Seed Fund Program

With generous contributions from the Office of the Vice President for Research, 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 submissionsto external sources. 

Announcements:

• SEED FUND RFP ANNOUNCED - PDF (6/18/08)

Current 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)

nanoSTAR Seed Project Archives:

• Project reports and archives will be posted here.

Please contact our Managing Director, Lisa Friedersdorf, for more information about Seed Fund Projects.