2017 REEMS REU Student Research Posters

This resource, provided by REU Site: Research Experiences and Exploration in Materials Science (REEMS) for Houston Community College Science and Engineering Students, details the poster presentations and recognition ceremony for the 2017 REEMS Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU).  Each student involved in this program completes various multidisciplinary experiences in "chemistry, physics, engineering, the biological sciences, medicine, computational science, economics, and public policy."  Twelve REEMS REU students are chosen to participate in research at Rice University, The University Houston, and the University of Texas.  The results of this research are included in this pdf document.  Each faculty member who led and worked with these summer research students has a short biography in this document.  The posters and accompanying abstracts created by each of the twelve students and their corresponding faculty author are also included.  The titles of the posters are listed below:

Poster #1: Temperature-induced Phase Transformation in NiTi – A Molecular Dynamics Study

Poster #2: Machine-Learning-Driven Superhard Material Search: ReWC0.8 and Mo2-xWxBC  

Poster #3: Effects of Peptide functionalization on polyethylene glycol hydrogel and Biointeractions with oligodendrocyte progenitor cells

Poster #4: Solidification Front Velocity and Temperature Gradient in Metal Crystals Grown from the Melt 

Poster #5: Fabrication of Bulk Nanocrystalline Alloys Using Ultrasonic Powder Compaction 

Poster #6: Investigating Portability of Molecular Dynamics Applications

Poster #7: Synthesis of Magnesian –Iron Silicate Phases by the Solid State Method ​​​​​​​

Poster #8: Partition of the Phases in a Ternary System Phosphor and the Effect of the Crystal Structures Created on Luminescence​​​​​​​

Poster #9: Experimenting With Cobalt Doped Phosphors and Phosphorescence 

Poster #10: Effect of Side Chain Length on the Physical Properties of Linear Polymers with a Transient Network 

Poster #11: Enhancing Flexibility of Polymer Conductor through Surfactant and Solvent Additives  

Poster #12: Optimization of thiol-ene coupling for substrates for flexible photovoltaic devices ​​​​​​​