INDIUM
Materials Day Schedule (tentative)
Friday, October 2, 2026
Location: FedEx Institute of Technology Lobby, Methodist Presentation Theatre
- Registration and Check-in: 8:00 – 8:30 AM
- Breakfast: 8:00 – 8:45 AM
- Opening Remarks: 8:30–8:40 AM
- Invited Talk: 8:45 - 9:20 AM, Yuankai Huang, Civil Engineering, University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½. Applications of Nanotechnology in Environmental Sensors
- Morning Session: Oral Presentations (Physics and Chemistry of Nanomaterials): 8:45 AM – 12:00 PM
- Lunch at Methodist Lobby FIT: 12:00 - 12:55 PM
- Invited Talk: 1:00 - 1:45 PM, Eden Tanner, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Mississippi. Bioinspired Ionic Liquids: Leveraging Chemistry to Achieve Targeted Drug Delivery
- Poster Session: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
- Afternoon Session: Oral Presentations (Biomaterials and Bioengineering): 1:00 – 4:00 PM
- Poster Presentation and Refreshments: 3:30 -5:00 PM
Morning Oral Presentations
- 9:20 –9:35 AM, Blake Acree (ME): Acoustic Reorganization of Microfluidically Generated Monodisperse Wet Foams at Reduced Length Scales
- 9:35 –9:50 AM, Zuhanee Khan (ME): Effect of Powder-Particle Oxygen Heterogeneity on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Laser Powder Bed Fused Ti-6Al-4V
- 9:50 –10:05 AM, Morteza Pakniat (ME): Binder Jetting of 17-4 Precipitation Hardening Stainless Steel: Processing-Structure-Property Relationship
- 10:05 –10:20 AM, Samyak Prasad (ME): Nonthermal plasma synthesis of nanoparticles
- 10:20 –10:35 AM, Renjie Ning (ME): Microbubble-integrated acoustofluidic platform for tunable protein crystallization
- 10:35 AM – 10:50 AM, Debendra Timisina (Physics and Materials Science): Enhanced Mechanoluminescence of ZnS: Mn at 77K
- 10:50 – 11:05 AM, Himal Neupane (Physics and Materials Science):
- 11:05 – 11:20 AM, Golam Muktadir (Physics and Materials Science): Nanoparticle self-assembly and crystallization mediated by branched polymer brushes on spherical substrates.
- 11:20 – 11:35 AM, Justin Butger (Physics and Materials Science): Entropy Production During Filament Formation in ECM Memristors
- 11:35 – 11:50 AM, Yusef Qazzaz (ME): In-situ monitoring in Metal Additive Manufacturing
- 11:50 AM – 12:00 PM, Dr. Hoang Thang (Physics and Materials Science): Quantum Initiative
Afternoon Oral Presentations
- 1:45 – 2:15 PM: Gary Bowling (BME): Neutrophils: The Next Frontier in Biomaterial Implants
- 2:15 – 2:30 pm: Suprava Shah (Chemistry): Multiplexed Integrin Detection and Cancer Cell Classification Using Multicolor Gap-Enhanced Gold Nanorods and Machine Learning Algorithm
- 2:30 – 2:45 PM: Samantha Hall (BME): Enhancing Pro-Regenerative Neutrophil Function Through Mitochondrial Transplantation for Host-Biomaterial Integration
- 2:45 – 3:00 PM: Alexandra Snyder (BME): The Effects of Electrospinning and Template Architecture on the Effectiveness of Manuka Honey for Immunomodulation
- 3:00 – 3:15 PM: Abraham Ikeji (Chemistry): Design of Pt(IV) Prodrugs and Drug Carriers for Advanced Localized Chemotherapy
- 3:15 – 3:30 PM: Mitchell Lutey (Chemistry): Integrin-Defined Plasma Extracellular Vesicles for Early Breast Cancer Detection and Association with Bone Metastasis
- 3:30 – 3:45 PM: Suprava Shah (Chemistry): Lung-Mimetic Pseudo-3D Nanofiber-Based Culture System for Ex Vivo Expansion of Metastatic Circulating Tumor Cells
- 3:45 – 4:00 PM: Dillon Thomas Baker (Chemistry): Molecular Dynamics Investigation of Poly(ethylene oxide)–Silica Interactions across Exclusion, Critical, and Adsorption Regimes of Liquid Chromatography