FY 2007 ORNL LDRD Seed Money Projects

Listed below by research division are the titles and principal investigators of the projects being supported by the ORNL LDRD Seed Money Fund during FY 2007.

Biociences Division

  • S05-064, "Identification of Protein-DNA and Protein-Protein Interactions in Single Living Cells Using Optical Nanosensors," Yisong Wang
  • S06-010, "Generation of Mouse Embryonic Stem Cell Lines to Study the Micro-RNA Functions through Conditional and Tissue-Specific shRNA Knockdown Approaches," Yisong Wang
  • S07-023, "Destroying Pathogenic Bacteria using Targeted Nanoparticles" Mitchel John Doktycz

Chemical Sciences Division

  • S06-012, "Development of ZnO Light-Emitting Diodes Using Pulse Thermal Processing," Jun Xu
  • S06-041, "Selective Electrochemical Oxidation of Water for Treatment of Ischemic Diseases and Other Applications," Elias Greenbaum
  • S06-069, "Taming Photosynthesis Regulation through Genomics for Direct Synthesis of Ethanol from Carbon Dioxide and Water" James Weifu Lee
  • S06-071, "Synthesis of Polymeric Materials for Blue-Light Emitting Diodes" Reza T Dabestani
  • S07-019, "Probing the Molecular Interface of Cellulose and Lignin in Biomass" Barbara R Evans

Computational Sciences and Engineering Division

  • S06-001, "Discrete Event-Based Simulation of Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Highly Cluttered Environments," James J Nutaro
  • S07-011, "A Hybrid Diffusion Model Driven by Chemoattractants" Richard C Ward

Computer Science and Mathematics Division

  • S05-059, "Smart Tunneling Barriers: A New Concept for Ferroelectric-Based Nonvolatile Random Access Memory," Vincent Meunier

Environmental Sciences Division

  • S04-048, "Alzheimer's Disease Detection via Nonlinear Analysis of EEG," Nancy B Munro
  • S06-031, "A Genomic Analysis of Microbial-Mediated Metal Transformation," Anthony Vito Palumbo
  • S06-033, "Determining Relative Value of Ecosystem Services," Rebecca Ann Efroymson
  • S06-040, "Effects of Groundwater Chemistry on the Distribution of Soil Microorganisms in Natural Media," Philip M Jardine
  • S06-055, "Multivariate Statistical Analysis Technique to Locate Ecological Observation Sites within Regional Landscapes," William Walter Hargrove
  • S06-059, "Establishing a Targeted Mutagenesis System in Clostridium cellulolyticum," Yunfeng Yang
  • S06-079, "Development of an Advanced Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for the Identification and Characterization of Pollen" Robert S Mahurin
  • S06-080, "Land-Use Dynamics and Infectious Diseases: A Systems Approach to Defining the Causal Mechanism of Outbreak and Spread of Eastern equine encephalomyelitis" Virginia H Dale
  • S07-008, "A Proof-of-Concept Implementation for a USA National Phenology Network Cyberinfrastructure" Bruce E Wison

Engineering Science and Technology Division

  • S06-019, "Novel High-Resolution Micromechanical Gyroscope," Panos G Datskos
  • S06-024, "Demonstration of Intra-Reactor Diagnostics for Catalytic Fuel Reformers," Jae-Soon Choi
  • S06-027, "Optical Monitoring of Delivery Methods for Therapeutic Agents to Neural Tissues," Boyd Mccutchen Evans III
  • S06-066, "Live-Cell Microarrays for Genotypic Evaluation of Microbial Electron Transport" Milton Nance Ericson
  • S07-012, "Plasma Etching and Simulation of Electron Scattering in Nanoscale Copper Interconnects to Minimize Size Effects" Gary T Alley
  • S07-014, "Electronic Colorimetric Monitor" Robert J Warmack
  • S07-025, "A Compact Chemical-to-Hydraulic Power Source" Lonnie J Love

Fusion Energy Division

  • S07-021, "Quantitative Parametric Decay Simulation: A New Tool for Understanding Parasitic Radio-Frequency Power Losses in Heating Fusion Plasmas" Lee A Berry

Materials Science and Technology Division

  • S05-025, "Large-Area, Flexible, Heteroepitaxial, Single-Crystal-Like Diamond Films on Low-Cost Substrates for Wide-Ranging Electronic Applications," Lee Heatherly Jr
  • S05-051, "Scalable Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Single-Molecule Detection and Characterization," Zhenyu Zhang
  • S06-016, "Quasi-Electrostatic Carbon Orientation Processing for Lithium Ion Battery Anodes and Other Applications," Jane Y Howe
  • S06-048, "Microstructure and Defects in Energetic Materials and Radioactive Alloys," G E Ice
  • S06-047, "In Situ Monitoring of Realistic Catalyst Systems with High-Speed Electron Microscopy using a LaB6 Nanowire-Based Electron Source" Niels De Jonge
  • S06-061, "Novel, Low-Cost, High-Mn-Containing Austenitic Stainless Steels and Alloys for High-Temperature Structural Applications" Philip J Maziasz
  • S06-063, "Laser-Interference Direct Structuring of Zirconia for Dental Materials" Claus Daniel
  • S06-072, "Mapping Carrier Distributions and Photovoltaic Activity in Nanophase Materials by Electrical Dissipation Microscopy" Sergei V Kalinin
  • S07-004, "Organic Magnets: Phenomenological and First-Principles Approaches to Layered Bimetallic Oxalates" Randy Scott Fishman
  • S07-017, "Can the Quantum Confinement Effect Be Exploited for Spin Injection in Organic Spintronics?" Jian Shen
  • S07-018, "In Situ Nanopatterning of Single-Crystal Multiferroics by Strain for Terabit-Scale Data Storage" Ho Nyung Lee

Nuclear Science and Technology Division

  • S06-039, "A Novel Radio-Luminescent Glass for Safe User Applications," Charles W Alexander
  • S06-045, "Exploring Layered Materials with Neutron and Photon Spectroscopy to Determine the Depth and Water Content in Subsurface Layers of Planets," Hatice Akkurt
  • S06-052, "Carbonate Thermochemical Cycle for the Production of Hydrogen" Juan J Ferrada
  • S07-002, "Feasibility Study of Fuel-Pellet-Irradiation Capsules for Advanced Reactor Fuel Testing in the High Flux Isotope Reactor" Joel Lee McDuffee
  • S07-003, "Generalized Perturbation Methods for Transport Computations with Unstructured Meshes" Mark L Williams

Physics Division

  • S06-020, "Big Bang Cosmology and Online Simulation Suite," Michael Scott Smith