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TEAM WEIMER Recent News Coverage
"Al Weimer receives PTF Service Award" Alan Weimer received the 2006 Particle Technology Forum Service Award during the AIChE Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA
"Luis Hakim receives PTF Poster Award" Luis Hakim won the first prize at the Particle Technology Forum Poster Competition during the 2006 Annual AIChE Meeting held on November in San Francisco, California. His work was titled "Modification of Interparticle Forces of Nanoparticles Using Atomic Layer Deposition "
"TEAM WEIMER at 2006 AIChE Meeting" November 12-17, San Francisco, CA Click here to see the pictures
"Luis Hakim defends Ph.D. Dissertation" On November 6, 2006 Luis Hakim successfully defended his Ph.D. Dissertation titled "Surface Modification of Nanoparticles Using Atomic Layer Deposition"
"Christopher Perkins defends Ph.D. Dissertation" On October 26, 2006 Christopher Perkins successfully defended his Ph.D. Dissertation titled "Solar Thermal Decomposition of ZnO in Aerosol Flow to Facilitate Renewable Production of Hydrogen"
Al Weimer named H.T. Sears Professor of Engineering To read more about the H.T. Sears endowed professorship click here
"TEAM WEIMER on the Science Direct List of Hottest Articles" The article "Aggregation behavior of nanoparticles in fluidized beds" by Luis Hakim, Julie Portman, Michelle Casper and Al Weimer was rated by Science Direct as the Hottest Article in the journal Powder Technology for the Oct-Dec 2005 quarter. To see the list of TOP25 articles click here
"TEAM WEIMER at 2006 NSF Design, Service, and Manufacturing Grantees and Research Conference" July 24-27, St. Louis, MO Click here to see the pictures
"Luis Hakim received Max S. Peters Outstanding Graduate Award" Luis Hakim received the 2006 Department of
Chemical and Biological Engineering Max S. Peters Outstanding Graduate Award at
the departmental graduation banquet held May 11 in He is primary author of four published or in-press papers on the functionalization of primary nanoparticles by atomic layer deposition with three additional published papers as secondary author and four additional papers in preparation. He has made seven professional oral presentations at national and/or international technical conferences and has been a mentor to five undergraduate researchers during his stay. He has been active in outreach and leadership activities that have impacted a large number of middle and high school students in the Denver/Boulder/Longmont area. He is currently a Senator for the CU Student Union Legislative Council and the departmental representative for the United Government of Graduate Students. Luis is a member of both the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the American Ceramic Society.
"TEAM WEIMER at 5th World Congress in Particle Technology in Orlando, Florida" Click here to see the pictures
"Al Weimer
named Distinguished Engineering Alumnus at the To read more about this event click here
"TEAM WEIMER presents at University of Colorado Renewable Energy Forum"
Old Main Chapel February 7th, 12 p.m. To read more about this event click here To read the article on the Colorado Daily about this event click here
"Al Weimer presents at Stanford University's
Global Climate and Energy Project Seminar" To read more about this event click here
"TEAM WEIMER receives poster awards at 2005 AIChE Meeting" Candace Vaughn, senior in chemical and biological engineering, received the First Place Award at the Undergraduate Student Poster session - General Papers. Candace presented her senior thesis research concerning the in-situ synthesis and Atomic Layer Deposition passivation of nanosized metal particles. A co-author of the paper was Luis Hakim, Ph.D. student, who is Candace's GRA advisor on the project. Candace also made an oral presentation in one of the Graduate Research Sessions.
Luis Hakim, Chemical and Biological Engineering Ph.D. student, obtained the third place at the Materials and Engineering Sciences Division Graduate Research Poster Session. Luis presented his research concerning the functionalization of nanoparticles by Atomic Layer Deposition at both the poster session and in an oral presentation. Michael Weimer, EE Undergraduate doing an independent study research project in Chemical and Biological Engineering, received the First Place Award in the Graduate Research Particle Technology Forum Poster Session. He also made an oral presentation. His research involves the fabrication and development of sub-nanosecond response electrical surge protection devices utilizing Atomic Layer Deposition functionalized conductive core/insulative shell particles. Click here to see the pictures
"TEAM WEIMER at 6th Pacific Rim Conference in Kapalua, Maui" Click here to see the pictures
"Jennifer Walsh defends Ph.D. Dissertation" On June 17, 2005 Jennifer Walsh successfully defended her Ph.D. Dissertation titled "Thermophoretic Deposition of Aerosol Particles in Laminar Flow Tube with Mixed Convection"
"Casey Carney defends Ph.D. Dissertation" On June 10, 2005 Casey Carney successfully defended his Ph.D. Dissertation titled "Rapid Decomposition of Nickel Oxalate Powders"
"Al Weimer receives DOE Award" Al Weimer received the 2005 United States Department of Energy 2005 Hydrogen Program R&D Award “in recognition of outstanding achievement in R&D for solar driven high temperature thermo-chemical cycles for hydrogen production” on May 24, 2005 in Washington D.C.
"Al Weimer at the Federal Reserve Bank" Al Weimer presented an overview of
nanotechnology applications to the Federal Reserve Bank Board of Directors at
the Federal Reserve Bank in Denver
on
"Al Weimer receives CU-Boulder Faculty Research Award" Al Weimer received the University of
Colorado College of Engineering and Applied Science 2005 “Faculty
Research Award” in
"Al Weimer receives CU-Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Research Award" Al Weimer received the
"TEAM WEIMER at the Colorado Legislature" Chris Perkins and Al Weimer presented Team
Weimer research in the areas of renewable energy and nanotechnology to the
Colorado Legislature at a Legislator Breakfast held at the To read the article (Word ) about this event click here
"TEAM WEIMER at the 2005 Annual ACerS Meeting" Luis Hakim presented the paper, “
Conformal Nanocoating of Nanoparticles by Atomic Layer Deposition at Large Scale”
at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society on April 13th,
2005 in Baltimore
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"Engineering Excellence Fund Awards for Team Weimer" Two projects submitted by members of the Team Weimer were awarded research grants from the Engineering Excellence Fund. This projects are "Electrical Characteristics of ALD Metal Quantum Varistors" by Michael Weimer and "Permeability of Porous Materials for Fluid-Wall Construction" by Chris Perkins and Paul Lichty
"Todd Francis Receives Top Award at 2005 StAR Symposium" Todd Francis won the first prize at the Student Annual Research Symposium for his project "Dissociation of Mn2O3 for water-splitting cycles"
"Team Weimer Awarded $1.2 M DOE Hydrogen Contract " To read the article published (PDF file) on the Daily Camera click here
"PTF Poster Session Award at AIChE 2004" Todd Francis won the first prize at the PTF poster session during the Annual AIChE meeting held in November in Austin, Texas. His work was titled "Dispersion of Solids Using Spinning Wheel Feeders"
"TEAM WEIMER at 2004 Annual AIChE Meeting at Austin, TX" Click here to see the pictures
"Solar 2004 Outstanding Paper
Award"
"Team Weimer receives 2004 R&D 100 Award" Click below to read the two articles about the R&D 100 Award University of Colorado Press Release
"2004 International Particle Technology Conference"
Al Weimer delivering the Keynote Address at the 2004 International Particle Technology Conference, PARTEC2004 (Nuremberg, Germany, March 18, 2004) To see the abstract (PDF file) of this Keynote Lecture click here
"Beverly Sears and Engineering Excellence Fund Awards" Luis Hakim was awarded the 2004 Beverly Sears Graduate Grant. Luis has also received grants from the Engineering Excellence Fund for three consecutive semesters.
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