2020 Research Symposium
The 5th Annual Cornell MSE Graduate Research Symposium took place on August 28, 2020 and was hosted via Zoom due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The full-day virtual event featured 19 Cornell graduate student research presentations, representing 16 different research groups, as well as an interactive industry and alumni panel and small group research breakout rooms!
Session I: Polymeric Materials and Soft Matter | Session Chair: Dana Chapman
| Speaker | Title | Principal Investigator |
|---|---|---|
| Yinglu Wang | Polymer grafted nanoparticles | Christopher Ober |
| Fei Yu | Block copolymer self-assembly-directed and transient laser heating-enabled nanostructures toward phononic and photonic quantum materials | Uli Wiesner |
| Joy (Xinyue) Zhang | Programming viscoelastic properties of the metallopolymer networks by tuning metal-ligand interactions | Meredith Silberstein |
| Florian Kaefer | A new generation of small molecules for EUV photolithography | Christopher Ober |
| Xin Wang | Functional soft matter based on liquid crystals | Nicholas Abbott |
Session II: Materials for energy Applications | Session Chair: Maya Martirossyan
| Speaker | Title | Principal Investigator |
|---|---|---|
| Yinglu Wang | Polymer grafted nanoparticles | Christopher Ober |
| Fei Yu | Block copolymer self-assembly-directed and transient laser heating-enabled nanostructures toward phononic and photonic quantum materials | Uli Wiesner |
| Joy (Xinyue) Zhang | Programming viscoelastic properties of the metallopolymer networks by tuning metal-ligand interactions | Meredith Silberstein |
| Florian Kaefer | A new generation of small molecules for EUV photolithography | Christopher Ober |
| Xin Wang | Functional soft matter based on liquid crystals | Nicholas Abbott |
| Speaker | Title | Principal Investigator |
|---|---|---|
| Duncan Sutherland | SARA: The Robot Scientist | Bruce van Dover |
| Jimy Encomendero | Electron Quantum Interference Effects in Polar III-Nitride Heterostructures | Debdeep Jena & Grace Xing |
| Jake Sun | PdO - BEOL compatible p-type oxide for vertical CMOS | Darrell Schlom |
| Anuj Bhargava | Breakdown of the Small-Polaron Hopping Model in Higher Order Spinels | Richard Robinson |
| John Wright | Epitaxial superconducting transition metal nitride thin films and heterostructures |
| Speaker | Title | Principal Investigator |
|---|---|---|
| Erik Taylor | Validation and implementation of spectroscopic measures of bone quality | Eve Donnelly |
| Jennie Kunitake | Quantifying heterogeneity and prognostic potential of breast cancer microcalcifications | Lara Estroff |
| Rachel Lee | Cornell Dots for Super Resolutions Sensing in Live Cells | Uli Wiesner |
| Haixiang Han | Nano clusters: Chirality and Hierarchical Assembly | Richard Robison |
| Nate Rogers | Simulation ad modeling of nanotwin formation in atom-by-atom deposition processes | Shefford Baker |