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The Pint Lab has moved!\u00a0 Please check out our new website at:<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/faculty.sites.iastate.edu\/carypint\/<\/a><\/p>\n We are excited to bring our “Energy” to Iowa and Iowa State University, which is a state that is leading the USA in renewable energy investment and energy technology development, and a University that has significant investment and organization around the topic of future energy technologies.<\/strong><\/p>\n Welcome<\/strong> to the Nanomaterials and Energy Devices Laboratory at Vanderbilt University.\u00a0 We are a resonantly\u00a0productive<\/span>\u00a0team of researchers who have a passion to explore new ways to solve challenges in the area of energy and environmental applications.\u00a0 In the past, our work has centered on the synthesis and manufacturing of nanomaterials, energy storage, energy harvesting, and environmental applications.\u00a0 Moving forward, we’re excited to solve problems using economical nanotechnology to address (1) a sustainable, and (2) a smart and connected future.\u00a0 We work in fields of research where one advance can impact billions of people on challenges where the lack of effort and creative solutions can threaten the sustainability of the human population.\u00a0 This includes big solutions to problems in renewable energy and greenhouse gas conversion, among technologies that can advance energy technology development without destroying our environment.\u00a0 Our team has a strong background in spinning research into commercial ventures, close interactions with industry through funding or collaboration, and a habit of approaching fundamental directions with hypothesized technology outcomes.\u00a0 Read more about\u00a0recent exciting news from our lab below, more about our research at our research page<\/a>, and check out our most recent publications and patents on our publications page<\/a>.<\/p>\n Most of all, if you are up for engaging discussion about energy systems, Prof. Cary Pint’s favorite pastime is chatting about world-impacting ideas about energy systems over a shot or two of espresso.\u00a0 Stop by!!<\/p>\n RECENT\u00a0EVENTS AND NEWS FROM OUR GROUP June 27, 2019: Pint has just been awarded a highly competitive multi-year grant award\u00a0as PI from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF).\u00a0 This award entitled, “Stress-Controlled Electrochemistry in 2D Materials” will support our team to explore how mechanical stresses can control the fundamental physical properties of 2D materials that control the electrochemical response in applications ranging from energy harvesters, sensors, and batteries.\u00a0\u00a0This is exciting, and builds from our team’s leadership in\u00a0studying the interface\u00a0between\u00a0mechanics and electrochemistry for the design of next-generation technology applications.<\/p>\n May 17, 2019: The Pint Lab is moving<\/span>!!\u00a0 More details to come soon, but there are incredible opportunities on the horizon for our lab and team.<\/p>\n March 28, 2019:<\/strong> We are proud of the Pint team alumni!\u00a0 Just recently, Dr. Andrew Westover, who is now a Staff Scientist at\u00a0ORNL, was featured as a\u00a0leader in battery research by ACS Energy Letters<\/a> – one of the top energy journals in the world.\u00a0 Also, others in our lab\u00a0are\u00a0making impact\u00a0in their careers.\u00a0 Dr. Keith Share was recently promoted to a Manager of Battery Fabrication at the Tesla Gigafactory (Panasonic), Dr. Landon Oakes took on a new position as a Battery Scientist at 24M, one of the most dynamic\u00a0companies in the battery industry, and Dr. Rachel Carter was recently converted from an\u00a0NRC postdoc fellow at Naval Research Labs to\u00a0a staff member (a highly competitive process!)\u00a0where she does\u00a0research\u00a0on battery materials\u00a0relevant to the DOD.\u00a0\u00a0We are\u00a0so proud of the impact our team is making in the world after starting their independent careers!<\/p>\n November 15th, 2018: <\/strong>Prof. Pint has been\u00a0selected as\u00a0an Associate Editor for the Elsevier Journal <\/a>Energy Storage Materials\u00a0<\/em><\/a>based on his\u00a0world-class research program\u00a0centered around energy storage.\u00a0 This is the highest impact journal<\/em><\/span> devoted to energy storage\u00a0and bears competitive impact to the most dynamic broad journals in the areas of energy sciences, materials, and nanoscience.\u00a0\u00a0It is\u00a0an incredible honor to\u00a0join the six other editors making up a globally distinguished editorial board under the leadership of Prof. Hui-Ming Cheng at\u00a0the most exciting time in history for energy storage researchers!<\/p>\n November 13th, 2018: <\/strong>Congrats to Mrs. Anna Douglas, a graduate student in Pint’s lab, who was named as a 2019 Forbes 30 under 30<\/strong> <\/em>recipient\u00a0in the area of Energy<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0This is\u00a0an elite honor designated to only a select few innovators across the globe, and we are all so proud of you Anna for making this list!\u00a0\u00a0SkyNano LLC now has two Forbes\u00a030\u00a0under 30 recipients on its executive staff – Prof. Pint (2012) and Anna Douglas (2019), and we’re fueled up to change the world!<\/p>\n November 11th, 2018: <\/strong>Prof. Cary Pint was recognized by the Vanderbilt Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering through a “High Impact Paper Award.”\u00a0 This award recognizes our team for the 2nd most highly cited paper<\/span> published\u00a0from researchers in the greater VINSE community in the year of 2015 (3 years of cumulative citations).\u00a0 This paper was published in ACS Nano<\/a> and has accrued 97 citations between its publication in November, 2015 to today.\u00a0 This award highlights the high impact of our work on the community, and we’re excited for more to come in future years.<\/p>\n October 4th, 2018<\/strong>: We are proud to host Prof. Yi Cui from Stanford, who is the world’s leading researcher on nanomaterials for batteries, at Vanderbilt!\u00a0 Prof. Cui gave a talk at our annual Nanoday event in VINSE, where students across Vanderbilt presented posters on their work involving nanotechnology.\u00a0 We’re very proud of Ms. Anna Douglas (center) and Mr. John Waugh (red) who won #1 place overall best poster, and #1 best poster among first year graduate students, respectively.\u00a0 Shown in this picture is John and Anna along with Yi after his talk and at the conclusion of the Nanoday event.<\/p>\n September 3rd, 2018: <\/strong>It is a sad day in the Pint Lab.\u00a0 Mr. Thomas Metke has officially left our team and started graduate school as a Presidential Fellow in the Mechanical Engineering program at Princeton.\u00a0 Tommy started research with us when he was just a junior in high school.\u00a0 Then, he came to Vanderbilt to continue research with us until he completed his 4-year degree.\u00a0 Summer after summer, and year after year, Tommy has been a key part of our lab for now approaching 6 years.\u00a0 When he wasn’t doing independent projects and rubbing shoulders with grad students and postdocs, he was doing things in the background like fixing the glove box and\u00a0building a ball mill that made everyone’s research projects move forward.\u00a0 Tommy completed several independent projects.\u00a0 He demonstrated the first capacitive deionization process using silicon materials, he engineered non-flammable solid state electrolytes, and he demonstrated a way to incorporate energy storage into solar photovoltaic cells in a very elegant way!\u00a0 Relative to some research groups, that level of independent progress would be grounds for granting the Ph.D. degree!\u00a0 Moreover,\u00a0he was always someone who brought an excitement for research that made working with him and around him a pleasure.\u00a0 We’ll miss you Tommy!\u00a0 Good luck on the next step of your career!<\/p>\n August 30, 2018: <\/strong>Anna Douglas and Cary Pint took on the 36:86 Entrepreneurship meeting in Nashville, TN.\u00a0 Anna rocked the house with a pitch on SkyNano’s technology, and Pint and Douglas spent the rest of the time meeting investors and discussing our technology that makes up the basis of SkyNano LLC, and spun out from research efforts in the Pint Lab.<\/p>\n August 2, 2018: <\/strong>A warm goodbye to our summer REU student, Rebeca Gurrola, who presented a poster today on her summer research in our group.\u00a0 She started a challenging project to incorporate an electrochemical energy harvester into a fabric template, and not only did that, but her work has resulted in the best performing energy harvesting material ever recorded to date.\u00a0 Pictured is\u00a0Rebeca with her graduate student mentor, Janna Eaves,\u00a0holding an award for best\u00a0poster design from the REU poster session.\u00a0 Way to go Rebeca!<\/p>\n July 2, 2018: <\/strong>Congratulations Dr.\u00a0Mengya Li!\u00a0 Today, she brilliantly defended her Ph.D. thesis entitled “Nanomanufacturing of nanocomposites for energy storage and environmental applications” as the seventh Ph.D. granted from the Pint lab team!\u00a0Her work has been the foundation for our ongoing efforts to build complex 3-D materials with nanoscale precision using industrially-scalable methods.\u00a0 She will continue her work as a postdoc in the battery manufacturing facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory later this summer.\u00a0 We’re very proud of\u00a0you Mengya, and thank you so much for all the hard work\u00a0you’ve put in – you inspire us!!<\/p>\n June 1, 2018: <\/strong>Making headlines!\u00a0\u00a0A new research paper\u00a0from the Pint team published in ACS\u00a0Applied Materials & Interfaces<\/a>\u00a0highlights the scientific challenges toward using carbon dioxide to make the novel and valuable\u00a0single-walled carbon nanotubes, but while making the smallest diameter nanotubes and hence\u00a0most valuable materials ever produced from carbon dioxide captured from the air.\u00a0 Among the many press outlets that have covered our exciting results, here is a blurb from Popular Mechanics<\/a>.<\/p>\n May 22, 2018: <\/strong>Prof. Pint has been traveling the past few weeks giving invited talks.\u00a0 Recently, last week Prof. Pint gave an invited\u00a0talk in the 3M Nanotech Forum Seminar Series, and today Prof. Pint gave an invited talk at the Techtextil North America Conference in a symposium focused on Smart Textiles.\u00a0 The Pint’s team work on energy harvesting materials integrated into smart and connected textile systems was well received and an exciting emerging area of our research program!<\/p>\n May 17, 2018: <\/strong>Congratulations to SkyNano LLC and Anna Douglas!\u00a0 Anna gave a pitch at the MegaWatt Ventures Business Plan Competition and walked away with a $10,000 cash prize!\u00a0 Now Anna and SkyNano advance to the National Cleantech University Prize competition that will be held at Rice University.\u00a0 Go SkyNano and Go Anna!<\/p>\n May 10, 2018: <\/strong>Congrats to Mr. Thomas Metke!\u00a0 After starting in our lab as a high school\u00a0junior and then\u00a0working four years with us as a Vanderbilt ME undergraduate student, Tommy has received his Vanderbilt degree and a Presidential Fellowship into the Mechanical Engineering graduate program at Princeton University.\u00a0 Tommy was awarded the departmental Advanced Materials and Devices topic award for his excellence in research, which I presented to him at the graduation ceremony today.\u00a0 He will cap off 6 amazing years of productive research efforts\u00a0by spending his last summer here finalizing some of the research projects he has developed the ideas and initial results for in the past few years.\u00a0 Awesome job Tommy!!<\/p>\n April 3, 2018: <\/strong>Massive congratulations to Ms. Kate Moyer.\u00a0 She has been awarded a highly selective GRFP Graduate Fellowship through the National Science Foundation.\u00a0 This is an extremely competitive national award, and generally\u00a0comes with\u00a0~ 15% success ratio that is often frontloaded by the top\u00a0few ranked research institutions.\u00a0 Kate marks the fourth NSF Graduate fellow on our team in a row, giving an 80% success ratio\u00a0for our laboratory among the last 5 fellowship applicants.\u00a0\u00a0Way to go Kate!\u00a0 As we\u00a0recruit and build the next and more productive\u00a0phase of the Pint lab in coming years, these extraordinary folks leave big shoes to fill!<\/p>\n April 1, 2018: <\/strong>Prof. Pint and his team have been awarded a grant through NASA to develop a structural battery that can be integrated into a CubeSat structural frame, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Miami, and NASA Kennedy Space Center.\u00a0 Excited to see batteries flying in space!<\/p>\n March 29, 2018: <\/strong>Prof. Pint gave an invited talk at the International Battery Seminar held in Fort Lauderdale, FL to a crowd that was wonderfully mixed between academic researchers, industry manufacturers and engineers, and national lab researchers.\u00a0 Pint talked about the discovery that mechanics can influence battery performance, and the ways in which this opens up new markets and technologies outside of energy storage for the battery industry.<\/p>\n March 12, 2018: <\/strong>Congratulations to Ms. Kate Moyer!\u00a0 She was awarded a prestigious summer internship at NASA Kennedy Space Center starting in June to work on a collaborative project between NASA KSC and the Pint Lab focused on making and testing a multifunctional structural battery.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Way to go Kate!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n March 1, 2018:<\/strong> Prof. Pint has secured a sponsored research contract with Kuraray America, a company who is\u00a0a leading supplier of activated carbon materials,\u00a0\u00a0to study the catalytic mechanisms for electrochemical conversion of CO2 into targeted valuable materials.<\/p>\n February 2, 2018:\u00a0<\/strong>Prof. Pint has brought\u00a0the last 4-5 months of travel to a conclusion with a bang with an invited seminar at Yale University, and an invited seminar joint between MIT and Harvard University this week.\u00a0 Outside of the meetings and talks, Prof. Pint visited the grave of Dr. Josiah Gibbs, one of the early pioneers of thermodynamics, which is situated on campus at the Yale Cemetery – shown in the picture.<\/p>\n January 23, 2018<\/strong>: Congratulations to Jeremiah Afolabi, who started research in our group as a senior ME major at Vanderbilt University with a\u00a0contagious\u00a0passion to make a difference in energy-related technology.\u00a0\u00a0During that time, and over the past 1.5 years since graduating, Jeremiah\u00a0has continued to\u00a0play an integral role in our research projects ranging from strain energy harvesting to integrated photo-storage devices.\u00a0 He has just been awarded a prestigious internship at Apple Inc.\u00a0to work with a team focused on energy harvesting applications.\u00a0 This is yet another success story where one of the extraordinary folks we’ve worked with is using the expertise and training from our lab to make technological\u00a0impact through\u00a0a company that is pioneering and pushing the boundaries of modern technology.\u00a0Way to go Jeremiah!<\/p>\n January 2, 2018: <\/strong> A paper from our group published in 2017<\/a>\u00a0was\u00a0selected for a virtual issue at ACS Nano <\/em><\/a>that\u00a0brings together\u00a010 papers\u00a0from the last 10 years\u00a0which have made impact in the field of Energy Storage Research.\u00a0 ACS Nano<\/em> is one of the highest impact and quality\u00a0journals for nanoscience research, and we are excited to see our work highlighted in this\u00a0virtual issue!<\/p>\n December 15, 2017:\u00a0 <\/strong>Research from the Pint lab on using 2D\u00a0materials for electrochemical energy harvesting\u00a0is featured as one of the 20 most popular research stories in 2017 from\u00a0Vanderbilt University<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Our research was featured among 3 other stories from VU Engineering this year that made it into the top 20, and this is the fourth year (of the about\u00a0five years our lab has been active at VU) that our work has made it into the top 10 or top 20 list of most popular news stories at Vanderbilt.\u00a0 Prior work from our lab making it into this list were (2016)<\/a> Cheap batteries\u00a0processed from junkyard scraps, (2014)<\/a> Materials that store energy and bear mechanical load, and (2013) <\/a>Supercapacitors\u00a0integrated into\u00a0silicon chips using graphene coatings.\u00a0 Congrats to the Pint team, past and present,\u00a0for making 2017 yet another year where we\u00a0bring together impactful research results\u00a0with impactful dissemination to the general public that\u00a0allows the impact of our group\u00a0to rise above\u00a0others.\u00a0 Looking forward to a great 2018!!!<\/p>\n November 27, 2017: <\/strong>Prof. Pint delivered an invited talk entitled, “Controlling Interfaces for Stable Metal Anodes and Sulfur Cathodes<\/em>” at the Interfaces for Energy Storage session at the 2017 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting in Boston, MA.\u00a0 This is the premier society and meeting for researchers at the intersection of materials science and energy.<\/p>\n November 6, 2017: <\/strong>Prof Pint delivered an invited talk to the Nanomanufacturing session, in the\u00a0Advanced Manufacturing Track,\u00a0at ASME IMECE 2017 <\/a>focused on capillary nanomanufacturing of carbon nanotubes for battery applications.\u00a0 Nano- and Additive-Manufacturing were hot topics this year at IMECE!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n August 4, 2017: <\/strong>Congratulations to Jennifer Donohue, an REU student working in\u00a0the Pint lab\u00a0this summer from SUNY Binghampton, for winning the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscience and Engineering (VINSE)\u00a0best poster award for her work on high power sodium and potassium batteries ($1000!).\u00a0 \u00a0Pictured are Jennifer and Kate Moyer, her graduate student mentor, both standing beside\u00a0her award winning poster!\u00a0 Way to go Jennifer!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n July 28, 2017: <\/strong>Prof. Pint was a guest on the CBC talk show “Quirks and Quarks” where he discussed the vision of 2-D materials embedded into fabrics for wearable energy harvesting.\u00a0 Listen in here!\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n July 21, 2017: <\/strong>Pint lab work on a 2-D black phosphorus strain energy harvester using working concepts from battery systems was highlighted in the news today<\/a>!\u00a0 This is based on a paper published in ACS Energy Letters <\/a>today, and led by graduate students Nitin Muralidharan and Mengya Li.\u00a0 Check out our youtube video here<\/a>!\u00a0 Shown at left is Tommy Metke, a 5th year researcher in the Pint lab and rising\u00a0senior mechanical engineering undergraduate student at Vanderbilt. This is a critical step for our team to bridge biomechanical systems, novel electrochemical device technologies, and the fundamental understanding enabling innovation at this intersection.\u00a0 Go Pint Lab! <\/span><\/p>\n May 31, 2017: <\/strong>Prof. Pint attended the 2017 ECS Meeting held in New Orleans, LA, and in three days of the conference gave 3 talks\u00a0(2 contributed, and one invited), and chaired two sessions.\u00a0 Pint\u00a0presented work \u00a0focused on (1) Mechanochemistry of batteries, (2) Anode free sodium batteries, and (3) CO2 conversion into small diameter CNTs, and\u00a0these were\u00a0all well accepted!\u00a0 Shown here is a picture after lunch on Wednesday with (L-R) Prof. Rong Xiang (University of Tokyo), Prof. Pint, Dr. Andrew Westover and his wife Jamie (Oak Ridge National Lab, and formerly Pint lab), Prof. Yan Li (Peking University), and Prof. Shigeo Maruyama (University of Tokyo).\u00a0 Looking forward to the next ECS Meeting!<\/p>\n February 2017 <\/strong>Congratulations to Rachel Carter for her work published in Nano Letters entitled, “A Sugar Derived Room Temperature Sodium Sulfur Battery with Long Term Cycling Stability<\/a>” and corresponding press release that was independently picked up through IOP’s Nanotechweb.org<\/a>.\u00a0 Notably, this paper was also one of the Most Read papers in Nano Letters during the month of February and early March, and describes a process to produce sodium sulfur batteries from (very cheap!)\u00a0table sugar, bulk sodium, and bulk sulfur that involve a stable anode-electrolyte-cathode configuration\u00a0that results in excellent cycling performance.\u00a0 Go Rachel!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pint Team, March 2019: from left to right – Kate Moyer, Janna Eaves, Jackson Meng, Murt Zohair, John Waugh, Anna Douglas, and Cary Pint. 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November, 2019:\u00a0 Exciting News – The Pint Lab will be moving to Iowa State University<\/span> starting in January, 2020. Prof. Pint will assume the title of Associate Professor and\u00a0Charles\u00a0Schafer (Battelle) Chair of Engineering, affiliated with the\u00a0Department of Mechanical Engineering.<\/strong>\u00a0 This is an exciting move, as ISU is a top ranked engineering program with exceptional research footprint\u00a0in the area of\u00a0materials, energy, and sustainability that will catalyze\u00a0a new phase of growth\u00a0and success of our research efforts in the Pint Lab.\u00a0 All students and postdocs interested in our research program, please contact Prof. Pint at carypint@iastate.edu\u00a0and\u00a0apply to ISU\u00a0mechanical engineering.\u00a0 At ISU, we will rename our team to the\u00a0E<\/strong>nergy, E<\/strong>lectrochemistry, and\u00a0N<\/strong>anotechnology R<\/strong>esearch G<\/strong>roup, or EENRG\u00a0Lab (pronounced Energy Lab!).\u00a0 Check out the\u00a0recent news release\u00a0from ISU<\/a>.\u00a0 Excited to move up to bigger and better things!!<\/p>\n![\"skynano\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/553\/2012\/05\/skynano-650x433.jpeg\")
June 25, 2019:\u00a0<\/strong> SkyNano\u00a0is going sky-high this summer, as is clear by our team picture!\u00a0 With a rock star cast of engineers from around the country, federal SBIR support, partnerships with other companies, and a passion to change the world – we are doing big things this summer.\u00a0 The team is led by Dr. Anna Douglas, who is a Pint Lab alumnus.\u00a0 Go SkyNano!<\/p>\n![\"Anna_phd\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/553\/2012\/05\/Anna_phd-150x150.jpg\")
\u00a0March 22, 2019:<\/strong> Congrats to Dr. Anna Douglas!\u00a0\u00a0Today, she defended her Ph.D. thesis entitled, “Sustainable Manufacturing of Carbon Nanomaterials for Energy Storage Applications.”\u00a0 This caps off an extraordinary track record of success for Anna, as an NSF Fellow, an Innovation Crossroads Fellow, a Forbes Magazine 30 under 30, and now formally my boss and CEO of SkyNano LLC.\u00a0 Way to go Anna.\u00a0 You have accomplished more in 5 years than many people do in their whole careers, and this is just where the roads begins!<\/p>\n![\"cover\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/553\/2012\/05\/cover.jpg\")
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<\/strong>April 2, 2018: <\/strong>The Pint Lab is at MRS this week!\u00a0 We have 6 presentations throughout the course of the week on topics ranging from biomechanical energy harvesters,\u00a0recycling of materials into sodium batteries,\u00a0ultra fast charging battery configurations, and extremely low energy input\u00a0and high areal capacity electrophoretic battery manufacturing.\u00a0 Come see our talks, and visit with us!<\/p>\n![\"Nasa_logo\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/553\/2012\/05\/Nasa_logo.jpg\"){kind=logo}
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October 27, 2017: <\/strong>Huge Congratulations to Mengya Li!\u00a0 She presented a poster at the Vanderbilt NanoDay event, and won a 2nd place, $250 award for her poster.\u00a0 Her work discussed the use of capillary infiltration of sulfur\u00a0to prepare carbon nanotube foams that exhibit both high areal and gravimetric capacity, and was published recently in ACS Nano<\/a>.\u00a0 Way to go Mengya!\u00a0 Shown in the picture is Mengya in the bottom row in the white shirt, who is pictured alongside Prof. William Buhro, our Nanoday speaker, and other award winners.<\/p>\n![\"travel_logos\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/553\/2012\/05\/travel_logos.png\")
October 26, 2017:\u00a0<\/strong> Prof. Pint has been traveling and presenting invited talks about work in the Pint lab for the past few weeks.\u00a0 In just the last week, Pint has delivered invited\u00a0talks at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC, the University of Maryland College Park<\/a>, and at the 4th Intl. Symp. on Sustainable Secondary Battery Manufacturing and Recycling in Cancun, Mexico.\u00a0 Excited for more to come!<\/p>\n![\"harvesting\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/553\/2012\/05\/harvesting.jpg\")
August 30, 2017: <\/strong>Our work on 2D material building blocks for\u00a0energy harvesters was featured in NBC news, alongside two other groundbreaking papers published in Science<\/em> and Nature Energy<\/em> recently.\u00a0 Check out the article here.<\/a><\/p>\n![\"OP17-NANO-TopContent\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/553\/2012\/05\/OP17-NANO-TopContent.jpg\")
August 9, 2017: <\/strong>Prof. Pint delivered an invited talk on 2D material-based\u00a0electrochemical strain energy harvesters\u00a0in the Low Dimensional Materials and Devices section of the SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering conference in\u00a0 sunny San Diego, CA.\u00a0Check out the talks in the session here<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"Jenn\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/553\/2012\/05\/Jenn.jpg\")
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July 13, 2017:\u00a0<\/strong>SkyNano<\/a>, a spin-off company\u00a0 led by graduate student Anna Douglas and Prof. Pint, was named as\u00a0one\u00a0 the top 500 deep tech start-ups in the world by Hello Tomorrow<\/a>, a global non-profit.\u00a0\u00a0Anna will travel to Paris, France in\u00a0October for their\u00a0global summit\u00a0to\u00a0pitch SkyNano’s technology and compete for a globally competitive deep tech award.<\/p>\n![\"Cleantech_UP\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/553\/2012\/05\/Cleantech_UP.jpg\")
June 27, 2017: <\/strong>Congratulations to Anna Douglas and SkyNano<\/a>!\u00a0 After being runner-up at the Cleantech Regional Competition (MegaWatt Venture Challenge) in early June, Anna proceeded on to the National Cleantech University Prize competition<\/a> sponsored by the Department of Energy and held in Austin, TX June 26-27th.\u00a0 Of the\u00a0teams hailing from 8 regional competitions (contenders shown in picture), SkyNano\u00a0was selected\u00a0among the top six final teams that competed for the top award on the 27th.\u00a0\u00a0This is a\u00a0huge honor – way to go Anna Douglas, who is a Ph.D. student in the Pint lab and the CEO of SkyNano LLC.\u00a0\u00a0Within 6 months of launching the company, it has\u00a0already been distinguished as one of\u00a0the top\u00a0six in the nation.\u00a0 Imagine where SkyNano will be in 2018!\u00a0 Go SkyNano!\u00a0 Go Anna!<\/p>\n![\"Andrew_ECS\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/553\/2012\/05\/Andrew_ECS.jpg\")
June 19, 2017:<\/strong>\u00a0 Congratulations to Andrew Westover.\u00a0 He was awarded the 1st place Best Student Poster award at the 2017 ECS Meeting for his poster entitled, “Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Structural Composite Supercapacitors.”\u00a0 This is a giant honor since the ECS meeting is a home society for electrochemical sciences and devices, and there were very many excellent student posters presented! Way to go Andrew!\u00a0 Shown is Andrew presenting his award winning poster at ECS.<\/p>\n![\"IMG_9352\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/553\/2012\/05\/IMG_9352.jpg\")
June 9, 2017<\/strong>: <\/strong> Congratulations to SkyNano LLC and Mrs. Anna Douglas!\u00a0 After being selected as one of 10 finalists<\/a> to pitch and\u00a0compete in the MegaWatt Ventures Cleantech Business Competition\u00a0in Orlando, FL, SkyNano was named runner-up for the award.\u00a0\u00a0Way to go Anna Douglas for this huge achievement.\u00a0 Shown in the picture are the finalists, including Mrs. Anna Douglas (2nd from left) in Orlando, FL after the smoke cleared from the competition.\u00a0 This win qualifies Anna and SkyNano to advance to the overall National University Cleantech Venture competition to be held in Austin, TX on June 26-27th.\u00a0\u00a0Go SkyNano<\/a>!<\/p>\n![\"ShigeoECS\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/553\/2012\/05\/ShigeoECS.jpg\")
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May 26, 2017: <\/strong>The Pint Lab relocation has now begun!\u00a0 After several months of (patient?) waiting, renovations have begun on our new flagship space in the Engineering and Science Building – the new hub of Innovation at Vanderbilt University.\u00a0 This building\u00a0has a new cleanroom downstairs, all of VINSE’s equipment within an elevator ride,\u00a0and our lab is situated next door to the Wond’ry – a multidisciplinary innovation center.\u00a0\u00a0These amazing facilities, and this early picture,\u00a0will go down in history\u00a0as the\u00a0“seed of greatness.”\u00a0 We’re excited!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n![\"Print\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/553\/2012\/05\/InnovCross.jpg\")
May 18, 2017: <\/strong>Congratulations to Anna Douglas, graduate student in Pint Lab and CEO of spinoff company from Pint group, SkyNano LLC.\u00a0 SkyNano was awarded a prestigious slot in the 2017 ORNL Innovation Crossroads Fellow cohort to convert atmospheric carbon dioxide into high valued single-walled carbon nanotubes.\u00a0 This provides $350,000 of start-up funds and\u00a0salary\/funding support for Anna from the Department of Energy as she continues her graduate research at ORNL and simultaneously develops this company.\u00a0 Read about this extraordinary opportunity in Vanderbilt News.<\/a><\/p>\n![\"34740376995_aa75e1f759_z\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/553\/2012\/05\/34740376995_aa75e1f759_z.jpg\")
May 16, 2017: <\/strong>Prof. Cary Pint and Anna Douglas\u00a0traveled to\u00a0capitol hill in Washington DC to personally visit the congressional offices of TN Senator Alexander, and TN Representatives Cooper, Cohen, Blackburn, Fleischmann, and Kustoff to discuss the importance of federal funding agencies, and specifically NSF, to the education and research mission of our country.\u00a0 To cap off the evening, we presented a poster alongside 35 NSF-funded researchers at the NSF Advocacy day event.<\/p>\n![\"commencement\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/553\/2012\/05\/commencement.jpg\")
May 12, 2017: <\/strong>Prof. Cary Pint graduated his first three students from the Pint Lab: Dr. Andrew Westover, Dr. Rachel Carter (shown in picture), and Dr. Landon Oakes.\u00a0 Both Rachel and Andrew attended the\u00a0hooding ceremony.\u00a0 These three folks\u00a0emerged from our team as\u00a0superstars – they all got the first jobs they applied for, and left big shoes to fill for the new cohort of Pint lab students joining this fall.\u00a0 Congratulations to Dr. Westover, Dr. Carter, and Dr. Oakes – we will miss you, and you will always have an extended family in the Pint lab! (photo credit: May Ou)<\/p>\n![\"image1\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/553\/2012\/05\/image1.jpg\")
April 21-25, 2017: <\/strong>Prof Pint delivered an invited talk at the 2017 Guadalupe workshop on Nucleation and Growth Mechanisms of Atomically Thin Nanomaterials – similar to a Gordon workshop, but held at the Guadalupe river ranch in TX.\u00a0\u00a0Pint’s talk\u00a0focused on efforts aiming to achieve small diameter CNT growth from ambient CO2.\u00a0 Shown in the picture is a historic\u00a0team of researchers (including Prof. Pint, right) that made huge leaps in understanding of carbon nanotube growth science.<\/p>\n