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

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