The departments of chemistry and chemical engineering and Virginia Commonwealth University invite applications for participation in the Research Experience for Undergraduates for the summer of 2001.This program is partially funded by the National Science Foundation.
The "Practices and Perspectives" program is designed to provide an experience that combines practical training in specific research techniques (practices) with activities designed to put the research into the context of larger goals of modern science and technology (perspectives). The program will also provide career planning and management components.
The research projects offered involve experience in some combination of synthesis, analysis and computer modeling. Available research projects are summarized in the table below.
Projects
• Cross Reactivity of Pesticide Antibodies Using Capillary Electrophoresis (CE) [A]
tech - CE, antibody methods (ELISA), L-L extraction
• Synthesis of Nanoparticles by a Laser Vaporization-Controlled Condensation (LVCC) Technique [A, S]
tech - SEM, X-ray, IR, Raman, YAG laser
• Platinum-DNA Interactions [A, S]
tech - NMR, chromatography, synthesis
• Chemically Responsive Gels [A, S]
tech - synthesis, UV-VIS
• Synthesis of "Unnatural" Receptors for Inositol Triphosphate [A, M, S]
tech - synthesis, NMR, UV, IR, binding equilibrium studies
• Synthesis of Liquid Crystalline Materials [A, S]
tech - IR, NMR, DSC, synthesis, microscopy, chromatography
• Solvatochromic Studies of Chromatographic Materials [A]
tech - UV-VIS, LC, computer analysis
• Transition State of Ethylene-Water Reaction [M]
tech - computational
• Development of Polymer Films with High Chemical Selectivity using Rapid Expansion of Supercritical Solutions (RESS) [A]
tech - IR, FT-Raman, UV-VIS, RESS, microscopy
• Development and Analysis of Sol-Gel Supported Catalysts [A, S, M]
tech - materials and small-molecule synthesis, TGA, UV/Vis, NMR, EPR, kinetics
• Artificial Axons {A, S]
tech - polymer synthesis, materials characterization
• Novel Polymers for Marine Anti- Fouling [A, M, S]
tech - NMR, TGA, MS, IR, DSC, HPLC, synthesis, modeling
KEY:
A - Analysis M - Modeling S - Synthesis
tech - techniques
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