News
susan fullerton
2011
2009
12/16/2009 Solid polymer electrolyte research highlighted in the 2009 NIST Center for
Neutron Research annual report.
10/15/2009 Presented research to NSF review panel at the NIST Center for Neutron
Research
09/15/2009 Susan starts at Notre Dame.
08/15/2009 Penn State Graduation!
06/19/2009 Susan passes PhD defense. Quickly masters several video games.
03/24/2009 Paper titled “Effect of LiClO4 on the Structure and Mobility of
PEO-Based Solid Polymer Electrolytes” is published in Macromolecules.
03/17/2009 Susan wins the 2009 Frank J. Padden Jr. Award for “Excellence in Polymer
Research” at the March meeting of the American Physical Society [APS]
12/09/2011 Susan gives invited talk at the Technische Universität München,
Germany, on the battery project.
10/11/2011 Presented research at the ECS meeting in Boston.
09/23/2011 Our paper is featured on the cover of the Journal of Polymer
Science B, Polymer physics - check it out!
08/09/2011 Paper titled “Influence of thermal history and humidity on the
ionic conductivity of nanoparticle-filled solid polymer electrolytes”
is published early online in the Journal of Polymer Science B.
08/05/2011 Suong Do and Dean Schaetzl complete their summer research
and present their posters at the Undergraduate Research
Conference.
06/10/2011 Susan gives an invited talk at the ACS Central Regional meeting in the New
Advances in Polymer Materials session.
05/16/2011 Dean Schaetzl (Purdue) and Suong Do (St. Mary’s/Notre Dame) join the group
as summer Nanoelectronic Undergraduate Research Fellows (NURF). EE
graduate student, Barnali Dey, also joins the group for the summer. All three
students will be working on the battery project. Welcome!
03/15/2011 Lindsay and Susan travel to the NCNR for neutron experiments.
2010
12/07/2010 Susan attends the NNI National Nanotechnology Innovation Summit in DC.
12/06/2010 News article on the battery project - complete with a picture of Suong!
10/01/2010 Suong Do and Melissa Cunningham will be working on the battery project -
welcome!
09/13/2010 Susan attends the 2010 Nano-Energy Workshop at Lehigh University.
09/01/2010 Sarah completes her summer research.
06/26/2010 Presented research at the American Conference on Neutron Scattering [ACNS],
Neutron Scattering for the Study of Soft Matter Tutorial, Ottawa, ON, Canada
05/03/2010 Paper titled “Structure and mobility of PEO/LiClO4 solid polymer electrolytes filled
with Al2O3 nanoparticles” is published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
03/30/2010 Presented research to the 2010 National Academies Panel on Neutron Research
at the NIST Center for Neutron Research
03/14/2010 Attended the APS March meeting in Portland, Oregon, along with a pre-
conference workshop on “Opportunities in Energy Research”.
03/01/2010 Sarah Schubert is selected to receive one of NDnano’s Nanoelectronics
Undergraduate Research Fellowships [NURF] and will join the group in May
2010. Welcome!
2012
11/29/2012 Fall 2012 MRS meeting, Boston: Susan presents results of our neutron
reflectometry study on the effect of small-molecule drug loading on the LCST and
thickness of pNIPAAm brushes. This work was a collaboration with Lindsay Elliott,
Paul Bohn, Benxin Jing, Yingxi Zhu (Notre Dame), and Bulent Akgun (NCNR).
09/28/2012 Our recent paper, published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C, shows that iron
oxide nanorods are more effective than spherical nanoparticles per unit volume at
improving Li-ion transport in polyethylene oxide.
04/10/2012 Suong was selected to receive a 2012 Vincent P. Slatt Fellowship for
Undergraduate Research in Energy Systems and Processes by the Notre Dame
Center for Sustainable Energy (cSEND). The fellowship will support her research
on the battery project. Congratulations Suong!
02/28/2012 Dean Schaetzl, Samuel Leung and Josh Vahala are awarded 2012 Nanoelectronic
Undergraduate Research Fellowships (NURF) by NDnano. This is Dean’s second
summer in the group, and Sam’s & Josh’s first. Welcome!
01/22/2012 Dean’s research is featured in the South Bend Tribune
2013
03/1/2013 Buchanan “Buck” Bourdon is awarded a 2013 Nanoelectronic Undergraduate
Research Fellowship (NURF) by NDnano. Welcome Buck!
02/27/2013 Our recent paper, published in Langmuir, uses Neutron Reflectometry to study
the loading and distribution of a small-molecule drug through a thermo-
responsive polymer brush (pNIPAAM). The results have important implications
for applications such as drug delivery and gating.
01/17/2013 NEW FUNDING: Center for Low Energy Systems Technology (LEAST): Notre
Dame to be part of $194-million university research center network focused on
next-generation microelectronics
Funding sources: The Semiconductor Research
Corporation (SRC) and the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Check out the website!
01/15/2013 Erich Kinder, a first year graduate student in EE, joins the group and will be working on
nanoionic memory as part of LEAST. Welcome Erich!
