2024 REU Program
Project: “Synthesis of Finely-Shaped Tuned Gold Nanoparticles and Their Self-Assembly”
Project: “Rheological and thermal characterization of bio-binder as a rejuvenator in aged conventional binder”
Supported through the Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM)
Project: “Understanding hydrogen modified oxidation in Navy service vehicles”
Supported through the Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM)
Project: “How Do Tissue Properties Change after ECM degradation?”
Supported through the Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM)
Project: “Sr(Ti,Fe)O₃ (STF) Chemical Capacitance vs. PO₂ Thickness-Dependent Measurement & LiCoO₂ (LCO) Transmission Absorbance”
Project: “Improving Electronic Stopping Power Predictions in Materials”
Project: “Towards Statistical Mechanics of Grain Boundaries”
Supported through an NSF CAREER Grant
Project: “Unraveling the Reprocessability of Conductive Polymeric Materials via Dynamic Covalent Bonds”
Project: “Nucleation study of Glauber's salt on glycine monolayer for thermal energy storage application”
Project: “Wearable Technology for Healthcare Monitoring”
Project: “Automated Scanning Laser Microscopy for Surface Magnetization”
Project: “Regenerative 3D Printing Using Direct Ink Writing”
Supported through the EFRC Regenerative Energy Efficient Manufacturing of Thermoset Polymeric Materials REMAT
Project: “Polymer and Silica Electrolyte Gels in Lithium-Ion Batteries for use in Photoionics”
Project: “Making Crystal Math”
Project: “Investigating Precipitation Phenomena in Dilute Ternary Alloys”
Project: “Synthesis and Characterization of Rare-Earth Stoichiometric Solids for Quantum Information Systems”
Project: “Synthesis and Characterization of Dynamic Networks with Rigid Polymer Chains”
Project: “Stamping Colors with Solid-State Superionic Stamping (S4)”
Project: “Designing Stressors to Achieve Superconductivity Through Strain Engineering and Moire Patterning on 2D Materials”
Project: “Straining a 2D-Semiconductor Using a Magnetostrictive Thin Film Stressor”
2023 REU Program
Project: “Exploring the Thermomagnetic Auto-Oscillation of Iron-Rhodium Thin Films Under Constant Applied Current”
Project: “Improving interfacial Strength in Frontally Cured Composites”
Project; “Investigating the Properties and Synthesis Factors of Thin-Film LATP Electrolyte”
Project: “Exploring Diffusion Limitation of Electroplated Lithium Cobalt Oxide as a Cathode Material”
Supported through the Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) Partnership
Project: “Structured Stainless-Steel Surfaces for Enhanced Flow-Boiling Heat Transfer”
Additional support through the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Center (ACRC)
Project: “Modeling Strain Engineering in MoS2 Transistors”
“Determining the topology of poly (DCPD) and it’s mechanical properties”
Supported through the NSF Center for the Chemistry of Molecularly Optimized Networks MONET
Project: “Antiferromagnetic Single Crystal Growth for Spintronic Application via the Czochralski Method”
Project: “Giant magnetoresistance In Non- Collinear Antiferromagnet/ferromagnet Bilayers”
Project: “Optimizing Strain Characterization of Graphene Using Raman Spectroscopy”
Project: “Theoretical Analysis of Graphene Nanostructures for Electronic and Spintronic Applications”
2022 REU Program
Project: “Single-Crystal Growth Optimization of Metallic Antiferromagnet, Mn2Au”
Project: “The Characterization of Thin Polymer Films”
Project: “Flux Growth of Anti-ferromagnetic Binary Oxides”
Project: “P-Doping WSe2 with Oxygen Plasma”
Project: “First-Principles Study of Photoelastic Effect in Zinc Blende Gallium Phosphide”
This project was supported by the Tennessee State – Fisk – Illinois MRSEC Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) program.
Project: “First-Principles study on Polarization Dependent Optical Properties of Transition Metal Doped 𝛽−𝐺𝑎2𝑂3”
This project was supported by the Tennessee State – Fisk – Illinois MRSEC Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) program.
Project: “A Macroscopic Investigation of Wettability Characteristics for Modified Heat Exchanger Surfaces”
Project: “Fabrication of MoS2 Monolayers and Twisted Bilayers”
Project: “Thermal-Magnetic Oscillator in FeRh”
Project: “Strain Induced Phase Transition of MoTe2”
This project was supported by the Tennessee State – Fisk – Illinois MRSEC Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) program.
Project: “Measurement of spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance exhibited by noncollinear antiferromagnet Mn3Sn”
Project: “Deformation of Nanographene on Gold Nanoparticle Substrates”
Project: “Studies on Strained Graphene Via Raman Spectroscopy”
Project: “Ellipsometry for Simultaneous Strain and Stoichiometry Changes in Functional Oxide Thin Films”
2021 REU Program
Project: “Fingerprinting” Stacking Orders and Phases of 2D Materials through Electron Diffraction Simulations
Project: “Raman Spectrum: Graphene”
Project: “Contributions Made to the Raman Analysis Tool”
Project: “Creating a Database for Magnetic Space Groups”
Project: “Optimizing mRNA Codons Via Quantum Annealing”
Project: “Stability of EuSn¬2P2-like Rare Earth Metalloid Pnictides”
Project: “Modelling nano-electromechanical phononic waveguides”
Project: “Characterization of Aberrations in a Quantum Diamond Microscope”
Project: “Theoretical exploration of strained graphene on SiO2 nanosphere superlattices”
Project: “Predicting Capillary Peeling to Produce Free-Standing Thin Films”
2020 REU Program
Project: “COVID-19 and face mask wearing”
Project: “Automated analyzation of Stone-Wales-type deformations in graphene“
Project: “Constructing deformable 2D nanomaterials to adhere to organic surfaces through analysis of graphene”
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Project: “Monte Carlo modeling of thin film nucleation and growth by chemical vapor deposition“
Project: “Current and emerging applications of graphene-based field effect transistor biosensors“
Project: “A review of biosensing via supported lipid layer on graphene field effect transistors“
Project: “Searching for new antiferromagnetic materials“
Project: “COMSOL simulation of SECM for the screening of H2O2 direct synthesis electrocatalyst“
Project: “Face analyzing“
Project: “Image analysis of wrinkled structures“
Project: “Ultralow Magnetic field switching in dipolar coupled nanomagnet islands“
2019 REU Program
Project: “Fluorescence imaging of Immunoglobulin M adsorption on crumpled graphene”
Project: “Fabrication of deformed graphene heterostructures and characterization of strain using raman spectroscopy”
Project: “Crumpling of graphene optimizes graphene field effect transistors (GFETs) as biosensors”
Project: “Growth of antiferromagnetic PtMn thin films using sputter deposition and various characterization methods”
Project: “TC determination in MgxTi1-xB2 polycrystalline thin films”
Project: “Fabrication and characterization of thin films of organic semiconducting polymer for biosensing applications”
Project: “Molecular assembly of thin film dielectrics on functionalized graphene”
Project: “Role of the dielectric in solution-gated graphene field-effect transistors”
Project: “Constructing a vertical Bridgeman furnace and creating a comprehensive magnetic metallic binary data-base”
Project: “CVD growth of vertically aligned MoS2”
2018 REU Program
Project: “The Effect of O2 Plasma Treatment of SiO2 Substrates for the CVD Growth of Continuous Multilayer MoS2“
Project: “Solid state chemical synthesis of metallic room-temperature antiferromagnets”
Project: “Characterizing antiferromagnetic thin films with Rutherford Backscattering Spectroscopy”
Project: “Analysis of protein interactions with crumpled graphene surfaces”
Project: “The effect of graphene functionalization on its interaction with biomolecules”
Project: “Effects of thickness gradient on magnetoresistance in a Co/Pt multilayer”
Project: “A computational model of the longitudinal magneto-optical Kerr Effect of Co/Cu/Co synthetic antiferromagnetic thin films”
Project: “Fabrication and characterization of crumpled graphene field-effect transistors”