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Engineering professor Ndukaife wins award in Rising Stars of Light global competition
Justus Ndukaife, assistant professor of electrical engineering, spent 20 minutes describing his optical nanotweezers to a panel of five distinguished professors from the United States, Australia, and China during a live online competition—Rising Stars of Light—that has drawn 260,000 viewers worldwide. After two sessions in which 10 finalists presented their… Read MoreNov. 30, 2020
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Team examines operating limits in solid-state batteries to improve driving range of electric vehicles
There is huge momentum toward adoption of battery electric vehicles primarily because performances are meeting or exceeding the properties of traditional automobiles. Consumers want electric vehicles that have similar driving range (energy density) and charging styles and times (power density) to gasoline powered vehicles. Kelsey Hatzell “One pathway to improving the… Read MoreNov. 18, 2020
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Spotlight Podcast Episode 28: Zhiliang Pan – thermal transport in nanowires with unique structures
Episode 28 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Zhiliang Pan tells Alice Leach thermal transport in nanowires with unique structures. Zhiliang’s paper ” Net negative contributions of free electrons to the thermal conductivity of NbSe3 nanowires ” was published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. Zhiliang is a 3rd year… Read MoreNov. 17, 2020
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Spotlight Podcast Episode 27: Isom Kelly – porous silicon nanoparticles – tiny chunks of silicon that can be used as drug delivery vehicles
Episode 27 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Isom Kelly tells Alice Leach about porous silicon nanoparticles – tiny chunks of silicon that can be used as drug delivery vehicles. Isom’s paper “Tuning Composition of Polymer and Porous Silicon Composite Nanoparticles for Early Endosome Escape of Anti-microRNA Peptide Nucleic… Read MoreNov. 10, 2020
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Spotlight Podcast Episode 26: Chris Stachurski – carbon dots – tiny luminescent particles of carbon
Episode 26 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Chris Stachurski tells Alice Leach about carbon dots – tiny luminescent particles of carbon. Chris’s paper ” Optical and electrochemical tuning of hydrothermally synthesized nitrogen-doped carbon dots” was published in Nanoscale Advances. Chris is a 5th year chemistry graduate student in… Read MoreNov. 3, 2020
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Spotlight Podcast Episode 25: Nidhi Jyotsana – knowledge of cancer can inform our study of COVID-19
Episode 25 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Nidhi Jyotsana tells Alice Leach how our knowledge of cancer can inform our study of COVID-19. Nidhi’s paper “The Impact of COVID-19 on Cancer Risk and Treatment” was published in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. Nidhi was a Research Assistant Professor in… Read MoreOct. 27, 2020
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Virtual Tours Just Released
VINSE is pleased to announce virtual tours are now available for our Analytical Lab and Cleanroom. Analytical Lab Tour Cleanroom Tour … Read MoreOct. 26, 2020
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Poster Winners Fall 2020 NanoDay! Poster Session
Congratulations to the winners at the VINSE 2020 NanoDay! Poster Session 1st Place – $500 Jenna Mosier, Biomedical Engineering Advisor: Cynthia Reinhart-King “Modeling Mechanical and Metabolic Memory of Confined Cancer Cells Using Collagen Microtracks” 2nd Place – $250 Jeremy Espano, Interdisciplinary Materials Science Advisor: Janet Macdonald “Phase Control… Read MoreOct. 23, 2020
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NSF seed grant supports biomanufacturing of new drug delivery technologies
One of the challenges of drug delivery systems is to optimize their targeting properties so therapeutic compounds used in smaller amounts reach only a specific area of the body and result in little or no side effects. The ability to engineer the content of extracellular vesicles and target these EVs… Read MoreOct. 21, 2020
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Spotlight Podcast Episode 24: Chuchuan Hong – trapping and manipulating nanoscale objects
Episode 24 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Chuchuan Hong tells Alice Leach about trapping and manipulating nanoscale objects. Chuchuan’s paper “Stand-off trapping and manipulation of sub-10 nm objects and biomolecules using opto-thermo-electrohydrodynamic tweezers” was published in Nature Nanotechnology. Chuchuan is a 3rd student Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering… Read MoreOct. 13, 2020