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  • Dr. William Fissell’s Artificial Kidney

    Dr. William Fissell’s Artificial Kidney

    Vanderbilt University Medical Center nephrologist and Associate Professor of Medicine Dr. William H. Fissell IV, is making major progress on a first-of-its kind device to free kidney patients from dialysis. He is building an implantable artificial kidney with microchip filters and living kidney cells that will be… Read More

    Feb. 15, 2016

  • Cotton candy machines may hold key for making artificial organs

    Cotton candy machines may hold key for making artificial organs

    Cotton candy machines may hold the key for making life-sized artificial livers, kidneys, bones and other essential organs. For several years, Leon Bellan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University, has been tinkering with cotton candy machines, getting them to spin out networks of tiny threads… Read More

    Feb. 11, 2016

  • Quantum dots made from fool’s gold boost battery performance

    Quantum dots made from fool’s gold boost battery performance

    If you add quantum dots – nanocrystals 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair – to a smartphone battery it will charge in 30 seconds, but the effect only lasts for a few recharge cycles. However, a group of researchers at Vanderbilt University … Read More

    Nov. 11, 2015

  • Valentine featured on Phys.org and Vanderbilt Research News

    Valentine featured on Phys.org and Vanderbilt Research News

    VINSE member Jason Valentine’s work published in Nature Communications was featured in Phys.org and Research News @ Vanderbilt 09/22/2015 “First circularly polarized light detector on a silicon chip” Invention of the first integrated circularly polarized light detector on a silicon chip opens the door for development of… Read More

    Sep. 24, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    First circularly polarized light detector on a silicon chip

    Invention of the first integrated circularly polarized light detector on a silicon chip opens the door for development of small, portable sensors that could expand the use of polarized light for drug screening, surveillance, optical communications and quantum computing, among other potential applications. The new detector was developed by a… Read More

    Sep. 22, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    16th Annual Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Forum – NanoDay! 10/14/15 – Keynote Speaker – Nate Lewis, CalTech

    16th Annual Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Forum Wednesday, October 14, 2015 BUTTRICK HALL 1:10 – 1:25  Welcome Sandra Rosenthal, Chemistry 1:25 – 2:15 New tools in VINSE: Laser Writer, Leon Bellan, MERLIN Scanning Electron Microscope, Anthony Hmelo, Oxford Reaction Ion Etch,… Read More

    Sep. 17, 2015

  • IMS grad student Jake Benzing takes home physical sciences award from conference

    IMS grad student Jake Benzing takes home physical sciences award from conference

    A Vanderbilt PhD student in interdisciplinary materials science took home a first-place poster award at August’s Microscopy & Microanalysis conference, held last month in Portland, Oregon. Jake Benzing, whose adviser is Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering James Wittig, presented a research poster and abstract titled “Fe-25Mn-3Al-3Si TWIP-TRIP Steel… Read More

    Sep. 9, 2015

  • Experts address promises and problems of 3D printing large structures

    Experts address promises and problems of 3D printing large structures

    Every month or so an article comes out reporting that some new object has been made using 3D printing: Everything from jewelry to prosthetic devices to electronic circuit boards to assault rifles to automobiles has now been created in this fashion. The prospect that this revolutionary manufacturing method will have… Read More

    Jul. 24, 2015

  • Valentine Selected to Participate in NAE’s 2015 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

    Valentine Selected to Participate in NAE’s 2015 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

    Washington, DC, June 25, 2015 – Eighty-nine of the nation’s brightest young engineers have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 21st annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) symposium. Engineers ages 30 to 45 who are performing exceptional engineering research and technical work in a variety of disciplines… Read More

    Jul. 10, 2015

  • Five year, $20 million TN-SCORE program boots state’s energy research capacity

    Five year, $20 million TN-SCORE program boots state’s energy research capacity

    For the last five years, scientists and engineers at Vanderbilt University have been collaborating closely with colleagues at other public and private universities and research centers throughout Tennessee in an effort to increase the state’s energy research capacity. This collaboration was made possible by a five-year, $20 million… Read More

    Jun. 30, 2015