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Program
All times listed are Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). All sessions will be hosted on Zoom.
| 9:30 a.m. | Networking Breakout Rooms |
| 10:00 a.m. | Opening Remarks Stephen O’Brien, The City College of New York |
| 10:05 a.m. | KEYNOTE: Designing advanced materials nanostructures using molecular epitaxy Maria Tamargo, The City College of New York |
| 10:35 a.m. | Session 1: Advanced Nanomaterials |
| 10:40 a.m. | Atomic and electronic structure of graphene on multivicinal substrates Maya Nair, Advanced Science Research Center |
| 11:00 a.m. | Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting in Nanoscale Semiconductors Matt Sfeir, Advanced Science Research Center |
| 11:20 a.m. | Functional Micro-structures on Snake Skins Tai-De Li, Advanced Science Research Center |
| 11:40 a.m. | Renal-Targeted Nanomedicine to Treat Acute and Chronic Renal Diseases Ryan Williams, The City College of New York |
| 12:00 p.m. | Break |
| 12:15 p.m. | Session 2: Biomedical Nanotechnology |
| 12:20 p.m. | Homodimeric variant of an aptamer generated from LIGS activates TCR-CD3ε complex Lina Freage, Lehman College |
| 12:40 p.m. | Quantum Emitters in Low-Dimensional Materials Enrique Mejia, Advanced Science Research Center |
| 1:00 p.m. | Enzyme-Activated Aggregation of Peptide-Functionalized Nanoparticles for Targeted Destruction of Cancer Cells Richard Huang, Advanced Science Research Center |
| 1:20 p.m. | Iron oxide and various metal oxide hollow nanoparticles engineered by one-pot double galvanic replacement reaction and the application for anti-cancer therapy Aloka Paragodaarachchi, Hunter College |
| 1:40 p.m. | Multi target Ligand-Guided Selection (LIGS) to generate aptamers against B-cell biomarkers Nicole Williams, Lehman College |
| 2:00 p.m. | Break: Vote on Science Art & Meme Competition |
| 2:15 p.m. | Session 3: Sustainable Energy Solutions |
| 2:20 p.m. | Extreme energy and power densities of peptidoglycan muscles Zhi-Lun Liu, Advanced Science Research Center |
| 2:40 p.m. | Triplet Exciton Harvesting Through Singlet Fission Guiying He, Advanced Science Research Center |
| 3:00 p.m. | Water-responsive Bombyx Mori Silk for High-efficiency Actuators Yeojin Jung, The City College of New York |
| 3:20 p.m. | Design of Biomimetic Proton Wires Based on Helical Peptides: A Quantum Mechanics/Semiempirical Study Yoko Jiang Bian, Lehman College |
| 3:40 p.m. | Science Art & Meme Competition Winners Announced |
| 3:45 p.m. | Closing Remarks Rein Ulijn, Advanced Science Research Center |