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2019
R-STEM REU
Bui, A. N., Gallagher, M. J., Collins, S. S. E., Zepeda O, J., and Landes, C., "Single-Particle Optical Spectroscopy to Monitor Copper Nanoparticle Rate of Change," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2019.
Martin, R., Simeral, M., and Hafner, J., "Temperature Analysis at a Molecular Scale," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2019.
Padda, C., Ware, L., and Cordero, Z., "Shear Coupled Grain Boundary Migration," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2019.
Presutti, S. E., Stanford, M. G., and Tour, J. M., "Laser-Induced Graphene for Air Filtration," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2019.
Ramadani, E., Zhu, Y., and Egap, E., "3D printing under visible light using cadmium selenide semiconducting quantum dots as photoinitiators," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2019.
Rodriguez, V., Joshi, K., and Biswal, S. L., "Size-dependent interfacial tension and phase equilibrium of paramagnetic colloidal clusters under a time-varying magnetic field," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2019.
NEWT REU
Cahue, Y. P., Barrios, A. C., and Perreault, F., "Engineering safe carbon nanomaterials: role of morphology and surface chemistry in the interactions of carbon nanomaterials with microorganisms," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2019.
Chomiak, T., Abdallah, I., Li, Q., "Membrane Distillation of Produced Water from the Oil and Gas Industry: The Effect of Membrane Fouling using a Bench-Scale Solar and Conventional Membrane Distillation System," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2019.
Fuentes, N., Uhlman, S., Monical, B., Reddy, M., Abdallah, I., and Li, Q., "Field Demonstration of Nanophotonics-Enabled Solar Membrane Distillation (NESMD) for Desalination," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2019.
Malinda, S., Mulchandani, A., and Westerhoff, P., "Capturing Water Out of Air: Solar-Light Activated Photothermal Nanomaterial Enabled Desiccants Improve Water Vapor Desorption Efficiency," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2019.
Martinez, R., Baab, J., and Chan, C. K., "Efficacy and Characterization of Layered Double Hydroxide-Chitosan Nanocomposite Beads for the Selective Removal of Selenium Oxoanions from Water," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2019.
Mertig, J., Marcos, M., and Villagran, D., "Synthesis and Characterization of FeOOH and AlOOH for the Selective Removal of Selenate in Simulated Drinking Water," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2019.
Morales, B., Golam Hyder, A. H. M., and Walker, S., "Categorizing Ion Excluding Membrane Efficiency for Electrodialysis ," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2019.
Saenz, F., Ariful Ahsan, M. D., and Noveron, J. C., "Transition Metal Nanoparticles Embedded on Porous Carbon Matrix for Environmental Remediation," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2019.
2018
R-STEM REU
Abreo, D., Yan, S., and Pasquali, M., "Carbon Nanotube Film as Neural Electrodes," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2018.
Alameen, M., Grant, L., and Cordero, Z., "Improving the dimensional accuracy of binder jet printed parts by using a material infiltration method," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2018.
Caña, D., Isenhart, L., and Barrera, E., "Carbon Nanotube Wires for High Fidelity AC Signal Transfer," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2018.
Hernandez, H., Miller, K., and Egap, E., "Elucidating the Role of the Dielectric Constant on Polymer Solar Cells," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2018.
López Martinolich, M., Joshi, K., and Biswal, S. L., "Constrained Paramagnetic Colloid Chain Buckling and Chain Relaxation," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2018.
Torres, B., Butler, S., and Suh, J., "Comparison of Site-Directed Mutagenesis and Site-Saturated Mutagenesis to Explore the Effects of Amino Acids on AAV Behavior," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2018.
NEWT REU
Adebiyi, I., Taylor, L., Jafry, S., Faruqui, N., Lal, U., Metz, J., Dongare, P., Neumann, O., and Halas, N., "Plasmon-Assisted Photo Degradation of Urea," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2018.
Baab, J., Rosenthal, T., Dopilka, A., and Chan, C., "Cation Exchanged Layered Double Hydroxides and their Efficacy for the Removal of Selenium Oxoanions from Water," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2018.
Bautista, E., Barrera, L. A., and Noveron, J., "Adsorption and Desorption of Oils Through Electrostatic Interactions," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2018.
Carrillo, D. S., Barrios, A. C., and Perreault, F., "Antimicrobial Effects of Sulfidized Silver Nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) on RO Membranes," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2018.
Hernandez, O. A., Marcos, M., and Villagrán, D., "Development of Magnetic Hybrid Nanomaterials for Silica Removal," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2018.
Landestoy Acosta, T., Zhang, B., and Lou, J., "CNTs in 3D Printing, A New Promising Approach to Water Treatment," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2018.
Lopez, U., Owoseni, O. and Walker, W. S., "Analysis of the effect of spacer thickness and porosity on the performance of Membrane Capacitive Deionization Desalination," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2018.
Ortiz, J. C., Kidd, J., Lanzarini-Lopes, M., and Westerhoff, P., "Regeneration of silver in the removal of bromide from drinking water," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2018.
Pineda, D., Zhan, D., and Alvarez, P., "TiO₂ Hierarchical Spheres Decorated With Cyclodextrin for Augmented Photocatalytic Degradation of Organic Pollutants," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2018.
Villarreal, E., Kim, J., Jain, A., Verduzco, R., and Li, Q., "Selective Removal of Copper (Cu2+) Ion Using a MoS4-LDH Layered CDI Electrode," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2018.
Zenor, W., Xu, Y., and Wong, M., "Catalytic Thermolysis of Heavy Oil with Iron(iii) p-toluenesulfonate hexahydrate," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2018.
2017
R-STEM REU
Anwaegbu, O., Burns, M., and Saltz, J., "Species Difference in Exploratory Behavior," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2017.
Braden, J., Wang, X., and Barrera, E., "The Innovation of a Novel Self-Healing Composite Material," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2017.
Crain, L., Britton, G., and Warmflash, A., "Determining Posterior Signaling Pathways that Induce Neural Fates in Human Embryonic Stem Cells," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2017.
Dean, M., Sun, C., and Dasgupta, R., "Constraints on Temperature of Diamond-Carrying Magmas," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2017.
Gonzalez, L., López Silva, T., and Hartgerink, J. D., "Study of the Physical Properties of Multidomain Peptide Hydrogels as Biomaterials for Tissue Regeneration," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2017.
Hutaff, P. G., Sharma, M. K. and Veeraraghavan, A., "Image Dehazing with Dark Channel Prior," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2017.
Licona, N., Ho, J., and Bennett, M., "Expanding EsaR N-Acyl Homoserine Lactone Signal Recognition Capability," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2017.
Mana-ay, J. J., Mirri, F., Taylor, L., and Pasquali, M., "Optimizing the Characterization of Carbon Nanotubes," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2017.
Prado Hernandez, D., Badhiwala, K. N., Gonzales, D. L., and Robinson, J. T., "Microfluidics in the study of Hydra vulgaris’ nervous system," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2017.
NEWT REU
Aldama, E., Ventura, K., and Villagran, D., "Graphene Oxide Coupled ZIF-67 in Polluted Fresh Water Solution," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2017.
Bui, A., Radhakrishnan, S., and Ajayan, P. M., "High-Strength Interconnected Three-Dimensional Biocomposite of Yeast and Two-Dimensional Materials," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2017.
Caña, D., Jain, A., Kim, J., Verduzco, R., and Li, Q., "Ion-Exchange Polymers Laced with Functional Solutes for the Improvement of Membrane Capacitive Deionization Performance and Selectivity," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2017.
Chavez, C. A., Pardo, A., and Noveron, J. C., "3-D Printed Nanoparticle-templated Porous Nanomaterials for Water Treatment," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2017.
De La O, C., Atkinson, A., Pincus, L., Zimmerman, J., and Westerhoff, P., "Pilot Scale Evaluation of Chitosan-Copper-Titanium Dioxide Media for Arsenic Removal from Water," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2017.
Dotson, L., Chen, W., and Lou, J., "Two-dimensional nanomaterial: Hexagonal Boron Nitride (h-BN) for anti-corrosive coating," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2017.
Gonzalez, S., Owoseni, O., and Walker, S., "Membrane Capacitive Deionization (MCDI) Optimization," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2017.
Henry, S., Dahill, C., Barrios, A., and Perreault, F., "Recovery Limit Identification and Inorganic Fouling Characterization in Direct Contact Membrane Distillation," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2017.
Rosenthal, T., Weller, M., and Chan, C., "Needleless Electrospun Membranes of Layered Double Hydroxide for Removal of Selenium in Wastewater," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2017.
2016
R-STEM REU
Arung Etah, A., Powell, C. D., and Wong, M. S., "Removing methylene blue from water using hydrogen peroxide and metal oxide catalyst," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2016.
DeGuia-Cranmer, T. T., Leitner, A., and Whitmire, K., "Molecular Structure of Triiron Dodecacarbonyl," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2016.
Dore, C., Villarreal, E., and Ringe, E., "Nano-particle Synthesis and Applications," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2016.
Ducharme, H., Peng He, P., and Lin,Y., "Sibani Lisa BiswalStudy of Asphaltene Deposition from Destabilized Oils with Water Emulsions Using Porous Microfluidics Chip," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2016.
Gonzalez, A., Li, X., Miranda, A. L., and Verduzco, R., "Multi-functional Polymer Binder for V2O5 Cathode in Li-ion Battery," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2016.
Hutaff Jr., P. G., Kochugaeva, M. P., and Kolomeisky, A. B., "Model of Hepatitis C Viral Dynamics through Deterministic and Stochastic Methods," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2016.
Kendrick, A., Demers, S., and Hafner, J., "Optimizing Film Measurements of Gold Nanorods," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2016.
Moore, G., Nemashkalo, A., and Warmflash, A., "Role of Fibroblast Growth Factor in Human Embryonic Stem Cells Pluripotency and Communication," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2016.
Quitzau, S., Mirri, F., Jamali, V., and Pasquali, M., "Characterization of Carbon Nanotubes," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2016.
Revelo, A., Stavinoha, M., and Morosan, E., "Interplay of Superconductivity and Magnetism in Yb3Rh4Sn13," Smalley-Curl Institute Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University. Houston, TX. August 2016.