May, 2014
2014 Summer Nanoseminar Series
May. 30, 2014—Organized by: J. Scott Niezgoda WHAT IS VINSE SUMMER “NANOSEMINAR”? A seminar series in VINSE, 9 amazingly interesting seminars have been scheduled for this summer. During each seminar, two students/post-docs from different research groups will talk about their projects dealing with nanofabrication and science/technology as related to it. The focus of the seminar is...
Liberating devices from their power cords
May. 19, 2014—Imagine a future in which our electrical gadgets are no longer limited by plugs and external power sources. This intriguing prospect is one of the reasons for the current interest in building the capacity to store electrical energy directly into a wide range of products, such as a laptop whose casing serves as its battery,...
VINSE High School Field Trip program Fall 2013 & Spring 2014
May. 15, 2014—Small groups of students from across middle Tennessee high schools learned how to squeeze electricity from a blackberry. The students mashed blackberries, extracted their juice, soaked an electrode in the juice, coated another electrode with graphite and clipped them together to make a solar cell. After the solar cells were finished, the students got to measure...
David Wright named Stevenson Chair of Chemistry
May. 7, 2014—VINSE Faculty David Wright named Stevenson Chair of Chemistry. KEEP READING>