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In 2005, the Center for Nanotechnology began hosting CNT Student Symposia in order to:

  • Provide an opportunity for students to practice their inter- and cross- disciplinary communication skills and enhance their capacities to describe their research in a broadly accessible, engaging, and informative manner; and
  • Promote interactions and networking among students from diverse departments.
All students currently supported by CNT fellowships and students in the dual degree program are invited to present their research work at these Symposia. All CNT-affiliated students are encouraged to attend these events, as are CNT faculty and staff.

Symposia are held each Autumn, Winter, and Spring quarter. At each Symposium, about a dozen talks follow a standard format of a 5 minute presentation, followed by 2 minutes of questions and answers. A social hour usually follows the presentations to allow for more one-on-one networking.

The slides from each of the presentations at the Symposia follow, with the Symposia listed in chronological order.

 

May 2007

  1. Anna Pyayt, Electrical Engineering - PROPRIETARY -Integration of silver nanowire waveguides with dielectric waveguides
  2. Chris So &Brandon Wilson, Materials Science & Engineering - Bio-Inspired Materials Science
  3. Jessica Hancock, Chemical Engineering - PROPRIETARY -Solution Phase Self-Assembly of Organic Semiconductors
  4. Bowen Cheng, Electrical Engineering - Random Walk Self-Assembly at Nano-Micro Scale
  5. Xiaosong Ji, Materials Science & Engineering - Perpendicular anisotropy and exchange bias in magnetic multilayers
  6. Joseph Wei, Chemical Engineering - PROPRIETARY -Dip-Pen Nanolithography for Template-Directed Organization: Polymer Thin Films - Engineered Polypeptides & Nanohole Arrays
  7. Leslie  Au, Chemistry - Engineering Gold Nanocages for the Photothermal Therapy of Cancer
  8. Matthew Bernards, Chemical Engineering - Nanopattern Enhanced Surface Plasmon Resonance for Early Cancer Diagnostics
  9. Fang Cheng, Chemical engineering - Characterization of Orientation and Conformation of Adsorbed Proteins using XPS, ToF-SIMS, NEXAFS and SPR
  10. Tianlong Wen, Materials Science & Engineering - Thermal stability and magnetotransport in core-shell nanostructures

March 2007

  1. Eric Formo, Chemistry.- Nanostructured Materials by Electrospinning
  2. Leah Scanlin, Microbiology.- Effect of E. coli Mutations on  Pili Length, Number, and Binding
  3. Omid Veiseh, Materials Science & Engineering.- Multifunctional Nanoprobe For Medulloblastoma Diagnosis and Therapy
  4. Daniel Sluss, Chemistry.- Single Molecule Rotation Studies
  5. Bryan Russo, Materials Science & Engineering.- Fabricating Fluorine Doped Tin Oxide (FTO) Thin Films and Nanorods
  6. Obadiah Reid, Chemistry.- Scanning Probe Microscopy of Plastic Solar Cells
  7. Lucas Cameron, Chemical Engineering.- Catalytic H2 Production by Metal Nanoparticles
  8. Claire Cobley, Chemistry.- Metallic Nanocubes and Nanocages
  9. Samuel Kim, Electrical Engineering.- Self-Assembled Heterogeneous Integrated Fluorescence Detection System
  10. Tracy Lovejoy, Physics, Possible Spintronic Materials Mn doped Ga2Se3
  11. Eric Lee, Chemistry.- Utilizing metal nanostructures for applications in controlled delivery, catalysis, and fuel cells

December 2006

  1. Curtis Deer, Chemistry -  Exploration of Dilute Magnetic Semiconductor Quantum Dots
  2. Andrei Afanasiev, Electrical Eng. - Nanowire Biosensors
  3. Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith, Chemistry - Critical fluctuations in a membrane
  4. Wei  Chen, Physics - Metal-insulator transition in vanadium dioxide nanocrystals
  5. Michael White, Chemistry - PROPRIETARY -Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Carriers in Magnetic Semiconductor Nanocrystals
  6. Matt Ferguson, MSE - Magnetic Nanocrystals for MPI
  7. Perry Schiro, Chemistry - Investigating and manipulating Single Molecules and Single Organelles
  8. Christina Polwarth, MSE - Combinatorial Materials Exploration (CME) of SrTiO3
  9. Jason Allen Farmer, Chemistry - Nanoparticles on Metal Oxides:Energetics and Reactivity
  10. Zachary Hill,  Chemistry - Synthesis of Soluble Perylene Compounds for Use in Photovoltaic Devices
  11. Jean Wang, Electrical Eng. - Sub-diffraction Quantum Dot Waveguides
  12. Aileen Wu, Bioengineering - Examining the Molecular Mechanisms behind Synaptogenesis Using Nanofluidics

May 2006

  1. M. Hassan Arbab , Electrical Engineering - Optimization of Empirical Potential Parameters for Molecular Dynamic Simulation of Perturbed Si Crystal Configurations
  2. Jocelyn Takayesu , Chemistry - PROPRIETARY - Tuning Microring Resonator Filters for VLSI Applications with Organic Electro-Optic Materials
  3. Neil Geisler , BioEngineering - Surface Patterning for Microfluidic Diagnostic Immunoassays
  4. Eswaranand Venkatasubramanian , Chemistry - Compositionally graded InGaN/GaN heterostructures: A new approach to explore phonon-plasmon coupling as a means to minimize heat back flow
  5. Lisa Lafleur , Electrical Engineering & BioEngineering -- Water Contaminant Testing on ISS
  6. Dennis Edmonson , MSE - Nanostructured Bio-Scaffold
  7. Huseyin Bilge , Electrical Engineering - A "Laser Printer" for Proteins
  8. Paolo Spicar-Mihalic , Chemistry - Use of Piezoelectric Inkjet Printer in Developing Microfluidic-Based Multi-Analyte Immunoassay

March 2006
  1. Andrew Akelaitis, Chemistry - Organic Materials for Electro-optic Applications
  2. Adrienne Battle, Physics - Flat Fluids
  3. Neil Bernotski, Electrical Engineering - Formation of Two-Dimensional Colloidal Sphere Arrays on Micro-Patterns
  4. Dustin Frame , Materials Science and Engineering - Microstructural Evolution of Sintering Ceramic Films
  5. Samarth Kulkarni, Bioengineering - Smart Polymer Nanoparticles for Diagnostics
  6. Lisa Lafleur, Electrical Engineering - Water Contaminant Testing on ISS
  7. Phillip Sullivan, Chemistry - Engineering of Organic Materials for Enhanced 2nd-order Nonlinear Optical Properties
  8. Allen Taylor, Chemical Engineering - Highly Sensitive Protein Arrays and Array Sensors for Biomedical Diagnostics and Food Safety
  9. Kelly Whitaker, Chemistry - Photochemical Reduction of Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Nanocrystals
  10. Kristin Wustholz, Chemistry - Single-Molecule Nanoreporters in Dyed Salt Crystals
  11. Lijun Xu, Chemistry - Theoretical Studies of Pd on MgO (100) Surface with Density Functional and Transition State Theories
December 2005
  1. Jeremy Cooper, Physiology and Biophysics - Exploring the Mechanism of MCAK's MicrotubuleDepolymerization Activity
  2. Kelli Griffin, Materials Science and Engineering - Processing, microstructure and the origin of ferromagnetism in Co doped anatase TiO2thin films
  3. Stephen Hawley, Electrical Engineering - Modeling, Simulation and Control of Nanosystems
  4. Michael C. Hegg, Electrical Engineering - Nano-scale Quantum Dot Photodetectorsby Self-Assembly
  5. Brian A. Kidd, Bioengineering - Predicting Functional States of Proteins
  6. Andrea Munro, Chemistry - Single CdSe Quantum Dot Behavior and Surface Chemistry
  7. Kimia Sobhani, Chemistry - Proteomic Analysis of Inflammatory Macrophage Death and Activation
  8. Conroy Sun, Materials Science and Engineering - Diagnosis Synthesis of folatereceptor targeted super paramagneticiron oxide nanoparticles
  9. Ying Wang, Electrical Engineering - Enhanced Li-ion Intercalation Propertiesin Vanadium Pentoxide through Engineering Nanostructure
  10. Zenghui Wang, Physics - Metal-Insulator Transition in Vanadium Oxide Nanowires
  11. Benjamin Wiley, Chemical Engineering - Single Crystal Silver Nanoparticles with Well-Controlled Shapes
  12. (Angus)Hin-Lap Yip, Materials Science and Engineering - Efficient n-Type Organic Semiconductors Through Supramolecular Self-Assembly and Nanomanipulation
May 2005
  1. Haixia Dai, Chemical Engineering - Engineering Nanomaterials with a Combined Electrochemical and Molecular Biomimetic Approach
  2. Rui Deng, Physics - Modeling limits to conduction in nano-scale interconnects
  3. Aaron Feaver, Materials Science & Engineering - PROPRIETARY - Carbon Cryogels for Low Pressure Methane Storage
  4. Tomoko Gray, Chemical Engineering - Stabilization of Photonic and Optoelectronic Polymers via Stabilization of Photonic and Optoelectronic Polymers via Nanorheological Engineering Nanorheological Engineering
  5. Scott Hammond, Chemistry - Functionalization of CarbonNanotubes via the Diels-Alder Reaction
  6. Tae-Dong Kim, Materials Science and Engineering - Ultra-Large Electro-Optic Activities from Supramolecular NLO Materials
  7. Nathan Kohler, Materials Science and Engineering - Chemotherapeutic Nanoparticles for Cancer Diagnosis and Therapeutics
  8. William K. Liu, Chemistry - Spectroscopy of Photovoltaic Nanocrystalline Co2+-doped ZnO Electrodes
  9. Robert Lorenz, Chemistry - Microdroplet Reaction Platform for Use in Subnanoliter Reactions and Single Molecule Studies
  10. Anna Pyayt, Electrical Engineering - PROPRIETARY - Novel wavelength selective switch based on new electro-optical materials and nano-fabrication
March 2005
  1. Daniel B. Allred, Chemical Engineering - Nanopatterned Surfaces as Substrates for Molecular Electronics
  2. Amit Babel, Chemical Engineering - Charge Transport in Conjugated Polymer Nanowires
  3. Chihchen Chen, Bioengineering - Microfluidically Accessible Nanoholes molded in a PDMS surface for Cellular Analysis
  4. Ching-Yi Chen, Materials Science & Engineering - Novel Nanostructured Functional Dendron-linear Diblock Copolymers for Nanophotonics
  5. Jingyi Chen, Chemistry - Polyol Synthesis of Platinum Nanostructures
  6. David Coffey, Physics - Patterning Phase Separation in Conjugated Polymer Films with Dip-Pen Nanolithography
  7. Gregory A. Cooksey, Bioengineering - Guiding Cell Migration with Nanoscale Regulation of Cell Adhesions
  8. Jonathan Gunn, Materials Science and Engineering - Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticle Apoptosis Probe
  9. Jessica M. Hancock, Chemistry - Quinoline-Based Polymer Bottlebrushes and Oligomers
  10. Tom Keenan, Bioengineering - Nanohole Delivery of Chemotactic Gradients
  11. Diedrich A. Schmidt, Physics - Epitaxial Growth and Properties of Nanoscale Oxides for Spintronic Applications
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