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Summer Internship 2000
This year's MPC/CMSE Summer Research Internship Program in Materials participants arrived in early June and immediately took a whirlwind tour of the laboratories of participating MPC-afilliated faculty. After hearing introductory talks, the students met with and chose faculty members whose research projects they wished to pursue over the remaining nine weeks of the program.
Rebecca Boudreaux from the University of Southern Mississippi, worked on the "Utilization of Amphiphilic Block Copolymers in Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Systems" for Professors Michael Rubner and Paula Hammond, looking for the optimal deposition conditions for these materials. Cynthia Chiang from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, characterized the electrical conductivity of polypyrrole synthesized at varying temperatures in Professor Ian Hunter's laboratory. Stephanie Connor from Iowa State University, also worked in Professor Hunter's lab, on three separate projects: determining the effect of oxide layer thickness on the reflectivity of Si for use in the Living Chip project; comparing the sensitivity and surface area of existing glucose sensors to determine typical sensitivity; and designing and constructing a polypyrrole glucose sensor. Adrian Fehr from the University of Washington, examined the microkinetics of the self-assembly of colloidal latex particles under Professor Lionel Kimerling. Meghan Kerner from Case Western Reserve University, also worked in the Kimerling lab. She looked at rapid thermal annealing as an approach to the reduction of threading dislocations in Ge/Si thin films, and drew some conclusions regarding the mechanism of dislocation reduction. Adam Nolte is from the University of Missouri-Rolla. He worked in the Rubner lab developing encapsulation methods for solid-state Ru light-emitting devices. Bradley Peterson from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, looked at the effect of indium and aluminum substitutions on the properties ferromagnetic Ni-Mn-Ga alloys under Professor Samuel Allen and Dr. Robert O'Handley. These materials show a 6% strain induction in a magnetic field. Nicole Seiberlich from Yale University, designed quantum information processing (teleportation) experiments using NMR under Professor David Cory in the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory. Patrick Underhill from Washington University, worked in Professor Gregory Rutledge's lab on a project entitled "Modeling Observations Using Polydispersity and the Semi-grand Canonical Ensemble." George Tripp from Utah State University, worked in the Technology Laboratory for Advanced Composites (TELAC) under Professor Mark Spearing. He examined the toughness of TiGr hybrid laminates as a function of phase angle. |
