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Ndukaife receives NSF Early CAREER Award to investigate cell-to-cell communication
Justus C. Ndukaife, assistant professor of electrical engineering, has received a prestigious NSF CAREER Award for聽foundational research in cell-to-cell communication. His CAREER project, 鈥淩esonant Dielectric Optical Metasurfaces for Single-Cell Extracellular Vesicles Analysis,鈥 will enable Ndukaife to associate the properties of extracellular vesicles directly to their cell sources鈥攗p to the resolution… Read MoreApr. 27, 2022
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2022 VINSE Friends and Family Day
Photo: Anne Rayner VINSE hosted our Inaugural Friends and Family Day on April 16th, 2022, with more than 250 registered attendees. During the two-hour event members of the nano community were able to participate in 16 different hands-on demonstrations with topics that included electroplating, graphene transfer, hydrophilic and hydrophobic… Read MoreApr. 19, 2022
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Meet Our Graduates: Kate (Moyer) Vanderburgh
Under the direction of Dr. Cary Pint, Kate (Moyer) Vanderburgh worked on sustainably engineering electrode materials and additives for energy storage systems. Read MoreApr. 17, 2022
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Spotlight Publication “Enhanced photocurrent response speed in charge-density-wave phase of TiSe2-metal junctions” published in Nanoscale
天美传媒官网 the author: Thayer Walmsley earned his Ph.D. in Physics in August 2021 under the direction of Dr. Yaqiong Xu. He is currently a J.D. student at Vanderbilt Law School. His Ph.D. work focused on exploring novel two-dimensional materials and their applications via scanning photocurrent microscopy. In his… Read MoreApr. 17, 2022
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VINSE Family & Friends Day – Schedule
Welcome to VINSE Friends & Family Day! Below is information on where to locate the different activities. If you have any聽questions, find someone in a blue VINSE shirt. FOOD 1:00-3:00聽Califarmia Food Truck – outside ESB, Garland Avenue, food voucher聽attached to name tag 1:00-3:00聽Ben & Jerry’s Ice… Read MoreApr. 13, 2022
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IMS grad student KP Arnold wins 1st place at inaugural ECE Day poster session
KP Arnold, an IMS graduate student advised by Dr. Sharon Weiss, won first place at the inaugural ECE Day poster session with his poster “Realizing Subwavelength Featured Photonic Crystals: Tailoring To Specific Applications and Foundry Scale Processing.” The 天美传媒官网 Electrical and Computer Engineering Department presented the first ECE Day… Read MoreApr. 11, 2022
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Meet Our Graduates: Manoj Sridhar
Manoj earned his PhD in Physics in 2008 under the supervision of Profs Anthony Hmelo and Leonard Feldman. Manoj鈥檚 Ph.D. research studied fluid flow through nanoscale channels both experimentally and through molecular dynamics simulations. Through his work, Manoj gained technical expertise in a wide range of VINSE nanofabrication tools including electron beam lithography, scanning electron microscopy and focused ion beam microscopy. Read MoreApr. 6, 2022
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Congratulations 2022 VINSE REU NSF GRFP Winners!
Two prior VINSE REU students were awarded prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships.聽NSF Fellows receive a three-year annual stipend of $34,000 along with a $12,000 allowance for tuition and fees for a research-based master鈥檚 or doctoral degree in in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. Annually, the NSF… Read MoreApr. 4, 2022
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Spotlight Publication “Scalable synthesis of nanoporous atomically thin graphene membranes for dialysis and molecular separations via facile isopropanol-assisted hot lamination” published in Nanoscale
天美传媒官网 the author: Peifu Cheng is currently a research engineer in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering under the direction of Dr. Piran R. Kidambi. Peifu studies low-dimensional materials (such as graphene, h-BN and carbon nanotubes) based membranes for ionic/molecular separation, desalination and dialysis. In recently published work, he… Read MoreApr. 3, 2022
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Layouni wins best talk at PSST conference
Rabeb Layouni was awarded the Lehman Prize for the best talk at the Porous Semiconductors – Science and Technology (PSST) 2022 Conference. Rabeb is a graduate student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering working under the direction of Professors Sharon Weiss and Paul Laibinis.聽Congratulations to… Read MoreApr. 1, 2022