By Ryan Flynn
NQPI Student Editorial Intern
The Clippinger Laboratories building was abuzz recently with a poster competition sponsored by Ohio University’s Nanoscale & Quantum Phenomena Institute .
The event highlighted leading-edge research by 36 graduate and undergraduate students and elevated their presentations on a platform to compete for cash prizes. Divided into six groups, students of each section vied for this year’s awards in each group of $200 for first place, and $100 for second.
A panel of 12 faculty judges from the College of Arts & Sciences departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry , Physics & Astronomy , and Environmental & Plant Biology , as well as the Russ College of Engineering and Technology Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , selected the winners.
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First Place Winners and Poster Titles
Group One
Thushan Wickramasinghe
(Physics & Astronomy)
Precursor Free Growth of MoS₂ Monolayer Devices with Naturally Formed Contacts
Dr. Eric Stinaff, Adviser
Group Two
Joseph Pyle
(Chemistry & Biochemistry)
Monitoring the Production of Reactive oxygen Species from Intercalating DNA Fluorescent Dyes
Dr. Jixin Chen, Adviser
Group Three
Sneha Upadhyay
(Physics & Astronomy)
Investigation of Possible Exchange Bias in L1₀ MnGa/Ө-MnN Bilayers
Dr. Arthur Smith, Adviser
Group Four
Dawei Zhai
(Physics & Astronomy)
Strain Field Enhancement of the Kondo Effect in Graphene
Dr. Nancy Sandler, Adviser
Group Five
Ramin Rabbani
(Chemistry & Biochemistry)
Hydrocarbon Analysis Using Chemical Probes in the Presence of Cucurbituril
Eric Masson, Adviser
Group Six
Sineth Premarathna
(Physics & Astronomy)
Single Molecule Investigations of Sexiphenyl on Graphene Nano-Ribbons
Dr. Saw-Wai Hla, Adviser
Second Place Winners and Poster Ritles
Group One
Uvinduni Premadasa
(Chemistry & Biochemistry)
Investigation of the Monomer Confirmations at the Air-Liquid Interface
Dr. Katherine Cimatu, Adviser
Group Two
Ali Rafiei Miandashti
(Chemistry & Biochemistry)
Novel Time-Resolved Luminescence Thermometry to Study Heat Transport at the Interface of Gold Nanoparticles
Hugh Richardson, Adviser
Group Three
Oscar Avalos
(Physics & Astronomy)
One-dimensional States in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Interfaces: an Analytical and Computational Approach
Dr. Sergio Ulloa, Adviser
Group Four
Nilaj Chakrabarty
(Physics & Astronomy)
The Role of Axonal Actin Trails in Mediating Bulk Axonal Actin Transport
Dr. Peter Jung, Adviser
Group Five
Dinesh Gautam(Chemistry & Biochemistry)
Two End Immobilization of Biotinylated DNA on Streptavidin Coated Surface for Single DNA Molecule Study
Dr. Jixin Chen, Adviser
Group Six
Md Tareq Mahmud
(Physics & Astronomy)
Study of Local Density of States for Periodic Gaussian Deformations in Graphene
Dr. Nancy Sandler, Adviser
