FY 2009 ORNL LDRD Seed Money Fund Projects

Listed below by research division are the project numbers, titles and principal investigators of the projects being supported by the ORNL LDRD Seed Money Fund as of October 31, 2008.

Biociences Division

  • L00472, “An All-Optical Plasmonic Pump for Integrated Applications”, Ali Passian
  • L00492, “Development of a Microfluidic Device to Mimic Vasculature for Studying the Mechanism of Tumor Metastasis”, Henry Lin

Center for Nanophase Materials Science

  • L00487, “Laser-Enhanced, Nanoscale Focused, Electron-Beam-Induced Processing”, Jason Davidson Fowlkes
  • L00495, “Nonlinear, Nanomechanical Oscillators for Ultrasensitive Inertial Detection”, Nickolay V Lavrik

Chemical Sciences Division

  • L00467, “Development of a Novel Sensor System for Biomarkers of Physiological and Pathological Processes in Biomedicine”, Elias Greenbaum
  • L00477, “A New Method for Controlling Densification during Chemical Vapor Deposition Production of Carbon Composites”, Pete Reilly
  • L00480, “Hydration-Driven Processes in Bioenergy: Testing a Novel, Neutron-Scattering Approach”, Hugh Michael O'Neill
  • L00481, “Novel, High-Power Cathodes for Lithium-Ion, Rechargeable Batteries”, Chengdu Liang
  • L00497, “Ordered Nanoporous Hyperadsorptive Preconcentrators of Threat Agents”, Jun Xu
  • L00500, “Neutron Scattering Characterization of Sol-Gel Drug Delivery Systems”, Hugh Michael O'Neill

Computational Sciences and Engineering Division

  • L00491, “The Graphics Processing Unit–Enhanced Computer for Large-Scale Text Mining”, Xiaohui Cui

Computer Science and Mathematics Division

  • L00471, “Electron Transport at the Nanoscale: Grain Boundary Resistance in Interconnects”, Don M Nicholson

Environmental Sciences Division

  • L00466, “Tracing Nanoparticle Transport in Porous Media by Neutron Radiography and Small-Angle Neutron Scattering”, Baohua Gu
  • L00496, “In Situ Neutron Imaging of Roots and Rhizosphere Water Exchange”, Stan D Wullschleger

Materials Science and Technology Division

  • L00454, “An Innovative Low/High-Temperature, Repetitive Pressure-Pulse Apparatus for Cavitation Damage Research”, Jy-An John Wang
  • L00463, “Atomic-Level STEM Imaging of Bias-Induced Phase Transformations: Applications to Information Technology”, Albina Y Borisevich
  • L00474, “Development of a Device for Low-Cost, In-Reactor Loading of Materials”, Lance Lewis Snead
  • L00476, “Development of Inorganic Membranes for Water Reclamation from Wet Gas Streams: An Opportunity to Simplify Water Management Operations”, Melanie Moses Debusk
  • L00482, “Novel Infrared-Processed Titanium Composites for High-Temperature Galling Resistance”, Peter Julian Blau
  • L00483, “Tip-Enhanced Optical Assembly of Plasmonic Nanostructure”, Zhenyu Zhang
  • L00493, “Novel, Hafnium-Doped Al2O3 Permeation Barriers for Oxygen and Hydrogen Barrier Applications”, Theodore M Besmann
  • L00499, “Fabrication of Single-Crystal Thin Films: The Missing Link in Understanding High-Tc Superconductivity in Iron Pnictides”, Jian Shen

Measurement Science and Systems Engineering Division

  • L00459, “Quantitative Imaging of Subcutaneous Veins with Multispectral Illumination and Three-Dimensional Modeling”, Kenneth William Tobin Jr
  • L00461, “Real-Time Quantitative Phase and Fluorescence Biological Microscopy by Digital Holography”, Christopher J Mann
  • L00469, “Nanostructured Materials for Enhanced Radiometric Forces at Atmospheric Pressure”, Brian R D'Urso
  • L00484, “Novel Method to Achieve High-Resolution Neutron Microscopy”, Philip R Bingham
  • L00488, “Actuation and Control of Wearable Robotics”, Lonnie J Love
  • L00494, “Novel Method for Three-Dimensional, Depth-Resolved, Imaging of Highly Scattering Samples”, Justin S Baba
  • L00498, “Optical Resonance Disk-Based Infrared Thermal Detectors”, Slobodan Rajic
  • L00501, “Cell-Borne Chip for Controlled Therapeutic Protein Production and Delivery”, Timothy E McKnight

Nuclear Science and Technology Division

  • L00489, “Surface Interactions of Radioactive Particles and Radioactivity Effects on Transport and Deposition”, Costas Tsouris

Physics Division

  • L00455, “Computing the Electric Dipole Moment of the Neutron and the Schiff Moment of the Nucleus”, David Jarvis Dean