REU 2008 Summer Projects
Stanford University
- Organic Catalysts for Polymerization Reactions
- Mixed Flow Dynamics of DNA and Vesicles
- Encapsulation of polymeric thin-film transistors with ultra-thin dielectrics
- Doped ZnO nanowires for transparent electrodes for organic solar cells
- Using phase separation to self-assemble polymeric-based electronic circuits out of solution
- Improving the properties of semiconducting polymers for photovoltaic cells
- Stability of floating liquid threads
- Lipid Vesicles and Bilayers for Biodiagnostic Applications
- Interpenetrating Polymer Hydrogels for an Artificial Cornea
- Biomechanical Study of Human Skin
- Nanocrystal and Nanowire Synthesis, Characterization and Self-Assembly
- Improving an Artificial Human Cornea
- Membrane Architectures and Compositions for Imaging
- Solution Processing of Organic Transistors
IBM Almaden Research Center
- NMR Studies of Organic Catalysis
- Computer Simulations of Polymeric Systems
- Modeling of Organo-Catalytic Polymerization Reactions in Solution
- Computer Simulations and Modeling of Protein and Peptide Folding Kinetics and Thermodynamics
- Characterization of Self-Assembled Polydiacetylenes Films and Electronic Devices
- Computer modeling of biopolymer-surface interactions
- Nanoscale Supramolecular Polymer Assemblies
- Nanocrystal-electrode interfaces for cost-effective solar power
- Block Copolymer Synthesis and Self Assembly
- Functionalized and Interactive Star Polymers
- Organic Catalysis: A New and Broadly Useful Strategy for Living Polymerization
- Novel Macromolecular Architectures Based on Biocompatible Aliphatic Polyesters
- The Creation and Control of Nanostructures
- Interfacing DNA Bioscaffolds with Inorganic Nanomaterials
University of California Davis
- Biomembrane Materials
- Microfabrication of Organic and Polymeric Materials
- Sum-frequency Spectroscopy and Second Harmonic Generation of Collagen.
University of California Berkeley
- Development of oligonucleotides as sequence-specific probes for double-stranded DNA
- Development of enzymes as sequence-specific probes for double-stranded DNA
