VCU Department of Physics Colloquia: Fall 2018
Supathorn (Supy) Phongikaroon, PH.D., P.E.
Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, VCU
Friday, November 16 at 4:00 pm in 701 W. Grace St., Room 2310
A rapid overview of high-speed atomic force microscopy: it's impact and applications.
Dr. Loren Picco
Department of Physics, VCU
Friday, November 9 at 4:00 pm in 701 W. Grace St., Room 2310
I will provide an introduction to my research into scanning probe microscope development and instrumentation. I will go over some of the high-impact areas of research that it has been used for and then round off with some highlights of my most recent work and plans now that I am establishing my lab at VCU.
A look into the fabrication,characterization and applications of 2D hemetene.
Tyler Selden
PhD candidate in Nanoscience
VCU Department of Physics
Friday, November 2 at 4:00 pm in 701 W. Grace St., Room 2310
Personalizing cancer therapy with nanoscience tools
Graeme F. Murray
MD/PhD candidate in Nanoscience
VCU School of Medicine and Department of Physics
Friday, October 26 at 4:00 pm in 701 W. Grace St., Room 2310
Dr. Magdalena K. Morgan
VCU Innovation Gateway
Friday, October 5 at 4:00 pm in 701 W. Grace St., Room 2310
Dr. Morgan will explain how the Innovation Gateway is helping students, faculty and researchers commercialize their inventions and creative work. She works with a team of technical professionals, business developers and administrators to guide and support VCU faculty, staff and trainees in the process of technology transfer to industry. Her talk will discuss how the Innovation Gateway conducts intellectual property evaluation and protection, technology marketing, start-up creation, and new programs to promote a culture of innovation here at VCU.
Modified Dark Matter: Relating Dark Energy, Dark Matter, and Baryonic Matter
Dr. Doug Edmonds
Department of Physics, Penn State-Hazelton
Friday, September 28 at 4:00 pm in 701 W. Grace St., Room 2310
Modified dark matter (MDM) is a phenomenological model of dark matter, inspired by gravitational thermodynamics. For an accelerating Universe with positive cosmological constant ($\Lambda$), such phenomenological considerations lead to the emergence of a critical acceleration parameter related to $\Lambda$. Such a critical acceleration is an effective phenomenological manifestation of MDM, and is found in tight correlations between dark matter and baryonic matter in galaxy rotation curves, the so-called Mass Discrepancy Acceleration Relation (MDAR). The resulting MDM mass profiles are consistent with observational data at both the galactic and cluster scales.
Synthetic Strategies of some Nanostructured Materials
Dr. Tarek M. Abdel-Fattah
Department of Chemistry and Applied Research Center at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility and Department of Molecular Biology and Chemistry at Christopher Newport University
Friday, September 21 at 4:00 pm in 701 W. Grace St., Room 2310
Nanotechnology deals with materials with dimensions in the range of 1 nm to 100 nm. Materials in that range (1-100 nm) possess novel properties and characteristics different from bulk materials. Therefore, nanotechnology has been of increasing interest in the last decade and used as catalysts, sensors, solar cells and in water decontamination systems. We will present the detailed insights into two synthetic strategies, bottom-up and top-down, for nanomaterials fabrication. In addition, we will report the synthesis and assembly of highly ordered multiple tube-in-tube nanostructures within porous materials.
VCU Department of Physics Colloquia: Spring 2018
Nano PhD Student Literature Review
Investigation of Safe, Rechargeable All Solid State Li-ion Batteries
Sweta Prabha
Department of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University
Friday, April 27 at 4:00 pm in 701 W. Grace St., Room 2310
Multi-modal Optical Imaging Technology, Application, and Translation
Dr. Yu Chen
Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park
Friday, April 13 at 4:00 pm in 701 W. Grace St., Room 2310
Nano PhD Student Literature Review
Electrical and Morphological Properties of Magnetocaloric Nano ZnNi Ferrite
Mr. Tyler Selden
Department of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University
Friday, April 6 at 4:00 pm in 701 W. Grace St., Room 2310
Superatomic Solids and Frameworks from Metal Chalcogenide Building Blocks
Dr. Christopher Bejger
Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Friday, Mar. 30 at 4:00 pm in 701 W. Grace St., Room 2310
Ion Trap Reactors to the Rescue: A Tool to Solve Problems in Organic and Organometallic Chemistry
Dr. Scott Gronert
Department of Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University
Friday, Mar. 23 at 4:00 pm in 701 W. Grace St., Room 2310
Voltage Control of Nanoscale Magnetism: Application to Low Power Computing
Dr. Jayasimha Atulasimha
Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University
Friday, Mar. 16 at 4:00 pm in 701 W. Grace St., Room 2310
Tailoring Carbon Nanostructures for Energy Storage Applications
Dr. Bingqing Wei
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware
Friday, Mar. 2 at 4:00 pm in 701 W. Grace St., Room 2310
Nanoporous materials for electrochemical analysis in complex biological solutions
Dr. Maryanne Collinson
Department of Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University
Friday, Feb. 23 at 4:00 pm in 701 W. Grace St., Room 2310
Tomography of the Atomic Nucleus
Dr. Simonetta Liuti
Department of Physics, University of Virginia
Friday, Feb. 16 at 4:00 pm in 701 W. Grace St., Room 2310
String Compactifications for Particle Physics
Dr. James Gray,
Department of Physics, Virginia Tech
Friday, Feb. 9 at 4:00 pm in 701 W. Grace St., Room 2310
DNA ‘nanomapping’ using CRISPR/Cas9 as a programmable nanoparticle
Dr. Jason Reed,
Department of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University
Friday, Feb. 2 at 4:00 pm in 701 W. Grace St., Room 2310
Structural and Optical Properties of the MoTe2-WTe2 Alloy System
Dr. Patrick Vora, George Mason University
Friday, Jan. 26 at 4:00 pm in 701 W. Grace St., Room 2310