Mini-Research Symposium, PREM+MRSEC jont session

Hours

Institution

Speaker

Title

1:00 PM

UMass

Todd Emrick

Directing Assembly of Materials into Nanoscopic Assemblies and Patterns

1:15 PM

UTPA

Karen Lozano

Science and Engineering of Polymeric and Nanoparticle-based Materials for Electronic and Structural Applications

1:30 PM

Brandeis

Bob Meyer

Chiral Self-Assembly

1:45 PM

Minnesota

Tim Lodge

Ion Gels as Gate Dielectrics in Plastic Electronics

2:00 PM

Tuskegee

Mahesh Hosur

Synthesis and Characterization of Polymeric Nanocomposites

2:15 PM

Harvard

TBA

TBA

2:30 PM

Penn

Arjun Yodh

Some "Low Energy" Particle Physics

2:45 PM

Break

3:15 PM

Chicago

Sid Nagel

Making a Splash with PREM

3:30 PM

Humacao

Nicholas Pinto

Electrospinning Conducting Polymer and Metal Oxide Nanofibers for Devices and Sensors

3:45 PM

Washington

Mehmet Sarikaya

Molecular Biomimetics - Genetically Designed Self-Assembled Functional Materials

4:00 PM

New Mexico

Heather E. Canavan

Leadership through Collaborative Research on Biomaterials in the UNM-Harvard PREM

4:15 PM

Colorado

Noel Clark

Liquid Crystals and the Origin of Life

4:30 PM

CCNY

Jeff Morris

A few examples of dynamics of particulate and heterogeneous materials

Hours

Institution

Speaker

Title

1:00 PM

Northwestern

Mark Hersam

Self-Assembled Dielectrics on Graphene

1:15 PM

Clark Atlanta

Xiao-Qian Wang

Structural, Electronic, and Optical Properties of Functionalized Graphene

1:30 PM

Georgia Tech

Dennis Hess

Epitaxial Graphene for Electronic Devices

1:45 PM

Maryland

Janice Reutt-Robey

Molecular Electrostatics and Structure Evolution at Organic Semiconductor Interfaces

2:00 PM

UTSA

Dhiraj Sardar

Characterization of Rare Earth Nanomaterials and their Biological and Photonic Applications

2:15 PM

Yale

John Tully

3D Imaging and Chemical Specificity by Atomic Resolution Force Microscopy

2:30 PM

NYU

Mike Ward

Pathological Crystallization and Disease

2:45 PM

Break

3:15 PM

CSM

Craig Taylor

Novel Materials for Use in Renewable Energy Applications

3:30 PM

Norfolk State

M. A. Noginov

Plasmonic Metamaterials: Low Loss and Gain

3:45 PM

CalTech

Sossina Haile

Electrocatalysis at the Nanoscale

4:00 PM

Mayaguez

Nelson Cardona-Martínez

Bifunctional Materials for the Catalytic Hydrogenation of Cellulose

4:15 PM

MIT

Yang Shao-Horn

Oxygen Electrocatalysis for Clean Energy Conversion and Storage

4:30 PM

Howard

T. E. Huber

Mobility and Thermopower of Surface and Bulklike Charges in Bi and Sb Nanowires

4:45 PM

Wisconsin

Juan de Pablo

TBA

Hours

Institution

Speaker

Title

1:00 PM

Princeton

N. Phuan Ong

Topological Insulators -- a New Playground for Experimentalists

1:15 PM

New Mexico Highlands

Tatiana Timofeeva

Progress of Photonic Materials Studies

1:30 PM

Ohio State

Nitin Padture

Carbon-Based Materials for Spintronics

1:45 PM

Johns Hopkins

Oleg Tchernyshyov

Dynamics of Bloch Domain Walls in Thin Magnetic Films

2:00 PM

Cal State Northridge

Gang Lu

Quantum Simulation of Materials at Micron Scale and Beyond

2:15 PM

CMU

Greg Rohrer

Measuring and Interpreting the Structure of Grain Boundary Networks

2:30 PM

Cornell

Melissa Hines

Mastering Nanostructured Materials: Atomic Membranes and Complex Electronic Materials

2:45 PM

Break

3:15 PM

Oklahoma/

Arkansas

Matthew Johnson

C-SPIN Activities in Quantum Structures & Narrow Band-gap Semiconductors

3:30 PM

Jackson State

Paresh Chandra Ray

Size and Shape Dependent Nonlinear Optical Properties of Nanomaterials and Its Application in Biological and Chemical Sensing

3:45 PM

Nebraska

Evgeny Tsymbal

Novel Functionalities of Ferroic Heterostructures

4:00 PM

UCSB

Ram Seshadri

Oxides as Semiconductors: Understanding ZnO and Beyond

4:15 PM

Brown

Pradeep Guduru

Why Mechanics Phenomena are Essential to Design of Battery Materials

4:30 PM

Xavier

Lamartine Meda

Nanostructured Transition-Metal Oxides as Electrodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries

4:45 PM

Penn State

Vin Crespi

Collective Behavior of Autonomous Micromotors