2018 REEMS REU Student Research Posters

This 58-page document provides a review of the summer student research abstracts and posters presented as part of the 2018 Research Experiences and Explorations in Material Sciences (REEMS) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Poster Presentation Program. This program was held on August 10, 2018 at Houston Community College-Northwest's Alief Hayes Campus. The document includes a Schedule of Events for the program along with an Overview of the NSF REEMS REU Program. In addition, the document includes all of the student posters and abstracts presented at this event, along with profiles of the thirteen students, research faculty, and panel judges who participated in this program. 

The titles of the student posters are as follows:

Poster Number 1: Fabrication of Flexible Organic photovoltaic devices
Poster Number 2: Synthesis of High Quality Single Crystalline LiCoO2 Battery Electrode Particles Using the Flux Method
Poster Number 3: Synthesis and Optical Properties of a Blue Silicate: Na2SrSi2O6: Ce3
Poster Number 4: Hybrid Advanced Manufacturing Techniques for Single Grain Boundary Fabrication & Study
Poster Number 5: Sampling the Conformational Space of the Parkinson’s Disease Associated Protein AlphaSynuclein
Poster Number 6: Ultrasonic Powder Consolidation of Nanocrystalline Cu
Poster Number 7: Predicting hardness of inorganic solids using machine learning
Poster Number 8: Peptide Functionalized Hyaluronic Acid for Treating Spinal Cord Injuries
Poster Number 9: Environmentally Sustainable and Degradable Epoxy Resins
Poster Number 10: Nucleation and Growth of Mossy Zinc Electrodeposits from Alkaline Zincate Solutions
Poster Number 11: SYNTHESIS AND CHARCTERIZATION OF SUPERCONDUCTING YBCO
Poster Number 12: Microprobe Scans on Different Oxygen Phase