Student Scholars

2015

Mario Moreno

Thermal Annealing of Ferromagnetic/Antiferromagnetic Materials

Samuel Rios

Tracking electrical signals in neural tissue

Robert Williams

The Mimscope: Low-cost Imaging System for Microfluidic Devices

Gregory Zaborsky

Compressive Signal Strength Mapping in Various Fading Environments

2014

Dylan Beard

Nanopore Sequencing: Optimizing a Stable Nanopore Platform

William Coburn

Microcontact Printing of Poly (L-lysine) Using PDMS Stamps for the Adhesion and Patterning of Neurons

Lester Dela Cruz

Denial of Service

Chris Eachus

Studying Anaerobic Fungi for use in Biofuel Applications

Lennon Ganz

Finding Patterns in Complex Social Networks

Adrian Marquez

Development of Improved Assays for Cell Adhesion through Local Application of Force to Cells

Nicholas Pfister

A Visual Approach to Symbolic Execution

Nana Shumiya

Designing, Making and Testing Sample Holder for Electron Paramagnetic Resonance

Jacey Van Wert

Characterizing the Parasite Community in Local Raccoons, Procyon lotor

2013

Christopher Billham

Developing Methods for Regioselective Iodination of Heterocycles in Mild Conditions

Jiehao Chen

Engineering Anaerobic Gut Fungi for Lignocellulose Breakdown

Charlene Cuellar

Improving Resolution in Wide-field Fluorescence Microscopy Using Deconvolution Techniques

Jordan Grace

High-Order Sideband Generation

Paul Kovacs

Nanotechnology in Food: Lessons from the Industrialization and Enrichment of Bread

Eric Lee

Parallelization of Level Set Functions Using Message Passing Interface

Bruce Liu

Image Classifications with Neural Networks

Aaron Lovato

The Fabrication of High Density Neural Implants

Francisco J Mancillas

An Environmentally Friendly Procedure for the Synthesis of Nitrogen-Containing Molecules

Cynthia Montanez

A Biomimetic Device to Restore Lost Vision to the Blind

Trang Nguyen

Hydrocarbon Interactions: Determination of Interfacial Energy through Contact Angle Measurements

Kelli Pribble

Mobilizing in the Context of Uncertainty: Social Movement Organizations and their Role in Nanotechnology

Edith Rodriguez

Modifying an Infusion Only Syringe Pump With a TI MSP430 Launchpad to Allow for Both Infusion and Withdrawing of Fluids

Gabriel Ruelas

Egg Production in the Raccoon Roundworm, Baylisascaris procyonis

Jeffry Salazar

Communication Aspects of Multi-agent Unmanned Systems

Merisa J Stacy

Comparative Nanotechnology Policy Analysis

2012

Anthony Cazabat

Design And Build A High Energy Discharge Unit And Camera Triggering Unit

Deanna Duffy

Genetic Correlation Of Flowering Time And Pollen To Ovule Ratio In Clarkia

Jason Farkas

Synthetic Neural Interface

Jasmin Guerrero

Determination Of Energy At Hydrophobic Interfaces Through Contact Angle Measurements

Gianna Haro

Green Nano-Visions And Their Policy Consequences

Christopher Harrell

Quadtree Grids And Dendritic Growth

Tina Herda

Analyzing The Mobility Of Nanoparticles In Porous Media

Kelly Landers

Identifying The Role Of California In The Nanotechnology Economy

Amber Miller

Relating Conservation Goals To Ecological Outcomes

Jose Manuel Mora

Trapping DNA Using Metallized Nanopores

German Morales

Vibrometer Enclosure

Sang Nguyen

Perceptron: A Simple Classification Method

Shane Nourizadeh

Engineering Rod-Shape Pure Drug Nanoparticles For Cancer Treatments

Bryan Phillips

Open Innovation And Its Role In A Nano-Enabled Solar Industry

Angela Roman

Holocene Record Of Hurricane Landfall In Baffin

Stephanie Saccardi

Faunal Communities Associated With Sargassum Horneri

Robert Salazar

Design And Potential Applications Of Stochastically Nanostructured Metal Films

Carmen Segura

Synthetic Efforts Toward Extending The Conjugation Of Donor Acceptor Stenhouse Adducts

Eddie Triste

Nano Regulatory Policy And Ngos: A Global View

Juan Zepeda

Building A Server-Client Framework: Visualizing Social Graphs And Querying Human Patterns

2011

Sergio Cardenas

California’s History of Environmental, Health, and Safety Policies for Nanotechnology

Brittany Christy

Microwave Telescope Design

Jose Cruz

Optical Spectroscopy Of Organic Solar Cell Materials

Elizaveta Davies

DNA ANALYSIS IN A NANOFLUIDIC DEVICE

Jason Gehrke

THE BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS OF Ag AND TiO2 NANOPARTICLES

Noé González

SPRING-LOADED INVERTED PENDULUM: SIMPLE CONTROL STRATEGY TO HOP ON ROUGH TERRAIN

Juan David Gutierrez Franco

FREE SURFACE MICROFLUIDICS BASED ON ELECTROWETTING

Ivan Lucatero

TIME COMPLEXITY OF SELF-ASSEMBLY PROCESS WITH MISBEHAVING PARTS

Alexander Lyte

Establishing Expertise in Deliberations on Nanotechnology

Dylan McCapes

REMOVAL OF SURFACE ACTIVE CONTAMINANTS FROM A LIQUID-LIQUID INTERFACE

Aarone Perez

Measuring Kinetics of Photoactive Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles in Natural Systems

William Reynolds

Non-Governmental Organizations and Tomorrow's Nanotechnology

Peiyang Shi

Graph Algorithm - Efficient Shortest Path Estimation

Morgan Swaidan

Metal Contacts for the Hybrid Silican Laser

Daniel Vicory

Novel Optimization of Task Scheduling Within Mapreduce/Hadoop

Lara Voelker

Optimal Foraging of Whelks in the Intertidal Zone

2010

Evelyn Alfago

The Early Universe: Cosmic Foreground

Eric Bonaventure

Fabrication and Characterization Of Organic Semiconductors For Use In Photovoltaics

Justin Bricker

Developing a High Power Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectrometer to Analyze Electron Spin Dynamics

Alberto Carreño

Understanding The Relationship Between Physiology And Fruit Set In Clarkia Unguiculata And Clarkia Exilis

Michael Collazo

Pollen Limitation And The Evolution Of Selfing In Clarkia Unguiculata

Luke Gebauer

Data Mining And Modeling Of Time-Evolving Graphs

Gino Graziano

Drug Delivery with Temperature Sensitive Liposomes

Simone Jackson

Nanotechnology In California

Julia Korolenko

Binding Affinity Of Tau to Microtubules In Vitro

Luke Merrill

Rare Earth Silicate Forming Matrices For Sic Based Ceramic Matrix Composites

Joseph Minter

Human Attention Experiments For Evaluation Of Multi-Camera Video Summaries

Verónica Mota

Electrochemical Etching Tips Suitable To Be Used In Tip Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

Courtney Neumann

The Effects Of Dye On Cercariae

Srijay Rajan

Assessing The High-Impact Contributions Of Foreign-Born Scientists To Nanotechnology Innovation

Yannick Rendu

Analysis Of Fused Thiophene Polymer Field Effect Transistors

Lydia Sannella

Aqueous Remediation Of Persistent Organic Pollutants Using Magnetic Nano-Iron Based Sorbent

Christine Sawyer

Subjective Evaluation Of Context-Aware Saliency Detection Algorithm

Sergey Shnitkind

Using Mutagenesis To Assist In Nmr Assignment Of Chemotaxis Receptor

Bianca Terminello

Molecular Shuttles

Angélica Trujillo

The Impacts Of Temperature On Wentletraps And Sea Anemones

2009

Sean Bronston-Wilson

Innovation ad Diffusion of Nanotechnology: A Portrait of the Carbon Nanotube Intellectual Property Landscape

Kyle Cox

Terahertz Detection with 2D Plasmons in Grating Gated High Electron Mobility Transistor

Jillian Davenport

The Role of Non-Consumptive Effects in Structuring West Coast Rocky Intertidal Communities

Elizabeth Eck

The Role of Cholesterol in Lung Surfactant

Elias Flores

Tracking Objects Across Spatially Seperated Cameras with Non-overlapping Views

Nicolette Geluz

Mating System Evolution

Brian Gibson

Scalable Parallel Computing for Photonic Research Simulations

Janet Kang

Self-assembled Microparticles for Targeted Protein Delivery to Sites of Internal Hemorrhage

Lijuan Li

Designing Nanodiamonds for Sensing Applications

Victoria Melero

Design & Testing of a Robust Platform for Nanofluidic Seperations

Justin Meyer

Indexing Uncertainties for Probalistic Databases

Danielle Okerblom

Characterization of Bacteria Biosensor

Sergio Rodríguez

Electro-chemical Discharge Machining

Ryan Shapiro

Carbon Nanotubes: Perception of Risk from Conception to Consumption

Vanessa Sousa

Understanding the Biophysical Activity of Dysfunctional Lung Surfactant

Davis Woodworth

Optimization of Laser Gain Material

2008

Elizabeth Ayala

Synthesis of Three New Fluorinated Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Materials

Beatrice Balfour

The Future of the Sun: Solar Cells and Nanotechnology in United States and Europe

Jason Bedford

Aerosol Synthesis of Nanomaterials

Brian Billones

Silver Nanoparticles in Medical Applications

Katrina Celles

Nanostructured Titania

Eneida Chestnut

Design of Cancer Targeting Therapeutic Micelles

Victor García

Design of Detachable Address Book for Telephone Speed-Dial Programming

Victor Grande

Lateral Confinement of Cylindrical Domain Thin Polymer Films

James Kally

Plasmonic Terahertz Detector with an Integrated Hot Electron Bolometer

Lin Li

Nanostructured Photovoltaic Cells Fabricated with Porous Aluminum Oxide Templates

Silvia Lucatero

Nanomaterial Cytotoxicity

Antonio Ortiz

Compositional Effects on Phase Transition Behaviors of Myelin Monolayers

Ali Rathore

Mining Significant Molecular Substructures using Functional Groups

Jason Ross

High Performance Gallium Nitride (GaN) Transistor Design

Jason Schmidt

Examining Functionalized Vesosomes as Drug Delivery Vehicles

2007

Lamar Bush

Staking Claims in Nanotech

Jason Cannon

Measuring Negative Occurances of Nanotechnology in the Media

Staci Chirchick

Cross National Study of Upstream Publich Deliberation on Emerging Health and Energy Nanotechnologies

Jess Crossno

Tunable Teraherz Detector using Plasmons

Antoin Douglawi

Novel Multiferroic Cation Templated Hybrid Frameworks

Ricardo García

Designing and Testing the Streaming Potential for the Adsorption of Surfactants

Josefina Garong

From Space Colonies to Nanobots: Exploring the Social Movement Spillover Between Space and Nanotechnology

José León

Screening for GaN-Binding DNA Aptamers

Salmaun Masooman

Clongenic Assay Tool

Ranulfo Morales

Characterizing Soil Based on Chemical and Physical Properties

Alison Morrison

Synthesis of Nanoparticles of Hybrid Frameworks using Hydrothermal and Emulsion Methods

Victor Murillo

Adhesion and detachment Mechanism of Polymer Surfaces

Jonathan Okerblom

Effects of Tau Phosphorylation upon Microtubule Binding and Regulation of Dynamics; Implications for Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias

Dano Pagenkopf

Red Phosphors for Solid State Lighting Applications

Maximiliano Ramírez

High Speed Characterization of Photonic Integrated Circuits

Marcus Rosario

DNA Coated Gold Nanoshells for Laser Induced Antisense Drug Release

Tomás Tinoco

All-Optical Buffer

Iván Villalba

Analyzing COS1 Cells for Studying Alzheimer's Disease

Rosalina Villalón

Effects of pH on DNA Synthesis during Early Developmental Stages of the Purple Sea Urchin, Strongylocentrotus Purpuratus

2006

Yu-An Chen

Profiling of Cancer Related Protease

José Cornejo

Simulation of Hybrid Systems in Virtual Environments

Paloma Martina D. Cuartero

Pesticide Partitioning within a Surfactant-Aided Soil Washing System

Anthony Erlinger

Vision Based Control of a Mobile Robot

Rachel Freund

Therapeutic Drug Delivery: Modification and Improvement of Vesosome Preparation

Ka Wo Ho

Inorganic Phophors for Solid State Lighting

Zaureen Kapadia

Oral Delivery of Macromolecules

Jon Lo Kim Lin

Innovation and Global Diffusion of Nanotechnology

Christina Lydick

Supported Lipid Bilayers

Ryan Mansergh

Solution Synthesis of Magnetic Nanoparticles

Ryan Martin

Superconducting Quibits

Jason McHann

Interfacial Behavior of Lung Surfactant: A Confocal Enabled Langmuir Trough

John McKinney

Quantum Computation with Superconducting Circuits

Alex Rondón

Cell Adhesion to Peptide-Functionalized Surfaces

Sarah Schultz

Risk Perceptions of Emergent Nanotechnologies

Michelle Torres

In Situ Electrochemical Deposition of Pt Metal Particles Using Nafion® Membrans as the Template

Eric Villalón

Synthesis of New Inorganic-Organic Framework Compounds using Ionic Liquids as Solvents

Miles Whedbee

Analysis and Characterization of Physico-Mechanical Properties of Extracellular Bone Matrix

2005

Ravneet Bajwa

Increasing the Coherence Time of Josephson Junction Phase Qubit

Derek Brown

Optimization of Current PEM Technology

Kim-Lien Dinh

Protein Adsorption on Solid Surfaces

Eric Drafahl

Novel Ce3+ Phophors for Luminescent Applications

Kelsey Gorter

Interactions between Neurofilaments and L-dopa

Brian Goss

With Terahertz Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy: Calibration using Magnetic Circular Dichroism

Simi Hundal

Nanosphere Lithography via Continuous Convective Assembly

Kimberly Kaufman

Photoelectrochemical H2 Production

Caitlin Kreutz

Lipid Bilayer Based Binding Surfaces for Nano-Structures made from Nucleic Acids

Peter LaCorte

Synthesis of Vanadium Dioxide Nanowires with Varying Acid and Vanadium Sources

Alvin Lee

Increasing Functionality of Tin Oxide Nanowires

Melissa Quemada

Deposition of Platinum using Nafion Membranes as Templates

Leticia Rubalcava

Developing Peptide Concentrations in a Membrane Environment

Danielle Showalter

Electrical Characterization of Bio-Templated Nanowires

Nick Tovar

Communication and Computer Vision Based Control

Oscar Vargas

Simulation of Micro-Gyroscopes Dynamics

Ryan Vicente

Toughness Determination of Yttria + Tantala Co-Doped Stabilized Zirconia for TBC Applications

M. Reza Zamani

Optical Random Access Memory (ORAM)

2004

Ian Chapman

Synthesis of novel Phosphor Materials for Luminescence Down-Conversion in Blue LED Devices

Matthew Chávez

Creating Control Algorithms for Robotic Vision

Héctor Cota

Controlling Order in 2D Films of Block Copolymers

Alma García

Understanding the Lateral Tunneling Accelerometers and their Micromachining Processes

Benson Gilbert

Improving the Corrosive Durability of Thermal Barrier Coatings

Eduardo González

Wavelength Converters

Moon Jean Ho

Characterizing Interactions of Chemical Penetration Enhancers with Skin

Abhijeet Joshi

Creation of Porous Materials through Phase Segregation for Catalytic Applications

Alex Kahouch

Production of, and Potential Uses for, Various Types of Nanowire

Susan Kapas

Nanoporous Materials

Tracy MacDonough

Supramolecular Structure of Assembly of Neurofilaments

Ijeoma Onuoha

Embedded Sensors for Thermal Barrier Coatings

ThienKhanh Pham

Insight Screening for Synergistic Combinations of Penetration Enchancers

Michael Porter

Structure-Function Relationships in Biological Glass Fibers

Meghan Powers

Side Chain Liquid Crystalline Polypeptides

Virginia Raymond

2D DNA Nanonetworks

Jan Rehorik

Electrical Characterization of Semiconductor Nanostructures for Spintronics Applications

Sonia Sánchez

Terahertz Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy of Biomaterials

Joe Selzler

Synthesis of Functionalized Mesoporous Silica Proton Exchange Membranes