Upcoming Events
05-05-10 - Graduate Lecturers - 12:00 pm, Kenan B229
Will Hinson - "Tailoring of Polyesters to control properties"
Abby Pulsipher - "Sustained transgene expression via citric acid-based polyester elastomers"
Past Events
Below you can browse presentations, papers, and minutes from past events/meetings.
04-07-10 - Guest Lecturer - Dr. Joseph DeSimone
Dr. DeSimone will be gave a talk entitled, "Bench to Market: Using Top-down Nano-manufacturing Techniques to Engineer New Opportunities in Life Science and Environmental Markets."03-02-10 - Guest Lecturer - Lamar Mair - Ph.D. candidate from the Superfine Lab
Lamar gave a talk entitled, "Janus Nanorods: Fabrication and Magnetic Manipulation."10-28-09 - Guest Lecturer - Dr. Muhammad Yousaf
Dr. Yousaf gave a talk entitled, "A surface chemistry and microfluidic approach to studying cell behavior."09-29-09 - Graduate Student Research Overview - Pete Coneski and Andrew Chambers
08-26-09 - Guest Lecturer - Dr. Wei You
Dr. You discussed the path that led him to his current positon, provided insight into the formulation of ideas that have fueled his research, and gave an overview of the current work being carried out in the You lab. The title of his presentation was "Organic/Molecular Materials Sciences: Integration of Synthesis with Devices."
07-29-09 - Journal Club - Functional Nanoscale Devices and Nanomachines
06-24-2009 - Guest Speaker - Dr. Carrie Donley, Chapel Hill Analytical Nanofabrication Laboratory (CHANL):
Dr. Donley presented and discussed the role of CHANL at UNC and detail the nanofabrication/characterization tools currently and soon to be available to the UNC research community. Reach Dr. Donley for more information about CHANL at cdonley@email.unc.edu - CHANL Presentation (PDF)
05-27-09 - MRS Meeting and Journal Club:
President Tim Merkel gave a beautiful rendition of a Samuel L. Stupp paper entitled:
Self-Assembly of Large and Small Molecules into Hierarchically Ordered Sacs and Membranes Capito, R.M; et al. Science 2008, 319, 1812-1816.Secretary Jeremy Niskala led a general discussion as an overview to the research topic of gecko adhesion. Presentation (Powerpoint)