2. NSF IGERT - Interdisciplinary Program in Nanofibers for Resource Efficiency in the 21th Century 2016 Andrei V. Stanishevsky, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Physics University of Alabama at Birmingham The IGERT program is offering the needed level of multidisciplinary training in physics, chemistry, and materials science of nanofibres. The training of students to help them to understand the nanomaterials business and potentially create the commercializable nanofibre materials and processes.

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4. 2014 Catherine Ritchey, Emily Campbell, Douglas Pecot, Bryan Whitmore

5. Name Student/ area Proposed ProjectTUL mentor Anthony Brayer PhD/ Physics AC-electrospinning of metal salt-loaded water-soluble polymers (PVP (PVB blend?), PEO, PVA, ) for the fabrication of pure, MgO-, and Fe 2 O 3 -doped Al 2 O 3 nanofibers (sheets and yarns, under supervision of Dr. Lukas, Dr. Pokorny, and Thomas). T. Kalous D. Lukas P. Pokorny M. Sivan Christina Ruiz de Molina UG/MSE PAN and metal salt-loaded PAN nanofiber assemblies by ac- electrospinning, sheets and yarns, plus the same as coat on commercial PAN threads (under the supervision of Thoms, Dr. Pokorny and Dr. Lukas, also NanoProgress company) T. Kalous D. Lukas P. Pokorny M. Sivan Solomon Gibson UG/ Chemistry Ag-loaded core-shell nanofibers by ac- and dc-electrospinning (PVB-Ag core and water-soluble polymer shell (PEO, PVP, PVA, etc., under supervision of Luci, company Nanoprogress) L. Vyslouzilova J. Soukupova Muna Al- Safarjalani UG/Chem istry Cetrifugal spinning of bio-polymer blends (polysaccharides – dextran?? + synthetic – PCL??, under the supervision of Lenka plus electropsraying with Ales) E. Kostakova L. Blazkova A. Saman Katherine Paulett UG/BME Cetrifugal spinning of bio-polymer blends (polysaccharides – chitosan, cyclodextrin?? + synthetic – PCL?? under the supervision of Lenka plus electropsraying with Ales) E. Kostakova L. Blazkova A. Saman Caitlin Lawson Masters/ BME AC-electrospinning of PCL-and PLC biopolymers through co- solvent formulation (intrinsic viscosity, under supervision of Mani and Jana, and Dr. Lukas). V. Jencova J. Horakova M. Sivan D. Lukas SUMMER 2015 IRES PROJECTS 2015

8. Materials Science and Engineering Dr. Konstantin Kornev Clemson University

9. Michigan Technological University Department of Biomedical Engineering Prof. Jeremy Goldman, Prof. Megan Frost

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