Fiscal Year 2009-2010

 

Probing Porosity and Pore Interconnectivity in Nanostructured Materials Using Hyperpolarized 129Xe NMR

DATE: May 17, 2010
PLACE:  Barus & Holley, Room 190
SPEAKER:  Li-Qiong Wang, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, Brown University


Environmental Implications & Applications of Nanotechnology: Lessons Learned from Microbal-Nanoparticle Interactions

DATE: May 7, 2010
PLACE:  Barus & Holley, Room 190
SPEAKER:  Pedro J. Alvarez, Ph.D., George R. Brown Professor and Chair, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Rice University
Sponsored Jointly by IMNI and The Superfund Research Program


Nanofluids: When Glitzy Nanoscience Meets Prosaic Engineering

DATE: April 19, 2010
PLACE:  Barus & Holley, Room 190
SPEAKER:  Jacopo Buongiorno, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Nuclear Science & Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Techonology
Sponsored Jointly by IMNI, The Division of Engineering and Center for Fluid Mechanics


Nanomaterial Exposure & Environmental Effects: Predictive Tools for Assessing Risk

DATE: March 19, 2010
PLACE:  Barus & Holley, Room 190
SPEAKER:  Mark Wiesner, Ph.D., Center for the Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology (CEINT)
Sponsored Jointly by IMNI and The Superfund Research Program


Design of Programmable Anticancer Agent & Dioxygen Reactivity of Dinitrosyl Iron Complexes

DATE: March 5, 2010
PLACE:  Barus & Holley, Room 190
SPEAKER:  Ensuk Kim, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Brown University
Sponsored Jointly by IMNI and The Superfund Research Program


Optofluidics: Light-Fluid Engineering at the Nanoscale

DATE: March 4, 2010
PLACE:  182 George Street, Room 110
SPEAKER:  Mr. Allen Yang, Cornell University
Sponsored Jointly by IMNI, The Division of Engineering and Center for Fluid Mechanics


The Mechanism of a Splash

DATE: February 25, 2010
PLACE:  Barus Holley, Room 190
SPEAKER:  Shreyas Mandre, Ph.D., Harvard University
Sponsored Jointly by IMNI, The Division of Engineering and Department of Physics


Dynamics and Structure of Soft Materials

DATE: February 23, 2010
PLACE:  Barus Holley, Room 190
SPEAKER:  Klebert Feitosa, Ph.D., Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Sponsored Jointly by IMNI, The Division of Engineering and Center for Fluid Mechanics


Studies of Complex Systems with Emulsion Microfluids

DATE: February 18, 2010
PLACE:  Barus Holley, Room 190
SPEAKER:  Adam Abate, Ph.D., Department of Physics, Harvard University
Sponsored Jointly by IMNI, The Division of Engineering and Department of Physics


The DNA Nanopore Project

DATE: February 17, 2010
PLACE:  Barus Holley, Room 190
SPEAKER:  Ki-Bum Kim, Ph.D., Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Seoul National University (in collaboration with IBM, Yorktown Heights)


Three Dimensional Self-Assembly At Small Size Scales

DATE: February 16, 2010
PLACE:  Barus Holley, Room 190
SPEAKER:  David Gracias, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University


Three-dimensional Quantitative Measurements of Cells in their Surrounding Environment

DATE: November 18, 2009
PLACE:  Barus Holley, Room 190
SPEAKER:  Christian Franck, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Engineering, Brown University


Revealing behavior of carbon nanostructures with hybrid simulations: Cutting CNTs with sound and popping diamonds with ions

DATE: November 04, 2009
PLACE:  Barus Holley, Room 190
SPEAKER:  Kyung-Suk, Ph.D., Professor of Engineering, Brown University


Nanoparticle-immunolabeling of Hepatocellular Carcinoma for X-Ray Imaging

DATE: September 30, 2009
PLACE:  Barus Holley, Room 190
SPEAKER:  Christoph Rose-Petruck, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry, Brown University