2007 MRSEC REU SUMMER PROGRAM RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM

Friday, August 3, 2007
Davis Auditorium, Schapiro CEPSR
Columbia University

SESSION I

Synthesis of Nanocrystals

9:00 am – Mark Newman, Bowdoin College
“Size Control for the Synthesis of Thiolated Gold Nanoparticles”
Prof. Stephen O'Brien, advisor

9:20 am – Kareem Douglas, City College of New York
“Synthesis and Characterization of CdSxSe1-x Particles”
Prof. Irving P. Herman, advisor

9:40 am – Jennifer Choi, University of Maryland
“A 'Wet Chemisty'-Based Method to Fabricate Thin Films of Zirconia Nanoparticles”
Prof. Siu-Wai Chan, advisor

SESSION II

Films and Surfaces

10:10 am – Kevin Chan, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
“Bulge Testing of Nanocrystalline Copper Thin Films”
Prof. Jeffrey Kysar, advisor

10:30 am – Diana Castillo, City College of New York
“Chemical Changes in Methacrylates Polymers in the Presence of Silica Nanoparticles”
Prof. Sanat Kumar, advisor

10:50 am – Eric Edwards, University of Alabama
“Zeroing of the Magneto-Crystalline Anisotropy in Fe1-xVx Thin Films”
Prof. William Bailey, advisor

11:10 am – Dave Nelles, University of Pittsburgh
“Towards the Synthesis of DNA Microarrays: Binding DNA to Self Assembled Ligand Monolayers with Click Chemistry” Prof. Jeffrey Koberstein, advisor

SESSION III

Processes and Processing

11:40 am – Elizabeth Castro, Michigan State University
“Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer within Micellar Ensembles from Quantum Dots to Organic Fluorophores”
Prof. Nicholas Turro, advisor

12:00 pm – Patrick Ho, Princeton University
“Gas-Phase Purification of Suspended Carbon Nanotubes with Rayleigh Scattering Spectroscopy Characterization”
Prof. Tony Heinz, advisor

12:20 pm – Elisabeth Strein, Brigham Young University
“Using Atomic Force Microscopy Techniques to Promote Discovery of Graphitic Material as products in a Low Temperature Chemical Reaction”
Prof. Louis Brus, advisor