Yury Gogotsi

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2006 IGERT Project Meeting May 15, 2006
Drexel Penn Success in Nanoscale Science
Engineering

• Yury Gogotsi
• Professor of Materials Science Engineering,
  Drexel University, and
• Director of the A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology
  Institute
• Holly Burnside
• A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute Program
  Coordinator

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Drexel/Penn IGERT
Nanoscale Engineering and Science
Nanotechnology Certificate Program
Career Integrated Education
IGERT Co-PIs
Alan MacDiarmid Mun Choi Frank Ko
Program Coordinators Holly Burnside
James McGonigle Participating faculty Students
DirectorsYury Gogotsi Dawn Bonnell
Education Roadmap
Research and
Recruitment Activities
Outreach Internships
Assessment
Retention
Research Resources (DNI, NBIC, NTI and other)
Drug Delivery,BiomedicalApplications
Nanotubes and Nanostructured Materials
Nanoscale Devices
Nanofibrous Materials
M. Watanabe, Going multidisciplinary, Nature 425,
542-543 (2003)
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Two Universities, One Campus
Drexels and Penns campuses are located in the
University City section of Philadelphia.
Drexel University
The Drexel/UPenn IGERT Ph.D. fellowship program
benefits from the proximity of the two campuses.
University of Pennsylvania
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IGERT Objectives

• Allow IGERT Fellows to cross register for
  courses. The two Universities offer
  complementary courses and approaches to
  engineering education. By being exposed to this
  variety, our Fellows will receive a deeper and
  more balanced experience.
• Encourage multi-disciplinary and
  multi-institution advisory teams, opening IGERT
  Fellows to different perspectives on their
  research projects.
• Host a monthly professional development seminar
  series, providing IGERT Fellows with valuable
  skills in networking, interviewing, mentoring,
  writing and communicating their work with a
  variety of audiences.
• Encourage IGERT Fellows to participate in
  international internships, as well as in national
  labs in the U.S., giving them a global view of
  the scientific process.
• Encourage IGERT Fellows to participate in science
  and engineering education outreach programs.
• Offer a multi-university, one-campus approach as
  a model for sharing educational and research
  resources that may be implemented by other
  institutions located in close proximity to each
  other.

K. Cowan, Y. Gogotsi, The Drexel/UPenn IGERT
Creating a new model for graduate education in
nanotechnology, J. Mater. Education, 26, 147
(2004)
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A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute

• Oversees education, research, collaboration,
  commercialization, and communication activities
  in the interdisciplinary field of nanotechnology
  for all of Drexel University
• Manages Materials Characterization Facility and
  Microfabrication Facility
• Offers graduate and undergraduate
  nanocertificates
• Has about 40 affiliated faculty members from
  Drexels College of Engineering, College of Arts
  Sciences, College of Medicine, and Bennett S.
  Lebow College of Business

Bossone Res. Enterprise Bldg.
http//nano.drexel.edu
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Nano/Bio Interface Center

• 11.4 million NSF Nanoscale Science Engineering
  Center. Director Dawn Bonnell, IGERT Co-PI
• Offers a graduate nanocertificate and an
  undergraduate nano minor
• Has about 20 affiliated faculty members from
  Penns School of Engineering and Applied
  Sciences, School of Arts Sciences, School of
  Medicine, and Drexel University
• Manages The Probe Innovation Facility - a suite
  of scanning probes, opto electronic/transport
  tools, and optical probes so recently developed
  that they are not yet available on commercial
  instruments

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Shared Facilities

• IGERT Fellows have access to world-class research
  tools offered by both institutions
• Laboratory for Research on the Structure of
  Matter (LRSM) - a world-renowned facility for the
  characterization of nanomaterials by using
  transmission electron microscopy (TEM) at Penn
• Nano/Bio Interface Center (NBIC), a complete
  suite of scanning probes for electromagnetic and
  mechanical property evaluation at Penn

• A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute offers the
  latest visible, near-field and UV Raman
  microspectroscopy, orientation imaging
  microscopy, nano-indentation instruments,
  nanomanipulator, and environmental and
  high-resolution SEMs.

Christopher Rankin, IGERT Fellow, Penn
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Mentorship Experience

• Drexel and Penn have established a network of
  engineering education outreach programs
• IGERT Fellows receive valuable mentorship
  experience through their participation in these
  programs
• RET-Nano NSF-sponsored, joint program between
  Drexel and Penn for high school and community
  college teachers
• RETAIN Technologies in the Delaware Valley
  NSF-sponsored RET program hosted by Drexel for
  middle and high school teachers
• DREAM (Drexel Research Experience in Advanced
  Materials) NSF-sponsored REU site

• SUNFEST (Summer UNdergraduate FEllowship in
  Sensor Technologies) hosted by Penn
• NanoDay_at_Penn for the general public
• SEED Summer Mentorship engineering summer
  camps for middle and high school students

Matthew Montgomery (REU), Kristopher Behler
(IGERT), and Dr. Ranjini Weerasooriya (RET)
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Annual Retreats

• Monthly meetings and Annual retreats are a part
  of the program
• 2006 Retreat held March 3-4 at the Split Rock
  Resort in the Poconos.
• Nano outreach activities prepared IGERT fellows
  for participation in Drexel/Penn engineering
  education programs such as RET and REU.

Michael Fischbein uses various visualization
techniques to demonstrate his research including
posters, Koosh ball nanocrystals, and foam
energy wells.
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Interdisciplinary Research

• Students and faculty from physics, chemistry, and
  various engineering disciplines are involved with
  the program.
• The program offers opportunities for joint
  faculty advising of IGERT Fellows that enhance
  team-based research
• Drexel faculty members excel in nanoscale
  engineering research related to materials
  synthesis and characterization, materials for

• biomedical, energy and environmental
  applications, and sensors.
• Penn faculty members excel in nanoscale science
  research related to conductive polymers,
  structure of matter, nano-bio interfaces,
  electronic devices, molecular motors, and
  nanoscale instrumentation.

Maria Taku in clean room
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Research Highlights

• IGERT Fellows have published more than 30 papers
  in various high-profile journals, such as
• Nature Materials
• Applied Physics Letters
• Nano Letters
• Biomaterials
• Chemistry of Materials

• Example of a team approach (follows bold,
  advisors inderlined)
• D.R. Strachan, D.E. Smith, M.D. Fischbein, D.E.
  Johnston, B.S. Guiton, M. Drndic, D.A. Bonnell,
  A.T. Johnson, Jr. Clean Electromigrated Nanogaps
  Imaged by Transmission Electron Microscopy. Nano
  Lett. 6(3) 441-444 (2006).

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Carbon Nanotubes for Electronic Devices
Carbon Nanotubes are the most researched
materials in physics. The article titled
Electronic devices based on purified carbon
nanotubes grown by high-pressure decomposition of
carbon monoxide has shown that the creation of a
stable suspension of purified nanotubes opens the
door for other solution-based methods which could
one day be used to sort the nanotubes and select
those that exhibit desired properties. This work
reported in Nature Materials was featured on
searchdatacenter.techtarget.com
www.computerworld.com www.news.com.
AFM image of a SWNT bundle between source and
drain electrodes and three categories of I-Vg
behavior observed by IGERT Fellow D. Johnston.
Danvers Johnston Advisor A.T. (Charlie) Johnson
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Nanoporous Carbide-derived Carbons for
Supercapacitors
Objective Develop advanced materials for
supercapacitors, devices which will supplement or
replace batteries in transportation (hybrid and
fuel cell cars and buses) and many other
applications.
We have shown that capacitance increases with
decreasing pore size below 1.3 nm. This was
explained be the deformation of solvated shells
of ions in sub-nm pores and may lead to a new
generation of supercapacitors with significantly
increased energy storage.
John Chmiola Advisor Yury Gogotsi
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Magnetic Assembly of Carbon Nanotube Tipped
Biological Probes

• Objectives
• Create a carbon nanotube (CNT) tipped probe for
  minimally invasive cell probing, imaging and
  delivery
• Assess magnetic field effects on magnetizable
  carbon nanotubes
• Demonstrate viability as a biological probe

CNT tipped probe pierces canine kidney cell.
Patch clamp pipette holds them in place.
Schematic of the magnetically-controlled nanotube
probe with a metal-coated tip for attoliter fluid
delivery/probing, SERS and electrochemical
measurements
Joshua Freedman Advisors Adam Fontecchio and
Gary Friedman
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Application of Magnetic Beads in Cancer Detection

• Motivation Develop an early, non-intrusive,
  rapid cancer detection device based on
  microfluidic principles
• Objectives
• Demonstrate controlled motion of magnetic beads
  in a microfluidic device
• Model the trajectory of beads in a magnetic field
  using FEMLAB

• Detect the presence of labeled cancer cells once
  isolated from the normal cell population
• Design a chip to maximize the efficiency of the
  separation and detection of the diseased cells

Jason Thompson Advisor Haim Bau
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Joint Projects and Activities Building a Nano
Community

• Contributions from IGERT Faculty and Fellows (of
  27 chapters, 800 pp.)
• Ch. 4 John E. Fischer (Penn)Ch. 6 S. Dimovski,
  Y. Gogotsi (Drexel)
• Ch. 8 G. Yushin, A. Nikitin, Y. Gogotsi
• Ch. 9 Jonathan E. Spanier (Drexel)
• Ch. 12 X.-H. Wang, I.-W. Chen (Penn)
• Ch. 13 Michel Barsoum (Drexel)
• Ch. 19 Frank Ko (Drexel)
• Ch. 20 F. Du, Karen Winey (Penn)
• Ch. 21 V.I. Raman, G. Palmese (Drexel)
• Ch. 23 M. Hans, A.M. Lowman (Drexel)
• Joint Projects involving Drexel and Penn faculty
  and students
• Two NSF NIRT projects
• Nanotechnology Institute (Pennsylvania)
• NSF NSEC (NBIC at Penn)
• DOE Hydrogen, etc.