2018 SCI Transdisciplinary Symposium Program

Note: Full program with abstracts available online here (PDF)

Program Overview

8:00 AM

Arrival, set-up, breakfast and coffee (Herring Hall Room 100)

8:30 AM

Opening Remarks

8:45 AM

Faculty Keynote Talk:

Dr. Mustafa Amin

Whispers from the Cosmos

MORNING SESSION I

Session Chair:

9:15 AM

M1

Daniel Gonzales

Whole-Brain Imaging of Spontaneous Sleep-Wake Transitions

M2

Nicole Thadani

Applying frustration analysis to predict functional domains in adeno-associated virus capsid assembly and disassembly

M3

Yan Xu

Heavy Oil Viscosity Reduction Using Iron(III) Tosylate Hexahydrate —A Kinetic and Temperature-Dependent Study

M4

Kyle Smith

Circular Differential Scattering of Plasmonic Pinwheels

M5

Aswathy Girija

Sensing of Trace Gases using Infrared Spectroscopy

10:15 AM

BREAK – VOTE

MORNING SESSION II

Session Chair:

10:20 AM

M6

Sandhya Susarla

Quaternary two-dimensional (2D) transition metal di-chalcogenides (TMDs)with tunable bandgap

M7

Bryan Anthonio

Optical Spectroscopy and Control of Quantum Hall Antiferromagnetism in Graphene

M8

Charlotte Flatebo

The effect of complex solvent matrices on the dissolution pathways of gold nanorods

M9

Bhuvanesh Sundar

A complex network description of quantum systems

M10

Oliver Dewey

Optimization of Processing Parameters in Solution Spun CNT Fibers

M11

Melia Bonomo

Predicting influenza H3N2 vaccine effectiveness from evolution of the dominant epitope

10:50 AM

BREAK - VOTE

MORNING SESSION III

Session Chair:

11:00 AM

M12

Sean Bittner

Fabrication of 3D-Printed, Multilayered Composite Scaffolds for Osteochondral Tissue Repair

M13

Sudeshna Chatterjee

Understanding structural landscape of NMDA receptor gating using single molecule FRET

M14

Yiyuan Yin

Charge-assembled Fluorescent Gold Microcapsules As A Chromium (VI) Sensor

M15

Logan Bishop

Assessing the effects of adsorption site clustering for chromatographic separations

M16

Fumiya Katsutani

Direct Observation of Cross-Polarized Excitons in Aligned and Chirality-Enriched Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

12:00 PM

BREAK - VOTE

12:10 PM

BREAK FOR LUNCH

12:45 PM

Faculty Keynote Talk:

Dr. Gang Bao

Engineering Multifunctional Nanoparticles for Disease Therapy

AFTERNOON SESSION I Session Chair:

1:15 PM

A17

Sung Hoon Hwang

Hierarchical nacre-mimetic, graphene oxide-boron nitride-polymer composites with multifunctional properties

A18

Gladys Anahí López Silva

Lithium metal batteries by ejecting lithium from carbon nanotubes

A19

Benjamin Hoener

Heterogeneous Plasmon Induced Dissolution of Single Gold Nanorods

A20

Amey Apte

2H-1T’Structural Phase Transition In CVD-Grown Monolayer Rhenium-Doped Molybdenum Diselenide

A21

Priscilla Dias da Silva

Adsorptive Desulfurization of Hydrocarbon Fuels with Zeolites

A22

Hannah Pearce

Mimicking MSC Condensation to Promote Cartilage Regeneration

1:45 PM

BREAK - VOTE

AFTERNOON SESSION II

Session Chair:

2:00 PM

A23

Thomas Langin

Laser Cooling Ions in a Neutral Plasma

A24

Peter Samora Owuor

Poly-albumen: Bio-derived Structural Polymer from Polymerized Egg White

A25

Yu Zheng

Tailoring the Properties of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Samples through Structure-Selective Photochemistry

A26

Logan Ware

Grain boundary manipulation in directionally solidified oligocrystals

A27

Ian Kinstlinger

Volumetric spatial mapping of cell metabolism in model tissues with embedded hierarchically branched vascular networks

3:00 PM

BREAK - VOTE

AFTERNOON SESSION III

Session Chair:

3:15 PM

A28

Seyed Sajadi

Multi-scale Geometric Design Principles Applied to 3D Printed Schwartizes

A29

Rashad Baiyasi

Multi-lobed point spread functions of fluorescent emitters on large Ag nanowires: simulation and experiment

A30

Katherinne Requejo

The management of gold nanorod synthesis with poly(vinylpyrrolidone) of different molecular weights in minor concentration

A31

Chelsea Clark

Metallic Ensemble Size Control in Rh/TiO2Catalysts using CO-Mediated Synthesis

A32

Prabhas Hundi

Novel Deep Learning Techniques for Processing-Structure-Property (P-S-P) Predictions

A33 Jibo Zhang In Situ Synthesis of Efficient Water Oxidation Catalysts in Laser-Induced Graphene

3:45 PM

BREAK – VOTE

AFTERNOON SESSION IV

Session Chair:

4:00 PM

A34

Mai Tran

Going green by going blue: Recycling Li-ion batteries by extracting cobalt using deep eutectic solvents

A35

Natsumi Komatsu

Toward Single Crystals of Single-Chirality Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

A36

Ujjal Bhattacharjee

Nanoscale Thermal Localization in Plasmonic Structures: A Direct Investigation by Photothermal Microscopy

A37

Daniel Vecchiolla

High Throughput Foam Generation via Bubble-Bubble Pinch-Off in a Microfluidic Expansion Channel

A38

Lauren Taylor

Solution Spun MnO2 Doped Carbon Nanotube Fibers for Sewable Supercapacitors

A39 Muqing Ren Atomic iron-dispersed on nitrogen-doped graphene as the O2 electrode catalysts for rechargeable Li-O2(air) battery

4:30 PM

BREAK – VOTE

4:35 PM

NETWORKING & RECEPTION

5:15 PM

AWARDS CEREMONY

5:30 PM

CONCLUSION