The National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Convocation is an end-of-program technical conference (2-3 days) held at one of the sites that conduct their own REU Programs. The Nebraska Nanoscale Facility and Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience will host the convocation in August 2024, where REU students will get excellent exposure to academic, research, and industry professionals in the field. Participants from NNCI REU site programs will present their results in poster and oral formats and network with their peers. This is a wonderful culmination of the research experience.
Questions? Please contact the Conference Coordinator, Jenna Huttenmaier, at jenna.huttenmaier@unl.edu or 402-472-2716
Presentation Recordings
Parallel A
Adam Aharonoff
Achieving Flight in Earth's Mesosphere and Mars
Mary Gorman
Chemical Modification of a Filamentous Plan Virus
Tyler Lai
PFAS Detection in Water using Microfluidic Sensors
Farah Lino
Synthesis of Multilayer 2D Chiral Perovskites
Hannah Murai
Optical Characterization of Metamaterials
Elizabeth Quansah
Micro-scale Ceramic Additive Manufacturing for Aerospace Applications
Darian Rosales
Silver Nanostructures: Exploration of Synthesis and Oxidation Resistance
Ryugo Shimamura
A Scalable Patterning Method for High-Performance Electronic Devices
Nathan Tomas
Manipulating Superfluorescence through Substrate Modifications in Quasi-2D Perovskite Thin Films
Parallel D
John Puthiaparambil
Plasmon Field Effect Transistor (FET) for a Sensing Platform
Samdrea Hsu
Experimental Calculation of On-Chip Optical Waveguide Propagation Loss using Add-Drop Ring Resonator
Valeria I. Guerra Dopazo
Vapor and Solution Compatible Perovskite Solar Cell Fabrication
Sadie Meyer
Effects of the Presence of Oxygen on the Morphology and Ultrastructure of Mitochondria in Yeast Cells
Adriana Lara
Controlled Conversion of Perovskite Thin Films using Antisolvent Baths
Elise Jantz
Effects of Background Pressure During RIR-MAPLE Deposition of Thin Film Hybrid Perovskites
Karim Haddad
Characterization of CaCl2 in Mesoporous SIlica as a Thermochemical Material for Energy Storage Applications
Yusuke Morita
Microstructural Characterization of the Calcite Mineral
Asantewaa Nyanteh
Mircoheater Arrays to Modulate Stiffness for Tunable Friction
Parallel G
Margaret Lin
Friction Mediation via Synthetic Mucin Polymer Formation into Tribofilms
Matthew Silverstein
Halide- and Temperature-Dependent Anharmonic Phonon Dynamics in Formamidinium LEad Halide Perovskites
Maria Steis
Ultrasound-Mediated Cell Transfection in Microchamber Systems
Elizabeth Peng
Spatial Resolution Improvements using Collimation Methods and their Applications
Eitan Jentis
Stabilizing Emulsions and Controlling Oxygen Release via Microfluidics
Neinei Du
Development and Processes for High-Temperature Lithium Niobate Acoustic Devices
Fabiana P. Mayol López
Investigating the Lateral Spreading of Vanadium-Based Ohmic Contacts
Leo Turner
Simulation of Magnetic Skyrmions Under Strain
Sarah Levine
Atomic Layer Deposition of HfO2/ZrO2 Superlattices
Alsyl Enriquez
Fabrication of Twisted Bilayer Photonic Crystal
Jacob Clerc
Ultrafast THz Studies in Spintronic Devices
Parallel B
Marcelo Rodriguez
Mechanical Performances of High Entropy Alloys Fabricated through Additive Manufacturing
Monique Kubovsky
Understanding Dimensionality and Connectivity of Mixed-Cation Hybrid Perovskites
Richard Remias
Nanomolding of Topological Materials for Interconnects
Abigail Keyes
Vat Photopolymerization of All-Aromatic Polyimides
Christian Baryla
Multilayer Conductive Nanofiber Mats for Enhanced Filtration Integration
Aidan Wensel
Impact of Annealing on R2R Perovskite Films
Jose Montelongo
Atomic-Scale Imaging of Hydrogen in Metals using Atom Probe Tomography
Parallel E
Ryan Woolaver
Particulate Reduction in Pulsed Laser Deposition
Connor Denney
Electrospun Non-Woven Mats as Substrates for Flexible Electronics
Tristan Burnham
Oxidizing Silicon Membranes for MEMS Applications
Grace Dono
Effects of Bismuth Incorporation of Electronic Properties within 2D Hybrid Perovskites
Kirsten Gellhaus
The AmoeBot: A Bioinspired Soft Robot with Nitinol Wire Actuation and Gecko-like Adhesion
Youcef Thomas Sadoun
Characterization of Ancient Roman Concrete
Zach Crennen
UAV Propeller Frequency Analysis with LiDAR and Sliding Windows
William Ward
Method for High Accuracy Measurements of Thermal Conductivity in c-BAs Crystals
Zoe Bell
Parallel H
Meklit Tilahun
Advanced Photonics for On-Chip Sensing: Design, Optimization, and Implementation in Integrated Sensor Devices
Sydney Jones
Optimizing Protein Imaging Techniques
Beck Lindholm
Exploring the Immunostimulatory Effects of Gold-SNA Through Variable DNA Lengths
Siyi (Cathy) Chen
Fabrication of 2D-Material-Based Ionic Transistors
Isabella Zeyben
Biokinetic Sculptures
Daniel Teleshevsky
Stoichiometric Dependence of Physical and Electrical Properties of Silicon Nitride
Megan Santamore
Optofluidic Device for Controlling the Exchange of Radiation Between a Building and the Environment
Stephanie Avalos-Padilla
Environmental Stimuli of Amphiphilic Block Copolymer Assemblies
Gannon Lemaster
Si Substrate Integrated Waveguides for Millimeter-Wave Integrated Circuits
Ameya Matele
MacEtch of Quantum Cascade Laser
Theresa Franklin
Computational Optimization of Collinear Printed Pneumatic Soft Actuators
Yusaku Teraguchi
Additive Manufacturing of Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia Ceramics
Parallel C
Laney Windlan
Long-Wavelength Nanophotonics
Jack Hannon
Circular Dichroism in Achiral-Chiral Mixed Cation 2D Hybrid Perovskites
Alondra Davila
Impact of Conjugation Chemistry of the Pharacokinetics of a Peptide-Polymer in Traumatic Brain Injury
Laura James
Optimizing Fabrication Methods for Cost-Effective Monolithic Perovskite Solar Cells
Zachary Zhuo
Optimization of Post Curing for SLA 3D Printed PDMS Molds for Microfluidics
Fernanda Siordia
Investigating PEG-lipid Alternative for Lipid Nanoparticles to Address the PEG Dilemma
Shelby Koshak
Solid State Nanopores for Protein Detection
Francis Oduro Konadu
Semiconductor Manufacturing Process for MEMS
Parallel F
Wyatt Thomas
Reproducible e-BEam Deposition of High-Quality Aluminum Thin Films on SIlicon
Erica Rios Hernandez
Microfluidic Platform to Quantify Intra-tumoral Stress
Rohan Mody
Electrolyte and Cathode Modifications of Rechargeable Micro Aluminum Air Batteries
Himani Anilkuar Mishra
Building Generative Machine Learning Models to Analyze Microscope Images of Material Systems
Jack Guarnery
Characterization of Voltage-Controlled Magnetic Anisotropy for Magnetic Logic Devices
Hunter Saylor
Micro-Additive Manufacturing Processes for Electrochemical Co2 Reduction
Peter Mugaba Noertoft
Fast Simulation and Inverse Design of Nanophotonic Lasers
Imrie Ross
Effect of Temperature Morphology of Glycidyl Methacrylate Polymerized via Liquid Crystal-Templated Initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition
Parallel I
Mia Dolan
Assessing Sarcomere Structure and Twitch Stress in Fabry-Derived iPSC Cardiomyocytes
Hajo Johann Wise
Atomic Layer Etching of III-Nitride Semiconductor Films
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Christopher Ikpefua
Mechanical Stability Assessment of Silicon Microcapsules
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