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Soft Materials Seminars
Soft Materials seminars are held on Tuesdays at 4 p.m. in room 218 Ceramics Building. All speakers are graduate students or postdocs at the University of Illinois except where noted.
September 22, 2009
Stephen Anthony, "Removing the blinders from particle tracking"
Simon Dunham, "Investigation of alignment of carbon nanotubes on quartz substrates"
James Langer, "Heterogeneous treatment of perchlorate-contaminated water"
September 29, 2009
Andrew Brzezinski, "Angle-resolved light scattering from 3D photonic crystals"
Andrew Carlson, "Active stamp designs for advanced transfer printing modes"
Solar Olugebefola, "Mechanical reinforcement of microvascular networks using layer-by-layer assembly"
October 6, 2009
Max Gibiansky, "High-throughput biometric characterization of pseudomonas aeruginosa surface motility modes"
Zidong Wang, "DNA sequence-dependent shape control of gold nanoparticles and their stability, functionality and cellular uptake"
Jiang Yang, "Elasticity, dynamic fragility, and activated dynamics in soft colloidal suspensions"
October 13, 2009
Hua Lu, "Development of polypeptides based biomaterials: Chemistry and materials design"
Erik Nelson, "Metal/dielectric composites for enhanced nonlinear optical response"
Yaxuan Yao, "Mercury removal from power plant effluents"
October 20, 2009
Nathan Schmidt, "Viruses as nanocolloids"
Xindi Yu, "Nanofabrication via template assisted lithography"
Bo Wang, "Phospholopid vesicles through actin networks"
October 27, 2009
Ghee Hwee Lai, "Topological membrane transitions in programmed cell death and cancer"
Sidharta Gupta, "Design and fabrication of novel chiral micro-structures for photonics applications"
Chaoyi Ba, "Design of antifouling nanofiltration membranes using polyelectrolyte coatings"
November 3, 2009
Dan Shir, "Three dimensional silicon photonic crystals fabricated by two photon phase mask lithography"
Dara Gough, "Mesoporous nanocontainers: From synthesis to application"
David Lorang, "Direct ink writing of core-sheath architectures"
November 10, 2009
Cassandra Kingsbury, "Mechanochemical activation of spiropyran linked polymers"
Rong Tong, "Site-selective acylation of drug for cancer chemotherapy"
Aaron Jackson, "Compartmentalized autonomic healing at sub-micron size-scales"
November 17, 2009
"Dynamics of soft particles in flow"
Yeng-Long Chen
Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan