Several students are on campus conducting summer research as part of the 2023 Notre Dame Nanoscience and Technology (NDnano) Undergraduate Research Fellowship (NURF) program. The students, listed below, are engaged in projects led by NDnano affiliated faculty.
The summer researchers are students at Notre Dame, Johns Hopkins University, Universidad de las Américas Puebla, and Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Funding for the students is provided by NDnano, the Woodward Family Endowment for Excellence in NDnano Undergraduate Research, and other faculty grants and funds.
Learn more about their research on July 26 by attending the Summer Research Symposium at Jordan Hall. The event will showcase the projects of students in many of the undergraduate research programs taking place at Notre Dame this summer.
For more information about summer 2024 research opportunities with NDnano, please visit the NDnano website in early January.
2023 NDnano Undergraduate Research Fellowship Recipients
Fellowship recipient: Kevin Armknecht, Notre Dame
Project: Magneto-silica nanoparticles (MagSiNs) for combinatorial chemotherapeutics and gene delivery against metastatic cancers
Faculty mentor(s): Prakash Nallathamby (AME) and Paul Helquist (Chemistry/Biochemistry)
Fellowship recipient: Abdulrahman Atassi, Notre Dame
Project: Adsorptive membranes for the selective removal of PFAS from drinking water
Faculty mentor(s): William Phillip (CBE)
Fellowship recipient: James Boumalhab, Notre Dame
Project: Adaptive federated learning for sustainable, secured and robust distributed intelligence: Algorithm and hardware co-design
Faculty mentor(s): Ningyuan Cao (EE) and Yih-Fang Huang (EE)
Fellowship recipient: Charlie Desnoyers, Notre Dame
Project: An aptamer-based optical sensor for continuous and real-time drug detection
Faculty mentor(s): Kaiyu Fu (Chemistry/Biochemistry) and Tom O'Sullivan (EE)
Fellowship recipient: Sofia Granieri, Notre Dame
Project: Biocompatible membrane coated nanoelectrode for sweat analyte measurements
Faculty mentor(s): Kaiyu Fu (Chemistry/Biochemistry) and William Phillip (CBE)
Fellowship recipient: Grace Hartzer, Notre Dame
Project: Discovery and design of novel glucose sensors
Faculty mentor(s): Matt Webber (CBE)
Fellowship recipient: John Howe, Notre Dame
Project: Forming complex objects from nanometric building blocks
Faculty mentor(s): Svetlana Neretina (AME)
Fellowship recipient: Robin Kucsera, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Project: Tailoring the electronic properties of Ti-based Mxenes
Faculty mentor(s): Laszlo Forro (Physics) and Bence Markus (Physics)
Fellowship recipient: Monica Leal Palma, Universidad de las Américas Puebla
Project: Nanoparticle mediated reprogramming of cells to fight cancer
Faculty mentor(s): Meenal Datta (AME) and Ryan Roeder (AME)
Fellowship recipient: Hongkai Lou, UCLA
Project: Electron paramagnetic study of spinel oxides
Faculty mentor(s): Laszlo Forro (Physics) and David Beke (Physics)
Fellowship recipient: Jichong Lyu, Notre Dame
Project: Magneto-silica nanoparticles (MagSiNs) for combinatorial chemotherapeutics and gene delivery against metastatic cancers
Faculty mentor(s): Prakash Nallathamby (AME) and Paul Helquist (Chemistry/Biochemistry)
Fellowship recipient: Maximilian Niebur, Johns Hopkins
Project: Understanding the interactions between non-thermal plasma and catalytic nanomaterials in gliding arc reactors
Faculty mentor(s): David Go (AME)
Fellowship recipient: Daniel Noronha, Notre Dame
Project: Adiabatic capacitive logic and clocking systems for ultra-low power electronics
Faculty mentor(s): Greg Snider (EE) and Alexei Orlov (EE)
Fellowship recipient: Elizabeth Power, Notre Dame
Project: Nanoscale formulation of corrective hormones for blood glucose control
Faculty mentor(s): Matt Webber (CBE)
Fellowship recipient: Laura Schaffler, Notre Dame
Project: Nano-enabled electronic nose
Faculty mentor(s): Nosang Myung (CBE)
Fellowship recipient: Peter Schimpf, Notre Dame
Project: Polymers in next-generation rechargeable batteries
Faculty mentor(s): Jennifer Schaefer (CBE)
Fellowship recipient: Angela Taglione, Notre Dame
Project: Engineering biomimetic materials to control stem cell morphogenesis
Faculty mentor(s): Donny Hanjaya-Putra AME)
Fellowship recipient: Lili Vajtai, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Project: Pursuing superconductivity in novel low-dimensional materials
Faculty mentor(s): Laszlo Forro (Physics) and Bence Markus (Physics)
Fellowship recipient: Jeffrey Yang, Notre Dame
Project: Characterization of nanoantenna sensitivity
Faculty mentor(s): Gergo Szakmany (EE), Ed Kinzel (AME), and Gary Bernstein (EE)
Fellowship recipient: Yiyang Zhang, Notre Dame
Project: In-sensor data security via advanced algorithm/circuit co-design
Faculty mentor(s): Ningyuan Cao (EE)
Fellowship recipient: Katherine Zinkan, Notre Dame
Project: Polymers in next-generation rechargeable batteries
Faculty mentor(s): Jennifer Schaefer (CBE)
Originally published by at nano.nd.edu on June 23, 2023.