Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) 2006 Projects

Student	School	Mentor	Faculty	Field of Study	Project
Athra Kaviani	University of Texas, Austin	Jeffrey J. Rice	Patrick S. Daugherty	Biomedical Engineering	Identifying Novel Peptides for Binding to Semiconductor Substrates to Create Nanobiomaterials
Emily Norvell	California Polytechnic SU, San Luis Obispo	Martin Schierhorn	Martin Moskovits	Materials Engineering	Cadmium Selenide Semiconducting Nanorods Vertically Aligned to a Conductive Substrate for Solar Cell Application
Stephanie Petrina	Virginia Polytech	Shannon Boettcher	Galen Stucky	Material Science and Engineering	Chemical Crosslinking and Temperature Dependant Conductivity of Ligand-Stabilized Gold Nanoparticles
Christopher Stoafer	California Polytechnic SU, San Luis Obispo	Matthew Chambers	David Clarke	Chemistry	Nanocrystalline Nd:YVO4 Lasing Medium
David Toyli	University of Minnesota	Jesse Berezovsky	David Awschalom	Physics	Fabrication and Characterization of MnAs/GaAs Heterostructures for Studies of One-Dimensional Spin Transport
Jason Wang	University of Pennsylvania	Alex Fang	John Bowers	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Loss, reflection and transmission measurement and analysis on Silicon-on-Insulator Ring Resonators

Nanotech Education Programs