nano@illinois
Research Experience for Undergraduates
a 10-week nanotechnology research experience
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2016 nano@illinois REU Research Projects
- Mechanical Devices from 2D Materials, Fatou Cisse - Faculty Mentor Arend van der Zande (Mechanical Science and Engineering)
- High Electron Mobility GaN Heterostructures, Larissa Del Rosario - Faculty Mentor Can Bayram (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- Nanoimaging of Polymeric Systems, Boris Djiguemde - Faculty Mentor Rohit Bhargava (Bioengineering)
- Synthesis and Characterization of Gold nanorod MOF Core Shell Structures, Christian Franco - Faculty Mentor Catherine Murphy (Chemistry)
- Quantitatively Characterizing Kinase Phosphorylation by Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor Signal, Nicole Grubb - Faculty Mentor Princess Imoukhuede (Bioengineering)
- Design and Fabrication of Programmable Micro-Architectured Materials, Daniel Jacques - Faculty Mentor Sameh Tawfick (Mechanical Science and Engineering)
- Microvascular Network for Chemo-Mechanical Actuation, Zachary Roga - Faculty Mentor Sameh Tawfick (Mechanical Science and Engineering)
- Spatial Gene Expression Analysis from Tissue, Brianna Thornton - Faculty Mentor Rashid Bashir (Bioengineering)
- Graphene Kirigami Sensors, Erik Vyhmeister - Faculty Mentor SungWoo Nam (Mechanical Science and Engineering)
- Tunable Plasmonic Bowties, Eric Wynne - Faculty Mentor Joseph Lyding (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
2015 nano@illinois REU Research Projects
- Textured Graphene-Cased Strain Sensor, Ernesto Garcia - Faculty Mentor SungWoo Nam (Mechanical and Science Engineering)
- Mechanical Properties and Dissoulution Kinetics of Biodegradable Porours Silicon/Biopolymer Composites for Transient Device Platforms, Keaton Jaramillo - Faculty Mentor Paul Braun (Materials Science and Engineering)
- α-Synuclein’s Interaction with Liposomes of Fixed Curvature, Jennifer Lot - Faculty Mentor Catherine Murphy (Chemistry)
- Optimization of a Secondary Anchor Targeted Cell Release and Microfluidic Surface, Vesna Naumovski - Faculty Mentor Princess Imoukhuede (Bioengineering)
- Plasmonic Metal Heterodimers in Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, Sahil Nayyar - Faculty Mentor Rohit Bhargava (Bioengineering)
- The Transfer Printing of CNT’s, Pedro Ortega - Faculty Mentor Sameh Tawfick (Mechanical and Science Engineering)
- The Effectiveness of Protein Corona on Receptor Mediated Endocytosis of Naked and Pre-coated Nanoparticles, Soyun Park - Faculty Mentor Mary Kraft (Chemistry)
- Continuous Nanowire Synthesis via Laser Assisted Drawing and Nanowire Templates for Carbon, Nicholas Pino - Faculty Mentor Sameh Tawfick (Mechanical and Science Engineering)
- Associated Plasmonic and Photothermal Properties of Palladium Concave Nanocubes Coated with Gold Using a DNA Mediated Synthesis, Nikou Pishevaresfahani - Faculty Mentor Yi Lu (Chemistry)
- Modifying Gold Nanoparticle Surfaces with Peptides to Enhance Localization to the Nucleus of MCF10a Cells, Rumya Raghavan - Faculty Mentor Rohit Bhargava (Bioengineering)
- Effect of Graft Density of Thermoresponsive Polymer Brushes on Bulk Conductivity, Emily Thai - Faculty Mentor Paul Braun (Materials Science and Engineering)
2014 nano@illinois REU Research Projects
- Using Gold Nanorods as Light-triggered Drug Delivery Platforms, Andrew Wang - Faculty Mentor Catherine J. Murphy (Chemistry)
- DNA Guided Growth of Palladium Nanoparticles, Arzeena Ali - Faculty Mentor Yi Lu (Chemistry)
- Bioconjugated Gold Nanoparticles for E-cadherin Targeting in MCF-10A Cells, Craig Richards - Faculty Mentor Rohit Bhargava (Bioenegineering)
- Fabricating Self-Rolled Tubes, Halley Pollock-Muskin - Faculty Mentor Xiuling Li (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- Coupling of Electronic Intersubband Transitions to Surface Phonon Modes, Josephine Hovhannessian - Faculty Mentor Dan Wasserman (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- Graphene Nanopores for Protein Sequencing, Leila Sloman - Faculty Mentor Aleksei Aksimentiev (Physics)
- Control over Molecular Transport through Nanoporous Gold with Applied Potential, Meifeng Lin - Faculty Mentor Ryan Bailey (Chemistry)
- Hydrogen Sensor Reaction Time and Sensitivity, Mohammad Jaber - Faculty Mentor Lynford Goddard (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- Biosensors Using Gold Nanoparticles, Nelliza Medero - Faculty Mentor Catherine J. Murphy (Chemistry)
- Detection of Cell Attachment on Planarized Photonic Crystal Biosensor, Shaquille Lewis - Faculty Mentor Brian Cunningham (Bioengineering)
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