nano@illinois

Research Experience for Teachers

a 6-week nanotechnology research experience
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
June 28-August 8, 2017

2016 nano@illinois RET Research Projects

Self Rolled Up Membrane, Antonio Gamboa - Faculty Mentor Xiuling Li (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Synthesis and Assembly of Nanoprisms, Nicole Ice - Faculty Mentor Qian Chen (Materials Science and Engineering)
Vertical Thinking with Light Emitting Diodes: Light, Color, and Photomedicine, Kelly Jolley - Faculty Mentor Can Bayram (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
PEC etching of Silicon, Terry Koker - Faculty Mentor Lynford Goddard (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Spectroscopic Imaging for Cancer Detection, Beth Koplinski - Faculty Mentor Rohit Bhargava (Bioengineering)
Creation of SEM-based Educational Database via 4CeeD, Bruce Lewis - Faculty Mentor Klara Nahrstedt (Computer Science)
Coating Gold Nanorods with Metal Organic Frameworks for Plasmonically Enhanced Catalysis, Shabana Malik - Faculty Mentor Catherine Murphy (Chemistry)
Development of a Microfluidic Device for the Synthesis of Nanomaterials for Cancer Detection, Kayla Oglesby - Faculty Mentor Rohit Bhargava (Bioengineering)
Mechanical Devices from 2D Materials, John Roach - Faculty Mentor Arend van der Zande (Mechanical Science and Engineering)
Bioimaging for Stroke-related Ischemia, Diana Rodriguez - Faculty Mentor Mary Kraft (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)
Stretchable Photosensors, Tatiana Stine - Faculty Mentor SungWoo Nam (Mechanical and Science Engineering)

2015 nano@illinois RET Research Projects

Photochemical Etching on p-Si, Catherine Carlson - Faculty Mentor Lynford Goddard (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Using Western Blot Technique to Study Cancer Cell Behavior, Azza Ezzat - Faculty Mentor Princess Imoukhuede (Bioengineering)
Light Emitting Diode, Color Perception, and Photomedicine, Geoff Freymuth - Faculty Mentor Can Bayram (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Fabricating and Measuring Graphene Devices, Thomas Gelsthorpe - Faculty Mentor Nadya Mason (Physics)
Piezoelectric Micro-Resonators for Telecommunication Applications, Katie Hutchison - Faculty Mentor Songbin Gong (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Handheld Optical Detector Using Microwave Resonators, Kelly Jolley - Faculty Mentors Songbin Gong and Dan Wasserman (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Bilayer Fluidity Influence on Cytochrome P450 Structure in a Membrane, Lynn Kilber (née Wiedelman) - Faculty Mentor Stephen Sligar (Chemistry)
Photoelectrochemical Semiconductor Device Fabrication With a Projector, Julianne Lee - Faculty Mentor Lynford Goddard (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Coupled Porous Silicon Optical Microcavities, Steven Pavlakis - Faculty Mentor Paul Braun (Materials Science and Engineering)
Converting 3D Files to DNA Brick Objects, Sara Phelan (née Hughes) - Faculty Mentor Aleksei Aksimentiev (Physics)
Self-rolled Up Technology, Bharathi Subramaniasiva - Faculty Mentor Xiuling Li (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Modeling and Simulation of Biosensors, Victoria Taylor - Faculty Mentor Umberto Ravaioli (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

2014 nano@illinois RET Research Projects

Lateral Control of Si Permittivity for Thin-fim Metasurfaces, Dan Reid - Faculty Mentor Dan Wasserman (Electrical and Computer
Engineering)
Photochemical Etching with a Projector (PEP), Terry Koker - Faculty Mentor Lynford Goddard (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Quantitative Analysis of Cellular Uptake of Nanoparticles, Aubrey Wachtel - Faculty Mentor Andrew Smith (Bioengineering)
Rolled-up Nanomembranes: Three-Dimensional Nanostructures, David Bergandine - Faculty Mentor Xiuling Li (Electrical and Computer Engineering)