Surface Engineering and Molecular Assemblies
(SEMA) Laboratory
Georgia Institute of Technology
Molecular Science and

Latest news, covers, and highlights
Sehoon, Srikanth, Eugenia, and Seth,
congratulation with nice
cover for Macromolecules, August 2009!

Mike, congratulation with Post-Doctoral fellowship from National
Research Council!
Ray, Mike, and Srikanth, congratulation with PhDs!

Sehoon, congratulation with
Kyle, congratulation with 2009 National Defense Science and
Engineering Graduate Fellowship!
Srikanth, congratulation with MRS Gold Graduate Student Award,
Boston, 2008!
http://www.mrs.org/s_mrs/doc.asp?CID=14895&DID=212242

MRS
Bulletin, 34, 379, 2009
Srikanth and SeHoon, congratulation with cover in Phys Chem Chem Phys, July 2008!

Dima and Valery, congratulations with cover in Langmuir, June
2008!

Srikanth and Mike, congratulations with inside front cover in
Advanced Materials, December 2007!

Mike, congratulations with cover image in JRS-Interface,
December 2007!

Srikanth Singamaneni, Mike
McConney, Yen-Hsi Lin, SeHoon Chang, and Melbs
Lemieux
congratulations with Best Poster Award at 2007 MRS Spring Meeting!

RECENT
DEGREES/AWARDS/MOVES:
Congratulations,
Ray, Srikanth, and Mike with PhD degrees, July 2009, good luck at AFRL, WSU, and
GT!
Congratulations,
Kathy with MS
degree, March 2008, good luck at Luna!
Congratulations,
HyunHyub with PhD degree, March
2008, good luck at UC Berkeley!
Dima, good luck at your new position at KCI in Texas, February
2008!
Congratulations,
Melbs with the
CIA Post-doctoral Fellowship at Stanford!
Congratulations,
Yen-Hsi with PhD defense and good luck at your new position at
Whirlpool!
Good luck, Sergiy at your new position at Hewlett-Packard!
Good luck to Maryna at post-doctoral position at Clarkson!
Good luck to Chaoyang at Assistant Professor position at The
Congratulations,
Sergiy with
the 2007 ISU MSE Graduate Research Excellence Award!
We are in
world-wide news:
2009
Researchers develop flow sensors based on
hair structures of blind cavefish, BioMedicine
Hair Structures Of
Blind Cavefish Inspire New Generation Of Sensors, Science Daily
http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/37596
2008
http://www.rsc.org.www.library.gatech.edu:2048/Publishing/ChemTech/Volume/2009/01/with_the_flow.asp
Highlight paper in Adv. Funct. Mater.,
2008 in MRS Materials News:
http://www.mrs.org/s_mrs/sec.asp?CID=1920&DID=84063
Feature Article in Langmuir, 2008 has been cited in the RxNews:
http://www.newsrx.com/ <http://www.newsrx.com/>
2007
J. Edwards,
Nanotubes feel the force…, Chem. World,
2007, 4, 29.
H.
Hogan, Suspended and Placed over Microcavities,
Quantum Dots Become Brighter, Photonic
Spectra, 2007, 11, p.98
http://www.photonics.com/content/spectra/2007/November/nanophotonics/89550.aspx
2006
SPIE
Newsroom, Solution processing simplifies the manufacturing of carbon-nanotube transistors,
http://newsroom.spie.org/x4540.xml?ss=print
B.
Gray, Artificial Arrays Could Help Submarines Make Like a Fish, Science, 2006, 313, 1382-1383.
S.
Trohalaki, Polymer-Silicon Microcantilevers serve as
ultrasensitive IR detectors, MRS Bull.,
2006, 31, 438-439. http://www.mrs.org/s_mrs/sec_subscribe.asp?CID=6703&DID=174873
L. Savage, What a tiny,
tangled web we weave… Biophotonics Intern., 2006, #4, 84. http://www.photonics.com/bioPhotonicsHome.aspx
2005:
J. Crawshaw, Nanomembranes with novel properties, Chem. Technology, 2005, 2, T41.
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/ChemTech/Volume/2005/11/nanomembranes.asp
T. Xu, CNT arrays encapsulated into freely suspended flexible films, MRS Bull., 2005, 30 (7), 501; http://www.mrs.org/publications/bulletin/
E. LeQuire, Synthesis of one-dimensional nanostructures, APS Science, 2005, ANL-05/04, 102-103.
2004:
Freemantle, M. Nanocomposite membranes are highly sensitive,
Chem.
N. Kotov, Nanocomposites are stretched thin,
Nature Materials, 2004, 3, 669-671 http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nmat/journal/v3/n10/full/nmat1224.html
C. Sealy, Bending over backwards for nanotubes. Materials Today, 2004, 5, p. 9. http://www.materialstoday.com/pdfs_7_5/resnews.pdf
Freemantle,
M. Snake-inspired nanoscale films,
Chem.
Physical Review Focus, February 13 2004, http://focus.aps.org/story/v13/st7
Smart, switchable surfaces could aid nanoscale
assembly, microfuidics
Sensors, 21, February 2004, p. 11.
2003:
NSF Press Release,
October 27 2003,
M. M. Waldrop, Researchers Create "Smart" Switchable Surfaces,; http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/03/tip031027.htm#first
M. Lavine,
Editors’ choice: Flip-flops,
Science, 2003,
301, 1159. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/301/5637/1159c.pdf
Switching Surfaces, Chemistry in
Smart Surface Could Build Nanostructures,
The Wall Street Journal on-line, October 27 2003, http://www.betterhumans.com/Errors/index.aspx?aspxerrorpath=/Search_Engine_Links/2003/searchEngineLink.article.2003-10-27-6.aspx
Liz Kalaugher, Switchable
surfaces sweep ahead with polymer brushes,
Nanotechweb,
November 6 2003, http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/2/11/2/1
"
Smart" Molecular Coating Could Aid Nanoscale Assembly, NASA Tech Briefs INSIDER, 10/30/2003, http://209.195.29.26/LISTSERV/SEARCH/dgssearch/showins.php?recno=305
Freemantle, M. Brushing up on polymers, Chem. Eng. News, 2003, 81 (15), 41.
http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/cen/81/i15/toc/toc_i15.html
APS Science, Annual
Advanced Photon Source Report, ANL-03/15, 2003,
53.
SEMA Lab, Fall 2008

Former members of
the research group work at various universities and industrial labs as faculty
members and researcher scientists
For former members of the group
(1996-2009) look here
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Our formal address: Surface Engineering and Molecular Assemblies Laboratory
(SEMA) Georgia Institute of Technology, Phones, office: 404-894-6081; lab: 404-385-3100 fax: 404-385-3112; |
Collaboration,
Supports, and Students
Our research is supported by the US National Science Foundation, Air Force Office for Scientific Research, Army, DHS, DARPA, and private industry.
Currently, about 20 graduate students, post-doctoral associates, visitors, and undergraduate students participate in eight research projects.
Current major projects are:
The National Science
Foundation-Nanotechnology Interdisciplinary Research Team, Bioinspired flexible membranes
The National Science Foundation-Division
of Materials Research, Dendrimer assemblies at interfaces
The National Science Foundation-Division
of Civil and Mechanical Systems, Raman
substrates for biosensing
Air Force Office for Scientific
Research-Biotechnology Division,
Bio-hybrid Interfaces
Air Force Office for Scientific
Research-DURIP, Electron microscopy
of organic materials
SRC, Carbon-metal interfaces
DARPA, Chemical Sensors
DOE, Anisotropic mesoscale assemblies
We collaborate with a number of research labs in the USA (Akron, Cornell, Stanford, Arizona, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Clemson, Clarkson, Sandia NL, ORNL, ArgonneNL, Ames Lab, LLNL, AFRL, NRL, Ford Mo. Co., GM, Eaton, Honeywell, Alcon, Square D, Agiltron, U. Michigan, U. Illinois, Rice, Iowa State, MIT), Europe (Vienna, Bonn, Marburg, Mainz, Toulouse, Potsdam, Dresden, Nancy, Gomel, Kiev), and Asia (KIST-Seoul, Yonsei-Seoul, Nihon-Tokyo, Kyushu-Fukuoka).
13 recent papers are ranked within
top 1% highly cited papers in chemistry and materials. Papers in Langmuir, 1997 and 1998 are ranked
as #13 and #57 most cited papers in this journal over the past decade. Our recent results have been highlighted in
popular magazines, Science, MRS Bull., Chem.&
Our students are deeply involved in cutting-edge research resulted in 20+ refereed publications and 20+ national-level presentations annually delivered by members of the group. Our findings are highly respected in scientific community as indicated by 700+ quotations in over 300+ papers annually. V. V. Tsukruk is listed among 1% most frequently cited chemists as well as materials scientists in the world. V. V. Tsukruk published over 270+ refereed papers, 23 invited reviews, co-edited 3 books, co-authored 1 book, and organized 8 international symposia.
During his tenure, Vladimir V. Tsukruk had received MASCAL Pioneering Nanotechnology Award (2007),NSF Special Creativity Award (2006), AFOSR Faculty Research Fellowship (1995), NSF RIA Young Investigator Award (1994), and NSF Research Opportunity Award (1994).
Vladimir V. Tsukruk has graduated with MS degree in
Physics from The National University of Ukraine, which is the flagship
university of the

He has received
Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees in Polymers Science/Chemistry from the National Academy
of Sciences of
In 2006, he has
moved his group to Georgia Institute of Technology.
Major visiting
positions were:
Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, MIT, 2005 Visiting Professor
Ecole des Mines de Nancy, France, 2001 Visiting Professor
Ford Research&Engineering Center, USA,
1995 NSF/Ford
Visiting Scholar
The
Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, 1990-1992 Humboldt Research Fellow

Our students
received a number of awards/internships/fellowships
Recent Student Research Awards (2003-current):
2008 MRS Gold Award, S. Singamaneni
MRS Best Poster Award at 2007 MRS
Meeting, S.
Singamaneni, Mike McConney, YH Lin, SH Chang, M. Lemieux
The Zaffarano Prize, ISU, 2007,
MSE Graduate Research Excellence Award, ISU,
2007,
All-University Graduate Research Excellence Award, ISU, 2006, M. Lemieux
The Zaffarano Prize, ISU,
2006, K. Genson
Paper Award at Undergraduate Research
in Polymer Science, ACS Natl. Meeting, 2006, K. Anderson
ACS Travel Awards, 2006,
All-University Graduate Research Excellence Award, ISU, 2005, K. Genson
MSE Graduate Research Excellence Award, ISU, 2005, B Rybak
MSE Graduate Research Excellence Award, ISU, 2004, H. Ko
All-University Graduate Research Excellence Award, ISU, 2003, D. Julthongpiput
Recent
Fellowships/internships (2003-current):
2009 NRC Post-doctoral Fellowship, M. McConneyi
2009 NDSEG Fellowship, K. Anderson
AFRL Summer Internships, GT, K.
Anderson, M. McConney, 2008
AFRL Summer Internships, GT, K.
Bergman, M. McConney, 2007
2007 CIA Post-doctoral Fellowship, M. Lemieux
The NSF GAANN Fellowship, GT, K.
Bergman, 2006
NRC post-doctoral Fellowship, 2006,
K. Genson
MIT, ISN internship, 2005, M. Lemieux
NIST Post-doctoral fellowship, 2003, Duangrut Julthongpiput
National
DoD fellowship, Honorable mention, 2003, K. L. Genson

Major research equipment follows:
Scanning probe microscopy lab with full-scale accessories:
Other preparing and characterization instrumentation:
Beam
time on a liquid surface diffractometer at Advanced
Photon Source (Argonne National Lab), beam line mCAT and SANS at ORNL.
Current
scientific interests:

Counts since January 1999
Last updated, April 2009