Thermal Plasma Deposition of nanostructured materials.

The IGERT for Nanoparticle Science and Engineering is funded through the NSF "Integrative Graduate Education and Traineeship" (IGERT) program. Our group comprises students and faculty from 5 departments:

• Chemistry
• Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
• Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Physics.

The IGERT supports graduate students through 2-year fellowships at stipends equal to that of the NSF Graduate Fellowship. Fellowships will be awarded to students who are U.S. citizens and domestic residents and who will perform nanoparticle research for the Ph.D. thesis work.

Students have co-advisors from 2 different departments. Research is currently conducted on projects on nanostructured materials, nanoparticle based devices, development of instrumentation and characterization methods for nanoparticles, the environmental impact of nanoparticles, and on computational methods for nanoparticle research.

The IGERT also features a collaboration with Florida A&M University as well as an international student exchange program with the Universities of Duisburg (Germany) and Delft (The Netherlands).