Track 2: Complex Particle Design and Applications

First Place: Tobias Dwyer (Glotzer Lab)
Title: DNA superstructure design beyond patchy particles

Honorable Mention: Michael Veksler (Kotov Lab)
Title: Tunable light-matter interactions in complex perovskite particles templated by nanostructured assemblies with multiscale chirality

Track 3: Novel Materials for Energy and Sustainability

First Place: Carissa Yim (Schwank/Lenert Lab)
Title: Gas-phase photocatalytic CO₂ methanation over Ru/TiO₂: effects of pressure, temperature, and illumination

Honorable Mention: Samiha Bhat (Nikolla Lab)
Title: Effects of catalyst morphology on oxygen defects at Ni–CeO₂ interfaces for CO₂ methanation

Poster Presentation Awards:

First Place: Matthew Manion (Liu Lab)
Title: The effect of tuning aqueous interfacial reactions on electrophoretic motion and cellular cargo manipulation

Second Place: Dean Sweeney (Goldsmith Lab)
Title: Evaluating electrolyte double layer effects on nitrate dissociation across pure metals and dilute alloys

Third Place: Harsh Patel (Kamcev Lab) 
Title: Mixed counter-ion sorption in ion-exchange membranes: understanding the role of membrane water content

Department Awards:

Service Award: Samiha Bhat (Nikolla Lab)
Research Award: Valentina Guevara (Eniola Lab)
Teaching Award: Ahmet Sert (Linic Lab)
Joseph J. Martin Awards: Zach Pizzo (Gong Lab), Jessica Ma (Kotov Lab)

2023 Symposium

Oral Presentation Awards:

Track 1: Complex Biological Systems and Targeted Therapeutics

First Place: Ajay Shankaran (Nagrath lab) 
Title: Non-small cell lung cancer small extracellular vesicles induce immunosupressive behavior in neutrophils by leveraging antioxidant mechanism

Honorable Mention: Tobias Dwyer (Glotzer Lab)
Title: Geometric engineering for self-assembly of host-guest colloidal crystals

Track 2: Materials Modeling and Characterization

First Place: Aarti Mathur (Linic Lab) 
Title: Exploring the performance limits of nanoscale electrocatalysts on planar semiconductor light absorbers for the oxygen evolution reaction

Honorable Mention: Binyu Wang (Shtein lab) 
Title: High aspect ratio substrate OLEDs for lighting

Track 3: Novel Design and Synthesis

First Place: Bosun Roy-Layinde, Lenert Lab (Novel Design and Synthesis)
Title: Alternative approaches to minimizing loss pathways in InGaAs air-bridge cells

Honorable Mention: Yu-Jun Hong, Antoniewicz Lab (Novel Design and Synthesis)
Title: ¹³C metabolic flux analysis identifies unexpected metabolite exchanges in E. coli co-culture

Poster Presentation Awards:

First Place: Syahidah Mohd Khairi (Solomon Lab)
Title: Electric field assembly of colloidal discoid crystal for grating diffraction structural color

Second Place: Oluwatosin Ohiro (Goldsmith Lab)
Title: Kinetics of generated species under low-temperature plasma for ammonia synthesis

Third Place Tie: Harsh Patel (Kamev Lab) 
Title: Understanding the role of water content on counter-ion selectivity in ion exchange membranes contacted by mixed salt systems

Third Place Tie: Chih-Mei Young (Glotzer Lab) 
Title: Operating conditions and defect effects on the grating diffraction structural color of self-assembled colloidal spheres

Third Place Tie: Victor Azumah (Viswanathan Lab)
Title: Effect of proton donor on nitrogen behavior in lithium-mediated ammonia synthesis (LiMEAS)

Department Awards:

Service Award: Shawn Lu (Linic Lab) 
Research Award: Bosun Roy-Layinde (Lenert Lab)
Teaching Award: Kehinde Omoloja (Nagrath Lab)

2022 Symposium

Oral Presentation Awards:

First Place: Valentina Guevara (Eniola Lab)
Title: Engineering particle-based therapies to modulate neutrophil migration in acute inflammation

Second Place: Sean McSherry (Lenert Lab)
Title: Control of thermal transport at ultrahigh temperatures by immiscible oxide heterostructures

Third Place: Samuel D Young (Goldsmith Lab)
Title: Thermodynamic stability and anion ordering in abo2n and abon2 perovskite oxynitrides

Poster Presentation Awards:

First Place: Aarti Mathur (Linic Lab)
Title: Atomic scale characterization and quantification of electrocatalyst/semiconductor interfaces under solar water splitting conditions

Second Place: Bosun Roy-Layinde (Lenert Lab)
Title: Efficient thermophotovoltaic (power) generation owing to out-of-band device transparency

Third Place: Cameron Gruich (Goldsmith Lab)
Title: Clarifying trust of machine-learned catalyst predictions with uncertainty quantification

Department Awards:

Service Award: Bosun Roy Layinde (Lenert Lab)
Research Award: James Akinola (Singh Lab) and Sean McSherry (Lenert Lab)
Teaching Award: José C. Díaz (Kamcev Lab)

2021 Symposium

Oral Presentation Awards:

First Place: Steven Chavez (Linic Lab)
Title: Engineering energy below in hybrid plasmonic systems

Second Place: Jacques Esterhuizen (Goldsmith/Linic Lab)
Title: Unsupervised learning of electronic-structure descriptors for alloy surfaces

Third Place: Keara Saud (Solomon Lab)
Title: The effect of embedded active particles on the yield stress behavior of colloidal gels

Poster Presentation Awards:

First Place: Baharan Meghdadi (D. Nagrath Lab)
Title: Describing biofilm structure using image processing

Department Awards:

Service Award: Jordyn Polito (Mark Kushner Lab)
Research Award: Jacques Esterhuizen (Goldsmith/Linic Lab) and Niloufar Salehi (Ziff Lab)
Teaching Award: Alison Banka (Eniola Lab)

2019 Symposium

Oral Presentation Awards:

First Place: Saman Moniri (Shahani Lab)
Title: Emergence of two-phase spirals via multi-step crystallization

Second Place: Catherine Snyder (Tuteja Lab)
Title: Development of a novel polymeric particle fabrication method for non-spherical and multiphasic particles with independent control of particle size, shape and chemistry

Third Place: Valentina Igenegbai (Linic Lab)
Title: Enhancing selectivity in oxidative coupling of methane using catalytic solid oxide membrane reactors

Poster Presentation Awards: 

First Place: John Hemmerling (Linic Lab) 
Title: Understanding the role of the insulator in optimizing Metal-Insulator-Semiconductor systems for solar water splitting

Second Place Tie: Alex Hill (Schwank/Lenert Lab)
Title: Thermally-induced restructuring of core@shell nanoparticles as a strategy for enhancing low-temperature catalytic activity

Second Place Tie: Anna Kopp (Thurber Lab)
Title: Increased tumor penetration of single-domain antibody drug conjugates improves in vivo efficacy in prostate cancer models

Department Awards:

Teaching Award: Niloufar Salehi (Ziff Lab)
Research Award: Saman Moniri  (Shahani Lab)
Service Award: Zachary Berquist (Lenert Lab)