Events

Thursday January 19, 2017 Xiaoqin Elaine Li UT Austin Associate Professor of Physics Title: “Fundamental Excitations in Solids” 4:00 PM, 4327 Stevenson Center Refreshments served at 3:30 PM in 6333 Stevenson Center Abstract Fundamental excitations (e.g. plasmons, excitons, phonons and magnons) determine both the… Read More

December 7, 2016 Natalia M. Litchinitser University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Professor of Electrical Engineering “Light-Matter Interactions in Engineered Optical Media” 4:10 PM, 134 Featheringill Hall Refreshments served at 3:45 Abstract Structured light and structured matter are two fascinating branches of modern optics… Read More

February 15, 2017 Adrienne D. Stiff-Roberts Duke University Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering “Organic and Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Thin Film Deposition by Resonant Infrared, Matrix-AssistedPulsed Laser Evaporation” 4:10 PM, 134 Featheringill Hall Refreshments served at 3:45 Abstract Over the past fifteen years, matrix-assisted pulsed laser evaporation (MAPLE) has… Read More

March 29, 2017 Andrew B. Greytak University of South Carolina Assistant Professor of Chemistry “Quantum Dot Purification and Metrics for Rational Control of Shell Growth, Ligand Exchange, and Quantum Yield” 4:10 PM, 134 Featheringill Hall Refreshments served at 3:45 Abstract: The unique and size-tunable fluorescence and absorption spectra… Read More

November 9, 2016 Millicent A. Firestone Thrust Leader for Soft, Biological & Composite NanomaterialsCenter for Integrated Nanotechnologies Los Alamos National Laboratory "Nanoparticle-Polymer Composites for the Fabrication of Novel Electronic and Plasmonic Materials" 4:10 PM, 134 Featheringill Hall Refreshments served at 3:45 Abstract The pursuit for functional nanocomposites that impact a… Read More

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 More

November 2, 2016 James McGrath University of Rochester Professor of Biomedical Engineering “The Benefits of Being Thin: The Revolutionary Potential of Ultrathin Membranes for Biology and Medicine” 4:10 P.M., Location: ESB 044-048 Refreshments served at 3:45 “The Benefits of Being Thin: The Revolutionary Potential of Ultrathin Membranes for Biology… Read More

Wednesday September 14, 2016 Joel Henderson Collier Duke University Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering “Supramolecular Materials for Immunomodulation”   4:10 PM, 134 Featheringill Hall Refreshments served at 3:45 Abstract: Successful immunotherapies must raise both the correct strength and phenotype of an immune response.   To treat a particular… Read More

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 More

August 24, 2016 Pedro Alvarez Rice University George R. Brown Professor of Engineering and Professor of Chemistry and Director, Nanosystems Engineering Research Center on Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT) “Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment: A Vision to Enable Decentralized Water Treatment” 4:10 PM, Featheringill Hall Refreshments served at 3:45… Read More