More than 100 faculty, post-docs, graduate and undergraduate students engaged in nanoresearch at Vanderbilt attended the 17th annual Nanoscience/Nanotechnology Forum (“NanoDay!”) on October 19th.聽33聽posters were submitted in the 2016 student poster competition and the winners are:
1st Place
Zhihua Zhu, Electrical Engineering
Advisor:聽Jason Valentine/Richard Haglund
鈥淭unable Metasurfaces Based on Vanadium Dioxide鈥�
2nd Place
Somtochukwu Dimobi, undergraduate, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Advisor: Craig Duvall
鈥淰alidation of a Galectin-8 Reporter as a Measure of Nanocarrier Endosomal Escape and Biologic Drug Intracellular Bioavailability鈥�
Joshua Fain, Electrical Engineering
Advisor:聽Sharon Weiss
鈥淪calable Fabrication of Shape-Engineered Porous Silicon Nanoparticles by Direct Imprintation鈥�
3rd Place
Samantha Sarett, Biomedical Engineering,
Advisor:聽Craig Duvall
鈥淐onjugation of lipophilic albumin-binding moiety to siRNA improves carrier-free聽in vivo聽pharmacokinetics and mediates prolonged gene silencing in tumors鈥�
Andrew Westover,聽Interdisciplinary Materials Science
Advisor:聽Cary Pint
鈥淐arbon Nanotube Reinforced Multifunctional Energy Storage Composites鈥�
Frances Knight, Biomedical Engineering
Advisor:聽John Wilson
鈥淪timulating Pulmonary Immunity via Intranasal Delivery of Nanoparticle Vaccines鈥�
1st Year IMS student 10- week Research Rotation
Kate Moyer,聽Interdisciplinary Materials Science
Advisor:聽Cary Pint
鈥淐apillary filling of carbon nanotubes for next generation batteries鈥�