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Current and Former Students
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Danna Lasher (class of 2008): He worked in
measuring the phase transition of confined decane in the summer of 2007 and
during the academic year 2007-2008. He wrote his thesis based on this
work. This work was the starting
point for our paper “Nonfreezing
Interfacial Layers of Cyclohexane in Nanoporous Silica”, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol.
113, pp 18983–18986, 2009. It
has been presented at North American Thermal Analysis Society, Lubbock, TX
2010. Danna is now working for schlumberger.
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Otto Jakutowicz (class of 2009): He studied the molecular vibration of Polyvinyl
acetate below and above its glass transition. He worked in the lab during the summer of
2007 and the academic year of 2007-2008. He wrote his thesis based on this
work. Otto worked as a test engineer for Britax and now is working for Duke
Energy.
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Anna Gaudette (class of 2009): She was actually my first student. She
worked on enthalpic relaxation of polyvinyl acetate and polyvinyl acetate
silica nano composites. She worked
in the lab during summer 2007. She
also worked on the project during the academic year of 2006-2007, we used
DSC in the department of chemistry. Her worked is presented at the APS
march meeting in new Orleans 2008 and 44th
Annual Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference, Toronto, October 2008. It is published in the “Enthalpic
Relaxation of Silica-Polyvinyl Acetate Nanocomposites”, Journal of Polymer
Science: Part B: Polymer Physics, Vol. 46, pp 2733-2740, 2008. Anna is
working now for a consulting firm in Huston,
Texas.
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Peter Bonventre (class of 2010): He worked on
fabrication of porous silica via Sol-Gel technique. He worked in the lab during the summer of
2009. He went to pursue PhD in Mathematics after Union.
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Hillary Bauer (class of 2011): She worked on the
phase transition of physically restricted cyclohexane. She worked in the lab during summer 2008
and summer 2009. Her worked is
presented at the 44th Annual Canadian
Undergraduate Physics Conference, Toronto,
October 2008 and North
American Thermal Analysis Society, Lubbock,
TX 2010.
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Amer Khraisat (class of 2013) worked in the
lab during the winter and summer of 2010.
He studied melting and freezing behavior of secondary alcohols. His
work has been presented at the March meeting of the APS in Portland, OR,
2010.
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Jargalsaikhan Dulmaa (class 2013): worked in the lab
during the winter ans summer of 2010.
He studied melting and freezing behavior of primary alcohols. His
work has been presented at the March meeting of the APS in Portland, OR,
2010.
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Alexandrea Safiq (class 2014): worked in the lab
during the spring and summer of 2011. She studies the effects of interface
on the phase transition of physically confined systems..
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Other students who worked in the lab
in collaboration with other faculty.
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Justin Blau (class of 2009)
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Michael Varughese (class of 2010)
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Erin Osgood (class of 2011)
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Nick Brenn (class of 2014)
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