Sokrates Pantelides

  • New form of crystalline order holds promise for thermoelectric applications

    New form of crystalline order holds promise for thermoelectric applications

    Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope image showing the interlaced crystalline structure. (Wu Zhou/ORNL) Since the 1850s scientists have known that crystalline materials are organized into 14 different basic lattice structures. However, a team of researchers from Vanderbilt University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) now reports… Read More

    Nov. 14, 2014

  • How to create nanowires only three atoms wide with an electron beam

    How to create nanowires only three atoms wide with an electron beam

    Junhao Lin, a Vanderbilt University Ph.D. student and visiting scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has found a way to use a finely focused beam of electrons to create some of the smallest wires ever made. The flexible metallic wires are only three atoms wide: One thousandth the… Read More

    Apr. 28, 2014

  • Pantelides is 2012 Materials Research Society Fellow

    Pantelides is 2012 Materials Research Society Fellow

    Vanderbilt professor Sokrates T. Pantelides has been selected as a 2012 Materials Research Society Fellow. The MRS Fellows will be recognized at the MRS spring meeting in San Francisco in April. Pantelides is a University Distinguished Professor of Physics and Engineering, the William A. and Nancy F. McMinn Professor of… Read More

    Feb. 10, 2012

  • Sokrates Pantelides named University Distinguised Professor of Physics and Engineering

    Sokrates Pantelides named University Distinguised Professor of Physics and Engineering

    Sokrates Pantelides, William A. & Nancy F. McMinn Professor of Physics and professor of electrical engineering, has been named a University Distinguished Professor of Physics and Engineering. A reception in his honor was hosted by Dean of Arts and Science Carolyn Dever and Dean of the School of Engineering Kenneth… Read More

    Sep. 30, 2010