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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

Craig Duvall, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering, has been elevated to the rank of Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society. Duvall and his research program focus on development of technologies for controlled drug release, tissue regeneration and therapeutics, and delivery of intracellular-acting biologic drugs such as siRNA and peptide therapeutics. Read More

Episode 17 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Ross Koby tells Alice Leach about his weekly grind – Mechanochemistry!  Ross’s paper ” An h3-Bound Allyl Ligand on Magnesium in a Mechanochemically Generated Mg/K Allyl Complex” was published in Angewandte Chemie-International.  Ross is a 5th year graduate student in Chemistry… Read More

Episode 16 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Alice Leach talks with Kaitlyn Ryder about sending electronics to space. Kaitlyn’s paper “Comparison of Sensitive Volumes Associated With Ion- and Laser-Induced Charge Collection in an Epitaxial Silicon Diode” was published in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science.  Kaitlyn is a 4th… Read More

Episode 15 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Alice Leach talks with Guanyu Lu about capturing waste heat to use in optical communication. Guanyu’s paper ” Narrowband Polaritonic Thermal Emitters Driven by Waste Heat” was published in ACS Omega.  Guanyu Lu is a 3rd year graduate student in Mechanical… Read More

Episode 14 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Alice Leach talks with Jenna A. Dombroski about progress toward a breast cancer vaccine!  Jenna’s paper “Fabrication and Characterization of Tumor Nano-Lysate as a Preventative Vaccine for Breast Cancer” was published in Langmuir.  Jenna is a prior VINSE REU student and… Read More

Episode 13 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Alice Leach talks with Michael Kosson about how to print 3D cement. Michael’s paper ” Early-Age Performance of 3D Printed Carbon Nanofiber and Carbon Microfiber Cement Composites” was published in Journal of the Transportation Research Record.  Michael is a graduate student in… Read More

Episode 12 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Alice Leach talks with Matthew Gerboth about how heat moves through materials at the nanoscale. Matt’s paper ” Effects of acoustic softening on thermal conductivity beyond group velocity” was published in Journal of Applied Physics.  Matthew is a graduate student in Interdisciplinary… Read More

A bold engineering approach by a Vanderbilt University researcher to sort breast cancer cells based on their behavior first has produced compelling data that show less migratory cells create more metastases, contradicting the prevailing hypothesis on how cancer spreads. Expanding this ambitious research by Cynthia Reinhart-King, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of… Read More