Postdoctoral Research Symposium
September 10, 2009
Co-sponsored by Euclid TechLabs, MDI, and UOP

Poster Session

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Guest House

5:30 to 7:30 PM

  Biology

1. A RHODOBACTER-BASED CELL-FREE PROTEIN EXPRESSION SYSTEM FOR THE PRODUCTION OF MEMBRANE PROTEINS. Forum Bhatt, Marc Wander, Greg Tira, Philip Laible, Deborah Hanson. Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Ave., Argonne, IL 60439.

Chemistry and Biochemistry

2. PHOTOSYNTHETIC HYRBID SYSTEM FOR THE PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN. Shana L. Bender, Karen Mulfort, Lisa Utschig, Oleg Poluektov, and David Tiede. Chemical Science and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue Lemont, IL 60439.

3. PHOTODISSOCIATION OF ISOPROPYL IODIDE AND 2-IODOETHANOL. V. Alvin Shubert, Maria Rednic, and Stephen T. Pratt. Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439.

4. A REDOX AND SOLVENT-INDUCED SWITCHABLE BISTABLE [2]CATENANE. Cheng Wang, Lei Fang, Mark A. Olson, Chris M. Gothard, Douglas C. Friedman, Subhadeep Basu, Sanjeev K. Dey, and J. Fraser Stoddart. Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208.

5. C-O-C BOND CLEAVAGE IN OXIDATIVE HYDROLYSIS OF CELLULOSIC MATERIALS. Weiling Deng¹, Sungsik Lee¹, Stefan Vajda¹, Joseph A. Libera², Jeffrey W. Elam², and Christopher L. Marshall¹. ¹Chemical Sciences and Engineering and ²Energy Systems Divisions, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439.

6. TOWARDS SELECTIVE ALKANE OXIDATION USING SUPPORTED Pt(II) AND Pt(IV) HALIDES. Elizabeth A. Mader, Jeffrey T. Miller, and Christopher L. Marshall. Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL, 60439.

7. PREPARATION OF HIGHLY ACTIVE PHOTOCATALYTIC TiO2 VIA ULTRASONIC SPRAY PYROLYSIS. Zeynep Eren and Kenneth S. Suslick. Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 S. Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801.

8. X-RAY INDUCED REACTIONS IN ADSORBED BIOLOGICAL MOLECULES. K. Vijayalakshmi¹, R.A. Rosenberg¹, P.J. Ryan², and M. Abu Haija¹. ¹Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439 ; ²MUCAT, Ames Laboratory, Ames, Iowa, 50011.

9. DIRECT-WRITE CLICK CHEMISTRY. W. F. Paxton, J. M. Spruell, J. F. Stoddart. Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208.

10. PROGRESS TOWARDS THE SYNTHESIS OF A RGD-FUNCTIONALIZED CONDUCTING POLYMER FOR THE USE AS NERVE GUIDANCE CHANNEL. Colleen Scott, Department of Chemistry, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901.

11. ORGANOSILICON CHEMISTRY AS A NEW SOURCE OF CHEMICAL DIVERSITY IN CANCER DRUG DESIGN. Uzma I. Zakai¹, Galina A. Bikzhanova², Steven Gately³, and Robert West¹. ¹Organosilicon Research Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706; ²SAFC Pharma, 645 Science Drive, Madison, WI 53711; ³Silamed, Inc. 9977 N. 90th Street, Suite 110, Scottsdale, AZ 85258.

12. IN-SITU GENERATION AND BIOFUNCTIONALIZATION OF METALLIC NANOCLUSTERS. Jaswinder Sharma, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87544.

Engineering and Environmental Science

13. A PERMANENT MAGNET CIRCUIT WITH TUNABLE MAGNETIC GRADIENTS FOR MAGNETOPHORESIS. Pulak Nath, Yonathan Araya, and Michelle Espy. Applied Modern Physics P-21, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545.

14. THE ROLE OF CATION IDENTITY AND ADSORBATE ORIENTATION ON THE SELECTIVE ADSORPTION OF p-XYLENE IN FAUJASITE ZEOLITES. Allison Dickey¹, David Dubbeldam², John J. Low³, and Randall Q. Snurr¹. ¹Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208; ²University of Amsterdam, NL-1018 WV Amsterdam, Netherlands; ³UOP Research Center, Des Plaines, IL 60017.

15. ICE SLURRY PROTECTS THE KIDNEY DURING LAPAROSCOPIC KIDNEY REMOVAL. Yue Wu and Kenneth Kasza. Nuclear Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439.

Materials Science

16.CHARACTERIZATION OF TRIBOCHEMICAL FILMS. C. Lorenzo-Martin, O. O. Ajayi, R. A. Erck, and G. Fenske. Energy Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL, 60439.

17. LASER-COUPLED ULTRA-HIGH VACUUM SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPE: TOWARDS OPTICAL PROBING AND MANIPULATION OF NANOSTRUCTURES ON SURFACES. Li Gao, Matthias Bode, Nathan P. Guisinger, and Jeffrey R. Guest. Center for Nanoscale Materials Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439.

18. UNDERSTANDING THE SURFACE RECONTRUCTION DURING CHEMICAL SWITCHING OF ULTRATHIN PbTiO 3 FILMS FROM DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY. Jun He, G. Brian Stephenson, and Serge M. Nakhmanson. Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439.

19. MAGNETO-THERMAL RESPONSIVE MULTIFUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES FOR CANCER TREATMENT. Dong-Hyun Kim¹, Elena A. Rozhkova², Tijana Rajh², Samuel D. Bader^{1, 2} and Valentyn Novosad¹. ¹Materials Science Division and ²Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Ave., Argonne, IL 60439.

20. RECENT WORKS IN FRESNEL COHERENT DIFFRACTIVE IMAGING. Sangsoo Kim and Ian Mcnulty. X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439.

21. ADDITIVES TO IMPROVE THE PERGORMANCE OF THE LITHIUM-ION CELLS. Yan Qin Zonghai Chen, and Khalil Amine. Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439.

22. BETTER ANODES FOR LITHIUM ION BATTERIES. Lynn Trahey^1,2, John T. Vaughey¹, Harold H. Kung², and Michael M. Thackeray¹. ¹Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439; ²Northwestern University, Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, 2145 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, IL 60208.

23. SURFACE MODIFICATION OF LiNi 0.5Mn1.5O4BYZrO2 FOR LITHIUM ION BATTERIES. H. M. Wu, I. Belharouak, and K. Amine. Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439.

24. TiO 2 BROOKITE AS ANODE FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES. Damien Dambournet, Ilias Belharouak, and Khalil Amine. Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439.

25. HYBRID ANNEALING INDUCED DEWETTING OF A CYLINDER FORMING BLOCK COPOLYMER. Muruganathan Ramanathan and Seth B. Darling. Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439.

26. TUNING THE MAGNETIC PHASES OF LaSrMnO 3 BY DIGITAL SYNTHESIS. Tiffany S. Santos, Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439.

27. COMPARISON OF HEATING AND COOLING RATES IN ASYMMETRIC CYCLIC AUSTEMPERING. Vivekanand Sista, Philip Nash, and Dr. Satyam Sahay. Energy Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439.

28. WATER INDUCED SUPERCONDUCTIVITY IN NaFeAs. Iliya Todorov¹, Duck Young Chung¹, Christos D. Malliakas², and Mercouri G. Kanatzidis¹. ¹Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 Cass Avenue, Argonne IL 60439 ; ²Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston IL 60208.

29. PRESSURE-INDUCED AMORPHIZATION IN NANOSCALE Y2O3. Lin Wang¹, Wenge Yang², Yang Ding¹, Wendy L. Mao³, Russell E. Cook⁴, David J. Gosztola⁵, Guoyin Shen^1,2, and Ho-kwang Mao^1,2. ¹HPSynC, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439; ²HPCAT, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 434E, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439; ³Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford, California 94305; ⁴Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439; ⁵Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439.

Physics and High Energy Physics

30. CANADIAN PENNING TRAP (CPT) MASS SPECTROMETER AT CARIBU. A. Chaudhuri^1,2, J. A. Clark², G. Savard², K. S. Sharma¹, and the CPT collaboration. ¹Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada; ²Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439.

Synchrotron Research

31. IN-SITU XAFS ANALYSIS FOR THE SYNTHESIS AND TESTING OF SUPPORTED PT CATALYSTS: ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION AND PROPANE OXIDATION. Worajit Setthapun, Jeffrey T. Miller, and Christopher L. Marshall. Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439.

32. A VIEW ON AMORPHOUS SILICON THROUGH X-RAY SCATTERING: MICROSTRUCTURE, STRUCTURE AND HYPERUNIFORMITY. Ruobing Xie and Gabrielle Long. X-Ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439.

33. NITROGEN PLASMA TREATMENT OF CARBON NANOMATERIALS- A SYNCHROTRON BASED STUDIES. Ganjigunte. R.S. Iyer and P.D.Maguire. Nanotechnology & Integrated Bio-Engineering Centre (NIBEC), University of Ulster, Newtownabbey, BT37 0QB Northern Ireland. United Kingdom.

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