The ICDD Announces the Recipients of the 2011 Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship

January 19, 2011

The ICDD Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship Committee has selected thirteen recipients for the 2011 Scholarship Program.  These recipients were selected, on a competitive basis, from sixty-five commendable applications received by the ICDD Scholarship Committee.  The recipients are: 

Gokhan Barin, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Metal-Organic Frameworks Incorporating Copper-Complexed Rotaxane Struts

Jeffrey Bertke, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
Synthesis and Characterization of Azolate Functionalized Metal-Organic Frameworks for the Sequestration of CO2

Sharon Bone, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
X-ray Absorption and Scattering Analysis of Hg Sorption by Nanocrystalline FeS

Honghan Fei, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA
Solvothermal synthesis of cationic framework materials, including zeotypes, inorganic extended materials and cationic metal-organic frameworks

Hua He, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA
Single-crystal and high resolution powder x-ray diffraction studies on new antimonides with layered and framework structures

Zachary Hudson, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Triarylboron Compounds for Optoelectronic Materials: Applications in Solid-state lighting and chemical sensing

Shmuel Samuha, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Characterization of the Structure of a New Ternary Phase in Al-Ru-Rh system

Pradeep Sharma, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India
An approach towards prevention of septic shock syndrome: Structural and functional studies of PGRP and its complexes with various PAMPS

Chutchamon Sirisopanaporn, Universite de Picardie Jules Verne, Picardie, France
Crystal Chemistry and Electrochemical properties of Lithium Transition Metal Silicates; Li2MSiO4 where M are Fe and Mn

Vedran Vukotic, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Development of new materials which have application in non-linear optics, ferroelectronics, piezoelectrics, and other technologically important physical properties

Andrew Warren, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA
X-ray scattering of nanometric films and interfaces

Julie Wilkerson, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
Synthesis, characterization, and study of new luminescent materials based on conducting metallopolymers

Jeongho Yeon, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
Investigation of New Polar Oxides: Crystal Structure and Physical Property Relationship

The ICDD will present each of these students with a check in the amount of $2,500 to assist in the continuation of studies in their selected fields of crystallographic research.

These scholarships are made possible through corporate and private donations.  If you would like information on how you can make a tax-deductible donation, please contact the ICDD at +610-325-9814.