Twenty-four students have been awarded summer 2022 undergraduate research fellowships with Notre Dame Nanoscience and Technology (NDnano). They will conduct their research under the guidance of NDnano affiliated faculty in the College of Engineering and College of Science.
Pictured below, the students participating in the 10-week, on-campus experience will work on a wide range of projects. They attend several universities, including Johns Hopkins University, Michigan Technological University, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Notre Dame, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, Saint Mary’s College, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, and Villanova University. Funding for the students is provided by NDnano, the Woodward Family Endowment for Excellence in NDnano Undergraduate Research, and other faculty grants and funds.
Alongside the student researchers from other Notre Dame summer programs, the NDnano students will participate in the July 20 Summer Research Symposium at Jordan Hall. Leading up to the Symposium, students can take advantage of several seminars and facility tours to expand their knowledge and skill base. A host of social events are also planned for the summer researchers.
For more information about the 2023 NDnano Undergraduate Research Fellowship (NURF) program, please visit the NDnano website in early January.
Summer 2022 NDnano Undergraduate Research Fellowship Recipients
Fellowship recipient: Moboluwagbe Adesanmi, Villanova
Faculty mentors: Greg Snider, professor, Electrical Engineering and Alexei Orlov, research professor, Electrical Engineering
Project: Adiabatic capacitive logic for ultra-low power electronics
Fellowship recipient: Stephanie Atampugre, Notre Dame
Faculty mentor: Yanliang Zhang, associate professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Project: Scalable nanomanufacturing and hybrid printing of multifunctional devices
Fellowship recipient: AnnahMarie Behn-link, Notre Dame
Faculty mentors: Greg Snider, professor, Electrical Engineering and Alexei Orlov, research professor, Electrical Engineering
Project: Adiabatic capacitive logic for ultra-low power electronics
Fellowship recipient: Abigail Brown, Saint Mary’s/Notre Dame
Faculty mentors: Greg Snider, professor, Electrical Engineering and Alexei Orlov, research professor, Electrical Engineering
Project: Adiabatic capacitive logic for ultra-low power electronics
Fellowship recipient: Aldo Celis Cordova, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
Faculty mentor: Ed Kinzel, associate professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Project: Scalable nanofabrication of metasurfaces using microsphere photolithography
Fellowship recipient: Sam Chen, Notre Dame
Faculty mentors: Jennifer Schaefer, associate professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Nosang Myung, professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Project: Polymers in next-generation rechargeable batteries
Fellowship recipient: Ana Corcoran, Saint Mary’s
Faculty mentor: Svetlana Neretina, professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Project: Squeezing light energy into small volumes with gold and silver nanoparticles
Fellowship recipient: Brianna Dewey, Saint Mary’s/Notre Dame
Faculty mentor: Ed Kinzel, associate professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Project: Ultra short pulsed laser texturing
Fellowship recipient: Zuánichi Figueroa Hernández, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
Faculty mentors: Nosang Myung, professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Jennifer Schaefer, associate professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Project: Nano-enabled electronic nose
Fellowship recipient: Collin Finnan, Notre Dame
Faculty mentors: Gary Bernstein, professor, Electrical Engineering and Ed Kinzel, associate professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Project: Improving sensitivity of infrared nanoantenna detectors
Fellowship recipient: Belen Flores, Saint Mary’s/Notre Dame
Faculty mentor: Matt Webber, associate professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Project: Stimuli-directed nanoscale assemblies for glucose-responsive therapy
Fellowship recipient: Julia Gattozzi, Notre Dame
Faculty mentors: Ryan Roeder, professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Mary Ann McDowell, associate professor, Biological Sciences
Project: Nanoparticle carriers for novel anti-Leishmania chemotherapeutics
Fellowship recipient: Francine Graham, Notre Dame
Faculty mentor: Donny Hanjaya-Putra, assistant professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Project: Engineering biomimetic materials to control stem cell morphogenesis
Fellowship recipient: Juwan Jeremy Jacobe, Notre Dame
Faculty mentors: Anthony Hoffman, associate professor, Electrical Engineering and Ryan Roeder, professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Project: Phononic nanoparticles for low-loss, tunable nanophotonics in the mid- and far-IR
Fellowship recipient: Max Niebur, Johns Hopkins University
Faculty mentor: Yi-Ting Hsu, assistant professor, Physics and Astronomy
Project: Machine-learning quantum phases in non-equilibrium systems
Fellowship recipient: Aaron Peaslee, Michigan Technological University
Faculty mentors: Kyle Doudrick, associate professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences and William Phillip, associate professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Project: Nanocatalytic membranes for water treatment
Fellowship recipient: Alex Pérez Reyes, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez
Faculty mentors: Alex Dowling, assistant professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and William Phillip, associate professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Project: Data-driven approaches to elucidating molecular design principles for nanostructured membranes capable of separating similarly sized molecules
Fellowship recipient: Salmady Ramos Valentín, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez
Faculty mentor: Matt Webber, associate professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Project: Targeting therapeutics through supramolecular affinity
Fellowship recipient: Bennett Schmitt, Notre Dame
Faculty mentor: Adam Jaffe, assistant professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Project: Electrical and electrochemical analysis of hybrid bronzes
Fellowship recipient: Justin Share, Notre Dame
Faculty mentors: Gary Bernstein, professor, Electrical Engineering and Erik Blair, associate professor, Engineering and Computer Science (Baylor)
Project: First-principles calculations of thermoelectric properties in nanothermocouples
Fellowship recipient: Conor Sheehan, Notre Dame
Faculty mentors: Paul Helquist, professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry and Prakash Nallathamby, research assistant professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Project: Magneto-silica nanoparticles (MagSiNs) for combinatorial chemotherapeutics and gene delivery against metastatic cancers
Fellowship recipient: Jeremy Stevens, Notre Dame
Faculty mentor: Ningyuan Cao, assistant professor, Electrical Engineering
Project: Advanced integrated circuit design for sustainable privacy-preserving wireless resource allocation
Fellowship recipient: Luke Strachan, Notre Dame
Faculty mentors: Gergo Szakmany, visiting research assistant professor and Alexei Orlov, research professor, Electrical Engineering
Project: Nanoantenna directivity characterization
Fellowship recipient: Edwin Vélez Ortiz, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez
Faculty mentors: Alex Dowling, assistant professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Ed Maginn, professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Project: Molecular and process design framework for the separation, recycling, and reuse of hydrofluorocarbon mixtures
Originally published by at nano.nd.edu on June 03, 2022.