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How to make electric vehicles that actually reduce carbon
Mar. 3, 2016—An interdisciplinary team of scientists has worked out a way to make electric vehicles that only are not only carbon neutral but carbon negative, capable of actually reducing the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide as they operate. They have done so by demonstrating how the graphite electrodes used in the lithium-ion batteries that power electric...
IMS graduate student Alice Leach (Macdonald Lab) wins People’s Choice at 4th Annual Three Minute Thesis Competition
Mar. 1, 2016—Topics ranged from giving nanoparticles the aquatic skills of an Olympic swimmer so they can deliver anti-cancer drugs more effectively…to using game theory to help Sri Lankan farmers decide what crops to plant…to developing an ultrasonic Trojan horse to destroy tumors…to using blue light as an alternative to antibiotics in controlling bacterial infections. The event...
Dr. William Fissell’s Artificial Kidney
Feb. 15, 2016—Vanderbilt University Medical Center nephrologist and Associate Professor of Medicine Dr. William H. Fissell IV, is making major progress on a first-of-its kind device to free kidney patients from dialysis. He is building an implantable artificial kidney with microchip filters and living kidney cells that will be powered by a patient’s own heart. We are creating...
Cotton candy machines may hold key for making artificial organs
Feb. 11, 2016—Cotton candy machines may hold the key for making life-sized artificial livers, kidneys, bones and other essential organs. For several years, Leon Bellan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University, has been tinkering with cotton candy machines, getting them to spin out networks of tiny threads comparable in size, density and complexity to the patterns...
VINSE Colloquium Series: “Manufacturing and applications of carbon nanotube surfaces” Dr. John Hart; MIT 2/26/16
Jan. 19, 2016—February 26, 2016. John Hart Massachusetts Institute of Technology Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Mitsui Career Development Professor in Contemporary Technology “Manufacturing and applications of carbon nanotube surfaces” 4:10 PM, 5326 Stevenson Center Refreshments served at 3:45 Abstract: For more than two decades, widespread research has been devoted to the synthesis, characterization, and integration of carbon...
VINSE Colloquium Series: “Thermal Engineering of GaN Semiconductor Devices” Dr. Samuel Graham; Georgia Institute of Technology 1/27/16
Dec. 14, 2015—January 27, 2016. Samuel Graham Rae S. and Frank H. Neely Professor Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology “Thermal Engineering of GaN Semiconductor Devices” 4:10 PM, 134 Featheringill Hall Refreshments served at 3:45 Abstract: The development of gallium nitride (GaN) on a variety of substrates from Si to diamond is under development...
VINSE Colloquium Series: Student Selected Keynote Address “Precise Chemical, Physical, and Electronic Nanoscale Contacts” Dr. Paul Weiss, UCLA 04/20/16
Dec. 14, 2015—April 20, 2016. Paul Weiss UC Presidential Chair Distinguished Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry Distinguished Professor of Materials Science & Engineering University of California, Los Angeles Director, California NanoSystems Institute “Precise Chemical, Physical, and Electronic Nanoscale Contacts” 4:10 PM, 134 Featheringill Hall Refreshments served at 3:45 Abstract: The chemical, physical, and electronic connections that materials...
VINSE Colloqium Series: “Nanowire and Nanomembrane Electronics: Performance and Scalability” Dr. Xiuling Li; University of Illinois 3/16/16
Dec. 14, 2015—March 16, 2016. Xiuling Li Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory University of Illinois, Urbana “Nanowire and Nanomembrane Electronics: Performance and Scalability” 4:10 PM, 134 Featheringill Hall Refreshments served at 3:45 Abstract: This talk will focus on several platform nanotechnologies developed at Illinois. First, I will introduce a method to realize...
VINSE Colloquium Series: “Fluorescent Quantum Dots for Single-Molecule Imaging of Living Cells and Tissues” Dr. Andrew Smith; University of Illinois 1/13/16
Dec. 13, 2015—January 13, 2016. Andrew Smith Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Fluorescent Quantum Dots for Single-Molecule Imaging of Living Cells and Tissues” 4:10 PM, 134 Featheringill Hall Refreshments served at 3:45 Abstract: Quantum dots are light-emitting nanocrystals with unique optical and electronic properties that allow long-term multicolor imaging of cells and tissues...
Quantum dots made from fool’s gold boost battery performance
Nov. 11, 2015—If you add quantum dots – nanocrystals 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair – to a smartphone battery it will charge in 30 seconds, but the effect only lasts for a few recharge cycles. However, a group of researchers at Vanderbilt University report in the Nov. 11 issue of the journal ACS Nano that they...