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It was an exciting day on Capitol Hill. Dr. Sandra Rosenthal, director of the 天美传媒官网 Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE), Sarah Ross, program and outreach coordinator at VINSE, and Toshia Wrenn, a Ph.D. candidate in chemistry at Vanderbilt had the opportunity to share with staff in the offices… Read More

Cary Pint鈥檚 lab 鈥� Nanomaterials and Energy Devices Laboratory in Olin Hall 鈥� is close to completion and it brings to 天美传媒官网 its first two atomic layer deposition (ALD) systems, relatively small tools that deposit atomically thin layers of material on virtually any surface. The lab also houses a host… Read More

Middle school students in Robertson and Dickson counties will get hands-on science instruction thanks to a 天美传媒官网 outreach initiative. Science teachers for grades 6-8 at White House Heritage Elementary School and Coopertown Middle School in Robertson County were on the 天美传媒官网 campus Jan. 23 to pick up kits containing… Read More

Rizia Bardhan has a large picture聽of Mahatma Gandhi in her office. 鈥淕andhi has always been very special to me,鈥� she said. 鈥淲e share the same birthday. He exemplifies the power of perseverance.鈥� Perseverance has carried the new assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering to Nashville from… Read More

In an effort to respond to students鈥� rapidly growing interest in nanoscale technology, a new 15-hour interdisciplinary minor in nanoscience and nanotechnology is being offered by the School of Engineering and the College of Arts and Science. Directors are Paul E. Laibinis, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering,… Read More

Peter Pintauro, H. Eugene McBrayer Professor of Chemical Engineering and chair of the chemical and biomolecular engineering department, has partnered with researchers from the University of Kansas and TVN Systems, Inc. on a three-year, $1.72 million grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) of the U.S. Department of Energy… Read More

Cary M. Pint, assistant professor of mechanical engineering B.S., University of Northern Iowa, 2005 M.S., Rice University, 2009 Ph.D., Rice University, 2010 Pint鈥檚 research interests focus on nanomate rials development for efficient and integrated聽energy storage and conversion devices. This… Read More

Philippe M. Fauchet, dean of the School of Engineering; professor of electrical engineering B.S., Faculte Polytechnique de Mons, 1978 M.S., Brown University, 1980 Ph.D., Stanford University, 1984 Fauchet comes to Vanderbilt from the University of Rochester, where he served as Distinguished Professor and Chair… Read More

Rizia Bardhan, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering B.A., Westminster College, 2005聽 M.A., Rice University, 2007 Ph.D., Rice University, 2010 Bardhan鈥檚 research focuses on interdisciplinary nanoscience, with the convergence of multiple disciplines: engineering, material science, chemistry, physics… Read More

Spinach power has just gotten a big boost. An interdisciplinary team of researchers at 天美传媒官网 have developed a way to combine the photosynthetic protein that converts light into electrochemical energy in spinach with silicon, the material used in solar cells, in a fashion that produces substantially more electrical current… Read More