Texas State University team members have developed conductive-polymer based nanostructures that can be used as probes for photothermal ablation of cancer. These agents can induce cell ablation through the conversion of photoenergy into heat, and can therefore be used for laser-induced localized anti-cancer therapy
On April 5, 2014 Wi(PR)2EM and the Science on Wheels Educational Center (SONW) organized and coordinated the NanoDays event at the Mayagüez Mall that we called in Spanish DíasNano 2014. The Mayagüez Mall is the main shopping mall in western Puerto Rico. This large event was a collaboration between Wi(PR)2EM and SONW with the participation of students from the NSF funded Nanotechnology Center for Biomedical and Energy-Driven Systems and Applications (CREST)
NSF-JSU-UCSB PREM member conducted outreach activities at high school and initiate a Science Line program to help local science students in their mission of enhancing scientific literacy to wider audiences
Cancer is known for more than three thousand years, but till in 21st century, it causes 1 in 8 deaths worldwide.
The PREM Academy is a teacher/PREM researcher workshop - Goals:
Purpose of the Texas PREM Network:
Share best practices for recruitment and retention of underrepresnted groups
Provide a forum for student presenters
Create a larger PREM identity
First-principles prediction that elemental Tellurium undergoes a trivial insulator to strong topological insulator (metal) transition under shear (hydrostatic or uniaxial) strain.
The first-principles calculation is based on the phonon-assisted charge transfer model. The ionic vibration brings the two electronic states closer whereby the charge carriers hop from one state to another with a transition rate. The charge transport mechanism is phonon-assisted charge transfer between localized electronic states. shown schematically, a carrier (in this case a hole) originally reside at red state; thermal fluctuations of geometry lead to the transition between the overlapping states.
Fullerenes are carbon cages that are currently being used in solar cells because of their unique properties as electron acceptors.
The 2012 Pre-Freshmen Bridge Summer Science Program students conducted an interdisciplinary high altitude balloon research project. The research project involved eight teams of students working on original research projects.Two teams worked on materials science research, two teams on sustainable energy materials, and one team each on platform design, robotics, video documentary and behavior. The goal, which was accomplished, was to launch this payload of different research projects to the edge of space and collect data.Three of the teams presented their data at the NSF Emerging Researchers National undergraduate student conference.
Recent experimental work has demonstrated production of quasi free-standing graphene by gold intercalation. The intercalation weakens the coupling of adjacent graphene layers and yields Dirac fermion behavior of monolayer graphene.
Recent experimental work has demonstrated production of quasi free-standing graphene by methane intercalation. The intercalation weakens the coupling of adjacent graphene layers and yields Dirac fermion behaviour of monolayer graphene.
