The 2008 nanoSTAR Seed Fund

With generous contributions from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the School of Medicine, the nanoSTAR Institute has established a seed projects fund. This fund is to seed new interdisciplinary cross-school research projects in the three thrust areas of the institute: nanoelectronics, medicine, and energy and the environment. The primary goal of this fund is to promote collaboration and support new projects enabling the development of preliminary results for use in proposal submissions to external sources.

Congratulations to the following 2008 nanoSTAR Seed Projects:

Multi-emissive Boron PLA Nanoparticles for Vascular Optical Hypoxia Imaging
Cassandra Fraser, Chemistry & Richard Price, BME

A Novel Active Passivation Film for Silicon Photovoltaic Cells
Mool Gupta, ECE & John Yates, Chemistry

Low Energy Electron Microscopy (LEEM) Studies of Nanoscale Resolved
Reaction Kinetics on Catalytic Surfaces
Ian Harrison, Chemistry & Jack Hudson, Chem. E

The Adaptosome, a Nanoscale Delivery System for Specific Cell Targeting
Roy Ogle, Medicine & BME and Anthony Spano, Biology

TINNE- Techniques for Innovative Nanoscale Neuromorphic Electronics
Mircea Stan, ECE & William Levy, Neurological Surgery

Artificial Cilia for the Investigation of Cell Cooperativity in Wound Healing
Keith Williams, Physics & Brian Helmke, BME & Mool Gupta, ECE
Kurt Kolasinski (unfunded collaborator)