On Friday, March 22, 2013, the fourth annual Nanotechnology Engineering Fourth Year Design Symposium was held. This event showcases design projects from the nanotechnology engineering program senior class. Twenty-one projects in the theme areas of Nano-Fluidics and Biotechnology, Nano-Electronics and Photonics and Nano Functional materials were presented by 81 students throughout the day.
The poster presentation competition rewarded three teams:
1st prize: Matin Esfahani, Hooman Safaee, Shafi Siddiqi, Mike Vlascov
Lumotune: Futuristic smart glass advertisements are within reach of today’s technology. LumotuneTM is a flexible, transparent display that makes use of ambient light to show an image, and thus consumes very little power. It has the versatility to be incorporated on a large variety of surfaces. LumotuneTM can be used for small or large scale dynamic window advertisements and decorations.
2nd prize: Mina Labib, Sarah LeBlanc, Gabriel Moreno-Bautista, Duncan Strathearn
Particle Retroreflectors for the Improvement of Safety Measures (Prism): When driving, your safety can be reliant on the visibility of road markings, especially at night. Currently, glass beads are embedded into road paint to reflect headlights, making road markings more visible to the driver. The aim of this project is to create particles capable of focusing reflected light in the driver’s direction. These particles are to be used as a supplement or replacement to glass beads, further enhancing road marking visibility.
3rd prize: Dante Di Domenicantonio, David Josey, Mickael Orlando, Galina Voloshin, Andrew Weng
Architiles: ArchiTiles are modular design elements that change color in order to alter the ambience of a space. The tiles respond to their environment using electrochromism – the material property of changing colour when electric charge is applied. Integrated with pressure sensing technology, ArchiTiles leave a blaze of colour behind your footsteps. ArchiTiles are vibrant, interactive, low power, and scalable. Made for architects and interior designers, ArchiTiles may completely revolutionize the way fundamental building blocks are perceived.