More than 100 faculty, post-docs, graduate and undergraduate students engaged in nanoscience and nanotechnology research at Vanderbilt attended the 15th annual forum on Nov. 12.
There were 38 posters submitted in the 2014 graduate student poster competition and the winners were:
1st Place TIE
Alice Leach, Interdisciplinary Materials Science
Advisor: Janet Macdonald
“Phase Dependent Visible to Near-Infrared Photoluminescence of CuInS2 Nanocrystals“
1st Place TIE
Ryan Nicholl, Physics
Advisor: Kirill Bolotin
“Entropically dominated mechanics of graphene“
2nd Place
Brian Evans, Biomedical Engineering
Advisor: Craig Duvall
“A Novel Platform Technology for Cytosolic Peptide Delivery with Endosomolytic Nanopolyplexes Applied to Vascular Graft Intimal Hyperplasia“
Keith Share, Interdisciplinary Materials Science
Advisor: Cary Pint
“Energetics of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides as Sodium Ion Battery“
3rd Place
Suruj Deka, Electrical Engineering, undergraduate
Advisor: Sharon Weiss
“Memristance Phenomenon in Titanium Dioxide-Porous Silicon Nanocomposites“
Wei Li, Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Jason Valentine
“Metamaterial Perfect Absorber Based Hot Electron Photodetection“
Alexis Wong, Chemistry
Advisor: David Wright
“Optical imaging tools for gene expression analysis in cancer cells“
1st Year Student Presentation on Research Rotation
Nitin Muralidharan, Interdisciplinary Materials Science
Advisor: Leon Bellan
“Hydroxyapatite scaffolds with 3D interconnected micro-channels for bone tissue engineering“