DEPARTMENT CHAIR:                   MIKE DUDLEY
GRADUATE PROGRAM DIRECTOR: DILIP GERAPPE

Dagum Alex B., Bhatnagar Divya, Rafailovich Miriam, Conkling Nicole, Phillips Brett, Khan S. U., Bui D. T.; PSEF Pilot Research Grant, $10000, The Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation, New York,  NY.

Dorst, K. (2011).  Grants in Aid of Research Award, $1000.   Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, Triangle Park, NC.

Flynn, Katherine. (2010).  GAANN Fellowship, $26,500, Department of Education, Washington, DC.

Gin, Peter. (2010).  GAANN Fellowship, $26,500, Department of Education, Washington, DC, USA..

Horvat, Kristine. (2010).  GAANN Fellowship, $26,500, Department of Education, Washington, DC.

Ortiz, Joseph. (2010).  GAANN Fellowship, $26,500, Department of Education, Washington, DC.

Kuttiyiel, Kurian. (2010).  Dr. Bernard S. Baker Student Award for Fuel Cell Research. Fuel Cell Seminar, South Carolina Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Alliance, Columbia, SC.

Ramakrishnan, Girish, Shen, Peichuan and Zhao, Shen. (2011).  Certificate of Merit Award.  American Chemical Society Environmental Division for co-authorship of the paper: Novel applications of sub-nm noble metal particles for photocatalysis,  (104): 239-244.

Young, Christopher N (2011).  Graduate Student Award for Applied Spectroscopy, $250, New York Society for Applied Spectroscopy, New York, NY.

Dwivedi, Gopal., Nakamura, T. and Sampath, S.  (2011).  Controlled introduction of anelasticity in plasma-sprayed ceramics. Journal of the American Ceramic Society, (94): s104–s111.

Gin, Peter, Asada, M., Endoh, M.K., and Koga, T.  (2011).  Manipulation of Cylinder Forming Block Copolymer Thin Films in Density Fluctuating Supercritical Carbon Dioxide. NSF CMMI Research and Innovation Conference 2011, Atlanta, GA.

Gin, Peter. Jiang, N., Endoh, M.K., Akgun, B., Satija, S.K. and Koga, T. (2011).  Effect of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide on Attractive Polymer/Substrate Interactions. American Physical Society March Meeting 2011, Dallas, TX.

Gin, Peter. Jiang, N., Endoh, M.K., Akgun, B., Satija, S.K. and Koga, T. (2011).  Screening Behavior of Highly Compressible Supercritical Carbon Dioxide on Attractive Polymer/Substrate Interactions. American Crytallographic Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

Gin, Peter. Jiang, N., Endoh, M.K., Akgun, B., Satija, S.K. and Koga, T. (2011).  The Effect of Density Fluctuating Supercritical Carbon Dioxide on Strong Polymer/Substrate Interactions. National Synchrotron Light Source Seminar, Upton, NY.

Sasaki, K ; Kuttiyiel, K ; Su, D ; Adzic, R . (2011).  Platinum monolayer on IrFe core–shell nanoparticle electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction , Electrocatal.  (2): 134-140.

Sasaki, K; Kuttiyiel, K; Barrio, L; Su, D; Frenkel, A; Marinkovic, N; Mahajan, D; Adzic, R. (2011). Carbon-Supported IrNi Core-Shell Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Characterization, and Catalytic Activity. Journal of Physical Chemistry, (115): 9894–9902.

Lee, Jusang and Gouma, Pelagia I. (2011).  Tailored 3D CuO nanogrid formation.  Journal of Nanomaterials, DOI: 10.11552011863631.

Ramakrishnan, G., Zhao, S Han, W., Orlov, A.  (2011).  Simultaneous observation of gas phase and surface species in photocatalytic reactions on nanosize Au modified TiO2: The next generation of DRIFTS systems.  Chemical Engineering Journal, (170): 445-450.

Luo, Liang; Wilhelm, Christopher; Young, Christopher N; Grey, Clare P.; Halada, Gary P.; Xiao, Kai; Ivanov, Ilia N.; Howe, Jane Y.; Geohegan, David B.; Goroff, Nancy S. (2011).  Characterization and carbonization of highly oriented poly (diiododiacetylene) nanofibers.  Macromolecules., 44 (8): 2626–2631.

Wynne, James H.; Watson, Kelly E.; Yesinowski, James P.; Young, Christopher N; Clayton, Clive R.; Nesteruk, Nick; Kelley, Jack.; Braswell, Tom. (2010).  Interim report on scientific basis for paint stripping; Mechanism of methylene chloride based paint removers.  NRL Memorandum Report ,  NRL/MR/6120-10-9303.

Bhatnagar, Divya, Cowman, M., Rafailovich. M.  (2010).  Physically crosslinked hyaluronic acid based novel hydrogels, MRS Annual Fall Meeting, Boston, MA. (Poster).

Bhatnagar, Divya, Jurukovski Vladimir, Rafailovich Miriam, Simon Marcia. November. (2010). Differentiation and behavior of dental pulp stem cells in hydrogel scaffolds of varying stiffness (Oral), MRS Annual Fall Meeting, Boston, MA.

 Conkling, N, Phillips BT, Bhatnagar Divya, Rafailovich M, Wang, ED, Khan,SU, Bui,DT, Dagum,AB. August.  (2010).  Quantifying contraction of muscles of facial expression using digital image speckle correlation (DISC) analysis (Oral), European Plastic Surgery Research Council, Hamburg, Germany .

Conkling, N, Phillips BT, Bhatnagar Divya, Rafailovich M, Melendez MM, Khan SU, Bui DT, Dagum AB. December.  (2010).  Quantifying contraction of muscles of facial expression using digital image speckle correlation (DISC) analysis (Poster), ACS Long Island and Brooklyn Chapter Annual Clinic Day, Uniondale, NY.

Bhatnagar, Divya, Jurukovski Vladimir, Bherwani Aneel, Rafailovich Miriam, Simon Marcia. March. (2011) Differentiation and behavior of dental pulp stem cells in hydrogel scaffolds of varying stiffness (Oral), American Physical Society March Meeting, Dallas, TX.

Conkling, N, Phillips BT, Bhatnagar Divya, Rafailovich M, Melendez MM, Khan SU, Bui DT, Dagum AB. April. (2011) Digital image speckle correlation (DISC) analysis as a prospective quantitative clinical outcomes metric for cosmetic treatment with botulinum toxin type A (Oral), 56th Plastic Surgery Research Council, Louisville, KY.
 Conkling, N, Phillips BT, Bhatnagar Divya, Rafailovich M, Melendez MM, Khan SU, Bui DT, Dagum AB. May. (2011) Quantifying the effect and duration of cosmetic treatment with botulinum toxin type A using digital image speckle correlation analysis (Oral), 16th Congress of the International Confederation for Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

 Bhatnagar, Divya, Rafailovich Miriam, Conkling Nicole, Phillips Brett, Khan S. U., Bui D. T., Dagum Alex B. (2011).  Digital image speckle correlation (DISC) analysis for quantifying the effect and duration of cosmetic treatment with botulinum toxin (BT) type A” (Poster), 71st Annual Meeting of Society of Investigative Dermatology, Phoenix, AZ.

Bhatnagar, Divya, Rafailovich Miriam, Conkling Nicole, Phillips Brett, Khan S. U., Bui D. T., Dagum Alex B. (2011).   Digital image speckle correlation (DISC) analysis for quantifying the effect and duration of cosmetic treatment with botulinum toxin (BT) type A (Poster), SBU-BNL Research Day, Stony Brook, NY.

Dudley, M., Byrappa S., Wang, H., Wu, F., Zhang, Y Raghothamachar, B.,. Choi, G.,. Sanchez, E., Hansen, D., Drachev, R., and. Loboda, M. (2010).  Analysis of Dislocation Behavior in Low Dislocation Density, PVT-Grown, Four-Inch Silicon Carbide Single Crystals.  In S.E. Saddow, E.Sanches, F. Zhao, M. Mudley  (Ed.).  Silicon Carbide 2010 — Materials, Processing, and Devices.   Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., 1246, 1246-B02-02, Warrendale, PA.

Dudley, D., Byrappa B., Wang, H., Wu, F.,. Raghothamachar, B., Choi, G., Sun,  S.,. Sanchez, E.K., Hansen, D.,. Drachev, R.,. Mueller, S.,  and Loboda, M.J. (2010).  In E., Monakhov, T. Hormos & B., Svensson (Ed.), Formation Mechanism of Stacking Faults in PVT 4H-SiC Created by Deflection of Threading Dislocations with Burgers Vector c+a,“ in Silicon Carbide, III-Nitrides, and Related Materials.   Materials Science Forum, 679-680, 269-272.

Dudley,M., Byrappa S., Wang, H., Wu, F., Raghothamachar, B., Choi, G.,. Sun, S., Sanchez, E. K., Hansen, D., Drachev, R., Mueller,S., and Loboda, M. J. (2011).  In E. Monakhov, T. Hormos, B. Svensson (Ed.).  Formation Mechanism of Stacking Faults in PVT 4H-SiC Created by Deflection of Threading Dislocations with Burgers Vector c+a,“ in Silicon Carbide, III-Nitrides, and Related Materials.   Materials Science Forum, 679-680, 269-272.

Dorst, K, Horne, J., Meng, Y. (2011).  The effect of substrate properties on osteoblast shape, adhesion, and motility. Sigma Xi Northeast regional 2011 meeting, Stony Brook, NY.

Dorst, K, Horne, J., Meng, Y. (2010).  A comparative study of osteoblasts and osteosarcoma cells in conditioned media. American Society of Cell Biology, 50th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Dwivedi, Gopal. (2010).  On the biomimetic response of thermally sprayed materials.  Provost's Graduate Lecture Series, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY.

Dwivedi, Gopal. (2011).  Effect of moisture on the compliance of thermal barrier coatings. Thermal Barrier Coatings III Conference, Irsee, Germany.

Dwivedi, Gopal. (2011).  Mechanical compliance in thermal barrier coatings: Quantification and its application in coatings design and repeatability assessment.  International Thermal Spray Conference, Hamburg, Germany.

Dwivedi, Gopal. (2011).  Natural and synthetic layered structures: Nacre vs plasma sprayed ceramics.  International Thermal Spray Conference, Hamburg, Germany.

Gaowei, Mengjia. (2010).  Electronic impact of defects in diamond. 2010 NSLS User Meeting. Upton, NY.
Gaowei, Mengjia. (2010).  Investigation and numerical simulation of x-ray section topography images of defects in CVD diamond. Diamond Electronics and Bioelectronics — Fundamentals to Applications III. Mater. Res. Soc. 2010 Fall Meeting. Boston, MA.

Gaowei, Mengjia. (2011).  Response uniformity in diamond X-ray photodiodes. 2011 NSLS User Meeting. Upton, NY. (Winner of Graduate Student Poster award.).

Gin, Peter, Asada, M., Endoh, M.K., and Koga, T. (2011).  Manipulation of cylinder forming block copolymer thin films in density fluctuating supercritical carbon dioxide. NSF CMMI Research and Innovation Conference 2011, Atlanta, GA.

Gin, Peter, Jiang, N., Endoh, M.K., Akgun, B., Satija, S.K. and Koga, T. (2011).  Effect of supercritical carbon dioxide on attractive polymer/substrate interactions. American Physical Society March Meeting 2011, Dallas, TX.

Gin, Peter, Jiang, N., Endoh, M.K., Akgun, B., Satija, S.K. and Koga, T. (2011).  Screening behavior of highly compressible supercritical carbon dioxide on attractive polymer/substrate interactions. American Crytallographic Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

Gin, Peter, Jiang, N., Endoh, M.K., Akgun, B., Satija, S.K. and Koga, T. (2011).  The effect of density fluctuating supercritical carbon dioxide on strong polymer/substrate interactions. National Synchrotron Light Source Seminar, Upton, NY.

Horvat, Kristine, Kerkar, P., Jones, K., & Mahajan, D. (2011).  Imaging CO2 hydrates under simulated seafloor conditions at macro and micro scale. 241st ACS National Meeting & Exposition; Gas Hydrate, Clathrates, and Alternative Energy Sources; Production and Processing Chemistry Symposium , Anaheim, CA.
Sasaki, K., Kuttiyiel, K., Su, D., Adzic, R. (2011).  Platinum monolayer on Ir-M core-shell nanoparticle electrocatalyst for fuel cells. E-Beam Micro-characterization and Nanoscale Research Contractors’ Meeting, Annapolis, MD.

Sasaki, K; Kuttiyiel, K., Barrio, L.,Su, D., Frenkel, A.,Marinkovic, N., Mahajan, D; Adzic, R. (2011). Carbon supported IrNi core shell nanoparticles: Synthesis, characterization and catalytic activity. 219th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Ontario, Canada.

Kuttiyiel, K., Sasaki, K; Su, D; Adzic, R. (2010).  Bimetallic Ni-Ir core platinum monolayer shell electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction. 218th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Las Vegas, NV.

Kuttiyiel, K. (2010).  Platinum monolayer on Ni-Ir core shell electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction. Fuel Cell Seminar, San Antonio, TX..

Kuttiyiel, K, Sasaki, K.,Su, D., Adzic, R. (2010).  Platinum monolayer shell electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction. DOE review, Center of Functional Nanomaterials, BNL, NY.

Lee, Jusang and Gouma, Pelagia. (2011).  A novel method for synthesis of 3-d wo3-cuo nanogrids.  International Symposium on Olfaction and Electronic Nose (ISOEN 2011), New York, NY. (Poster) .

Lee, Jusang and Gouma, Pelagia. (2010).  Metal oxide photocatalysis under visible light.  Materials Research Society Symposium, Boston, MA. (Poster).

Lee, Jusang  and Gouma, Pelagia. (2010).  Self supported 3D ceramic photocatalytic nanogrids, Advanced Energy Conference, New York, NY. (Poster).

Lee, Jusang  and Gouma, Pelagia. (2010).  Metal oxide photocatalysis for oil decomposition.  Gulf Oil Spill Conference, New Orleans, LA (Poster).

Lee, Jusang and Gouma, Pelagia. (2010).  Ferroelectric WO3 nanostructures for nanoelectronics.  Materials Research Society Symposium, Boston, MA.

Lee, Jusang and Gouma, Pelagia. (2010).  Tailored 3D CuO nanogrid formation for sensors and photocatalysts,  International Congress on Ceramics, Osaka Japan.

Pan, Cheng, Qin,Sisi, Kao, Kenny and Rafailovich, Miriam. (2010).  Nanoparticle enhancement of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell. 2010 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Poster, Fuel Cell.  Boston, MA. (Poster).

Pan, Cheng, Qin,Sisi, Kao, Kenny and Rafailovich, Miriam. (2010).  Nanoparticle enhancement of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell. Advanced Energy Meeting.  New York, NY. (Poster).

Pan, Cheng, Qin,Sisi, Kao, Kenny and Rafailovich, Miriam. (2010).  Nanoparticle enhancement of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell.  NIST Center for Neutron Research Summer School,  Gaithersburg, MD. (Poster).

Pan, Cheng, Qin,Sisi, Kao, Kenny and Rafailovich, Miriam. (2010).  Interfiddusion in thin polymer films.  2010 NIST Center for Neutron Research Summer School, Gaithersburg, MD.

Young, Christopher N, Clayton, Clive.R. (2010).  Spectroscopic analysis of the effects of methylene chloride- and phenol-based paint stripping solvent exposure on model coating systems.  Partners in Environmental Technology Technical Symposium & Workshop, Washington, DC.

Zhang, Chi, Liu, Gaojun, Li, Zhenghao, Zaitsev, Vladimir, Meng, Yizhi. (2011).  Using supercritical fluid technology to develop a biomimetic 3D porous scaffold for bone tissue engineering. Northeast Regional Sigma Xi Research Symposium, Stony Brook, NY.

Zhang, Y Chen, H., Dudley, M., Zhang, Y., Edgar, J., Gong, Y., Bakalova, S., Kuball, M., Zhang, L., Su, D., Kisslinger, K., and Y. Zhu.  (2010).  Mechanism for Improved Quality B12As2  Epitaxial Films on (0001) 4H-SiC Substrates by Tilting toward [1-100] Direction.  In S.E. Saddow, E. Sanchez, F. Zhao, M. Dudley (Ed.).  Silicon Carbide 2010 — Materials, Processing, and Devices,  Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., (1246,-B04-02), Warrendale, PA.

Whitely, C., Mayo, A., Edgar, J.H., Gong, Y., Kuball, M., Zhang, Y and Dudley, M., (2011).  Solution Growth and Characterization of Icosahedral Boron Arsenide (B12As2).  In J. Edgar, M. Kuball & M. Dudley (Ed.).  Boron and Boron Compounds – from Fundamentals to Applications (1307 E.) Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., Warrendale, PA,

Whitely, C., Mayo, A., Edgar, J.H., Dudley, M. and Zhang, Y. (2010).  Defect Selective Etching of Icosahedral Boron Arsenide (B12As2) Single Crystals in Molten Potassium Hydroxide,.  In  J.H. Edgar, M. Kuball & M. Dudley (Ed.).  Boron and Boron Compounds – from Fundamentals to Application (1370E.).  Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., Warrendale, PA, 1307-cc05-18.

Zhang, Y Chen, H., Dudley, M., Zhang, Y., Edgar, J.H., Gong, Y., Bakalova, S., Kuball, M., Zhang, L., Su, D., and Zhu, Y. (2011).  Elimination of degenerate epitaxy in the Growth of High Quality B12As2 Single Crystalline Epitaxial Films”, to appear in “Boron and Boron Compounds – from Fundamentals to Applications”, Edgar, J.H., Kuball, M. and Dudley, M. (Eds.), Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., 1307E, 1307-cc02-03, Warrendale, PA.

Zhang, Y Edgar, J.H., Zhang, Y., Dudley, M., Z. Zhu,  Gong, Y., Bakalova, S., and Kuball, M., “Electrical Properties of Silicon Doped Icosahedral Boron Arsenide (B12As2) Epitaxial Layers on Silicon Carbide”, in “Boron and Boron Compounds – from Fundamentals to Applications”, Edgar, J.H., Kuball, M. and Dudley, M. (Eds.), Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., 1307E, Warrendale, PA.

Gong, Y., Bakalova, S., Zhang,Y., Dudley, M., Zhang,Y.,  Edgar, J.H. and Kuball, M.; “Electrical Properties of B12As2/SiC Heterojunction Diodes and their Dependence on Microstructure”, to appear in “Boron and Boron Compounds – from Fundamentals to Applications”, Edgar, J.H., Kuball, M. and Dudley, M. (Eds.), Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., 1307E, Warrendale, PA.

Bakalova, S., Gong, Y., C. Cobet, N. Esser, Zhang, Y Edgar, J.H., Zhang, Y., Dudley, M. and Kuball, M., “Anisotropic Dielectric Response of Epitaxial B12As2 Films”, to appear in “Boron and Boron Compounds – from Fundamentals to Applications”, Edgar, J.H., Kuball, M. and Dudley, M. (Eds.), Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., 1307E, Warrendale, PA.