2017 Summer Nanoseminar Schedule
The VINSE summer nanoseminar series provides an opportunity for graduate students or post-docs to share their current research with the larger VINSE community to foster discussion and collaboration. Each seminar will consist of 2 talks of 15-20 minutes each with 10-15 minutes of questions. The goal of these talks is to discuss and challenge the work being presented in order to promote a healthy debate.
Seminars will be held weekly in 5326 Stevenson Center from 12:00-1:00 on Fridays.
June 2, 2017
Charlie Arutt – Schrimpf Group
“Dose-rate effects on the total ionizing dose response of piezoresistive micromachined cantilevers”
Nitin Muralidharan – Pint Group
“Using batteries to harvest mechanical energy”
June 9, 2017
John Slack – Pintauro Group
“Electrospun nanofiber cathodes for improved performance and durability of proton exchange membrane fuel cells”
Kevin Miller – Weiss Group
“Integrating vanadium dioxide in silicon photonics for next generation information processing”
June 16, 2017
Meredith Jackson – Duvall Group
“Zwitterionic coronas improve siRNA polyplex pharmacokinetics, tumor penetration, and bioactivity compared to traditional PEG architectures”
Aaron Daniel – Cliffel Group
“Electrochemical detection of TNT using vandium dioxide particle films”
June 23, 2017
Zhihua Zhu – Valentine Group
“Reconfigurable metasurface based on vanadium dioxide”
Claire Marvinney – Haglund Group
“Band-edge exciton dynamics in ZnO nanowires and nanopopcorn”
July 7, 2017
Cody Covington – Varga Group
“Using time dependent density functional theory to model the local electron currents on the nanoscale”
Jordan Rhodes – Macdonald Group
“Phase-controlled synthesis of iron sulfide nanoparticles via sulfur precursor reactivity”
July 14, 2017
Xin Zhang – Bellan Group
“Composites formed from thermoresponsive polymers and conductive nanoparticles for transient electronics”
Pan Wang – Fleetwood Group
“Effects of bias on the total-ionizing dose response of graphene transistors with Al2O3 and h-BN over-layers”
July 21, 2017
Frances Knight – Wilson Group
“Generation of protective lung-tesident CD8+ T cells after single-dose intranasal nanoparticle immunization”
Alice Leach – VINSE
“VINSE cleanroom: New location, new capabilities”
July 28, 2017
Jake Benzing – Wittig Group
“Alloy partitioning in a medium-Mn advanced high strength steel”
Cole Brubaker – Adams Group
“3D printing of functionalized nanocomposites”
August 4, 2017
Kemar Reid – Rosenthal Group
“Understanding atomic structure – function relationships in colloidal nanostructures”
Casey Brock – Walker Group
“Optimizing pseudopotentials with a genetic algorithm for faster and more accurate ab-initio materials modeling”