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ProjectsResearch projects span the modeling, development and application of materials in diverse areas such as oil recovery, novel composites, and catalysts for energy applications to investigation of cellular response to biological and synthetic materials, transport of synthetic agents within cells and biological media, and sensing of oligonucleotides near surfaces. Students will be assisted in choosing a suitable project that matches their interests.

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2008 REU Research Projects

  1. Extraction of Microstructure Dynamics from X-ray Diffraction Microscope Data Sets.
  2. Templating of ordered mesoporous silica structures by triblock copolymers with three different blocks.
  3. Growth and Characterization of GaN-based Thin Films and High-electron-mobility Electronic Devices as Hydrogen and Hydrocarbon Sensors.
  4. Fabrication and Characterization of Blue and Green Light-emitting Diodes for Solid-State Lighting.
  5. Atomistic Characterization of Deep Sub-Micron Gate Oxide Breakdown.
  6. Determination of Order-Disorder Transition Temperature (TODT) in Block Copolymers and Block Copolymer Nanocomposites.
  7. Magnetomechanical Response in Polymer Ferrogels.
  8. Detecting microstructural change at (fatigue) crack tips.
  9. Wetting by Surfactant and Polymer Solutions.
  10. What do amyloid peptides do to cell membranes?
  11. Computer Simulations of the Evolution of Microstructure in Metal-Oxide Thin Films for Magnetic Recording Media.
  12. Calorimetric Studies of the formation of L10 Phase in FePt and Related Ternary Alloys for Magnetic Recording Media.
  13. Ethical concerns in nanotechnology: studies and discussion of toxicology at the nanoscale.
  14. Subcellular Interactions with Nanomaterials.
  15. Electrophoretic Sorting of Carbon Nanotubes by DNA-Surfactant Tagging.
  16. Phase Space Determination of Ordered Micelle Gel Nanocomposites.
  17. Synthesis of Gold particles in a microfluidic network: Determining tunability of particle size and monodispersity.
  18. Polymer-Encapsulated Zero Valent Iron Nanoparticles.
  19. Semiconducting Polymers:  Effect of Crystallization on Electrical Performance
  20. Nanomanufacturing.
  21. Crystalline effects in ultra-precision material removal using diamond tools
  22. Use of electric fields for controlling fluids and particles in microfluidic channels for the manipulation and self-assembly of micro/nano particles.
  23. Controlling Lipid Self-Assembly in Tethered Bilayer Lipid Membranes.
  24. Melting Temperature of Bulk Crystals.
  25. Dispersing Carbon Nanotubes using Synthetic Biomolecules.
  26. Solar Power From A Novel Photoelctrochemical Cell Based on Solid Proton Conducting Membranes
  27. Cell-Instructive Polymeric Microcapsule Systems for Stem Cell-based Therapies
  28. Serial Sectioning of Sn film for Hillock Prediction

2007 Projects

 

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