17th Annual Nanoscience/Nanotechnology Forum Poster Winners

Posted by Sarah Ross on Wednesday, October 19, 2016 in News.

More than 100 faculty, post-docs, graduate and undergraduate students engaged in nanoresearch at Vanderbilt attended the 17th annual Nanoscience/Nanotechnology Forum (“NanoDay!”) on October 19th. 33 posters were submitted in the 2016 student poster competition and the winners are:

1^st Place
Zhihua Zhu, Electrical Engineering
Advisor: Jason Valentine/Richard Haglund
“Tunable Metasurfaces Based on Vanadium Dioxide“

2^nd Place
Somtochukwu Dimobi, undergraduate, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Advisor: Craig Duvall
“Validation of a Galectin-8 Reporter as a Measure of Nanocarrier Endosomal Escape and Biologic Drug Intracellular Bioavailability“

Joshua Fain, Electrical Engineering
Advisor: Sharon Weiss
“Scalable Fabrication of Shape-Engineered Porous Silicon Nanoparticles by Direct Imprintation“

3^rd Place
Samantha Sarett, Biomedical Engineering,
Advisor: Craig Duvall
“Conjugation of lipophilic albumin-binding moiety to siRNA improves carrier-free in vivo pharmacokinetics and mediates prolonged gene silencing in tumors“

Andrew Westover, Interdisciplinary Materials Science
Advisor: Cary Pint
“Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Multifunctional Energy Storage Composites“

Frances Knight, Biomedical Engineering
Advisor: John Wilson
“Stimulating Pulmonary Immunity via Intranasal Delivery of Nanoparticle Vaccines“

1^st Year IMS student 10- week Research Rotation
Kate Moyer, Interdisciplinary Materials Science
Advisor: Cary Pint
“Capillary filling of carbon nanotubes for next generation batteries“

Tags: Andrew Westover, Frances Knight, Joshua Fain, Kate Moyer, NanoDay, Samantha Sarett, Somtochukwu Dimobi, Zhihua Zhu