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January 23rd : Kishore Tenneti receives the 2007 Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship in the area of X-ray crystallography January 23rd : Dr. Christopher Li receives the Outstanding Overseas Young Scientist Award from the National Science Foundation of China |
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May 17th : Michael Birnkrant receives the Research Excellence Award April 20th : Read Lingyu Li’s paper entitled “Polymer Decoration on Carbon Nanotubes via Physical Vapor Deposition” published in Langmuir March 24th : Read Kishore Tenneti’s paper entitled “Hierarchical Nanostructures of Bent-Core Molecules |
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August 27th : Read Michael Birnkrants paper entitled “Layer-in-Layer Hierarchical Nanostructures Fabricated by Combining Holographic Polymerization and Block Copolymer Self-Assembly” published in Nano Letters August 27th : Matthew Hood and Michael Birnkrant attend the NATAS conference in East Lansing Michigan and win the NATAS Travel Award and the TAFDV Travel Award respectively August 19th : Soft research group enjoys Boston while attending the 2007 ACS fall national meeting |
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| Fall |
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September 20th : The SRG group welcomes Songqing Weng and Xi (Rebecca) Chen who have joined the group in order to pursue a PhD degree
October 28th : Read Bing Li’s paper entitled “Poly(ethylene oxide) Single Crystals as Templates for Au Nanoparticle Patterning and Asymmetrical Functionalization” published in Macromolecules
December 27th : Read Kishore Tenneti’s paper entitled “Competition between liquid crystallinity and block copolymer self-assembly in core-shell rod-coil block copolymers” published in Soft Matter