2024 Research Symposium

The 9th Annual Materials Science and Engineering Graduate Research Symposium will take place on Friday, August 23, 2024.

A detailed schedule can be found below.

Our generous sponsors are Avantor, Corning, Andela, Carrier, Arkema.

Our panel moderators, session chairs, and the organizing committee:

Industry Panel Moderator: Bennett Cromer
Session Chairs: Anjana Seshadri, Duaa Khdary, Harsha Koganti, Manav Tathacharya
Symposium Organizing Committee: Somya Jain, Manav Tathacharya, Katherine Wang, Christina Yu
MSE Staff Committee Leads: Jannica Moskal, Emily Reynolds

Schedule

All Sessions and Industry Panel in Kimball B11

Lunch and Poster Session in Snee Hall Atrium & Map Room

Join us for coffee and breakfast before the day's events.

Join us for opening remarks from the Organizing Committee.

Session I: Electronics & Devices
Time	Presenter	Group	Title
9:00 a.m.	Bennett Cromer	Jena- Xing	Gallium Oxide Power Devices
9:15 a.m.	Evan Li	Schlom	Improper Ferroelectricity at the Monolayer Limit
9:30 a.m.	Bilal Azhar	Nair	Quasi-2D metallic Oxides for ultra-scaled interconnects
9:45 a.m.	Joseph Dill	Jena- Xing	III-Nitride Electronics - Growth, Transport, and Device Engineering
10 a.m.	Dylan Sotir	Schlom	Adsorption Controlled Growth of (Ba,Sr)TiO3 Thin Films by Oxide Molecular Beam Epitaxy
10:15 a.m.	Cameron Gorsak	Nair	MOCVD Growth and Etching of Î2 -Ga2O3

Moderator:

Panelists:

Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Initiative

Session II Soft Matter & Nanotechology
Time	Presenter	Group	Title
11:45 a.m.	Bashayer Aldakkan	Giannelis	Development and in-Situ Surface Probing of Salt-Responsive, Raspberry-like Nanoparticles via Surface-Grafting of Polycationic Brushes for Enhanced Colloidal Stability
Noon	River Carson	Robinson	Polariton formation in Magic Size Cluster system for tunable optical properties and future devices
12:15 p.m.	Reilly Lynch	Robinson	Discovery of Isomerization Intermediates in CdS Magic-Size Clusters
12:30 p.m.	Yuhe Zhang	Zhong	Monolayer Metal-Organic Frameworks with Uniform Pore Size Distribution in Ultrathin Membranes for Precise Molecular Sieving

Registrants are invited to attend a catered lunch in Snee Hall 1120 and Map Room.

Session III Soft Matter & Nanotechnology
Time	Presenter	Group	Title
2 p.m.	Stephan Sutter	Estroff	Exploring the effect of mineral on the behavior of aortic valve cell populations in a 3D, in vitro model of aortic valve calcification.
2:15 p.m.	Dong June Jang	Wiesner	Magic-Size Clusters in Ultrasmall, Amorphous Silica Nanoparticles
2:30 p.m.	Douglas Palumbo	Organic Robotics Lab	Materials Science for Soft Robotic Systems: Embodied Energy through Redox Flow Batteries
2:45 p.m.	Danni Tang	Wiesner	Temperature-responsive Hydrogel Particles for Hydraulic Control of Cooled Short Circuits

Cornell MSE Graduate Student Organization

Section IV: Materials Mechanics & Characterization
Time	Presenter	Group	Title
3:45 p.m.	Qi Tang	EM3- Hassani Lab	Strength of Microparticle Impact-Induced Metallic Bonds
4 p.m.	Saptarshi Das	Singer	Understanding Degradation Mechanisms in Membrane Electrode Assemblies using SAXS/WAXS
4:15 p.m.	Yuan Yao	EM3- Hassani Lab	Advanced Design and Characterization of Novel Materials: From Mechanically Driven Alloys to Heterostructural Materials

Snee Hall Atrium and Map Room