Program
of the
2002
MRSEC REU SUMMER PROGRAM RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
Friday,
August 9, 2002
Davis Auditorium, Schapiro CEPSR
Columbia University
SESSION
I
PROCESSESS
9:30 am - Ashley Smith, McGill University
"Patterning CdSe Nanocrystal Films Using Photolithography"
Professor Irving P. Herman, mentor
9:50 am - Jemmel Pursoo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
"Photocopying of Living Chains: Two-Color Photopolymerization"
Professor Nicholas J. Turro, mentor
10:10 am - Timothy Morse, The Cooper Union
"Measuring Lattice Rotations Induced by Plastic Deformation
in Single Crystals"
Professor Jeffrey Kysar, mentor
10:30 am - BREAK
SESSION
II
SYNTHESIS OF NANOCRYSTALS
11:00am
- Martin Alvarez, Brown University
"The Synthesis of Iron Selenide Nanoparticles"
Professor Stephen O’Brien, mentor
11:20 am - Matthew Treiser, Columbia University
"Fabrication of Nanoparticles with Tunable Heterogeneous Surface
Chemistry"
Professor Rastislav Levicky, mentor
11:40 am - Ashley Hammann, Vanderbilt University
"Low Temperature Synthesis of Nanocrystalline Zinc Oxide"
Professor Siu-Wai Chan, mentor
12:00 pm - LUNCH
SESSION
III
MOLECULAR METHODS
1:00m - Matthew Scullin, University of Pennsylvania
"Self-Assembly at the Liquid-Solid Interface: Using STM to
Study and Create Molecular Cloths and Nanowires"
Professor George Flynn, mentor
1:20 pm - Edward Hinson, Middlebury College
"Molecular Nanocrystals"
Professor David Adams, mentor
1:40pm - Jonathan Sussman, University of Pennsylvania
"Surface Attachment of Peptides to Poly(methacrylic)-based
Hydrogels"
Professor Jeffrey Koberstein, mentor
2:00 pm - BREAK
SESSION
IV
PROPERTIES
2:30
pm - Erica McDaniel, Reed College
"Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy"
Professor Tony Heinz, mentor
2:50 pm - Benjamin Kraines, Middlebury College
"Conductance Measurements of Electrodeposited CdSe Nanocrystal
Thin Films"
Professor Irving P. Herman, mentor
3:10 pm - Joseph Golden, University of Notre Dame
"A BH Loop Tracer for Thin Films"
Professor William Bailey, mentor
3:30 pm - FINAL PRESENTATIONS END
