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VINSE Spring 2023 Newsletter
Jan. 11, 2023—The Spring 2023 edition of the VINSE Nano News is out now! This issue features the following stories: Director’s note Welcome – Mona Ebrish Upcoming events Analytical open house Research highlights Immersion and outreach VINSE_Nano_News_Spring_2023
“Tunable, ferroelectricity-inducing, spin-spiral magnetic ordering in monolayer FeOCl” published in Nano Letters selected as VINSE Spotlight Publication
Jan. 5, 2023—About the author: Deliang Bao is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Physics and Astronomy under the direction of Dr. Sokrates T. Pantelides. In recently published work, by employing density-functional-theory calculations, he demonstrated a non-collinear magnetism, namely spin spiral, in the monolayer FeOCl, which features tunability with uniaxial strain and electron/hole doping. The...
VINSE 2023 Calendar
Jan. 3, 2023—Download your VINSE 2023 Calendar, featuring the some of the winners in the VINSE image competition. The VINSE team looks forward to supporting your impactful research discoveries in the year ahead!
VINSE graduate students Alyssa Nelson and Jeremy Espano teach a course in nanoscience/nanotechnology as part of Vanderbilt’s SAVY program
Dec. 20, 2022—VINSE graduate students Jeremy Espano and Alyssa Nelson taught a class in nanoscience and nanotechnology to a group of 8th and 9th graders as part of the Saturday Academy at Vanderbilt for the Young (SAVY) program. Students started the morning learning about nanomaterials, quantum confinement and how it effects materials at the nanoscale, the size regime of...
VINSE Director’s Coffee Hour
Dec. 14, 2022—Join VINSE Director, Sharon Weiss to discuss new initiatives, pilot funding, tech crew, and other ways VINSE can help support your research. Friday, February 3, 2023 2PM | 226 ESB VINSE Conference Room
“Nanoporous Atomically Thin Graphene Filters for Nanoscale Aerosols” published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces selected as VINSE Spotlight Publication
Dec. 13, 2022—About the author: Dr. Peifu Cheng is a research engineer in Dr. Piran R. Kidambi’s group in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department. He researches 2D nanomaterials (such as graphene and others) for membrane applications in ionic/molecular separation, desalination, air filtration, dialysis, among others. In the recently published work, Dr. Cheng introduced precise nanoscale pores in...
Dissertation Defense, Madeleine Fort, Interdisciplinary Materials Science
Dec. 5, 2022—DISSERTATION DEFENSE Madeleine Fort, Interdisciplinary Materials Science *under the direction of Dr. Janet Macdonald “Improving Charge Separation and Transfer in Semiconducting Nanocrystalline Materials” 12.07.22 | 11:30am CST | 5502 Stevenson Center This thesis examines charge transfer from semiconductor nanocrystals. A discussion of charge transfer mechanisms and their importance to renewable technologies is given. The relationship between...
“Leveraging the gel-to-sol transition of physically crosslinked thermoresponsive polymer hydrogels to enable reactions induced by lowering temperature” published in RSC Advances selected as VINSE Spotlight Publication
Dec. 2, 2022—About the author: Romario Lobban is currently a PhD student advised by Dr. Leon Bellan. His research focuses on new applications of physically-crosslinked thermoresponsive polymer hydrogels. In the featured publication, Romario and co-authors show that physically-crosslinked thermoresponsive polymer hydrogels can be used as temperature dependent carriers that allow reactions between chosen reagents only upon cooling...
VINSE Colloquium Series “Nanowire (Bio)photoelecrochemistry” Student Selected Speaker Dr. Peidong Yang, University of California, Berkeley 04/05/2023
Dec. 1, 2022—9th Annual VINSE Student Selected Seminar Series Peidong Yang S.K. and Angela Chan Distinguished Chair in Energy Department of Chemistry, MSE, University of California, Berkeley Senior Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory “Nanowire (Bio)photoelecrochemistry” 04.05.23 | 11:30 | 044/048 ESB *lunch provided Abstract. Wires of different forms are an integral part of our human society for...
More than 500 students participating in the VINSE High School Field Trip Program
Nov. 29, 2022—25 Middle Tennessee High Schools representing 14 Middle TN counties have signed up to participate in the VINSE high school field trip program. Groups of up to 20 from each school will to visit our facilities, perform an experiment, utilize our electron microscope, and learn about nanotechnology and energy during a day visit. Participating Schools, Fall, 2022:...