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Developing atomically thin graphene membranes used to separate salt from water is extraordinarily complex and the effort grows more crucial as population growth, industrialization and climate change strain freshwater resources. Vanderbilt engineers have designed a simple defect-sealing technique to correct variations in pore size in graphene membranes. Vanderbilt engineering researchers… Read More

Episode 21 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Kyle Hawkins tells Alice Leach about the bacteria, fungi, protozoa and viruses that live on and inside the human body. Kyle’s paper ” The Microbiome and the Gut-Liver-Brain Axis for Central Nervous System Clinical Pharmacology: Challenges in Specifying and Integrating In Vitro… Read More

You will find the following topics covered in this edition: Director’s note New tool capabilities Video content All upcoming events, including the NanoDay! Poster Session & social media competitions VINSE Fall Newsletter  … Read More

Episode 20 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Matthew Thompson tells Alice Leach about improving the reproducibility of soft matter calculations. Matt’s paper “Towards molecular simulations that are transparent, reproducible, usable by others, and extensible (TRUE)” was published in Molecular Physics. Matt graduated with a Ph.D. in Chemical and… Read More

Cynthia Reinhart-King is one of five Vanderbilt professors who received a Chancellor’s Award for Research at the Fall Faculty Assembly Aug. 27, 2020. This award recognizes faculty excellence in works published or presented in the last three calendar years. Honorees each receive a cash prize $2,000 and an engraved pewter julep… Read More

Episode 19 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Austin Howes tells Alice Leach about optical limiting using materials that change their properties when exposed to external energy sources. Austin’s paper “Optical Limiting Based on Huygens’ Metasurfaces” was published in Nano Letters. Austin graduated with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering… Read More

Episode 18 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Tim Boire tells Alice Leach about a shape memory polymer that could transform vascular surgery. Tim’s paper “Effect of pore size and spacing on neovascularization of a biodegradable shape memory polymer perivascular wrap” was published in Journal of Biomedical Materials Research… Read More

In 2018, one-half of the Nobel Prize was awarded to Arthur Ashkin, the physicist who developed optical tweezers, the use of a tightly focused laser beam to isolate and move micron-scale objects (the size of red blood cells). Now Justus Ndukaife, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Vanderbilt University, has… Read More

VINSE will host our annual fall poster session as a highly interactive virtual event on Friday, October 23rd. Posters will be evaluated by both a panel of judges and virtual poster session attendees for an opportunity to win up to $500. All actively participating poster session presenters and attendees are… Read More

The Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) is holding the annual competition seeking new 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 them to vinse@vanderbilt.edu.  Interesting photos of the… Read More