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Meet Our Graduates: Gabriel LeBlanc
Gabriel LeBlanc earned his PhD. from Vanderbilt University in 2010 under the direction of Dr. David Cliffel, studying how the biological nanomaterial Photosystem I in plants could be incorporated into solar cells. While at Vanderbilt, Gabriel took advantage of the analytical tools and collaborative environment enabled by Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) to publish over 10 peer-reviewed articles as a co-author. Read MoreMay. 6, 2022
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Hong named to Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship Program for New Americans
Tao Hong Tao Hong, a second-year Ph.D. student in interdisciplinary materials science, and Hari Srinivasan, an incoming Ph.D. student in neuroscience, have been named to the 2022 cohort of the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship Program for New Americans. Hong, a member of VINSE, is co-advised by Professor… Read MoreMay. 4, 2022
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Spotlight Publication: “Signatures of atomic structure in subfemtosecond laser-driven electron dynamics in nanogaps” published in Physical Review B
About the author: Luke Bhan is currently an undergraduate computer science and physics major working under the supervision of Dr. Kalman Varga. His lab focuses on the simulation of nanoscale materials and their properties. In recently published work, he simulates electron dynamics across nanoscale gaps in aluminum structures… Read MoreApr. 28, 2022
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Smith County High School Field Trip
Every guest who walks by the cleanroom window in the Vanderbilt Engineering and Science Building wonders what it would be like to get to gown up and tour the facilities themselves. Nine students from Smith County High School got to make that dream a reality while participating in the VINSE… Read MoreApr. 28, 2022
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Ndukaife receives NSF Early CAREER Award to investigate cell-to-cell communication
Justus C. Ndukaife, assistant professor of electrical engineering, has received a prestigious NSF CAREER Award for foundational research in cell-to-cell communication. His CAREER project, “Resonant Dielectric Optical Metasurfaces for Single-Cell Extracellular Vesicles Analysis,” will enable Ndukaife to associate the properties of extracellular vesicles directly to their cell sources—up to the resolution… Read MoreApr. 27, 2022
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2022 VINSE Friends and Family Day
Photo: Anne Rayner VINSE hosted our Inaugural Friends and Family Day on April 16th, 2022, with more than 250 registered attendees. During the two-hour event members of the nano community were able to participate in 16 different hands-on demonstrations with topics that included electroplating, graphene transfer, hydrophilic and hydrophobic… Read MoreApr. 19, 2022
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Meet Our Graduates: Kate (Moyer) Vanderburgh
Under the direction of Dr. Cary Pint, Kate (Moyer) Vanderburgh worked on sustainably engineering electrode materials and additives for energy storage systems. Read MoreApr. 17, 2022
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Spotlight Publication “Enhanced photocurrent response speed in charge-density-wave phase of TiSe2-metal junctions” published in Nanoscale
About the author: Thayer Walmsley earned his Ph.D. in Physics in August 2021 under the direction of Dr. Yaqiong Xu. He is currently a J.D. student at Vanderbilt Law School. His Ph.D. work focused on exploring novel two-dimensional materials and their applications via scanning photocurrent microscopy. In his… Read MoreApr. 17, 2022
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VINSE Family & Friends Day – Schedule
Welcome to VINSE Friends & Family Day! Below is information on where to locate the different activities. If you have any questions, find someone in a blue VINSE shirt. FOOD 1:00-3:00 Califarmia Food Truck – outside ESB, Garland Avenue, food voucher attached to name tag 1:00-3:00 Ben & Jerry’s Ice… Read MoreApr. 13, 2022
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IMS grad student KP Arnold wins 1st place at inaugural ECE Day poster session
KP Arnold, an IMS graduate student advised by Dr. Sharon Weiss, won first place at the inaugural ECE Day poster session with his poster “Realizing Subwavelength Featured Photonic Crystals: Tailoring To Specific Applications and Foundry Scale Processing.” The Vanderbilt Electrical and Computer Engineering Department presented the first ECE Day… Read MoreApr. 11, 2022