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Researcher Highlights: Alberto Esteban Linares and Simon Ward
Alberto Esteban Linares, PhD candidate of Mechanical Engineering in the Li lab Microfluidic platforms can play a transformative role in ex vivo tissue culture and physiological and pathological studies as they allow for precise control of cell microenvironment alike in vitro models, while the cellular matrix architecture similar to… Read MoreAug. 26, 2022
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Sen Yang receives IMS Best Publication Award
Sen Yang, a 4th years Ph.D. student in Interdisciplinary Materials Science from Vanderbilt University, was awarded the 2021 Vanderbilt IMS Best Student Paper Award for his work entitled “Nanoparticle Trapping in a Quasi-BIC System”. The award comes with a $500 prize and a corresponding plaque. This work was completed under… Read MoreAug. 23, 2022
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Seeking nominations: Best VINSE Graduate Student & Best Collaborative Publication
VINSE is seeking faculty nominations for the both the VINSE Best Graduate Student Research Publication Award & the VINSE Best Collaborative Publication Award. The Best Graduate Student Publication award will come with a plaque, $1,000 cash prize, and an opportunity to present at NanoDay. The Best Collaborative Paper award… Read MoreAug. 23, 2022
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Meet Our Graduates: Dhiraj Prasai
During his PhD Dhiraj Prasai studied transport measurements of 2-D materials by making field effect transistor out of monolayer Graphene and MOS2. Read MoreAug. 16, 2022
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Win $100! VINSE Annual Image Competition
The Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) is holding a competition seeking images to be displayed in the VINSE Facilities. If you have materials or devices that have been fabricated, characterized, or imaged using VINSE equipment, submit entries to VINSE no later than September 30th. Image enhancement… Read MoreAug. 10, 2022
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NanoDay! T-Shirt Design Competition
Goal: Create an attractive t-shirt design representing NanoDay! and VINSE. The winning design will receive a $300 cash prize. The design must be exclusively your own and cannot include logos and trademark images You can use any t-shirt color in your design JPEG format (at least 300 dpi)… Read MoreAug. 10, 2022
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2022 VINSE Undergraduate Research Symposium Winners
Congratulations to all of the students who presented at the 2022 VINSE Undergraduate Research Symposium! Our undergraduate researchers were able to share everything they accomplished during their individual research projects at Vanderbilt University over the past ten weeks. The symposium, which was held in collaboration with… Read MoreAug. 5, 2022
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“High-throughput screening of tribological properties of monolayer films using molecular dynamics and machine learning” published in The Journal of Chemical Physics, selected as VINSE Spotlight Publication
About the author: Co D. Quach is a Ph.D. candidate in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering department under the direction of Dr. Peter Cummings and Dr. Clare McCabe. In this article, Quach and colleagues performed high-throughput screening of thin-film coating to seek designs that could provide favorable tribological properties. Read MoreAug. 2, 2022
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“Chemical and Biomolecular Strategies for STING Pathway Activation in Cancer Immunotherapy” published in Chemical Reviews, selected as VINSE Spotlight Publication
About the authors: Co-first author, Kyle Garland earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 2021 under the direction of Prof. John Wilson and is currently working for Brooklyn Immunotherapeutics, Inc. in San Diego, California as an R&D scientist investigating in vivo gene editing. His dissertation focused on the… Read MoreJul. 21, 2022
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Dissertation Defense: Nicholas Hortance, Interdisciplinary Materials Science
DISSERTATION DEFENSE Nicholas Hortance, Interdisciplinary Materials Science *under the direction of Dr. David Cliffel & Dr. Kelsey Hatzell “Investigating Solid Electrolytes and Catalysts for Electrochemical Ammonia Synthesis” 07.14.22 | 10:00am CST | 5502 Stevenson Center | Zoom Ammonia (NH3) is a vital chemical to the agricultural and explosives… Read MoreJul. 12, 2022