Congratulations to the 2022 NanoDay! competition winners! More than 220 faculty, post-docs, graduate and undergraduate students attended the 22nd annual Nanoscience/Nanotechnology Forum on November 4th. A record-breaking 72 posters were presenting during the event; the winners are listed below.
1st Place:
Mariah Bezold, Biomedical Engineering (Duvall): Shear-thinning, Nanoparticle-based Hydrogels as an Injectable Delivery Platform for Repair of Chronic Diabetic Skin Wounds
2nd Place:
Marsalas Whitaker, Biomedical Engineering (Giorgio): Affinity Purification of Small Vesicles using Bio-Functionalized Magnetic Particles
Elena Kovalik, Interdisciplinary Materials Science (Valentine): Low Power Structural Color Tuning in a-Si Dielectric Metasurface via Li-ion insertion
3rd Place
Joseph Matson, Interdisciplinary Materials Science (Caldwell): Shear Polaritons in Monoclinic Crystals
Shanay Desai, undergraduate, Biomedical Engineering (King): Evaluating the Mechanisms of Yoda1 Sensitization of TRAIL-Mediated Apoptosis in Glioblastoma Cells
Alex Stoneman, undergraduate, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (Lang): Development of alpha beta TCR Mechanosensory Tools and Simulations
Interdisciplinary Materials Science 10 Week Rotation Poster Winners
Rahul Shah (Kidambi): Graphene transfer onto polymeric substrate: effect of temperature and pressure
Soren Smail (Weiss): SARS-CoV2 Detection using Peptide-functionalized Ring Resonators
Fan Favorite Award
Nathan Spear, Interdisciplinary Materials Science (Macdonald/Haglund): Enhancement of Third Harmonic Generation via harmonic plasmon coupling in Au/CuS nanoparticle films