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Gaby Avila-Bront
My name is Gaby Avila-Bront and I'm a Junior in Columbia College majoring in Chemistry. Right now I am working on two projects. I am scanning Bromoheptadecanoic Acid on graphite to study its self-assembly, and I am scanning a self-assembled monolayer of an alkane thiol with Biotin on gold. Both of these projects use the Ambient Scanning Tunneling Microscope. | 
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Dr. Boaz Ilan
Dr Boaz Ilan, Postdoctoral Researcher - Received Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2001. "Computational modeling of molecular self assemblies on graphite surfaces. We interpret and predict the 2D phase ordering and pattern morphologies of nanostructure assemblies." |
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Dr. Penelope Lewis
1. Investigating the topography and conductivity of defects in GaN heterostructures using conductive AFM. 2. Designing, producing and characterizing functional self-assembled monolayers for the adsorption of proteins. 3. Elucidating the conductivity of Au-Au double salt compounds. |
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Dr. Li Lui
1. 1999-2005: Graduate Student. Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University. In Professor Peter C. Stair group, I used the ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) surface science techniques to study the methyl radical chemistry on single crystal hematite (0001) surfaces. 2. 2005-now: Postdoctoral Research scientist. Department of Chemistry, Columbia University. In Professor George W. Flynn group, I am using scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to study the surface reactions occurring at the interfaces. |
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Dr. Elena Polyakova
I got my MS in Physics and Engineering in 1999 at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Ph.D at USC, Department of Chemisty, 2005, under supervision of Prof. Curt Wittig. I study transport phenomena in mesoscopic conductive films, self-assembled monolayers, and nanostructures on insulating substrates in ambient conditions. In particular, I am interested in experimental STM studies of monocrystalline ultrathin graphite films including single graphite sheets (graphene) at the atomic scale. |
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| Dr. Kwang
Taeg Rim Investigate the following projects with surface sensitive techniques such as Variable Temperature STM (Microscopy and Spectroscopy), LEED, and AES: 1. Physical and chemical properties of metal oxide surfaces 2. Self-assembly, physical and chemical properties of organic molecules on graphite and metal surfaces 3. Coadsorption of different self-assembling molecules on graphite 4. Formation of etch pits on graphite and chemistry on defects |
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| Dr. Chaochin Su Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy (STS) studies of functionalized organic molecules self-assembled on metal and semiconductor surfaces under the ambient and ultra high vacuum (UHV) conditions: from packing, interaction to chemical, physical, and electronic properties. |
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| ALUMNI | . |
| Dr. Donna Cyr | currently at the University of Connecticut |
| Dr. Hongbin Fang | currently at Applied Materials |
| Dr. Jeffrey Fitts | currently at Brookhaven National Lab |
| Dr. Gina Florio | currently at St. John's University |
| Dr. Leanna Giancarlo | currently at Mary Washington University |
| Dr. Mark Kleinman | currently at GlaxoSmithKline |
| Dr. Marcus Lay | currently at University of Georgia |
| Dr. Chris Michaels | currently at NIST |
| Dr. Thomas Mueller | currently at Veeco |
| Dr. Amy Mullin | currently at Boston University |
| Dr. Chi-Kung Kenny Ni | currently at Academica Sinica, Taiwan |
| Dr. Ryan Pearman | currently at Intel |
| Seth Rubin | currently at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
| Dr. Natalie Seiser | currently at NYU Medical School |
| Dr. Eric Sevy | currently at Brigham Young University |
| Dr. Charles Tapalian | currently at Draper National Labs |
| Dr. Andrew Teplyakov | currently at the University of Delaware |
| Dr. Tova Adlerstein Werblowsky | currently at Turo College in NYC |
| Dr. Dalia Yablon | currently at ExxonMobil |