GROUP MEETINGS

• Our goal is to understand the nanoscale physical properties of soft matter systems.
  
• We will meet weekly (Friday at 4:00pm, EES 216) to discuss current
  research projects in our group and relevant publications.
  
• Current Research Projects in our group:
  1. Dynamics of Biomolecules
  2. Structured Polymers
  
  
  Weekly Meeting Schedule (Spring07)
  
  
• Feb. 21-Melik
  An Overview of Research Directions-2007 @ Demirel Lab (click to get the PDF document)
  
• March 2-Murat
  
Coherent Kinetic Control over Crystal Orientation in Macroscopic Ensembles
of Polymer Nanorods and Nanotubes
Martin Steinhart, Petra Go¨ring, Haissam Dernaika,Munusamy Prabhukaran,and Ulrich Gosele
PRL 97, 027801 (2006)

• March 9-Niranjan
  
In vivo biodistribution and highly efficient tumour targeting of carbon nanotubes in mice
Zhuang Liu et al. Nature Nanotechnology 2, 47 - 52 (2006)

• March 23-Serhan
  Selective Bond Dissociation and Rearrangement
  with Optimally Tailored, Strong-Field Laser Pulses
  709 (2001); 292 Science et al. Robert J. Levis,
  
• March 30- Tom Walker (undergrad)
  Saito, R., & Kataura, H. (2001). Optical Properties and Raman Spectroscopy of Carbon Nanotubes.
  Topics Appl. Phys., 80, 213-247.
  
• April 3th- Melik
  Verification of the Crooks fluctuation theorem and recovery of RNA folding free energies
  Authors: D. Collin, F. Ritort, C. Jarzynski, S. B. Smith, I. Tinoco Jr and C. Bustamante.
  Nature 437 (8), 231-234 (2005).