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Spotlight Publication: “Cancer cell metabolic plasticity in migration and metastasis” published in Clinical & Experimental Metastasis

Feb. 2, 2022—About the author: Jenna Mosier is a current PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering in the Reinhart-King laboratory where she investigates the role of mechanical cues and bioenergetics in breast cancer cell migration. In recently published work, Mosier and Schwager review the current understanding of metabolic plasticity in cancer cell migration and metastasis. Metabolic plasticity refers...

Research Snapshot: Breakthrough measurements/theory of vibrating atoms in nanostructures ushers in new class of technology

Jan. 27, 2022—Vanderbilt researchers Sokrates Pantelides and Joshua Caldwell are part of an international collaboration that has demonstrated a new way to manipulate and measure subtle atomic vibrations in nanomaterials. This breakthrough could make it possible to develop customized functionalities to improve on and build new technologies. Sokrates Pantelides Joshua Caldwell Electron beams in powerful microscopes have probed materials and nanostructures with atomic-scale resolution, imaged the atomic arrangements and, in combination with...

Spotlight Publication: “Nanoparticle Trapping in a Quasi-BIC System ” published in ACS Photonics

Jan. 26, 2022—About the author: Sen Yang is currently a Ph.D. student in Interdisciplinary Materials Science Program under the direction of Dr. Justus Ndukaife. Sen studies dielectric nanotweezers for nanoscale particles trapping and dielectric nanoantennas for biomaterial sensing applications. In recently published work, he proposed an all-dielectric nanotweezer based on quasi-bound states in the continuum (BIC) for...

King and Weiss named 2021 AAAS Fellows

Jan. 26, 2022—Two Vanderbilt engineering faculty members–Sharon Weiss and Michael King–have been elected as 2021 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society. The lifetime appointment honors individuals for their efforts in advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished. Election as an AAAS Fellow is an...

Anna Douglas – Engineering – Olin. Anna Douglas is a PhD student who has received a prestigious (and not yet publicly announced) award to work at ORNL on SkyNano, a company based on technology she developed that could make the manufacture of single-walled carbon nanotubes easier and cheaper. Production now requires expensive equipment and controlled conditions, resulting in a final product that sells for $900/gram and makes widespread adoption cost prohibitive. She is one of five entrepreneurs picked for Innovation Crossroads, at ORNL for the first time, and is the only one who does not already have her PhD. The fellowship covers living costs, benefits, travel and up to $350,000 in research costs for up to 2 years to use on collaborative research in clean energy innovations.

Anna's technology takes carbon dioxide out the ambient air to produce high-value carbon nanotubes, which have applications in electronics, aerospace, medical devices, drug delivery, shielding, sensors, etc. The material has great strength and less weight than typical composites. It has great conductivity and can withstand high heat and pressure. Single-walled carbon nanotubes, if successfully commercialized at a larger scale, could be the foundation for nextgen electronics. Anna and Professor Cary Pint believe her system could produce SWCN for less than $1/gram. They formed SkyNano - Anna is the CEO and deferring her NSF fellowship to work on scaling it to a product line. For Engineering School website, likely Research News at Vanderbilt and possible outside media. Photo by Joe Howell

Meet Our Graduates: Anna Douglas

Jan. 25, 2022—Anna Douglas earned her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Materials Science at Vanderbilt University in 2019. While at Vanderbilt, Anna began her studies developing nanostructured materials that can improve the performance of energy storage devices including lithium and sodium ion batteries. During her graduate studies, Anna co-invented a novel electrochemical synthesis method to produce high quality carbon nanotubes from...

Spotlight Publication: “Photosystem I Enhances the Efficiency of a Natural, Gel-Based Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell” published in ACS Applied Bio Materials

Jan. 17, 2022—“Photosystem I Enhances the Efficiency of a Natural, Gel-Based Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell” published in ACS Applied Bio Materials has been selected as a VINSE spotlight publication. About the author: Joshua Passantino is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering under the direction of Dr. Kane Jennings and also works with Dr. David Cliffel in...

Register Now: Summer Workshop in Microfluidic Device Fabrication

Jan. 12, 2022—Microfluidic devices can enable “labs on chips” that consume less reagents and have faster analysis times than similar experiments performed in a traditional lab environment. Applications of microfluidic devices include portable sensors for point-of-care analysis, molecular and cell biology studies, and high-throughput multiplexed assays. This short course will introduce the techniques behind the fabrication of...

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VINSE Friends and Family Day

Jan. 12, 2022—Join VINSE for a fun-fill afternoon to celebrate all things small. Door Prizes * Califarmia Food Truck * Hands on science * Facility Tours Participate in our hands-on science experiences and learn the answers to the following questions: How can scientists make nickel look like a penny? Can something be a liquid and a solid? Can...

Spotlight Publication: “Deterministic inverse design of Tamm plasmon thermal emitters with multi-resonant control” published in Nature Materials

Jan. 7, 2022—“Deterministic inverse design of Tamm plasmon thermal emitters with multi-resonant control” published in Nature Materials has been selected as a VINSE spotlight publication. About the author: Mingze He is currently a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering under the direction of Dr. Joshua Caldwell. Mingze’s research focuses on engineering the mid-infrared light for bio-sensing and light...

Learn to add false color to your VINSE SEM images, register now for the GIMP workshop

Jan. 5, 2022—GIMP is an open source image manipulation software that can be used for editing figures, colorizing electron micrographs, and more! In this workshop, we will learn the basics of the interface, specifically techniques for adding false color to an SEM image. February 16, 2022 | Engineering Science Building 001 REGISTER

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