepted.
December
2005 Elena Burguera joins
the American Dental Association’s
November
2005 In < 3 weeks, we identify a moldable polypropylene/carbon
composite that Philip Johnson, VT’s orthotist, molds into
a device that allows Cedric Humes to play the rest of
the VT Football season. Cedric is later
drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers. Our
work was written up in Science Magazine,
among others. We were also interviewed
nationally on ESPN’s “Cold Pizza” program on
October 2005 In our Biomaterials class, Mike Goforth, team trainer for the VT football team has given the class an assignment to augment the stiffness of arm braces used for ulnar fractures. Surprisingly, this collaboration was already highlighted in the Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/16/AR2005101600905.html)
Brian affiliates with the Center for Gerontology at VT (http://www.gerontology.vt.edu/ )
3 new undergraduates join the research group including Molly Tinius, Jack Zhang, and Meredith Fotta.
Bryce’s manuscript
on porous scaffolds is accepted to the Journal of Biomaterials Science,
Polymers Edition
September
2005 Elena Burguera
and I submit a paper entitled “Reduced Transglutaminase-catalyzed
protein aggregation is observed in the presence of creatine” to Analytical Biochemistry
Celine Jantet wraps up her internship. We will ultimately submit her work to Polymer Engineering and Science.
Bryce Whited’s paper on cell response to Amorphous Calcium Phosphate is accepted to J Biomedical Materials Research.
Our work for the
August 2005 Our work on Transglutaminase inhibition as one strategy for reducing neurovascular agglomerations is highlighted on the VT, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Newswise news dissemination services
June 2005 Brian attends the Bioinspired Nanomaterials workshop at Northwestern.
Brian, Aaron
Goldstein, Peter Shires, and Drago
Skrtic (ADA), submitted a
NIH Proposal (R-01), $1.4M, to NIAMS for the June 1 deadline. Regrettably
it wasn’t funded
Brian is quoted in the Roanoke Times (June 12th) relating to academic progress at Virginia Tech.
Papers by Bryce Whited, Brian Love, Aaron
Goldstein, and Drago Skrtic, are submitted to the Journal
of Biomedical Materials Research and J Biomaterials Science,
Polymers Edition, respectively.
May
2005 Tua Sundholm,
an IAESTE scholar, arrived in
Bryce Whited graduates with a MS degree in Biomedical Engineering. Congrats Bryce.
Brian introduces the Dean at the Engineering Commencement. This is Brian’s last official act as President of the Engineering Faculty Organization. What a year it has been.
Jenni Popp (SBES), received an honorable mention for the NSF Graduate Fellowship Program.
