Undergraduate Students

2020 Honorable Mention in Poster Session at the GRACE 22nd Annual Research Symposium given to Dirk Steyn

2020 Best Overall Award in Undergraduate Awards category at NanoFlorida 2020 given to Stephen Michel

Graduate Students

2020 First place in Oral Session 1 at the GRACE 22nd Annual Research Symposium given to Ani Kulkarni

2020 Best Poster in Nano-Chemistry category at Nano Day 2020 given to Andrew Garcia

2020 Honorable Mention in Materials, Devices, and Enabling Technologies category at NanoFlorida 2020 given to Andrew Garcia

2020 Second Place in Environmental, Agriculture, and Energy Awards at NanoFlorida 2020 given to Gibson Scisco

2019 Best Image Award in Nanomaterials Category at the 2nd Nano Day Meeting, NIMET, Gainesville, Florida for image entitled "Aggregation of polymer nanopillars" given to Sarathy Gopalakrishnan and K.J. Ziegler.

2018 Best Image Award in Nanochemical Category at the 1st Nano Day Meeting, NIMET, Gainesville, Florida for image entitled "Agglomerated ZnO seed nanostructures on ITO substrate" given to Sarathy Gopalakrishnan and K.J. Ziegler.

2018 Best Image Award in Nanomaterials Category at the 1st Nano Day Meeting, NIMET, Gainesville, Florida for image entitled "Polystyrene nanowires lurking underneath cracked aluminum oxide template" given to Sarathy Gopalakrishnan and K.J. Ziegler.

2016 Third Place in the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum Graduate Student Award Session at American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) 2016 Meeting, San Francisco, California for oral presentation entitled "High-fidelity single-column selective desorption of SWCNTs through the modulation of co-surfactant states around carbon nanotubes" given to Y. Zhao, J.G. Clar, J. Xu, J.-C.J. Bonzongo, and K.J. Ziegler.

2016 Honorable Mention for Best Oral Presentation of Conference in the NanoFlorida 2016 Meeting, Orlando, Florida for presentation entitled "High-Fidelity Selective Desorption of SWCNT Fractions from Hydrogels through Co-Surfactant Structures Manipulation" given to Y. Zhao, J.G. Clar, J. Xu, J.-C.J. Bonzongo, and K.J. Ziegler.

2014 Second Place in the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum Poster Session at American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) 2014 Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia for poster entitled "Linking the Electronic Character of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes to their Biological Impacts Using a Model Aquatic Organism" given to J.G. Clar, S. Gustitus, C.A. Silvera Batista, S. Youn, J.-C.J. Bonzongo, and K.J. Ziegler.

2014 Honorable Mention (third place) in the Characterization of Porous Materials Poster Session at 225th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Orlando, Florida for poster entitled "Flexible Nanowire Devices Fabricated Using Template Controlled Electrodeposition of Nanowires with High Density and Aspect-Ratio" given to C. Xu, J. Liu, Y. Zhao, S. Chen, and K.J. Ziegler.

2013 First Place in the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum Poster Session at American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) 2013 Meeting, San Francisco, California for poster entitled "Interactive forces between SDS-suspended single-wall carbon nanotubes and agarose gels" given to J.G. Clar, C.A. Silvera Batista, S. Youn, J.-C.J. Bonzongo, and K.J. Ziegler.

2013 First Place in the NanoFlorida 2013 Meeting, Orlando, Florida for poster entitled "Interaction of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Hydrogels: Toxicological Implications" given to J.G. Clar, C.A. Silvera Batista, J.-C.J. Bonzongo, and K.J. Ziegler.

2012 Justin J. Hill (Former Graduate Student, graduated 8/10) received the Outstanding Young Alumnus Award from the University of Florida College of Engineering. The award is for alumni that have demonstrated significant accomplishments before the age of 35. Only three of these awards are presented annually.

2010 Third Place at the NanoFlorida 2010 Meeting, Orlando, Florida for poster entitled "Encasing Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Solvent Microenvironments for Emulsion Polymerization" given to P.A. Sugumaran, C.A. Silvera Batista, R.K. Wang, W.-C. Chen, I. Lin, and K.J. Ziegler.

2009 Third Place in Nanomaterials for Energy Group at the NanoFlorida 2009 Meeting, Orlando, Florida for poster entitled "Template-Based Fabrication of Core/Shell Nanowire Arrays Directly on Transparent Conducting Oxides" given to J.J. Hill, K. Haller, N. Banks, and K.J. Ziegler.

2008 Best Oral Presentation in Nanomaterials Synthesis and Self-Assembly Group at the NanoFlorida 2008 Meeting, Orlando, Florida for talk entitled "Scalable Interfacial Trapping Technique for Removing Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube (SWNT) Bundles" given to R.K. Wang, H.-O. Park, W.-C. Chen, C.A. Silvera Batista, R.D. Reeves, J.E. Butler, and K.J. Ziegler.