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Graduate Student Awards - Spring 2008

The Graduate Student Award Finalists’ Special Talk Sessions were held at 12:15 p.m. on Tuesday, March 25.  Gold or Silver Awards were presented to all 21 finalists on Wednesday, March 26, at 6:00 p.m. in the Golden Gate Ballroom, San Francisco Marriott. The award prizes consist of $400 and a presentation plaque for the Gold Awards and $200 and a certificate for the Silver Awards. All finalists also received a waiver of the meeting registration fee and a one-year MRS student membership commencing July 1, 2008.

GOLD AWARD WINNERS

Giljohann, Dionne, Boukai

Akram I. Boukai, California Institute of Technology
O13.2: Silicon Nanowires as High-Performance Thermoelectrics

Jennifer A. Dionne, California Institute of Technology
L1.3: PlasMOSter−A Si MOS Field-Effect Plasmonic Modulator

David A. Giljohann, Northwestern University
DD6.7: Oligonucleotide Loading Determines Cellular Uptake of DNA-Modified Gold Nanoparticles

Muralidhar Ambati, University of California, Berkeley
L12.3: Achieving Surface Plasmon Polariton Amplification by Stimulated Emission at Telecom Frequencies

Melissa J. Archer, California Institute of Technology
C1.2: GaInP/GaAs Dual Junction Solar Cells on Ge/Si Epitaxial Templates

Kalapi G. Biswas, Purdue University
LL5.2: Bi₂Te₃ Nanowire Composites for Thermoelectric Devices

Judy J. Cha, Cornell University
P13.4: Three-Dimensional Imaging of Carbon Nanotubes Deformed by Metal Islands by Electron Tomography

Susan E. Habas, University of California, Berkeley
V5.8: Shape Control and Selectivity of Multimaterial Heterostructures for Catalytic and Energy Applications

Khalid M. Hattar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
U3.8: Fracture of Free-Standing Ultrafine and Nanograined FCC Thin Films

Feng Jiao, University of St. Andrews
JJ2.2: Mesoporous Materials as Positive Electrodes for Li-Ion Batteries

Jun Lu, University of Utah
HH5.2: Potential and Reaction Mechanism of Li-Mg-Al-N-H System for Reversible Hydrogen Storage

Nurxat Nuraje, The City University of New York
DD6.3: Room-Temperature Material Synthesis Using Ring-Shaped Peptide Assemblies as Template

Brendan T. O'Connor, University of Michigan
AA5.23: Optical Management in Fiber-Shaped Organic Photovoltaic Devices

Alexis D. Ostrowski, University of California, Santa Barbara
EE4.3: Functionalized Quantum Dots for Photochemical Nitric Oxide Delivery

Ramanathaswamy Pandian, University of Groningen
F9.9: Reversible Electrical Resistance Switching in GeSbTe Thin Films−An Electrolytic Approach without Amorphous-Crystalline Phase Change

Jeffrey Peet, University of California, Santa Barbara
AA7.60: Morphological Control in Polymer Optoelectronic Devices by Spin Casting from Solvent/Additive Mixtures

Eric D. Pressly, University of California, Santa Barbara
EE1.3: Biocompatible Polymeric Nanoparticles with Targeting and Therapeutic Capabilities

Andrew L. Schmitt, University of Wisconsin, Madison
O4.13: Ferromagnetic Semiconducting Fe_1-xCo_xSi Alloy Nanowires−Building Blocks for Silicon-Based Spintronics

Jian Shen, University of California, San Diego
H7.7: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study of III-V Compound Semiconductor Surface and Interfacial Bonding Structure of Oxide/III-V

Ian Y. Wong, Stanford University
CC5.3: Dynamic Spatial and Temporal Control of Biomolecular Interactions for Programmable, Directed Assembly on Surfaces

Shenyuan Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences and The University of Tennessee
S4.6: Ti Clusters on C₆₀ Surfaces and Their Interaction with Hydrogen Molecules