About the MRS

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)

Minutes from meeting