NU-MRSEC Annual Meeting 2008

 

August 28, 2008, 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Pancoe–ENH Life Sciences Pavilion
Abbott Auditorium
2200 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL

Poster Session 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Pancoe Second Floor Cafe

Hydrothermal Synthesis of Multifunctional Oxides
Evan Stampler, Cathleen Hoel and Kenneth Poeppelmeier

Studies of Sputter Deposited Oxide Semiconductor Thin Films
Blake L. Stevens, David J. Cohen and Scott A. Barnett

Electronic Structure of TCO's and Multiferroics
Jung-Hwan Song, Giancarlo Trimarchi and Arthur Freeman

Writing Invisible Nanoscale Oxide Circuitry
N. Cortes, J. Liu, C. Chen, M. Hersam, T.J. Marks

Nickel Oxide Hole-Extraction/Electron-Blocking Layers for Organic Photovoltaic Cells
R.P.H. Chang, D. B. Buchholz, A.J. Freeman, J.-H. Song, M. Bedzyk, J. Emery, T.J. Marks, M. Irwin

Engineering Enabling Materials for Next-Generation Nano-Optoelectronic Devices
Fei Yi, Boyang Liu, Xiangyu Li,  Zhenyu Hou and Seng-Tiong Ho

Advances in Nanostructured and Nanoscale Polymeric Materials: Nanocomposites, Blends, Copolymers, and Ultrathin Films
Soyoung Kim, Connie Roth, Katsuyuki Wakabayashi, Jun'ichi  Masuda, Cynthia Pierre, Perla Rittigstein, T. Ramanathan, L. Catherine Brinson, Robert Sandoval, Michelle Mok, Wesley Burghardt, SonBinh Nguyen and John M. Torkelson

Polymer and Carbon Nanotube Composite Networks
Andrew B. Schoch, Marc J. Palmeri, Karl W. Putz, Ramanathan Thillaiyan, Kenneth R. Shull, L. Catherine Brinson   

Shear Induced Alignment of Multi-walled Carbon Nanotube Dispersions via Small Angle X-ray Scattering and Optical Microscopy
Saswati Pujari, Wesley R. Burghardt, Sameer S. Rahatekar, Alan H. Windled, and Krzysztof K. Koziold

X-ray Computed Tomography of Porous Alumina Produced by Thermoreversible Gelcasting
N.O. Shanti, S.R. Stock, J.L. Fife and K.T. Faber

Self -Organization of Macroions in Aqueous Media
Pedro Gonzalez-Mozuelos, Dongsheng Zhang, Prateek Kumar Jha, Min Sun Yeom and Monica Olvera de la Cruz

Resonant Plasmon Gratings
Weiqiang Mu, Joon Jang, Shahin Mani, John Ketterson, Donald Buchholz, Robert Chang, Maxim Sukharev and Tamar Seideman

TEM Study of Ag Nanoparticles with Applications in LSPR and SMSERS
Yingmin Wang, Leif J. Sherry, Jon P. Cadman, Jon A. Dieringer, Jon A. Dieringer,Richard P. Van Duyne, George C. Schatz and  Laurence D. Marks

New Isotope-Edited Chromophores for Single Molecule SERS
Jon Dieringer, Kristin Wustholz, Sam Kleinman, Eric M. Phillips, Karl A. Scheidt and Richard P. Van Duyne

Coherent and Optimal Control of Light at the Nanoscale
Maxim Sukharev and Tamar Seideman

Modeling Laser Field Alignment of Organic Molecules on Semiconductor Surfaces: Towards Ultrafast Molecular Switches
Matthew G. Reuter, Maxim Sukharev and Tamar Seideman

Current-induced Excitation and Bath-induced Decoherence in Molecular Junctions
Ryan Jorn and Tamar Seideman

Charge Transport in Organic and Inorganic Systems
Sara DiBenedetto, Christopher George, Tobin Marks, and Mark Ratner

X-Ray Characterization of Hybrid Nanoelectronic Materials
Jonathan Emery, Young-Geun Ha, Antonio Facchetti, Mark Hersam, Tobin Marks and Michael Bedzyk

Light-Directed Assembly of Nanostructured Materials
Rafal Klajn, Paul Wesson, Kyle Bishop and Bartosz Grzybowski

Nanoporous Biodegradable Elastomers for Delivery of Macromolecules
Ryan A. Hoshi, Saloni Behl and Guillermo A. Ameer

Structure and Dynamics of the Bacterial Chromosome
Nastaran Hadizadeh, Janet R Cranfield, Calin Guet, Philippe Cluzel, Reid C. Johnson and John F. Marko

Kinetic Studies of Metabolic Reaction Networks
Joo Sang Lee and Adilson E. Motter

 

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This meeting is free and open to the public.

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The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) is supported by the National Science Foundation under NSF Award Number DMR-0520513. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the National Science Foundation.
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