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Dr. Tom Schmedake
REU Program Director
Department of Chemistry
UNC Charlotte
9201 University City Boulevard
Charlotte, NC 28223

704-687-5177
tschmeda@uncc.edu

Project Descriptions

  • Project 1 – Fluorescent Sensors for Photoinduced Electron Transfer
  • Project 2 – Hybrid cage polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS)-based macromolecules and 2D-/3D-porous frameworks.
  • Project 3 – Light Effect Transistors (LETs) in Photonic Integrated Circuits
  • Project 4 – Developing therapeutic nanomaterial architectures towards their clinical translation
  • Project 5 – Synthesis of Inorganic Materials and Compounds
  • Project 6 – Oxide Nanostructures Based Nonmetal Plasmonic Materials
  • Project 7 – Superatomic Secondary Building Units (SBUs) for Framework Solids
  • Project 8 – Dynamic RNA Nanoparticles and Reconfigurable Nanoassemblies with Controllable Immunological Properties
  • Project 9 – Reconfigurable RNA-based Supra-assemblies

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Funding provided by NSF-REU program through NSF Award #1757619

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The UNC Charlotte NanoSURE REU Site is designed to advance nanoscale science research at the undergraduate level and contribute to the education and training of the nanotechnology workforce of the future.

Nanoscale science research faculty from the Departments of Chemistry, Biology, Physics and Optical Science, and Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science will mentor undergraduate researchers on well-defined research projects related to nanoscale science.

* The 2021 program will last from June 1st – August 7th. 

Overview

Chemical DiagramNanoSURE participants will spend 10 weeks engaged in  various nanoscale science related projects.  The intellectual focus or theme of the NanoSURE REU site is interdisciplinary nanoscale science and engineering research. Students chosen to participate in the program will be assigned to ongoing interdisciplinary nanoscale science research projects.

Students can gain experience in:

  • Nanoscale synthesis
  • Nanoparticle manipulation and assembly
  • Quantum dots, carbon nanotubes, and metallic nanoparticles
  • Nanomedicine and drug delivery
  • Hybrid materials
  • Spectroscopy
  • SEM, TEM, and AFM
  • X-ray crystallography

Program Activities

  • Ten-week summer research experiencenanosure-photo.jpg
  • $5,000 stipend for summer research
  • On-campus housing provided
  • Seminars and workshop activities
  • Recreational activities
  • Outreach program – NanoDiscovery Day at Discovery Place – Charlotte
  • Final research symposium

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