September, 2012
VINSE Welcomes Cary Pint
Sep. 9, 2012—Cary M. Pint, assistant professor of mechanical engineering B.S., University of Northern Iowa, 2005 M.S., Rice University, 2009 Ph.D., Rice University, 2010 Pint’s research interests focus on nanomate rials development for efficient and integrated energy storage and conversion devices. This effort builds upon cutting-edge materials design employing atomic layer deposition and nanocarbon and non-carbon nanostructure fabrication techniques. Of...
VINSE Welcomes Philippe Fauchet
Sep. 9, 2012—Philippe M. Fauchet, dean of the School of Engineering; professor of electrical engineering B.S., Faculte Polytechnique de Mons, 1978 M.S., Brown University, 1980 Ph.D., Stanford University, 1984 Fauchet comes to Vanderbilt from the University of Rochester, where he served as Distinguished Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of the Energy Research...
VINSE Welcomes Rizia Bardhan
Sep. 9, 2012—Rizia Bardhan, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering B.A., Westminster College, 2005 M.A., Rice University, 2007 Ph.D., Rice University, 2010 Bardhan’s research focuses on interdisciplinary nanoscience, with the convergence of multiple disciplines: engineering, material science, chemistry, physics and biomedicine. Her primary research interests are plasmonics and nanophotonics materials for biomedical and energy conversion applications.
Spinach power gets a major boost
Sep. 4, 2012—Spinach power has just gotten a big boost. An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Vanderbilt University have developed a way to combine the photosynthetic protein that converts light into electrochemical energy in spinach with silicon, the material used in solar cells, in a fashion that produces substantially more electrical current than has been reported by...