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REU 2008 Summer Projects

Stanford University

  1. Organic Catalysts for Polymerization Reactions
  2. Mixed Flow Dynamics of DNA and Vesicles
  3. Encapsulation of polymeric thin-film transistors with ultra-thin dielectrics
  4. Doped ZnO nanowires for transparent electrodes for organic solar cells
  5. Using phase separation to self-assemble polymeric-based electronic circuits out of solution
  6. Improving the properties of semiconducting polymers for photovoltaic cells
  7. Stability of floating liquid threads
  8. Lipid Vesicles and Bilayers for Biodiagnostic Applications
  9. Interpenetrating Polymer Hydrogels for an Artificial Cornea
  10. Biomechanical Study of Human Skin
  11. Nanocrystal and Nanowire Synthesis, Characterization and Self-Assembly
  12. Improving an Artificial Human Cornea
  13. Membrane Architectures and Compositions for Imaging
  14. Solution Processing of Organic Transistors

IBM Almaden Research Center

  1. NMR Studies of Organic Catalysis
  2. Computer Simulations of Polymeric Systems
  3. Modeling of Organo-Catalytic Polymerization Reactions in Solution
  4. Computer Simulations and Modeling of Protein and Peptide Folding Kinetics and Thermodynamics
  5. Characterization of Self-Assembled Polydiacetylenes Films and Electronic Devices
  6. Computer modeling of biopolymer-surface interactions
  7. Nanoscale Supramolecular Polymer Assemblies
  8. Nanocrystal-electrode interfaces for cost-effective solar power
  9. Block Copolymer Synthesis and Self Assembly
  10. Functionalized and Interactive Star Polymers
  11. Organic Catalysis: A New and Broadly Useful Strategy for Living Polymerization
  12. Novel Macromolecular Architectures Based on Biocompatible Aliphatic Polyesters
  13. The Creation and Control of Nanostructures
  14. Interfacing DNA Bioscaffolds with Inorganic Nanomaterials

University of California Davis

  1. Biomembrane Materials
  2. Microfabrication of Organic and Polymeric Materials
  3. Sum-frequency Spectroscopy and Second Harmonic Generation of Collagen.

University of California Berkeley

  1. Development of oligonucleotides as sequence-specific probes for double-stranded DNA
  2. Development of enzymes as sequence-specific probes for double-stranded DNA

Agilent

  1. Methods and Applications Development of Biomolecular Analysis for Microfluidic Platform

Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany

  1. Investigation into the Charge Transport Processes of Membrane Proteins
  2. Tethered bilayer lipid membranes as model systems