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Tony Hmelo鈥檚 research has taken him from NASA to nanoscience and from New York to Nashville. Hmelo is associate director for operations and outreach for the 天美传媒官网 Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, the interdisciplinary group researching new science and technology based on tiny鈥攏anoscale鈥攎aterials. (Nanotechnology is widely considered… Read More

Five faculty members were recognized for their achievements in and out of the classroom by Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos at the Spring Faculty Assembly. Professors Paul Laibinis, Emily Nacol, Sohee Park, Suzanna Sherry and Janos Sztipanovits were selected for the awards by… Read More

These days, graphene is the rock star of materials science, but it has an Achilles heel: It is exceptionally sensitive to its electrical environment. This single-atom-thick honeycomb of carbon atoms is lighter than aluminum, stronger than steel and conducts heat and electricity better than copper. As a result, scientists around… Read More

During a visit to campus on March 12, members of the Joelton Middle School Art2STEM club 鈥� an after-school organization for middle school girls that highlights the importance of creativity in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics 鈥� got to see what a real future… Read More

Vanadium dioxide crystal lattice (A. Julia St盲hler / Fritz Haber Institute) An international team of physicists has developed a method for taking ultrafast 鈥渟onograms鈥� that can track the structural changes that take place within solid materials in trillionth-of-a-second intervals as they go through an important physical… Read More

Physicist聽Kirill Bolotin聽has won a two-year, $50,000 research fellowship from the聽Alfred P. Sloan Foundation聽aimed at encouraging promising young scholars. He is one of 126 researchers from 51 different colleges and universities in the United States selected to receive the Foundation鈥檚聽… Read More

Vanderbilt professor Sokrates T. Pantelides has been selected as a 2012 Materials Research Society Fellow. The MRS Fellows will be recognized at the MRS spring meeting in San Francisco in April. Pantelides is a University Distinguished Professor of Physics and Engineering, the William A. and Nancy F. McMinn Professor of… Read More

eter T. Cummings, John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering, and the Principal Scientist of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been appointed to the National Science Foundation鈥檚 Advisory Committee for the Engineering Directorate and to the Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure. The appointments are… Read More

Sandra Rosenthal has been elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).聽 Sandy was recognized for her 聽distinguished contributions to the field of nanochemistry, particularly for synthesis and characterization of nanocrystals and the utilization of nanocrystals as biomarkers of protein expression. FULL ARTICLE>… Read More

The surprising discovery of a new way to tune and enhance thermal conductivity 鈥� a basic property generally considered to be fixed for a given material 鈥� gives engineers a new tool for managing thermal effects in smart phones and computers, lasers and a number of other powered devices. The… Read More