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VINSE 2024 Calendar
Dec. 12, 2023—Download a copy of your VINSE 2024 Calendar. Members of the VINSE community can still request a complimentary printed copy of the calendar by clicking here (deadline 12.14.23). Here’s a quick trip down memory lane for VINSE in 2023: Organized 1st annual VINSE Community Picnic with more than 200 registered participants Launched VINSE Meet Our Faculty YouTube Series...
“Sensing Mucus Physiological Property In Situ by Wireless Millimeter-Scale Soft Robots” published in Advanced Functional Materials, selected as VINSE Spotlight Publication
Dec. 5, 2023—About the authors: The first author is Boyang Xiao, a second-year Ph.D. student under the supervision of Prof. Xiaoguang Dong in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The co-authors also include a group of Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students. In their recent work published in Advanced Functional Materials, the team proposes a method to sense mucus viscosity...
APPLY NOW for Summer 2024 Tech Crew
Dec. 1, 2023—Looking for a unique summer opportunity? Apply now for the VINSE Summer 2024 Tech Crew What is the VINSE Summer Tech Crew? The Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) is currently accepting applications for its Summer 2024 Tech Crew program, an immersive opportunity for Vanderbilt students to work in a Class 100 cleanroom and learn...
VINSE Associate Tech Crew member places second in DOE competition for national lab summer interns
Nov. 28, 2023—Sarah Driscoll, a VINSE Associate Tech Crew member and junior in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is the second place national winner in the 2023 IGNITE Off! Competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS) and hosted by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE)....
“Clostridioides difficile ferrosome organelles combat nutritional immunity” published in Nature, selected as Spotlight Publication
Nov. 17, 2023—Congratulations to Eric Skaar’s group for their Nature publication. The keys towards understanding the role of nutrients in guest-hosts interactions inherently reside at the nanoscale. The work by Pi et al. from the Skaar laboratory utilized the advanced electron microscopy capabilities in VINSE to reveal how C. difficile bacteria use iron storage organelles to manage large...
Harrison Walker receives an Oak Ridge National Laboratory scholarship for two years
Nov. 2, 2023—Harrison Walker, a 2nd year Ph.D. candidate in the Interdisciplinary Materials Science at Vanderbilt University, has received a scholarship from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to work across several projects for the next two years. This unique opportunity enables him to advance his research in Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy, a technique pivotal in probing low-energy...
Vanderbilt engineering professor Joshua Caldwell elected Optica fellow
Nov. 2, 2023—Joshua Caldwell, a professor of mechanical engineering and director of Vanderbilt’s Interdisciplinary Materials Science (IMS) graduate program, has been elected to the 2024 Fellow Class of the Optica Society. Optica, formerly the Optical Society of America, is the preeminent professional society in the field of optics and photonics, with 22,000 members from 180 countries and...
“Remarkable heat conduction mediated by non-equilibrium phonon polaritons” published in Nature, selected as VINSE Spotlight Publication
Oct. 31, 2023—Zhiliang Pan is a 2023 Ph.D graduate from the Department of Mechanical Engineering under the direction of Dr. Deyu Li. He stays in the same lab as a postdoctoral scholar after graduation to further expand his Ph.D research on energy transport mediated by phonon polaritons in polar nanostructures. In this recent publication co-authored with fellow...
From blackberry juice solar cells to forensic labs: VINSE outreach is shaping the next generation of scientists
Oct. 18, 2023—There’s a good chance many Middle Tennessee high school kids know more about nanotechnology than you do thanks to the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, which has been making strides in its educational outreach for more than a decade. VINSE’s mission is to drive innovation in science, nanotechnology and education that benefits society....
VINSE Fall 2023 Newsletter
Oct. 17, 2023—The Fall 2023 edition of the VINSE Nano News is out now! This issue features the following stories: Director’s note VINSE Industrial Affiliates Program NanoDay! NanoGuide Program New Short Course in Microelectronics Researcher Highlights 2023 Fall Faculty Celebration VINSE Faculty Videos Upcoming Events New VINSE Staff New Superusers New Tech Crew To read the full newsletter,...