Publications

Gower, Laurie A., "Morphology of Block Copolyurethanes," M.S. Thesis, University of Utah (1992).

Gower, L.A., T.-L.D. Wang, and D.J. Lyman, "Morphology of Block Copolyurethanes: V. The Effect of -CH2CH2- versus -CH2- Spacers Between Aromatic Rings," Journal of Biomaterials Science., Polymer Edition, 6, 8, 761-73 (1994).

Gower, L.A. and D.J. Lyman, "Phase Separation of Copolyurethanes: A Study of Annealing and Slow Solvent Evaporation Methods by FTIR," Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 33, 13, 2257-66 (1995).

Lyman, D.J., and L.A. Gower, "Effect of Infrared Salt Crystals on the Spectra of Copolyether-urethane-urea Films," Vibrational Spectroscopy, 9, 2, 203-7 (1995).

Gower, L.A., T.-L.D. Wang, and D.J. Lyman, "Morphology of Block Copolyurethanes: VI. The Effect of Segmental Dispersity on Phase Separation," in preparation.

Gower, Laurie A., "Morphology of Block Copolyurethanes," M.S. Thesis, University of Utah (1992).

Gower, L.A., "The Influence of Polyaspartate Additive on the Growth and Morphology of Calcium Carbonate Crystals," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Massachusetts (1997).

Gower, L.A. and D.A. Tirrell, "Calcium Carbonate Films and Helices Grown in Solutions of Polyaspartate," Journal of Crystal Growth, 191,1-2, (1998).

Gower, Laurie A., "Morphological control in biomineralization- Is it simpler than we thought?," Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, 217: 040-BTEC, U669 (March 21, 1999).

Gower, L.B. and D.J. Odom, "Deposition of Calcium Carbonate Films by a Polymer-Induced Liquid-Precursor Process," Journal of Crystal Growth, 210:4, 719-734 (2000).

Kimberly G. Christmas, Laurie B. Gower, James A. Adair, Saeed R. Khan, Hassan El-Shall, "Aggregation/Dispersion Characteristics of Calcium Oxalate Monohydrate Crystals in the Presence of Protein and Urinary Ions," Urolithiasis 2000 (Proc. 9th Int. Symp. Urolithiasis, Feb. 13-17 2000, Cape Town, South Africa), pp. 178-180 (2000).

Stephen R. Carino, Randolph S. Duran, Ronald H. Baney, Laurie A. Gower, Liu He, and Piyush K. Sheth, "Chemical Crosslinking, Surface Compressional Modulus, and Viscosity of n-Octadecyltrimethoxy Silane Monolayers," Journal of the American Chemical Society, (2001).

Gower, Laurie B., "Relevance of a Polymer-Induced Liquid-Precursor Process to Calcium Carbonate Biomineralization," in preparation.

Pennisi, S.V., McConnell, D.B., Gower, L., "Calcium oxalate hydrates in Dracaena Sanderiana hort. sander ex mast. (Dracaenaceae) and their relevance to the field of biomineralization," Proceedings of the Southeastern Microscopy Society, 20 (April, 1999).

Svoboda V. Pennisi, Dennis B. McConnell, Laurie B. Gower, Michael E. Kane, T. Lucansky, "Periplasmic Cuticular Calcium Oxalate Crystal Deposition in Dracaena Sanderiana," New Phytologist, 149, 209-218 (2001).

Svoboda V. Pennisi, Dennis B. McConnell, Laurie B. Gower, Michael E. Kane, T. Lucansky, "Intracellular Calcium Oxalate Crystal Deposition in Dracaena Sanderiana," New Phytologist, 149, in press (2001).