Niranjan Malvadkar, (doctoral candidate) will present two papers at the 215th Electrochemical Society Meeting, May 24-27, 2009, in San Francisco, CA. The papers are titled "A Template Based Method to Prepare Inexpensive Metal Catalyst for Hydrogen Release Application" and "Conformal Growth of Nanostructured Titania on Spatially Organized Poly (p-xylylene) Nanocolums". Mr. Malvadkar's research is supervised by Dr. Melik Demirel and is supprted by a Young Investigator Program Award from the Office of Naval Research.