Congratulations to the 2023 NanoDay! poster competition winners! The 23rd annual Nanoscience/Nanotechnology Forum attracted more than 250 registered attendees. In total 66 posters were presented during the event, including 3 high school students from the School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt or Research Experience for High School Students (REHSS) programs. The winners are listed below.
1st Place:
Theodore Anyika, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Ndukaife): Hybrid approaches for nanoscale trapping and manipulation using plasmonic antennas
2nd Place:
William Tierney, Biomedical Engineering (Duvall): Optimization of Intravascular Peptide Delivery for Restenosis Prevention at Sites of Peripheral Angioplasty
Yilan Xu, undergraduate, Mechanical Engineering (Dong): Wireless Millimeter-Size Soft Climbing Robots With Omnidirectional Steerability on Tissue Surfaces
3rd Place:
Amelia Soltes, Biomedical Engineering (Duvall): Optimization of Polymeric Nanoparticles for siRNA Delivery
Lucinda Pastora, Biomedical Engineering (Wilson): ROS-responsive, On-Demand Delivery of STING Pathway Inhibitors to Treat Ulcerative Colitis and Reprogram the Immune Microenvironment in the Colon
Brandon Swartz, Mechanical Engineering (Valentine): Large aperture metasurfaces for broadband, incoherent optical edge detection
Interdisciplinary Materials Science 10 Week Rotation Poster Winners
1st Place:
Jeb Buchner (Caldwell): Angle-Mediated Control of Hyperbolic Phonon Polariton Propagation in Thin α-MoO3 Wedges
2nd Place:
Elizabeth Hays (Jennings): Synthesis and Patterning of Thin Films using Spin-Coating Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization on Self-Assembled Monolayers
Fan Favorite Award
Sajal Islam, Interdisciplinary Materials Science (Schrimpf): Single-Event Burnout in Vertical β-Ga2O3 Diodes with Pt/PtOx Schottky Contacts and High-k Field-Plate Dielectrics
