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Soft Materials Seminars
Soft Materials seminars are held on Tuesdays at 4 p.m. in room 165 Everitt Lab. All speakers are graduate students or postdocs at the University of Illinois except where noted.
January 15, 2008
Robert Coridan, "Reconstructing the structure and dynamics of density fluctuations in water near a moving proton"
Chaoyi Ba, "Animation of P84 polyimide membranes using polyethylenimine for nanofiltration"
Camilo Guaqueta, "Phase separation in asymmetric 2D binary hard-sphere mixtures"
January 22, 2008
Xinning Ho, "Carbon nanotube electronics"
Gordon Nangmenyi, "Design of nitrided polyacrylonitrile based activated carbon fibers for efficient removal of natural organic matter from water"
Margaret Shyr, "Colloidal
January 29, 2008
Nathan Schmidt, "Interaction of the penetration cell-penetrating peptide with model cell membranes"
Ying-Chieh (Christy) Chen, "Characterization of 3D photonic crystals fabricated by multi-beam interference lithography"
Sang Il Park, "Failure mechanism of single-crystal silicon ribbons"
February 5, 2008
Jericho Moll, "Self-sealing fiber reinforced composites"
Steve Barr, "Non-spherical depletants in colloidal suspensions"
Jim Langer, "Removal of perchlorate from water using ion exchange fibers"
February 12, 2008
Dae-Hyeong Kim, "Stretchable and foldable single crystal silicon integrated circuits"
Wonki Roh, "In search of phase separation in ion-dipole solution"
Jing Zhang, "A new coupling agent for glassfiber/epoxy composites"
February 19, 2008
Jon Whitmer, "Colloidal simulations with hydrodynamic interactions"
Zidong Wang, "Label free colorimetric detection of metal ions using gold nanoparticles and DNAzyme"
Nihan Yonet-Tanyeri, "Molecular transport in polymer brushes"
February 26, 2008
Ghee Hwee Lai, "Dynamics of water sheared between charged plates using inelastic x-ray scattering"
Andrew Carlson, "Microstructured stamp designs for high efficiency, selective area transfer printing"
Matthew George, "Inorganic photoresist materials for direct fabrication of 3D photonic crystals using phase mask lithography"
March 4, 2008
Hua Lu, "Towards the living polymerization of á-aminoacid-N-carboxyanhydrides (NCAs): The function of Trimethylsilyl (TMS) group in NCA polymerization"
Shan Jiang, "2D crystals by Janus Amphiphilic Colloidal Spheres "
Aaron Jackson, "Engineering self-healing materials towards smaller size-scales"
March 25, 2008
Daniel Sinkovits, "Pair interactions of rodlike polyelectrolytes"
Ying He, "FRET study of comformational change of U022+ specific DNAzyme"
April 1, 2008
Abhjit Mishra, "Interaction of arginine-rich cell penetrating peptides with model cell membranes"
Zeba Farheen Abdul Samad, "ATSP-A new matrix for carbon fiber composites"
Bo Hyun Lee, "Making binary nanocrystals heterostructures"
April 7, 2008
Mukta Tripathy, "Infulence of particle shape on structure and dynamics of colloidal gels"
Bo Wang, "Enhanced diffusion of nanoparticle on fluctuating lipid membrane"
Sidhartha Gupta, "Inverse design for phase mask lithography"
April 15, 2008
Merve Vakkasoglu, "Removal of arsenic from water using metal loaded polymers"
Lanfang Li, "Micro lens array fabricated by soft-lithography as micro solar cell concentrator"
Abigail Griffith, "Nanoparticle assembly by interference lithography"
April 22, 2008
Lisa Hall, "Theory of phase separation and structure in dense polymer-particle mixtures"
Xindi Yu, "Thermal photovoltaic device for solar energy harvest"
Hunter McDaniel, "Morphology control of Fe304/CdS hetero-nanocrystals"
April 29, 2008
Rui Zhang, "Glassy dynamics of hard dicolloid suspensions"
Mo Jiang, "Large DNA dynamics on phospholipid membrane"
Andrew Brzezinski, "Conformal infilling of arbitrary three-dimensional periodic nano-structures"