wrt connections....remember when; Lava dots:
Post# of 22456
Lava dots: Hollow, soft-shelled quantum dots created
Sravani Gullapalli
Additional co-authors include former Rice undergraduate Jason Grider '12; Rice graduate student Minjung Cho; former Rice postdoctoral researcher Hitesh Bagaria; Kyu-Sung Lee of Arizona State University; Vicki Colvin, Rice's vice provost for research and the Kenneth S. Pitzer-Schlumberger Professor of Chemistry; and Ghassan Jabbour, director of the Solar and Alternative Energy Engineering Research Center at Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/...151322.htm
Dr. Vickie Colvin - CAMD
www.camd.lsu.edu/lmet/speakers/Colvin.htm
Louisiana State University
Dr. Vicki Colvin received her Bachelor's degree in chemistry and physics from Stanford ... Berkeley, where she worked under the guidance of Dr. Paul Alivisatos
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=vicki+co...alivisatos
http://patents.justia.com/inventor/paul-alivisatos?page=5
you've put in a lot of hours, my friend