2007 - Chemical & Biomedical Engineering - University of South ...

2007 Presentations by Faculty and Students at
National/International Conferences
Alcantar, Norma
Williams, E., Toomey, R., Alcantar, N.A., “Designing a Localized Drug Delivery System for Ovarian Cancer using
Biomimetic Materials,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2007.
Williams, E., Toomey, R., Alcantar, N.A., “Designing a Localized Drug Delivery System for Ovarian Cancer,” Florida Centre
of Excellence for BITT-Symposium Oct-07, University of South Florida, Tampa ,FL, 2007.
Stroot, P., Pichler, T., Alcantar, N.A. “Removal of heavy metals from drinking water using a natural material,” Presented
at the ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2007
Jimenez, J.P, Morgan, D.G, Alcantar, N.A., “In vitro kinetic studies of amyloid beta 42 peptide aggregation,” BIOPHYSICAL
Society Meeting, Baltimore ,MD, 2007.
Alcantar, N.A, “Using cactus goo to remove contaminants from drinking water,” Florida ACS FAME 2007 Conference,
Orlando, FL, 2007.
Alcantar, N., Jimenez, J.P, “Effects of Antibodies on Amyloid Beta Peptide Aggregates: Intermolecular Interactions
Perspective," Science Talent Symposium at Dow Chemicals, Midland, MI, 2007.
Bhethanabotla, Venkat
Choudhury, P., Bhethanabotla, V.R., Stefanakos, E.,“Thermodynamic stability of hydrogen storage material,” Zn(BH 4 ) 2 ,”
First principles study, AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2007.
Chowdhury, S., Bhethanabotla, V. R., Sen, R., “Measurement of diffusion coefficient of oxygen in FRP using luminescence
quenching,” Composites & Polycon, Tampa, FL, 2007.
Srinivasan, S., Escobar, D., Michael, J., Choudhury, P., Bhethanabotla, V.R., Smith, M., Goswami, Y., Stefanakos, E.,
“Hydrogen storage in nanocatalyzed zincborohydride,” International Hydrogen Energy Congress and Exhibition, Istanbul,
Turkey, 2007.
Sankaranarayanan, S.K.R.S., Cular, S., Bhethanabotla, V.R., “Modeling of acoustic streaming induced by high frequency
diamond layered SAW devices,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, 2007.
Sankaranarayanan, S.K.R.S., Bhethanabotla, V.R., Joseph, B., “Effect of mechanical stresses on the segregation profile of
alloy nanowires,” FLAVS Meeting, Orlando, FL, 2007.
Sankaranarayanan, S.K.R.S., Bhethanabotla, V.R., Joseph, B., “Finite element modeling of a hexagonal surface acoustic
wave device based on LiNbO3,” IEEE Sensors Symposium, Atlanta, GA, 2007.
Sankaranarayanan, S. K. R. S.; Bhethanabotla, V. R.; Joseph, B., “Molecular dynamics simulations of alloying effects on
the mechanical properties of bimetallic transition metalnanowires,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, 2007.
Sankaranarayanan, S.K.R.S., Bhethanabotla, V.R. and Joseph, B., “Fluid solid interaction study to predict the mechanism
of removal of non-specific proteins in SAW biosensor,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, 2007.
Sankaranarayanan, S.K.R.S., Bhethanabotla, V.R., “Finite element modeling of focused SAW device for potential
microfluidic application,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, 2007.
Richardson, A, Smith, A.D., Bhethanabotla, V.R., “Patterned electrodes on thickness shear mode quartz resonators
to achieve uniform mass sensitivity distribution,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, 2007.
Richardson, A., Bhethanabotla, V.R., Cular, S., “Determination of the viscoelastic shears modulus of
poly(Isobutylene)/solvent systems using thickness shear mode quartz resonators,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City,
UT, 2007.
Richardson, A., Bhethanabotla, V.R., “Sorption of organic vapors by co-polymers using a thickness shear mode quartz
crystal resonator,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, 2007.
Fairbairn, K.L., Bhethanabotla, V.R., Kothapalli, R., Kim, H., Cular, S., “Using singlewalled carbon nanotubes as molecular
transporters for the treatment of ischemic osteonecrosis,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, 2007.
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