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Amy Ng earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Chemistry at Vanderbilt University in December of 2014 under the supervision of Sandra Rosenthal.  In the research team, Amy synthesized, fabricated, and characterized nanocrystalline-polymer photovoltaics.  Her passion in electron microscopy opened an opportunity to work at Oak Ridge National… Read More

Yaqiong Xu, associate professor of electrical engineering and physics, has died after a long-term illness. She died Oct. 30 in China, where she had returned to be with her family. Yaqiong Xu A celebration of her life will be held Friday, Dec. 3, from 4 to 5 p.m. in the School of… Read More

“Taxanes Sensitize Prostate Cancer Cells to TRAIL-Induced Apoptotic Synergy via Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress” published in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics has been selected as a VINSE spotlight publication. About the author: Korie Grayson (koriegrayson.com) earner her PhD in Biomedical Engineering in May 2020 from Cornell University under the direction… Read More

A paper by Vanderbilt engineers that explores the scope to scale up the sizes of atomically thin membranes and their potential use in applications relating to energy, microscopy, and electronics is published in the journal Science. Authors Piran R. Kidambi, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, Pavan Chaturvedi, postdoctoral scholar… Read More

Samantha Kaczaral graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2019 with a degree in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. While an undergraduate, Samantha was a member of the VINSE Technical Crew. She learned valuable skills including photolithography, thin film deposition techniques, and selective material etching. These skills we… Read More

Congratulations to Chuchuan Hong recipient of the 2021 VINSE Best Graduate Student Publication award. In addition to a cash prize, Chuchuan was selected to give the graduate student presentation at the 21st annual Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Forum. Chuchuan’s recent paper on optical nanotweezers demonstrated a novel approach called opto-thermo-… Read More

VINSE is excited to announce Isom Kelly is the recipient of the inaugural VINSE Best Collaborative Paper award. Isom’s paper has contributions from two VINSE faculty from different departments and one VINSE technical staff member, and involves research carried out in each of VINSE’s three core facilities: porous silicon nanoparticle fabrication in… Read More

During the month of October VINSE held our annual competition seeking images to be displayed in the VINSE core facilities in Engineering Science Building. Congratulations to Elena Kovalik (graduate student, Interdisciplinary Materials Science) and Andy Du (undergraduate student, Mechanical Engineering) winners of the 2021 VINSE Image Competition. Read More

Congratulations to Chris Sharp, winner of the 2021 NanoDay! t-shirt design competition.  The winning designer receives a $300 cash prize. Prior winners: 2019 – Ruoyu Wang 2018 – Cayla Ontko 2017- Tengfei Cao 2016 – Casey Brock 2015 – John Lonai 2014 –… Read More

More than 175 faculty, post-docs, graduate and undergraduate students engaged in nanoresearch at Vanderbilt attended the 21st annual Nanoscience/Nanotechnology Forum (“NanoDay!”) on November 19th. 51 posters were submitted in the 2021 student poster competition and the winners are: NanoDay! 2021 poster winners – Cavestany, Nehil-Puleo, DeJulius, Carson, Glass, and Spear (Eaves-Rathert not… Read More