MONALISA has provided seed funding to cover graduate student research assistantships and lab fees for collaborative research between faculty in different departments to explore the following new nanoscience concepts:

“Chemical Synthesis of Tour Molecules for Molecular Electronics”
Graduate student: Yan He (Chemistry)
Faculty co-advisors: Thomas Hoye (Chemistry) and Richard Kiehl (ECE)

“Analysis of Single Particles by Capillary Electrophoresis with Resonance Light Scattering Detection”
Graduate student: Dmitry Andreyev (Chemistry)
Faculty co-advisors: Edgar Arriaga (Chemistry) and Boris Shklovskii (Physics)

“Electrical Characterization of Molecular Devices by Mercury Probes”
Graduate student: John Duc Le (ECE)
Faculty co-advisors: Richard Kiehl (ECE) and Thomas Hoyes (Chemistry)

“Electrical Field Driven Manipulation of DNA Molecules”
Graduate student: Minghong Fan (ECE)
Faculty co-advisors: Babak Ziaie (ECE), Richard Kiehl (ECE), and T. Andrew Taton (Chemistry)

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