Poster Presentations

CSM PS1 01
Defect Analysis and Epitaxial Growth of MoS2 Monolayer Using ReaxFF  
*M.S. Irdmusa, Adri C.T. van Duin 
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CSM PS1 02
Ultrafast Imaging Enabled by Spatiotemporal Encoding
T. Xia, L. Zhang, B. Liu, C. Zhou, C. Wang, Y. Duan, X. Zhang, X. Ni, and Z. Liu
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CSM PS1 03
Metasurface-Based All-Optical Tensor Processing Unit
Md Tarek Rahman, Shengyuan Chang, Linghan Zhao, Xu Mei, Xingjie Ni*
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CSM PS1 04
Multi-dimensional build planning of FGMs
*B. Rahnamay Farnod, A. Debnath, Z. Yang, Z. Liu, A. M. Beese, W. F. Reinhart
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CSM PS1 05
The Shape of Small Gold Nanoparticles: Force Fields vs. DFT
Shuiyi Zhang, Will Robinson, Advisor: Kristen Fichthorn
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CSM PS1 06
Discrete Element Method Analysis of Particle Breakage Mechanics in Stirred Mills
Ayuk Corlbert Ayuk and Olumide O. Ogunmodimu
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EPMD PS1 01
Atomically-thin Half van der Waals Metals, Alloys and Compounds Stabilized via Confinement Heteroepitaxy
C. Dong, F. Turker, A. Vera, T. Bowen, A. Jain, K. A. Mekkanamkulam, M. W-J. Liu, 
Li-Syuan Lu, A. Sprayman, Joshua Robinson 
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EPMD PS1 02
Unlocking Unconventional Lithium Resources through Sustainable Electrochemical Leaching
H.Zhang, Y. Han, J. Lai, J Wolf, Z. Lei, Y. Yang F. Shi
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EPMD PS1 03
Direct Observation of Broadband Nonreciprocal Thermal Emission in Epitaxial Epsilon-near-zero Thin Film
Zhenong Zhang, Alireza Kalantari Dehaghi, Pramit Ghosh, and Linxiao Zhu
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EPMD PS1 04
Bandgap Engineering of SrZrS3 Perovskite via Substitutional Doping for Photovoltaic Applications
H. I. Eya, R. Petterson, and N. Y. Dzade
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EPMD PS1 05
Two-photon Microscopy with Dual-wavelength High-NA Long working distance Metasurface Objective Lens 
*Linghan Zhao, Shengyuan Chang, Md Tarek Rahman, Abrar Islam, Michael Robert Wenke 
and Xingjie Ni
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EPMD PS1 06
Dual impacts of solar-reflective façades in high-density urban areas on building energy use and outdoor thermal environments
*C.C. Chen, J. Wang
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EPMD PS1 07
Thermodynamic Theory of Linear Optical and Electro-Optic Properties of Ferroelectrics
A. Ross*, M.S.M.M. Ali, A. Saha, R. Zu, V. Gopalan, I. Dabo, L.Q. Chen
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EPMD PS1 08
Couple Mode Theory for Flat Focusing Mirror without Optical Axis
Md Anwar Hosen, Yu Chieh Cheng, Linxiao Zhu 
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EPMD PS1 09
Electrical Contacts to β-Ga2O3
D. R. Mouck, S. E. Mohney, and L. A. M. Lyle
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MC PS1 01
Nondestructive Ultrasonic Evaluation of Electrically Degraded Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors
*H.N. Jones, A.P. Argüelles, and S. Trolier-McKinstry
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MC PS1 02
The High Field MRI Facility at Penn State
T. Neuberger and S. Gullette 
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MC PS1 03
Effect of High-Energy Milling (HEM) on Lithium Extraction Efficiency from Underclay
*T.S. Ogunsunlade, O.S. Ogunmodimu
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MC PS1 04
Shape Memory Adaptive Materials: Leveraging Digital Image Correlation to Investigate the Underlying Phase Transformation at the Macro- and Meso-Scale
M.A. Gonzales, R.F. Hamilton
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MC PS1 05
An Adventurous Journey of Exploring Atoms in a Nanostructure World of Materials: A Transmission Electron Microscopy Study
Y. Zhang, S.V.G. Ayyagari, A. Balog, A. Bisht, H. Sternlicht, K. A. Lopez, S. Bachu, L. Miao, S. Juhl, P. Moradifar, A. Chmielewski, A. Azizi, D. Mukherjee, D. Hickey, N. Alem *
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MC PS1 06
Upskilling the Future Materials Workforce through Immersive Training
C. Colson, S. Kiemle, T. Tighe, J. Stapleton, J. Menold, P. Dudas
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MC PS1 07
Characterizing the Complex Dielectric Properties of Permafrost Across Freeze-Thaw Cycles
*M.M. Rahman, A. Hossain, S.E. Perini, and M.T. Lanagan 
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MC PS1 08
Unveiling the Structural Parameters of Graphitic and Non-graphitic Carbons Derived from Biopitch Precursors  
*Bindu Antil, Y. Elkasabi and R. L. Vander Wal
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MC PS1 09
Early-stage dissolution behavior of MgO-clay-based cement
Yi Xiang, Juan Pablo Gevaudan
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MC PS1 10
On the Removal of the amorphous Layer in NiTi Shape Memory Alloy during TEM Sample Preparation
Foster Fenia, Ying Hana,  Yongwen Suna, Feng Yanb, Reginald F Hamiltona,*, Yang Yanga,*
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MC PS1 11
Label-free Rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing with Machine-learning Based Holography Enhanced Speckle Imaging
*J. Yang, K. Zhou, C. Zhou, P.S. Khamsi, L. Hernandez, J. Kovac, A. Ebrahimi, and Z. Liu
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MC PS1 12
Superscattering from individual subwavelength dielectric structures
R. J. Beneck, *L. Kang, R. P. Jenkins, S. D. Campbell, and D. H. Werner
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MC PS1 13
E-Field Enhanced Thermo-Catalytic Decomposition (TCD) of Methane
J. Heim II, R. Vander Wal, A. van Duin, M. Kowalik 
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MC PS1 14
Surface Insights: Exploring Glass, Carbon Tribology and polymers
J. Ryu, Y. Guo, A.L. Ogrinc, Y.S. Li, M.M. Link, S.H. Kim
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MPM PS1 01
3D-printing of magneto active elastomers: a topology optimization, printing parameters investigation, and rheological approach
M.H. Zamani, C.J. Bergen, Z. Ounaies, P. Von Lockette, and K. Brownstead
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MPM PS1 02
Dielectric polymers exhibit high energy density and giant cross-coupling effects
W. Zhu, G. Rui, and Q.M. Zhang
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MPM PS1 03
Designer Circular Composites through Cold Sintering for Structural and Energy Storage Applications
*Po-Hao, Lai, Yi-Chen, Lan, Bryan D. Vogt, and Enrique D. Gomez
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MPM PS1 04
Theory Guided Design of MoO3/NiMoO4 Heterostructures Hybridized Active Pt co-catalyst for Efficient Water Splitting
Nikhil Komalla, Nelson Y. Dzade*
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MPM PS1 05
Ultrasonic Vibration-Assisted Direct Energy Deposition 3D Printing of Aluminum Alloy 7075
L. Mutswatiwa, J. A. Todd, E. W. Reutzel, B. Sawyer, C. D. Jamieson2, C. M. Kube*
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MPM PS1 06
Advanced Acoustic Architectural Design through Robotic 3D Printing of Fungal Biomaterials with Parameter Optimization
*A. Mohseni, Ö. B. Çapunaman, A. Zamani, N. Walter, and B. Gürsoy
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MPM PS1 07
Development of Textured Lead Zirconate Titanate (PZT) Ceramics for Passive Acoustic Sensing Applications
*C. L. Zhang, B. H. Watson III, M. A. Fanton, R. J. Meyer Jr., S. Trolier-McKinstry
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MPM PS1 08
Elastocaloric Cooling Shape Memory Alloy for Future Smart Building
N. Liu, K. Hayes, A. F. Thompson, B. Poudel, H. C. Pangborn, W. Li
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MPM PS1 09
Two-Dimensional Materials for Improved Performance of Solution-Processed Metal Halide Perovskite Photovoltaics.
C. C. F. Kumachang, I. M. Asuo, G. Ratnayake, H. Wood, M. Terrones, J. A. Robinson and N. Y. Doumon
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MPM PS1 10
Mechanochemical treatment of rice husk ash for cement applications.
D. Brown, J. Gevaudan
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MPM PS1 11
Cold Sintering of Functional Materials
*S. Momjian, J. Fanghanel, J. Mena-Garcia, H. Nashiyama, M. Mervosh, and C.A. Randall
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NMFP PS1 01
Crystal Structure Transformation in the Synthesis of Heterostructured Nanoparticles Containing a Heterophase Homojunction
D. N. Suriyawansa, C. R. McCormick, H. L. Young, S. K. O’Boyle and R. E. Schaak
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NMFP PS1 02
Research in the Reifsnyder Hickey Group: Investigating Atomic and Nanoscale Structures
Nikalabh Dihingia, Gabriel A. Vazquez-Lizardi, Kalana D. Halanayake, Jessica L. Thompson, Sahani A. Iddawela, Soumyanil Adhikary, Rishikeshav Ravi, Sarah K. O’Boyle, Danielle Reifsnyder Hickey
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NMFP PS1 03
Pulsed Laser Annealing for Derivatization of Carbon Nanostructure: Fundamental Studies and Applications
M. M. Nkiawete, R. L. Vander Wal
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NMFP PS1 04
Additive Manufacturing of Electronics and Ceramics at ARL Electronic Materials and Devices Department (EMDD)
L. Lyle, J. Fox, M. Krohn
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NMFP PS1 05
Crystallographic Relationships in the Synthesis of Nanoscale Metal Telluride Phases
K. L. Thompson, R. R. Katzbaer, P. L. Herring, M. Terrones, R. E. Schaak
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NMFP PS1 06
Emergent Superconductivity in Epitaxial (Bi,Sb)2Te3/FeTe Heterostructures
*Z. Wang, B. Xia, S. Paolini, Y. F. Zhao, H. Yi, L. J. Zhou, Z. J. Yan, and C. Z. Chang
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NMFP PS1 07
Gallium Oxide Bulk Crystal Growth, Epilayer MOCVD, Substrate Processing, and Characterization for Ultrawide Bandgap Semiconductor Devices
*D.W. Snyder, R.M. Lavelle, W.J. Everson, D.J. Erdely, L.A.M. Lyle, L.D. Gonzalez, S. Pistner, 
R.L. Cavalero, S.R. Hallacher, S. Watkins, M. Staniar, and N.A. Keggan
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NMFP PS1 08
Fabry-Perot Oscillations in Dual-gated Graphene Josephson Junctions
Le Yi, Asmaul Smitha Rashid, Morteza Kayyalha
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OTH PS1 01
Analyzing Crack Propagation in Spicule-Inspired 3D Printed Structures Through Computer Tomography (CT) Scanning
Fani, Niloofar
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OTH PS1 02
Quantum mechanics (QM) modeling
Mahdavi, Hamed
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BMD PS2 01
Bioinspired all-aqueous emulsions highlight tunability of subcellular compartmentalization
J. M. Shaffer and C. D. Keating
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BMD PS2 02
Spatiotemporal Temperature Control of Nanoparticles via Engineering of Interfacial Heat Transfer and Interfacial Water Properties
E.H. Chowdhury, S. H. Kim, A. van Duin, B. Ramos-Alvarado
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BMD PS2 03
3D bioprinting of a Biomimetic Trilayer Construct for Corneal Regeneration
Namli, Ilayda
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BMD PS2 04
3D-printed flexible neural probes for recordings at single-neuron level
M.Momin*, L.Feng*,  S. Ahmed, J. Ren, A. Hossain, S. Zhang, T. Zhou 
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BMD PS2 05
Amino Acid Hydrotropes; Their Role in Influencing Enzymatic Reactions
M.D.C.I. Goonetilleke, A. Sen
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BMD PS2 06
Photo-activated Combinatorial microRNA Delivery from Core-Shell-Shell Nanoparticles
* A.M. Helton, T.J. Yeingst, D.P. Kearse, N. Goyal, and D.J. Hayes
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BMD PS2 07
Implementation of temperature stable bi-layered dielectric resonators in clinical and pre-clinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging
F. Krauch, M. Lanagan, T. Neuberger, Q. Yang, S. Rupprecht, H. Wiesner, X. Zhu and W. Chen
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CSM PS2 01
How Can We Tune the Short-range Order (SRO) in Multi-principal Element Alloys (MPEA)s?
Sun, Yongwen
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CSM PS2 02
Scheelite Flotation Modelling and Preconcentration for improved Grade-Recovery
*S.O. Oladele, A.M. Parvez, O.S. Ogunmodimu
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CSM PS2 03
Investigation of Sol-Gel Synthesized Phosphate-based Geopolymers: a ReaxFF study
S.M. Mortazavi, A. C. T. van Duin
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CSM PS2 04
Large Language Models as Molecular Design Engines
D. Bhattacharya, H. J. Cassady, M. A. Hickner, W. F. Reinhart
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CSM PS2 05
Non-Equilibrium Manufacturing of Nanostructured Complex Metal Hydrides for Solid State Hydrogen Storage
N. Liu, R. Amaral, B. Poudel, Z. Liu, W. Li
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EPMD PS2 01
Organic Ligand-Mediated Electronic Modification of Au/TiO2 and its Impact on H2 Adsorption Properties
*A. Pathickal Abraham, B.D. Chandler
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EPMD PS2 02
Synthesis and Properties of 2D Semiconductors
Jo Laura, Daniel Cintron Figueroa, Li-Syuan Lu, Riccardo Torsi, Maxwell Feidler, Shreya Mathela, Bagila Baitimbetova, Joshua A. Robinson
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EPMD PS2 03
Developing Circadian Health-Supportive Architectural Glazing Films from Natural and Bio-derived Materials
*M. Elmi, J. Wang, H. Sun, Y. Jao
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EPMD PS2 04
Efficient Circularly Polarized Light Extraction in Photonic Integrated Platforms Using Intrinsic Chiral Metastructures
Elham Balaei, Xingjie Ni*
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EPMD PS2 05
Tuning Optoelectronic Properties of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides via Dopant-Defect Interactions
S. Mathela, K.T. Munson, Z. Yu, Z. D. Ward, A. Sredenschek, R. Torsi, R. Pendurthi, E. A. Marques, B. V. Troeye, L. Huberich, B. Schuler, M. A. Feidler, K. Wang, G. Pourtois, S. Das, Y. C. Lin, J. A. Robinson, H. M. Terrones, M. Terrones and J. B. Asbury
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EPMD PS2 06
Synthesis of functional organic-inorganic hybrid materials
Richard F. Josey III and Julie L. Fenton 
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EPMD PS2 07
Two-Dimensional Polar Metals and Heterostructures
IRG 1 of the Center of Nanoscale Science at Penn State, a MRSEC of the National Science Foundation
Cui-Zu Chang, Vincent Crespi, Susan Fullerton-Shirey, Noel (Chris) Giebink, Danielle Hickey, Shengxi Huang, Ken Knappenberger, Chao-Xing Liu, Slava Rotkin, Nitin Samarth, Mauricio Terrones, Jun Zhu
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EPMD PS2 08
Electronic Grade 100 mm Diameter Single Crystal Ultra-Wide Bandgap (UWBG) Diamond Substrates: MPCVD Growth and Processing
*D.W. Snyder, D.J. Erdely, R.M. Lavelle, W.J. Everson, L.A.M. Lyle, S. Pistner, N.A. Keggan, B.M. Fischer,
S.R. Hallacher, R.L. Cavalero
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EPMD PS2 09
Luminescent Solar Concentrator Containing Parylene-C Microfibrous Thin Film Infiltrated With Lumogen F Red 305
Li, Anthony
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MC PS2 01
Microstructural evolution in 316L stainless steel under lead-bismuth eutectic corrosion
Zhiyu Zhang, Sarah. Y. Wang, Peter Hosemann3, Yang Yang, Andrew M. Minor
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MC PS2 02
Investigations into Mechanism of High Entropy Telluride Formation
G. Dey, S. Soliman, R. Schaak
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MC PS2 03
Dynamic partitioning of surfactants into non-equilibrium emulsion droplets analyzed by quantitative Mass Spectrometry
Wangyang Xue, Rebecca V. Balaj, Parvin Bayati, Stewart Mallory, Lauren Zarzar
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MC PS2 04
Social, Life, and Engineering Sciences Imaging Center
X. Bai, A. Cosgrove, T. Neuberger, and E. Rose 
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MC PS2 05
Thermodynamics of Li+ Solvation Structure and Speciation Equilibrium in Battery Electrolytes
Jianwei Lai, Feifei Shi
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MC PS2 06
High Speed Biaxial Piezoelectric MEMS Micromirror with Varifocal Tunability
H. Shillingburg, D. Lopez
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MC PS2 07
Spatiotemporal Temperature Control of Nanoparticles via Engineering of Interfacial Heat Transfer and Interfacial Water Properties
E.H. Chowdhury, S. H. Kim, A. van Duin, B. Ramos-Alvarado
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MC PS2 08
Time-Dependent Stopping of Self-Propelled Droplets in Ionic Surfactant Solutions
* Q.N. Le, K.E. Kim, B.J. Kaehr, L.D. Zarzar
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MC PS2 09
Develop a Bayesian molecular beam epitaxy (BaMBE) interface for AI guided design of synthesis experiments
*M. Y. Yu, R. Trice, M. Hilse, W. Reinhart, and S. Law
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MC PS2 10
Plasmonic High Entropy Carbides at Elevated Temperatures
D.E. Wolfe, M.J. Ammendola, R.C. Koennecker
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MC PS2 11
Fabrication and optical characterization of doubly chiral sculptured thin films
Rehman, Abdul
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MC PS2 12
MRI Undergraduate Fellowship – Surface Chemistry Analysis of Irradiated Silk Fibroin
Nashad, Jordan
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MC PS2 13
Spent Lithium Manganese Oxide (LMO) Cathode Materials as Precursors for High Capacity Li-ion Battery Cathodes
S. Dube and T. Moyo-Mahlangu
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MC PS2 14
The rheology, mechanical and durability performance of 3D printable magnesium cement-based composites incorporating metakaolin and fly ash
Hanbin Cheng, Nate Watson, Sven Bilén, George Quercia, and Aleksandra Radlińska
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MC PS2 15
Grazing incidence X-ray Diffraction (GIXRD) for Characterizing Residual Stress in Large Grained Additively Manufactured Materials
E. Schlorff, C. O’Brien, A. Richardella, S. Speakman and N. Wonderling
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MPM PS2 01
Maximizing SEIRAS response with ATR electrodes for IR spectroelectrochemical cells
*Hemanth Peddavenkatappagari, Pan Zixian, John Asbury, Tawanda Zimudzi, and Derek Hall
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MPM PS2 02
Carbon Capture for New Carbon Negative Concrete Materials
M.Hollingham, Dr. J.P.Gevaudan (Ph.D.)
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MPM PS2 03
Cold Sintering of Functional Materials
*S. Momjian, J. Fanghanel, J. Mena-Garcia, H. Nashiyama, M. Mervosh, and C.A. Randall
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MPM PS2 04
Rapid Self-Healing of Robust Surface-Tethered Covalent Adaptable Coatings 
Capets, Jacob
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MPM PS2 05
Process Mineralogy and Optimized Extraction of Lithium and Rare Earth Elements from Mercer Clay Coal Waste
Patrick Abban Sarpong, Thandazile Moyo-Mahlangu 
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MPM PS2 06
Transient Property Changes in Dielectrics and Piezoelectrics with Time
M. W. Mervosh, P. Yousefian, C. A. Randall
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MPM PS2 07
Regulating Fluid Flow Utilizing Protein Pumps
Shrestha, Shanid
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MPM PS2 08
Flow-induced Nematic Alignment as a Stabilizing Mechanism for Polymers against Edge Fracture
*A. Bhadu, S. Xu, E. C. Lloyd, K. Page, J. Macgraw, X. Zhang, R. J. Hickey, A. M. Rhoades, R. H. Colby
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MPM PS2 09
Flow-Induced Nematic Alignment in Aromatic-based Polymer Melts
Sara Daryoush, Jason D. Alexander, Enrique D. Gomez, Alicyn M. Rhoades and Ralph H. Colby
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MPM PS2 10
Upcycling Used Lithium-Ion Batteries by Direct Plating Metal Oxide Cathode in Molten Salt 
Feifei Shi
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MPM PS2 11
Densification Process of hexagonal Boron Nitride via Cold Sintering
*H. Nishiyama, J. Mena-Garcia, H. Shimizu and C.A. Randall
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NMFP PS2 01
Alignment of functionalized cellulose nanocrystals using electric field and mechanical shear
Amirhossein Farahani and Zoubeida Ounaies
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NMFP PS2 02
Laser-Induced Structuring of SiC Wafers and Epitaxial Graphene Growth: Towards Hybrid SiC/graphene MEMS for Extreme Environments
*Z. Wang and J.A. Robinson
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NMFP PS2 03
Entropy for Emerging Functional Materials Design
R. Jackson Spurling*, Saeed S.I. Almishal, Jacob T. Sivak, Mary K. Caucci, Billy E. Yang, Yeongwoo Son, Yueze Tan, Matthew Furst, Dhiya Srikanth, Saugata Sarker, Gerald Bejger, Sai Venkata Gayathri Ayyagari, Robert A. Robinson, Tara Karimzadeh Sabet, Francisco Marques Dos Santos Vieira, Ismaila Dabo, Zhiqiang Mao, Nasim Alem, Christina M. Rost, Venkatraman Gopalan, Long-Qing Chen, Susan E. Trolier-McKinstry, Susan B. Sinnott, and Jon-Paul Maria
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NMFP PS2 04
Ballistic graphene Andreev interferometers
Asmaul Smitha Rashid, Le Yi, Nitin Samarth, Régis Melin, and Morteza Kayyalha
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NMFP PS2 05
Electrical Contacts to β-Ga₂O₃ 
D. R. Mouck, S. E. Mohney, and L. A. M. Lyle 
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NMFP PS2 06
Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) Growth and Characterization of III-V Semiconductors
G. N. Gopakumar, M. R. McDonough, and S. Law
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NMFP PS2 07
Innovative Synthesis of Glass Materials for Electronic Packaging Applications
Mohamed E. Eltantawy1, Adam Shearer2, John C. Mauro2, Michael T. Lanagan1,2
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NMFP PS2 08
Modeling and Experimental Conditions of Bulk Silicon Carbide Growth
T.A. Bowen, Y.K Shin, Y. Xuan, A.C.T. van Duin, and J.A. Robinson
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NMFP PS2 09
Mechanism of Ultra-Low Thermal Conductivity and Insulating-to-Semiconducting Transition Driven by Configurational Entropy
Robert A. Robinson, Tara Karimzadeh Sabet, Francisco Marques dos Santos Vieira, Saeed S. I. Almishal, Sai Venkata Gayathri Ayyagari, Rowan Katzbaer, Gabriele Di Gianluca, Pedro R. Trinidad-Perez, John Barber, Seng Huat Lee, James Hodges, Raymond E. Schaak, Nasim Alem, Christina Rost, Jon-Paul Maria, Ismaila Dabo, Zhiqiang Mao
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OTH PS2 01
Innovative Bone Implants Inspired by Marine Sponges
Fani, Niloofar
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