Participants

REU Participants: 2025

 

Afrah Ahmed

University of Maryland - Baltimore County

2025

Project: “Incubation-Reactivity Relationships in DCPD-DHF Formulations”

Supported through a DOE EFRC Grant

Ben Eveland

Carleton College

2025

Project: “Magnetically Tuned Bandgap in Single and Dual Anisotropic Hard Magnetoactive Elastomers”

Supported through a NSF MRSEC Grant

John-Paul Garzon

Florida State University

2025

Project: “Frontal Polymerization of Microparticle-Based DCPD Systems for Composite Fabrication”

Supported through a DOE EFRC Grant

Jocelyn Hess

University of Texas - Knoxville

2025

Project: “From Molecular Structure to Sustainability: Understanding and Recycling Thermoset Plastics and Composites”

Supported through a DOE EFRC Grant

Brendan Hill

Tennessee State University

2025

Project: “Accelerating Electronic Stopping Power Predictions by 10 Million Times with a Combination of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory and Machine Learning”

Supported through a NSF PREM Grant

Melissa Kirby

DePauw University

2025

Project: “Morphogenic Patterning of Co-Polymer Systems Using Frontal Polymerization”

Supported through a DOE EFRC Grant

Katrin Klassen

Fordham University

2025

Project: “Studying the formation of strained nanobubbles in hexagonal boron nitride using a remote hydrogen plasma”

Supported through a NSF MRSEC Grant

Leo Liu

Wake Forest University

2025

Project: “Investigating the Photo-Ionic Behaviors of Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conductors Through Optical and Electrical Characterization”

Supported through a NSF MRSEC Grant

Garon Lowke

Wingate University

2025

Project: “Discovering and Visualizing Grain Boundary Phases using Monte Carlo”

Supported through a NSF CAREER Grant

James Marlowe

North Carolina State University

2025

Project: “Synthesis and Characterization of Azobenzene-Based Linear Polymers for Spatiotemporally- Controlled Ion Transport”

Supported through a NSF MRSEC Grant

Johan Matinez

University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

2025

Project: “Graphene PN Junctions: From Band Structure to Device Applications”

Supported through a NSF REM Grant

Patric Moret

Oregon State University

2025

Project: “Strain Gradient Engineering of Thermal Transport in a Graphene Monolayer”

Supported through a NSF MRSEC Grant

Jordan Pierce

Marry State University

2025

Project: “Synthesis and Solubility Studies of Sodium-Europium Tetraiodate”

Supported through a NSF MRSEC Grant

Anshul Ramavath

University of Pittsburgh

2025

Project: “Strain-Induced Magnetization Effects in Thin-Film Magnetic Materials”

Supported through a NSF MRSEC Grant

Javier Romero

Lewis University

2025

Project: “Understanding of AgI-AgPO3 in Superionic Conductors”

Supported through a NSF REM Grant

Khuaja Sediqi

City Colleges of Chicago Harry S Truman College

2025

Project: “On the Frontal Polymerization Kinetics of DCPD: A Computational Study Using Finite Element”

Supported through a DOE EFRC Grant

Tammie Shalit

Tiffin University

2025

Project: “Etchant and Polymer-Free Large-Area Exfoliation of TMDCs on Patterned Gold Substrates”

Supported through a NSF REM Grant

Jalen Townsend

Tennessee State University

2025

Project: “Web Development for Electronic Stopping Power of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory and Machine Learning”

Supported through a NSF PREM Grant

Gabriel Wilson

Cedarville University

2025

Project: “Electrochemical Deposition of Thin-film Lithium Phosphate on Cathode Material”

Supported through a NSF MRSEC Grant

Mia Leon Zaragoza

Texas Lutheran University

2025

Project: “Correlating Spectroscopy with Rheometry of a ROMPing Thermoset Resin”

Supported through a DOE EFRC Grant

 

Previous Years:

202420232022 | 2021 | 2020 | 20192018

 

2024

Joel Asare

St. Lawrence University

2024

Project: “Synthesis of Finely-Shaped Tuned Gold Nanoparticles and Their Self-Assembly”

Kyla Beddingfield

Tennessee State University

2024

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)

Donovan Davis

Tennessee State University

2024

Project: “Understanding hydrogen modified oxidation in Navy service vehicles”

Supported through the Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM)

Lennox Fletcher

Tennessee State University

2024

Project: “How Do Tissue Properties Change after ECM degradation?”

Supported through the Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM)

Rebecca Hurwitz

Vanderbilt University

2024

Project: “Sr(Ti,Fe)O₃ (STF) Chemical Capacitance vs. PO₂ Thickness-Dependent Measurement & LiCoO₂ (LCO) Transmission Absorbance”

Alex Inches

Northern Illinois University

2024

Project: “Improving Electronic Stopping Power Predictions in Materials”

Zachary Jimerson

Arkansas Tech University

2024

Project: “Towards Statistical Mechanics of Grain Boundaries”

Supported through an NSF CAREER Grant

Kimberly Meléndez-Bonet

University of Puerto Rico – Río Piedras

2024

Project: “Unraveling the Reprocessability of Conductive Polymeric Materials via Dynamic Covalent Bonds”

Celina Pinela

West Texas A&M University

2024

Project: “Nucleation study of Glauber's salt on glycine monolayer for thermal energy storage application”

Elise Polizzi

University of Massachusetts Amherst

2024

Project: “Wearable Technology for Healthcare Monitoring”

Michael Porter

Prairie View A&M University

2024

Project: “Automated Scanning Laser Microscopy for Surface Magnetization”

Amanda Rosario

University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez

2024

Project: “Regenerative 3D Printing Using Direct Ink Writing”

Supported through the EFRC Regenerative Energy Efficient Manufacturing of Thermoset Polymeric Materials REMAT

August Sasaki

University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

2024

Project: “Polymer and Silica Electrolyte Gels in Lithium-Ion Batteries for use in Photoionics”

Jacob Schaefer

Carleton College

2024

Project: “Making Crystal Math”

Gwyneth Svatek

Texas A&M University

2024

Project: “Investigating Precipitation Phenomena in Dilute Ternary Alloys”

Amy Tram

Lake Forest College

2024

Project: “Synthesis and Characterization of Rare-Earth Stoichiometric Solids for Quantum Information Systems”

Lauren Trout

Murray State University

2024

Project: “Synthesis and Characterization of Dynamic Networks with Rigid Polymer Chains”

Chidinma Umeh

University of Houston

2024

Project: “Stamping Colors with Solid-State Superionic Stamping (S4)”

London Wilson

University of Texas - Dallas

2024

Project: “Designing Stressors to Achieve Superconductivity Through Strain Engineering and Moire Patterning on 2D Materials”

Evan Zemont

College of Lake County

2024

Project: “Straining a 2D-Semiconductor Using a Magnetostrictive Thin Film Stressor”

2023

Megan Batchelor

Mercer University

2023

Project: “Exploring the Thermomagnetic Auto-Oscillation of Iron Rhodium Thin Films Under Constant Applied Current”

Kwesi Halm

University of Maryland Baltimore County

2023

Project: “Improving interfacial Strength in Frontally Cured Composites”

Harrison Hawbaker

Coe College

2023

Project: “Investigating the Properties and Synthesis Factors of Thin-Film LATP Electrolyte”

Michael Henderson

Fisk University

2023

Project: “xploring Diffusion Limitation of Electroplated Lithium Cobalt Oxide as a Cathode Material”

Supported through the Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) Partnership

Amelia Korveziroska

Illinois State University

2023

Project: “Structured Stainless-Steel Surfaces for Enhanced Flow-Boiling Heat Transfer”

Additional support through the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Center (ACRC)

Sophia Litauszki

University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

2023

Project: “Modeling Strain Engineering in MoS2 Transistors”

Zina Medina-Barreto

University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez

2023

Project: “Determining the topology of poly (DCPD) and its mechanical properties”

Supported through the NSF Center for the Chemistry of Molecularly Optimized Networks MONET

Eric Montgomery

Tuskegee University

2023

Project: “Antiferromagnetic Single Crystal Growth for Spintronic Application via the Czochralski Method”

Clerkson Ngolle

University of Maryland Eastern Shore

2023

Project: “Giant magnetoresistance In Non- Collinear Antiferromagnet/ferromagnet Bilayers”

Justin Potts

Macalester College

2023

Project: “Optimizing Strain Characterization of Graphene Using Raman Spectroscopy”

Sridevi Pulugurtha

Columbia University

2023

Project: “Theoretical Analysis of Graphene Nanostructures for Electronic and Spintronic Applications”

2022

Rebecca Banner

Skidmore College

2022

Project: “Single-Crystal Growth Optimization of Metallic Antiferromagnet, Mn2Au”

Emmanuel Barias

Campbell University

2022

Project: “The Characterization of Thin Polymer Films”

Andrew Baumgartner

University of Wisconsin – La Crosse

2022

Project: “Flux Growth of Anti-ferromagnetic Binary Oxides”

Amyra Black

Tennessee State University

2022

Project: “P-Doping WSe2 with Oxygen Plasma”

Ethiopine Choping

Tennessee State University

2022

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.”

Grady Clopton

Tennessee State University

2022

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.

Colin Fried

Parkland College

2022

Project: “A Macroscopic Investigation of Wettability Characteristics for Modified Heat Exchanger Surfaces”

Maya Kesan

Smith College

2022

Project: “Fabrication of MoS2 Monolayers and Twisted Bilayers”

Zina Medina-Barreto

University of Puerto Rico – Mayagüez

2022

Project: “Thermal-Magnetic Oscillator in FeRh”

Antonio Moore

Fisk University

2022

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.Strain Induced Phase Transition of MoTe2”

Amber Simon

Gustavus Adolphus College

2022

Project: “Measurement of spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance exhibited by noncollinear antiferromagnet Mn3Sn”

Sarah Veres

University of Alabama

2022

Project: “Deformation of Nanographene on Gold Nanoparticle Substrates”

Caleb Williams

University of Illinois - Chicago

2022

Project: “Studies on Strained Graphene Via Raman Spectroscopy”

Jackie Zheng

Cornell University

2022

Project: “Ellipsometry for Simultaneous Strain and Stoichiometry Changes in Functional Oxide Thin Films”

2021

Ashlie Hamilton

University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

2021

Project: “Fingerprinting Stacking Orders and Phases of 2D Materials through Electron Diffraction Simulations”

Armando Hernandez

Wilbur Wright College

2021

Project: “Raman Spectrum: Graphene”

Diana Hernandez

City University of New York – Queens

2021

Project: “Contributions Made to the Raman Analysis Tool”

Isaiah Hunter

Texas Southern University

2021

Project: “Creating a Database for Magnetic Space Groups”

Ross Lee

Brigham Young University

2021

Project: “Optimizing mRNA Codons Via Quantum Annealing”

Sarah Longworth

Missouri State University

2021

Project: “Stability of EuSn¬2P2-like Rare Earth Metalloid Pnictides”

Izabela Quintas

Harvey Mudd College

2021

Project: “Modelling nano-electromechanical phononic waveguides”

Sophie Roberts

University of Northern Iowa

2021

Project: “Characterization of Aberrations in a Quantum Diamond Microscope”

Vivian Rogers

University of Texas at Austin

2021

Project: “Theoretical exploration of strained graphene on SiO2 nanosphere superlattices”

Kamila Thompson

Ohio State University

2021

Project: “Predicting Capillary Peeling to Produce Free-Standing Thin Films”

2020

Jeffrey Asubonteng

North Carolina Central University

2020

Project: “COVID-19 and face mask wearing”

Olivia Gordon

Grand Valley State University

2020

Project: “Automated analyzation of Stone-Wales-type deformations in graphene”

Andre Green

Pennsylvania State University

2020

Project: “Constructing deformable 2D nanomaterials to adhere to organic surfaces through analysis of graphene”

Diana LaFollette

University of Southern California

2020

Project: “Monte Carlo modeling of thin film nucleation and growth by chemical vapor deposition”

Angela Pak

University of Texas at Austin

2020

Project: “Current and emerging applications of graphene-based field effect transistor biosensors”

Isiah Ramos

Parkland College

2020

Project: “A review of biosensing via supported lipid layer on graphene field effect transistors”

Austin Redington

University of Minnesota

2020

Project: “Searching for new antiferromagnetic materials”

Clinton Sabah

Grinnell College

2020

Project: “COMSOL simulation of SECM for the screening of H2O2 direct synthesis electrocatalyst”

QuoVadis Savoy

Southern University and A&M College

2020

Project: “Face analyzing”

Tarik Simpson

Alabama State University

2020

Project: “Image analysis of wrinkled structures”

Kaitlyn Wiegand

Southern Illinois University - Carbondale

2020

Project: “Ultralow Magnetic field switching in dipolar coupled nanomagnet islands”

2019

Jennifer Conner

Arizona State University

2019

Project: “Fluorescence imaging of Immunoglobulin M adsorption on crumpled graphene”

Brenda Escobedo

Moraine Valley Community College, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2019

Project: “Fabrication of deformed graphene heterostructures and characterization of strain using raman spectroscopy”

Hannah Gilbonio

Macalester College

2019

Project: “Crumpling of graphene optimizes graphene field effect transistors (GFETs) as biosensors”

Lauren Gorman

California State Chico

2019

Project: “Growth of antiferromagnetic PtMn thin films using sputter deposition and various characterization methods”

Andre Hillsman

University of Tennessee- Knoxville

2019

Project: “TC determination in MgxTi1-xB2 polycrystalline thin films”

Angela Johnson

Chicago State University

2019

Project: “Fabrication and characterization of thin films of organic semiconducting polymer for biosensing applications”

Lucas Komara

Moraine Valley Community College, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2019

Project: “Molecular assembly of thin film dielectrics on functionalized graphene”

Michael Muzik

College of DuPage, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2019

Project: “Role of the dielectric in solution-gated graphene field-effect transistors”

Carmen Paquette

Illinois Institute of Technology

2019

Project: “Constructing a vertical Bridgeman furnace and creating a comprehensive magnetic metallic binary data-base”

Davis Zackaria

University of Texas-Dallas

2019

Project: “CVD growth of vertically aligned MoS2”

2018

Alessandro Benadia

University of Florida

2018

Project: “The Effect of O2 Plasma Treatment of SiO2 Substrates for the CVD Growth of Continuous Multilayer MoS2”

Scott Berens

University of Minnesota

2018

Project: “Solid state chemical synthesis of metallic room-temperature antiferromagnets”

Michael Castells

Harper College

2018

Project: “Characterizing antiferromagnetic thin films with Rutherford Backscattering Spectroscopy”

Caitlin Coplan

University of Utah

2018

Project: “Analysis of protein interactions with crumpled graphene surfaces”

Idonis Curtis

University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

2018

Project: “The effect of graphene functionalization on its interaction with biomolecules”

Levi Humbard

Pittsburg State (KS)

2018

Project: “Effects of thickness gradient on magnetoresistance in a Co/Pt multilayer”

Julie Lorenzo

Harper College, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2018

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Cyerra Prevo

Grambling State University

2018

Project: “A computational model of the longitudinal magneto-optical Kerr Effect of Co/Cu/Co synthetic antiferromagnetic thin films”

Ashley Walker

Albany State University (GA)

2018

Project: “Fabrication and characterization of crumpled graphene field-effect transistors”