Hunter McDaniel
Phone: 505-664-0456
Email: hunter@lanl.gov
Education
- 2011 - PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (UIUC), Illinois, USA
- 2001 - BS in Physics and electrical engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Professional Career
- Current position: - Postdoctoral Research Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Physical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy Division , C-PCS, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
Awards
- Lemelson-MIT Illinois Prize for inventiveness semi-finalist (one of seven) UIUC, 2011
- Spring MRS Best Poster Award, 2010
- Intel-Ratcheff Award for outstanding grad student research, 2010
- Arial Home Foundation Design Challenge winner, 2010
- University Travel Award, UIUC, 2010
- University Travel Award, UIUC, 2009
- Interactive Brokers College Olympiad 29th place, 2009
- Interactive Brokers College Olympiad 19th place, 2008
- Interactive Brokers College Olympiad 10th place, 2007
- Materials Science Department Hammer Fellow, UIUC, 2006
- College of Engineering Dean's Honors, UCSB, four quarters 2001-2006
- Hearst Foundation Scholarship for the College of Engineering, UCSB, 2003
- Eagle Scout: Highest rank in scouting, Boy Scouts of America, 1999
Selected publications
- Anisotropic Strain-Induced Curvature in Type-II CdSe/CdTe Nanorod Heterostructures, McDaniel, H.; Zuo, J.-M.; Shim, M.; J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2010, 132, 3286
- Anisotropic Nanocrystal Heterostructures: Synthesis and Lattice Strain, Shim, M.; McDaniel, H.; Curr. Opin. Solid State Mater. Sci., 2010, 14, 83, cover article
- Size and Growth Rate Dependent Structural Diversification of Fe3O4/CdS Anisotropic Nanocrystal Heterostructures, McDaniel, H.; Shim, M.; ACS Nano, 2009, 3, 434
August 2010