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Spring 2008

 

January

   

31

Prof. Yvon Durant, UNH Material Science Program

Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

February

   

7

Dr. Stephen Rossnagel

Nanopore sensors for DNA measurements using silicon technology

21

Prof. Daniel Gall, RPI

The Materials Machine: Nanostructure growth from the vapor phase

28

Prof. Richard Johnson, UNH Chemistry

From C4H2 to Nanotubes: Slip-Sliding into Materials Science

 

March

   

6

Dr. Eitan Zeira,
Konarka Technologies, Inc.
Lowell, MA

An introduction to Bulk Heterojunction Organic Photovoltaics

27

Prof. Tom Russell,
U. Mass. Amherst

Directed Self-Oriented Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers: Bottom-Up Meeting Top-Down

 

April

   

3

Prof. Robert Cohen, M.I.T.

Designing Superoloeophobic Surfaces

10

Prof. Jan Schroers, Yale

Bulk metallic glass

17

Prof. Lei Zhu, UConn

Self-Assembled Biodegradable Block Copolymers and DNA Lipoplexes as Potential Delivery Systems

24

Prof. Igor Sevostianov, New Mexico State University

Connections between different physical properties of heterogeneous materials

 

May

1

Prof. Dan Wasserman, U. Mass. Lowell

Mid-IR Optoelectronic Materials

 

Fall 2007

 

September

   

20

Dr. Eugene Langlais, Presstek Inc.

Good Things Come in Small Packages: A discussion of how micro and nano morphology are essential to new applications in modern printing.

October

   

4

Prof. Young-Kyun Kwon, University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Computational Modeling and Applications of Nanostructured Materials

11

Prof. Humphrey Maris, Brown University Dept. of Physics

Ultrasonics and Nanoscience

18

Dr. Michal Kacperski, UNH Materials Science Program

Polyurethane foams reinforced by carbon nanotubes

November

   

1

Dr. Mitra Yoonessi, UNH Dept. of Chemical Engineering

Synthesis, Characterization and Modeling of Carbon Nanofiber/Phenolic Resin Nanocomposites

2

Dr. Jens Wiebe, Institute of Applied Physics Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany

Imaging the magnetization of individual atoms

8

Prof. Jian-Ming Tang, UNH Dept. of Physics

Electrical manipulation of single spins in semiconductors

15

Dr. Byungki Kim University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Optical Diffraction Based Displacement Sensing in MEMS and Metrology

29

Prof. Joel Therrien, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Fabrication of Silicon Carbide AFM Cantilevers

December

   

6

Prof. Marshall Ming, UNH Materials Science Program

Toward Self-Healing Polymer Surfaces

 
 

Spring 2007

 

February

   

1

Dr. John Tsavalas

Waterborne Hybrid Alkyd/Acrylic Polymer Latex: Advantages and Potential Application Challenges

15

Anne Quincy, UNH Materials Science Program

A Review of Polymer Synthesis Combining Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization and Free Radical Living Polymerizations

March

   

8

Dr. Steven Jost, BAE Systems

Photoconductors for Affordable Sensors: An Application of Materials Physics

22

Steven Leibiger, Fairchild Semiconductor Inc.

Electrostatic Discharge Protection for Microelectronic Circuits

29

Jennifer Hydrick, AmberWave Systems

Epitaxial Oxide Growth on Si(001) for Floating Epitaxy, a Novel Process for Silicon-on-Insulator Wafer Production

April

   

5

Eugene L. Langlais II, Presstkek Inc., Hudson, NH

Good Things Come in Small Packages: A discussion of how micro and nano morphology are essential to new applications in modern printing.

12

Dr. Jin-Woong Kim, Harvard Universit

Uniform nonspherical colloidal particles with anisotropic properties

19

Professor Carmela Amato-Wierda, University of New Hampshire

Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Deposition of Silicon Nitride Thin Films for Solar Cells

     
  Fall 2006  
September    
14 Professor Igor Sokolov, Clarkson University 3D Design of Self-Assembled Nanoporous Particles

October    
5

Professor Igor Tsukrov, University of New Hampshire

 

Micromechanical modeling of carbon/carbon composites
12

Professor Robert C. Cammarata, Johns Hopkins University

 

Processing and Mechanical Behavior of Nanocomposite Thin Films
26 Professor G. Slade Cargill III, Lehigh University Thermal and Electromigration-induced Stresses and Composition Changes from Real-time X-ray Microdiffraction and Microfluorescence
November    
2 Derya Deniz, UNH Tilted Fiber Texture in Aluminum Nitride Thin Films
9 Professor William H. Green, UNH A 21st Century Approach to Chemical Kinetic
16 Professor Brad Kinsey, UNH Fabricating Nanoscale Features in Bulk Metallic Glass Materials
30 Pooja R. Marella, UNH Weakly Coordinating Anions: Application in Olefin Polymerization Reactions – A Review

December    
7 Chandrani Pramanik, UNH Purification, Solubilization and Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes – A Review
  Spring 2006  
February    
2 Dr. Richard Osgood, Lincoln Laboratories Fabrication and Measurement of Semiconductor Detectors
for Astronomy


9 Dr. Nicholas Geisse, Harvard University Mechanotransduction in Cardiac Myocytes
March    
9 Professor Mehmet Dokmeci, Northeastern University Microelectromechanical Systems
23 Professor Steven Shaler, University of Maine, Orono
Materials Research in the Development of Wood Composites at the University of Maine

30 Professor Jim Whitten, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Oligothiophene Interfaces with Applications to Organic
Electronic Devices
April    
6 Professor Darrell Velegol, Pennsylvania State University Colloidal Molecules: Synthesis and Engineering Design
     
  Fall 2005  
August    
2 Professor Angus Rockett
University of Illinois
Growth Mechanisms and Nanochemical Science of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 and Their Effects on Solar Cell Performance
September    
22 Dr. Steven Leibiger, Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation How BiCMOS Semiconductor Devices are Made
29 Dr. Jeffrey Stubbs, University of New Hampshire Morphology Probes for Polymer Nanoparticles
October    
6 Jiebing Sun and
Karsten Pohl
Department of Physics
University of New Hampshire
Surface alloy composition determination with nanometer resolution
19 Materials Science Workshop Workshop Agenda
List of Posters
20 Prof. Bryan Huey
University of Connecticut
Quantitative Nanoscale Electronic and Mechanical Characterization
27 Georgi Nenchev
University of New Hampshire
Techniques for Preparing Large Atomically Flat Au(111) Terraces for Nanotemplate Manufacturing
November    
10 Prof. Sekar Dhanasekaran
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Morphology Control in Mesoporous Silica/gold Nanomaterials Synthesis Using Surfactant Self Assembly Process
December    
1 Prof. Ebo deMuinck, Dartmouth Medical School Nanoparticles for Targeted Imaging and Treatment of New Blood Vessels
     
     
  Spring 2005  
January    
27 Prof. Anne Mayes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Baroplastics:
Low Temperature Plastics Processing by
Pressure-Enhanced Mixing
February    
3 Dr. Chuck Kurkjian, Rutgers University The Mechanical Properties of Inorganic Glasses
17 Dr. N.B. Singh,
Northrop Grumman Corporation, Linthicum , MD
Role of a Materials Scientist and Engineer in High Tech Industry
March    
10 Bogdan Diaconescu , University of New Hampshire

Highly Stable Variable Temperature STM for Atomically and Time Resolved Imaging:
Dynamics of Self-Assembly at Surfaces

24 Prof. James Krzanowski, University of New Hampshire Materials Analysis Using Advanced Synchrotron Sources
31 Shaoning Yao , University of New Hampshire

Electrostatic Force Microscopy to Study Process-Induced Damage of MSQ-based Low-k Dielectrics

April    
7 Prof. Rosemary Smith, University of Maine

Sensor Materials and Microfabricated Instruments

14 Prof. Richard Matyi, University of Albany , NY

X-rays and Nanotechnology

21 Prof. Frank Hagelberg, Jackson State University Computational Studies of Atomic Clusters
     
     
  Fall 2004  

September

 

 

9, 2004

Prof. Thomas Laue, University of New Hampshire

Materials Science in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

16, 2004

Prof. Robert Weiss, University of Connecticut

New Materials for Proton Exchange Membranes

23, 2004

Dr. William Holber, MKS Instruments, Inc.

Remote Plasma Sources in Semiconductor Processing

30, 2004

Prof. Olof Echt, University of New Hampshire

Electronic Excitations of Carbon-60 and its Anions

October

 

 

7, 2004

Dr. Thanas Budri, National Semiconductor Corporation

Materials Analysis in the Semiconductor Industry Using Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry

13, 2004

Materials Science Workshop

Workshop Agenda
Workshop Posters

14, 2004

Dr. Warren MoberlyChan, Harvard University

Thin Film Growth Mechanisms as Revealed by Transmission Electron Microscopy

November

 

 

4, 2004

Dr. Koichi Takamura, BASF Corporation

Paving Using Latex Modified Asphalt Emulsion: View from the Colloid Scientist

18, 2004

Dr. Farrell Martin, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Seawater Crevice Corrosion of Nickel Superalloys