Graduate School and International Education Materials Science & Engineering

Research

Prior Years' REU Research Topics

Dr. Salvador Barraza-Lopez
- Jaylan Dawson -Theoretical Study of 2D Materials Using Zone Folding Approximation
Dr. Jingyi Chen
- Nazar Orishchin - Controlling the Coating Thickness of Polydopamine on Nanoparticle Surface
Dr. Zhong Chen
- Camara Johnson - High Temperature Characterizations for GaN-based LED Devices
Dr. Hugh Churchill
- Joseph Matson - 2D Phase Transition in Monolayer Germanium Selenide
- Salem Wright - Toward strain control of magnetism in few-layer CrI₃
- Katie Welch
Dr. Robert Coridan
- Blake Trickey - Photopatterned Noble Metal Functional Surfaces Via Galvanic Replacement Reaction on Cu₂O Thin Films
Dr. Ingrid Fritsch
- Devin Benson -Applications and Materials for Magnetohydrodynamic Microfluidics
- Moriah York
Dr. Lauren Greenlee
- Jahmelia Atkinson - Characterization of FeNi catalyst through TPR and Pulse Chemisorption
Dr. Joseph Herzog
- Grant Patrick Abbey -Structural Characteristics of Au-GaAs Nanostructures for Increased Plasmonic Enhancement
- Chandler Bernard - Photoluminescence and Photobleaching Studies of Colloidal CdSe Quantum Dots
- Chris Klenke - Dataset for SERS Plasmonic Array: Width, Spacing, and Thin Film Oxide thickness optimization
Dr. Jamie Hestekin
- Chase C. Smith -The Impact of Sodium Concentrations on Reverse Electrodialysis Designs
Dr. Adam Huang
- Alessandro Console -Mounting Protocol Development for Photovoltaic Cells for CubeSat on PCBs
Dr. Morten Jensen
- Dymonn Johnson - Biomedical Engineering in Cardiovascular Disease: Heart Attack In Vitro
- Ryan Plemmons - Programmable Controls for a Cardiac Pulsatile Flow Pump
Dr. Alan Mantooth
- Maxwell L. Merget -Integrated Protection Circuit Testing for an NMOS Silicon Carbide Gate Driver
- Alaina Sharp - Data Acquisition System in Silicon Carbide
Dr. Timothy Muldoon
- Alyssa M. Anderson -Semi-Automated, Low Cost Image-Based Leukocyte Classification using a Raspberry Pi
Dr. Keith Roper
- Carter Bodinger -Characterizing the Optical Absorbance of PVP Thin Films Containing Gold Nanoparticles with Effective Medium Theory
- Tyler Howard - Thermoplasmonic Decay of Metal-Polymer Nanocomposites
Dr. Gregory Salamo
- Jess Ray - Potential Use of Lysenin Channels in Drug Release from Liposomes
- Justin Rudie - Determination of Energy Band-Offsets of Ga₂O₃ for Device Modeling
Dr. Shannon Servoss
- Benjamin Howell - Peptoid Functionalized Nanoparticles for In-Line Contaminant Sensing
Dr. Uche Wejinya
- Brad Martsching - Functionalizing CVD Graphene using SDS to Enable Deposition of Nanoparticles
Dr. Fisher Yu
- Eleni-James Becton -Optical Characterization of GeSn Thin Films
- Lucas Blake
- Randy Quinde - Growth and Characterization of GeSn for Infrared Imaging
Dr. Wenchao Zhou
- Kahlil Wade - An Exciting New 3D Material
- Ian C. Wahlquist -Low Cost, Multi-Material 3-D Inkjet Printer