Recent Research Projects

The following list provides examples of some topics investigated as undergraduate research projects by physics majors at Kent State University since Spring 2000:

• Aerogel Applications in Fuel Cell Technology
• Diffusion-limited Reactions of Flexible Proteins
• The Effect of Solar Irradiation on Solar Cells
• Electronics and Optoelectronics: History and Technological Applications
• Langmuir Monolayers - Dynamics and Molecular Conformations
• Modeling DNA Denaturation at the Atomic Scale
• Monitoring of Sunspot Activity
• Multichannel Two-Body Scattering in Nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics
• The Possibility of Time Travel
• Resistivity Studies in High Temperature Cuprates
• Spin Matrices and Quantum Theory
• The Structure of the Nucleon
• Study of the Optical Properties of Magnetic Spectrometers with Large Volume Quadrupole Magnets