Sarah Ross
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Pint featured in Forbes and Vanderbilt Research News
How Scientists Turned Junkyard Scrap Metal Into A Battery Inspired by an archaeological find, researchers have built a pill-bottle-sized battery starting from junkyard scrap metal. The scientists say their approach could someday be used to repurpose metal alloys commonly found around the house for energy storage applications. As renewable energy… Read MoreNov. 9, 2016
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Galloway receives international Gagarin Award for contributions to radiation effects research
Kenneth F. Galloway received the 2016 Yuri Gagarin Award at the 2016 RADECS conference in Bremen, Germany. Galloway is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and former dean of the Vanderbilt School of Engineering. The Radiation Effects in Components and Systems Association was… Read MoreOct. 26, 2016
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17th Annual Nanoscience/Nanotechnology Forum Poster Winners
More than 100 faculty, post-docs, graduate and undergraduate students engaged in nanoresearch at Vanderbilt attended the 17th annual Nanoscience/Nanotechnology Forum (“NanoDay!”) on October 19th. 33 posters were submitted in the 2016 student poster competition and the winners are: NanoDay! 2016 Poster winners – Zhu, Moyer, Westover, Saltzman, Knight, Sarett, Fain *Dimobi… Read MoreOct. 19, 2016
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Associate Professor of Physics Kalman Varga has been elected fellow of the American Physical Society.
Stevenson Professor of Physics Keivan Stassun and Associate Professor of Physics Kalman Varga have been elected fellows of the American Physical Society. The fellowship is considered a prestigious recognition from their professional peers. The criterion for election is exceptional contributions to the physics enterprise, such as outstanding physics research, important… Read MoreOct. 18, 2016
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17th Annual Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Forum – NanoDay! 10/19/16 – Keynote Speaker – Mark Saltzman
17th Annual Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Forum Wednesday, October 19, 2016 A yearly forum for faculty, postdocs, and students engaged in nanoscience and nanotechnology research. STUDENT LIFE CENTER 1:00 – 1:10 Welcome Sandra Rosenthal, Director of VINSE 1:10 – 1:20 New Tool in VINSE: Helios FIB… Read MoreSep. 14, 2016
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Duvall earns spot on CMBE journal’s 2016 Young Investigators list
Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, a journal of the Biomedical Engineering Society, has named Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director of Graduate Recruiting in Biomedical Engineering Craig Duvall to its third annual list of Young Innovators of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. Selection was… Read MoreAug. 19, 2016
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2016 NanoDay! T-shirt design competition underway
Graduate Student NanoDay T-Shirt Design Competition! 2015 winning design Goal: Create an attractive T-shirt design representing NanoDay and the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering Winning design will receive a cash prize of $300.00 The design must be exclusively your own and… Read MoreAug. 17, 2016
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Using nanotechnology to give fuel cells more oomph
At the same time Honda and Toyota are introducing fuel cell cars to the U.S. market, a team of researchers from Vanderbilt University, Nissan North America and Georgia Institute of Technology have teamed up to create a new technology designed to give fuel cells more oomph. The project is part… Read MoreAug. 8, 2016
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2016 Summer Nanoseminar Schedule
The VINSE summer nanoseminar series provides an opportunity for graduate students or post-docs to share their current research with the larger VINSE community to foster discussion and collaboration. Each seminar will consist of 2 talks of 15-20 minutes each with 10-15 minutes of questions. The goal of these talks… Read MoreMay. 12, 2016
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Advance in creating atomically thin electronic and optical devices
Sokrates Pantelides (Joe Howell / Vanderbilt University) A future generation of atomically thin optoelectronics devices, including transistors, photodetectors and solar cells, is a step closer because of an advance in the art of epitaxy made by scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) with an… Read MoreApr. 15, 2016